Random Bits and Bobs
Do I enjoy Mina's company?
NO
What planet is more meaningful than the moon?
Jupiter
Soup
Who wrote the book from which I chose my name?
Octavia Butler
What is the name of the first "bird" in the fossil record?
Archaeopteryx
What is my full email address?
gooseduck730@gmail.com
A refrigerator
How do you make an octopus laugh?
How many leeks does Lavender's Potato And Leek Soup use?
2
Name the song and artist who inspired The Rain Formerly Known Purple
Purple Rain - Prince
Name the family of birds including ravens and crows
Corvidae (will accept "corvid")
How many species of frogs are there? (You get points if your answer is within 150 of the correct amount)
7,959
How many seconds does it take to break a toilet?
22
Describe gazpacho
Cold tomato soup. Typically involves pureed tomatoes, peppers, onion, cucumber, and sometimes even bread. Perfect and refreshing in summer
Tig Notaro, Fortune Fiemster, Mae Martin
(50 points for each first and last name)
What is interesting about bird ovaries?
They typically only have a functioning left ovary!
Franz Kafka
How did we begin our Business Proposition email?
"Dearest individuals at Mountain Dew and Ikea,"
What month is Soup Month?
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
German Baroque composer (1685–1750) who wrote many orchestral and solo pieces for the violin, organ, cello, etc.
50 bonus points if you say that he had 20 children
Between noise pollution and light pollution, which has a larger affect on bird biodiversity in cities?
Light pollution
Why?
Is the title of a song by Annie Lennox
How did "orange soup" come to be?
We were talking on the phone one night, you were anxious, I was tired, and I was trying to distract you by talking about how, at the beginning of the universe, when everything was just particles and motion, some of those particles absorbed and reflected lights in different ways, so everything was sort of just an opaque orange soup. You made fun of me, and hence we became orange soup
By a small stretch of the imagination, can chocolate milk be considered soup?
YES. Even without stretching your imagination, there's a solid argument
What band is Alynda Segarra the main singer for?
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Name the bird
(Listen to the sound)
California Towhee (will accept "Alameda Chicken")