Beastly Vocabulary
A protective spine of a porcupine, or a stiff tail feather of a bird used as a pen
What is a Quill?
Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl
What is a Compass?
Ahoy, Ringo:
"Yellow ____"
What is Submarine?
Don't take this word meaning infinite time to respond
What is Eternity?
The name of this creature is a nickname for a citizen of New Zealand
What is a Kiwi?
"Lupine" means similar to this animal
What is a Wolf?
Around 270 B.C. Aristarchus calculated that its distance was 60 times the radius of the earth -- he was pretty darn close
What is 'The distance to the moon'?
On the Thanksgiving dinner table:
Gravy ____
What is Boat?
Adjective meaning pertaining to horseback riding
What is Equestrian?
This national animal of Spain doesn't get much love at the corrida
What is a Bull?
Jump into this one-piece outfit like those worn by Michelle Pfeiffer & Una Thurman on film
What is a Catsuit?
Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units
What are Atoms?
Thanks, Euclid:
____ geometry
What is Plane?
If someone is unconventional, strange, or peculiar you would call them:
What is Eccentric?
Canada's national animals are a horse & this one whose pelt played an important part in its history
What is a Beaver?
Cows described by this adjective have had their horns removed, not their opinions recorded
What is 'They have been polled'?
This pupil of Plato observed that dolphins bear live young attached by an umbilical cord
A Jerry Seinfeld web series:
"Comedians in ____ Getting Coffee"
What is Cars?
An enterprising type of businessman who says, yes, start up with me
What is an Entrepreneur?
Canada's national animals are a horse & this one whose pelt played an important part in its history
What is a Llama?
A snood is the fleshy appendage hanging above the beak of one of these birds
What is a Turkey?
Why not take this guy, who around 140 A.D. developed a model of the solar system with earth as its center
What is Ptolemy?
A charitable movement, B4H 4 short:
____ for Humanity
What is Bicycles?
To disembowel
There are no photographs, only illustrations of this symbol of Mauritius
What is the Dodo Bird?