My roommate and I were goofing off with an online trivia quiz the other night. One of the questions was “Which animal has the greatest number of neck bones?” The chocies were a giraffe, a man, a duck, an ant, or a sparrow, in that order
The obvious impulse choice is giraffe, so I said no, its too easy. I suggested the ant, but this seemed totally implausable to my roommate. He thinks ants have exoskeletons; do they? I didn’t think so, but I couldn’t prove it to him.
Since he would give me total crap for a week and promised I would “never live it down,” I refused to cast my final vote for “ant” and instead suggested “sparrow.” I figured he’s right, an ant is awfully tiny. But then I got thinking, hmm, a sparrow and a duck are both birds; the duck is bigger, maybe its a duck.
Don’t ask why I refused to even consider “man” as an option. I think it was a trick question, but my roommate is adamant that its giraffe (I know I learned they had relatively boneless necks for their size somewhere). The quiz timed out before we could answer, thus voiding our entry.
Uncle Cecil deferred me to the message board, so I turn to you folks: which animal has the greatest number of neck bones?