Which of the following is closest to Tryannosaurus rex genetically?
[ul][li] Triceratops,[/li][li] Stegosaurus,[/li][li] Cuckoo bird?[/li][/ul]
Cuckoo. Birds and Tyrannosaurs are all feathered Theropods, with a common ancestor in the Jurassic. Stegosaurs and Triceratops are both Ornithischians, diverging from Theropods in the Triassic.
See this chart.
What does Hong Kong mean (bit easy for Cantonese speakers of course)?
Fragrant harbor
Love this one.
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Here’s the problem: “east” has two definitions. One is the directional one. It’s the direction the Earth rotates in and you can keep going east as long as you want. The other is the coordinate one. Half the globe is east and half is west and there is an absolute limit to the amount of east you can go. Once you hit the 180 meridian, you’re done. If you keep going the way you were going, you’ve somehow gone to the far West.
Both of those definitions are useful for different things. I claim that the continuous one is the one that best maps to reality. The Earth is continuous. It’s not flat, and it doesn’t have edges. When you want to find the easternmost bit of a chunk of land, you start in the middle and travel in the direction of east until you run out of land. That’s the easternmost point. And it’s somewhere in Maine.
Would someone on Semisopochnoi Island claim that they were to the east of the Alaskan mainland? Clearly they would not. Would they claim that Alaska is to the east of Canada? Clearly they would not.
Of course, it’s fine to want to use the other definition. But unless you specify which definition you’re using, it’s just a trick question where not enough information is given to answer it. I withdraw my claim that your answer is incorrect. It’s one of two equally valid answers to an ambiguous question. But I think that the only reason the question is hard is that it’s ambiguous.
Note that Wikipedia acknowledges that there are two “Easternmost Points”, one by longitude, and the other by direction of travel.
What pitcher has the most wins in MLB without winning the Cy Young Award?
Cy Young
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Here’s one. Does a plumb line point to the center of the earth?
Only if you are at the equator. If you are north of the equator, it points to a place on the axis south of the center and if you are south, it points to a place north of the center. The earth is an ellipsoid.
… but the center of the earth is still the center of gravity, no?
Lincoln’s casket was opened in 1901 when they were moving it to a new tomb. He was still recognizable. The last person to see Lincoln died in 1963.
I think some hardcore trivia people might take issue with the fact that the final version of the song had extensively rewritten lyrics and was about a different subject, therefore is it really the same song. (It also had a different title, “Candle in the Wind 97”). You do say “different versions,” but that implies different *recorded *versions to me.
Six.
Archival footage of Cazale was included in The Godfather Part III.
Whoa.
The Moops
Post 6.
Quibble with your answer:
I suspect, although I’m too lazy to prove, that even at the equator the plumb line points very very slightly off due to tidal forces from the earth’s rotation… either slightly too far west or slightly too far east. Anyone know if this is true?
Another thought:
Wouldn’t it be slightly off most places on earth? The surface is not a perfect sphere, or oblate sphere. There should be gravitional pull from nearby mountains or any deviation on the surface, including the changing density of the earth and oceans. That’s mostly WAG cuz I don’t know much about gravity.
Actually I think that on an idealized version of the earth, that is, a big oblate spheroid spinning but one that is perfectly uniform, the only places that a plumb line would point directly towards the center of the earth would be the north and south poles. Of course even that probably gets overridden by the tidal forces of the earth moving around the sun or something along those lines.
Question: What did the first conscript in World War I have in common with the first conscript in World War II?
They were father and son.
That’s only true if you specify the first American conscripts.
Who is it if you stipulate Cy Young Award era?
Nolan Ryan and Don Sutton are tied at 324.
