Quirkie Meerkat Jeopardy

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100 -A priest, a rabbi and Zaphod board a train bound for Pittsburg. It departs on schedule at 9:56pm, traveling east at 127mph. Fourteen minutes later, a westbound train departs Altoona, also headed for Pittsburg. If the second train maintains its current speed of 134mph and is 75 miles closer to its destination than the first train, what time does Flower need to leave the burrow in order to pick Zaphod up at the station?

200 - Grog is planning a party. He plans to invite 14 guests and estimates he needs 7 pounds of hors d'oeuvres. He already has 3 pounds of scorpions, 1.5 pounds of geckos and 27 millipedes weighing 6oz each. Assuming he can find 3 tortoise eggs, he must then calculate weight of grubs needed. If each grub weighs 28grams, what color of calypso skirt does Daisy need to wear to the party?

300 - Gin and Tonic open a puff adder punch stand. They have one puff adder which they bought from Cazanna for 32 scorpions. The fruit juices were surreptitiously acquired during a daring raid on the kitchen at Gannavlakte and the rondavel of a careless Earthwatcher. In calculating the amount they must charge for each glass of punch and because the obligatory lemon slices and sprigs of mint will cost between 2 and 3 beetles apiece, should they serve the punch in blue or green plastic cups?

400 - Fork-tailed drongos have a reputation for being this type of bird species.

500 - The identification information below describes this South African Raptor.

a. Distinctive feature (as viewed from a distance and underneath): Usually only see black head and white body

b. Flight aspect: Fly high

c. Common meerkat reaction: Very scared and watch from bolt hole

ddddss 11:32 am eastern

Daisy Dancerkat is in rare form today!!!

For 100, what is if they are travelling East from the Kalahari, they are taking the

l-o-n-g way to Pittsburgh, via Indonesia, Australia, and Hawaii and I don't think

Flower needs to leave any time in the next week, if she's in Pittsburg (we need

additional data: will they be stopping on Sundays for the priest to celebrate mass

and on Friday evenings for the rabbi to conduct Sabbath services? will the train

run on Saturdaysor not?) ; otherwise, I would have to know her location to make

a reasonable calculation?

For 200, what is lime green with pink edging and turquoise flounces?

For 300, hmmm, what are blue cups to adults and green cups to yearlings (no

one under 12 months of age can legally be served puff adder punch)?

For 400, what is kleptoparasitic?

For 500, what is a martial eagle?

Sophie, the new rule is really quite simple: if more than one player has the same

highest score, then the one with the earliest STATED posting time (regardless of

time zone) wins.

example Me, Ballet and Slew all have 1500 points

Me 1:00 eastern

Ballet 12:55 Pacific

Slew 12:50 Central

Slew wins; Ballet is in 2nd place and I am third.

For 100 When is never; she sends Mitch to pick up Zaphod whilst she awaits in the boudoir chamber, fur fluffed and candles lit with soft music playing and chocolate dipped geckos handy?

For 200 What is iridescent pink?

For 300 What is yes, the kind that look like martini glasses?

For 400 What is kleptoparasite?

For 500 What is the black breasted snake eagle?

posted at 12:24 eastern. fun questions, balletcat!

For 100 What is a good looooong time since Pittsburg is in Kansas and Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania.

For 200 What is neon pink

For 300 What is it doesn't matter, as the customers will soon be too drunk to care

For 400 What is kleptoparasitic

For 500 what is the black breasted snake eagle

200-What is Tornado black?

300-What is neither as the punch is too corrosive for plastic?

400-What is kleptoparasitical?

500-What is the bateleur?

Fun questions today.......

ddddss

3:20PM Pacific time

What is Flower screams and faints because like me she can’t figure it out either?

What is Daisy screams and faints because she can't decide what color skirt to wear?

What is blue?

400 - Fork-tailed drongos have a reputation for being this type of bird species.

What is kleptoparasitic?

500 - The identification information below describes this South African Raptor.

a. Distinctive feature (as viewed from a distance and underneath): Usually only see black head and white body

b. Flight aspect: Fly high

c. Common meerkat reaction: Very scared and watch from bolt hole

What is a eagle? (Just a guess)

ddddss

Loyalkat Sophie

ANSWERS

100, 200 and 300 were all exercises of imagination; there were no wrong answers.

400 - What is kleptoparasitic?

500 - What is a black breasted snake eagle?

SCORES

RIPFlower - 100+200+300+200 (half credit for such a determined attemp) = 800

Tosca-Quirkie - 100+200+300+400 = 1000

Cordeekat - 100+200+300+400+500 = 1500 WINNER

Squirrelly - 50+200+300+400+500 = 1450 (points off: Altoona, Pennsylvania is a city in Blair County. The population was 49,523 at the 2000 census, making it the ninth most populous city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem and Lancaster. Altoona, Kansas is a city in Wilson County, along the Verdigris River. The population was 485 at the 2000 census.)

The Slew - 100+200+300+400 = 1000

Eruth - 100+200+300+400+50 (for the word "eagle") = 1050

Thank you all for playing.

And a fun time was had by all! Congrats, Cordee!

btw, chocolate-dipped geckos sound very yummy.

Thanks, Tosca! Woo hoo, that was fun, Balletcat! Quesitons may be up early in the morning if they call me to work, paws crossed they call.

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