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Just to start

11 ... Tiger

21. Elbow

32 Superman

4. Dreamt

13. It's a Wonderful Life

24. Ostriches/Ostrich

..hope this helps!

#9 is cat.

1. Shark
3. At the moment: Purple & Nothing
6. Maine

3. The usual answer to this is MONTH, ORANGE, SILVER and PURPLE.

6. Maine

8. La Porciuncula

12. 10:10 (ten minutes past ten)

#3 orange, silver, and purple (for starters)

#17 I am guessing a microwave

#28 I am guessing a rib

#35 cat urine glows under a black light

#2. I agree that "squirrelled" has two syllables.


There are a number of nine-letter monosyllables, e.g. stretched, screeched, scratched, strengths.

#20. A book called "Wordplay: A Curious Dictionary of Language Oddities" gives TESSERADECADES and SWEATERDRESSES (both 14 letters). Most people, I think, would write the latter as two words, or with a hyphen.

Among common words, the longest are said to be STEWARDESSES, REVERBERATED and DESEGREGATED (all 12 letters).

#31
Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, made it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles

#38
there are 293 ways to make change from a dollar
www.maa.org/features/mathchat/mathchat_4_19_01.html

#7. A wildcard search of the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM came up with no fewer than 174 words ending in -dous! But most of them are rare or obsolete. The four which are undoubtedly in common usage are:

hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, tremendous.

14. Dragonfly
18. Between 10 and 20 minutes
19. Here's what I got from googling: The number of dimples on a golf ball varies, depending on the manufacturer and may even be different for different models made by the same manufacturer. The dimples are usually the same size as one another, but some golf balls have several different sizes of dimple on the same ball. Any number between 300 and 500 dimples is reasonable, and 336 is a common number.
22. Crocodile
25. Pigs
26. Goldfish

34. Some lipsticks contain _____

take your pick!
gluten
peanut oil
fish scales
lead
tar
alginate

usual answer is fish scales

36. Tongue.
37. Rifridgerated
I also found fish scales to be the most weirdest of them all. That's all I can find and as it's 1:35am, am too tired to search any more.

#2 is probably "screeched"
#21 try and lick your elbow!

5. Found this: Almonds are in the rosaceae, and macadamias are in the proteaceae family. While they are very diverse, the reason they are grouped together as nuts is because their biochemistry, and nutritional makeup is similar
10. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

27. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Apparently, someone is asking us to do his homework for him...

Research isn't pasting the questions up on a website and hoping people will respond. Research is going to somehting like google.com and looking for the answer yourself.

Personally, I think it's fine to come on here and ask a question that's bugging you. But when it's for a class and is being graded, I think it's the closest thing to plagiarising. And it will get you nowhere in life because eventually, you're going to have to do research and you won't know how.

5. Peach (I've always read that. I'm willing to accept that it could be wrong)
15. either 118 or 119
17. microwave
30. I'd guess earwax
33. I'd guess bugs and spiders
39. I'm pretty sure it's 70%

I don't really mind at all what it's for. Searching for these things has broadened my horizons a little, and learnt me a few things that I never knew, or probably would have ever known. If it had been put in, say, the challenge forum, without a word said about homework, it would have been greatly accepted, as they are some interesting questions. I'm not saying it's right, and I'm not saying it's wrong, but it has given this insomniac something to while the night away.

5. Nut family

9. Cat

11. Zebras

13. It's a Wonderful Life

30. Hearing (?)

36. Tongue

38. 293

I see that this title has changed to finished thanks alot to JAy - what about all the others who gave alot of answers? I don't mean me because I didn't help alot, but I see that several people gave quite a few each, and some even took the time to search for them. I would say it would be thanks to everyone who took the time. But that is just me, I would be grateful to everyone for helping.

I would have to agree. Quite a few people put in the effort, not just one person.

Shark, is probably the "right" answer to #1 but I used to keep mudskippers ( perriothalmus, boleopthalmus - don't trust the spelling) and both genera blink both eyes frequently. Useless bit of trivia really.

Regards,

Tielhard

Tielhard, now,now. This is Funtrivia. How could ANY piece of trivia be useless! We may all of us find your contribution useful one day, I am sure.

Snarf Ox,

Concerning #1, The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

False.

Sharks don't blink. They have upper and lower eyelids, but these lids don't move and don't close over the eye. When biting prey, some sharks protect their eyes with a third eyelid called the nictitating membrane. The nictitating membrane A thin, tough membrane, or inner eyelid present in the eyes of many sharks. It can be drawn across the eye to protect if it from damage.
– Source 1998 San Diego Natural History Museum website: http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/sharks/faq.html#blink

Basically, this "fact" is in error, but an understandable one.

Cordially,

Russ

Snarf Ox,

Let's look at your #2 question. "The longest one-syllable word in the English language is " ."

"Squirreled" was suggested, then stated that in some dictionaries, it is pronounced with two syllables.

I went to my Webster's Third New International Dictionary, where "squirrel" has two syllables, and there is no pronounciation given for "squirreled." So I agree that this is not an answer.

But consider SCRAUNCHED (10 letters) and SCROONCHED in Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

Scraunched: from "Scraunch" chiefly dialect, meaning crunch.

Scroonched: variation of scrunched, which means crunched.

Also, SCROOTCHED as an alternative spelling for scrooched in American Heritage Dictionary. Scrooch means to hunch down.

So I contend that there are three 10-letter words that qualify.

Now it's time for me to squirrel away until tomorrow, when I'll be back with another post on another answer.

Cordially,

Russ

Snarf_Ox,

Let's take a look at number three:

No word in the English language rhymes with ____;____;____;or_____.

Tabby Tom has the answer that is expected: MONTH, ORANGE, SILVER and PURPLE.

However, just for fun, consider:

In Sparkhill buried lies that man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park
Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange."
- Arthur Guiterman ("The Game of Words," William Espy, p. 143)

A pronouncing gazetteer In Webster's seems clear
"stonehenge:" (Ston henj)
"orange:" (or enj)
Truely rhymesters must persevere.
- Don Alborell of Birmingham, AL, as published in the Mensa Bulletin, Jan/Feb 1984, p 10.

For the others, you can rhyme by hyphenating a word:

To find a rhyme for silver
Or any "rhymeless" rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
bosity and time.
- Stephen Sondheim

. . . or by syncope:
How many weeks in a month?
Four, as the swift moon runn'th.
- Christina Rossetti

See you tomorrow for the review of another answer.

Cordially,

Russ

I rather like the following:

I tried and tried for years and years
To find a rhyme for month.
I tried and failed a hundred times,
But succeeded tha hundred-and-oneth.

And for "purple", there's the northern dialect word hirple, which means to limp or hobble. But it may have gone out of use; the last quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the 19th century.

Snarf Ox,

#4.-"dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

There are also:

1. Undreamt (not apprehended even in a dream, not imagined nor thought of), and
2. Adreamt (past participle of "adream" - in a dream).

All are listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, which also supplied the definitions.

I've read that "redreamt" and "daydreamt" are also words that qualify. However, I could not find either listed in a dictionary, so list them here, just in case someone else wants to try to find them..


Tabby Tom,

I like your "month" rhyme. Call you tell me who wrote it?

And thanks for the note on "hirple" (to move with a gait between walking and crawling. In early use, said of a hare. -- Additional definitions from Oxford English Dictionary). Seems as if that would make a great trivia question: What is the gait of a hare?


More tomorrow.

Cordially,

Russ