Trivia test....try not to cheat !

[MORTARDUDE]

Trivial Test ------------

1) How did April gets it' s name?

2) What are yurts?

3) In soda fountain slang, what's a bucket of mud?

4) What does a deltiologist collect?

5) What is the Guido's scale?

[SuperScout]

Answers:

1) She was born in November, but her momma couldn't spell it.

2) When you strain that little muscle on the inside of your left thigh, it really yurts.

3) Bucket of mud is what you have to wash out of the grease trap when you order a cherry fizz, and don't have enough money to pay for it.

4) A deltiologist collects pictures of deltas, like the Mississippi delta, the Mekong delta, the Amazon delta.

5) Guido is that off-key Italian down the street, who couldn't carry a tune in a front-end loader.

How'm I doin?

[sn-e3]

April = spring time Yurt a mongolian tent structre ask hoyin bucket of mud = choclet shake deltiologist=workout specialest Guido+ the loan shark down the street

[MORTARDUDE]

Trivia Answers
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1) How did April gets it' s name?

- From the latin name of the month , Aprrilis - derived from
the verb aperire, "to open" , signifying the time of year
buds begin to bloom.

2) What are yurts?

The domes, Circular portable tents used by the nomads of Mongolia and Siberia.

3) In soda fountain slang, what's a bucket of mud?

- a dish of chocolate ice cream.

4) What does a deltiologist collect?

- Postcards

5) What is the Guido's scale?

- The musical exercise we know as do,rem, mi,re,mi,fa,so,la - devised by eleventh -century Benedictine monk Guido d'Arezzo. The last two syllables - ti and do were added later.

[reconeil]

I guess I flunked-out totally, since I couldn't get one answer.

Still, and in fairness to SuperScout, I did much prefer his much better researched answers, than yours. Besides, "His" answers were more believable.

Neil

[PHO127]

I had Guidos scale correct, Father Guido Sarducchis hash scale.