"I dub thee, Sir Thomas"? Jumping off cliffs. A theory which was meant to explain the regular and sudden drops in their population. Those drops were later discovered to be caused by interactions with predator population numbers. Slightly flattened spheres. I imagine they are the same as whales and get their water from the food they eat. How did I do? (That's without looking anything up)

I've just looked that one up, actually, and according to Wikipedia, the term "Whale" is ambiguous. It can be a general term for all cetaceans (which includes dolphins) or it can refer to just those cetaceans which are not dolphins or porpoises. You learn something every day...

{{sofixit}}

On 7/1/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote: Whales do not exclusively inhabit saltwater. Belugas, for example, have been sighted 600 miles up the Yukon river in interior Alaska, and 1,240 miles up the Amur river in Manchuria (present day Russia/PRC border). —C.W.

Thomas Dalton wrote: That sounds like something that Lady Chatterley would say. :-) Ec

--- MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm equally concerned that you think that knowing the answer to that question constitutes anything more than trivia that's even less useful than knowing cartoon characters. Utterly useless even to the knighted who already have what they came for. Was it an attempt to make some other point? Maybe that even the Queen is painfully ill-informed? The point of the article, however, is that current-event knowledge has gotten worse. It's a relative measure. I.e., not that someone feels that knowledge in general is lacking based on an arbitrary point, but that it has dropped since the Internet (including Wikipedia) has become widely available. Maybe the problem isn't the Internet, but in the schools teaching reading comprehension. ~~Pro-Lick http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Halliburton_Shill http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick http://www.wikiality.com/User:Pro-Lick (Wikia supported site since 2006) --spam may follow-- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting

I think the point was that people think they know the answer when actually they don't. Not knowing something isn't a problem, you can just look it up if you need it. Not knowing something but thinking you do is a serious problem because you never think to look it up.

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote: When I plug in "porn" in Google trends I find that the top six cities in the world for such searches are all in the United Kingdom, but fact do not bear out the notion that your side of the pond reads as much about Pokémon. Ec