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Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby McManusFan

chengdufan wrote:Mars


Not Mars, it's Uranus and Iranu was correct.

I think Uranus might be the only planet we use the Greek name for rather than the Roman one.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

McManusFan wrote:
chengdufan wrote:Mars


Not Mars, it's Uranus and Iranu was correct.

I think Uranus might be the only planet we use the Greek name for rather than the Roman one.


pluto too, if you want to include historically classified planets.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

McManusFan wrote:Cyclopes come from greek mythology. Three such creatures made Zeus' thunderbolt, what were their nam... (just kidding). Which god is their father? The name is also the name of a planet.


Tattooine?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Iranu

Not 900km.

The diameter of the Moon is around the same as the distance from London to New York.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

Which word, derived from the Latin for moon, can be used as a description for somebody mentally unstable?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

Iranu wrote:Lunatic


Correct. From the belief that changes in the moon (especially full moon) caused brief insanity.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

The anthropomorphic wolf Lupo Wolfie is the official mascot of which annual sporting event, he was the subject of protests by French farmers in 2016 who viewed the character as mocking a number of attacks on their livestock by wild animals?