I vote for a geological themed pub quiz. Winning team buys everybody a round of drinks! Can't say fairer than that... by the way, did I happen to mention I'm absolutely useless at pub quizes? Who wants to join my team!?
I vote for a geological themed pub quiz. Winning team buys everybody a round of drinks! Can't say fairer than that... by the way, did I happen to mention I'm absolutely useless at pub quizes? Who wants to join my team!?
I'll join your team Benauld. I'm pants at pub quizzes too (lull 'em into a false sense of security, eh?).
Yes, it's shiny and has pointy bits on the ends sometimes, and it hurts if you get bits in the eye when you give it a good whack with a 5lb lumphammer.
Don't worry John I don't think Gus will be buying anything if he's on my team... I have a cunning plan :wink: ... I think Mike looks like he could put in a good performance for my team too...
I think it's quartz as well, Mike, you're supposed to come up with another brain teaser for the pub team, seeing as laccolith has got to be right (unless John has found something really obscure like fungusite or something).
And, to everybody who has a long memory, yes I did say I'd buy a round last year and didn't, so I'll see you at the Lewinnick Arms tonight. If you're not there you'll dip out.
Can't get that one. I can only find one mica with 14 letters - Siderophyllite - but that can't be right. I also came across Clintonite, but he's an ex-president. So I'm stumped, and, judging by the lack of replies, so is everyone else.
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Oh go on then....
Hexagonal crystal, multitude of possible colours, 7 on Moh's Scale, six letters.
Bet nobody can guess what it is.
Gus
Rank: Fluorite
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Points: 303
That's a toughie Gus, is it shiny?
I vote for a geological themed pub quiz. Winning team buys everybody a round of drinks! Can't say fairer than that... by the way, did I happen to mention I'm absolutely useless at pub quizes? Who wants to join my team!?
Ben.
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Joined: 02/08/2005
Points: 906
That's a toughie Gus, is it shiny?
I vote for a geological themed pub quiz. Winning team buys everybody a round of drinks! Can't say fairer than that... by the way, did I happen to mention I'm absolutely useless at pub quizes? Who wants to join my team!?
I'll join your team Benauld. I'm pants at pub quizzes too (lull 'em into a false sense of security, eh?).
Yes, it's shiny and has pointy bits on the ends sometimes, and it hurts if you get bits in the eye when you give it a good whack with a 5lb lumphammer.
Gus
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Gus thats got a quartzy sort ring to it!!!
By the way Benauld - forget the drinks from Gus...... he still owes a round from last year!!!!
John
Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
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There are many rock-types that make me yell "Ouch, my cornea!" when hit with a 5 Lb hammer. I think Garnets shatter nicely.
Mike
Oops, Garnet has the wrong crystal habit.
Who wants me on their team?
To me, road cuts serve more as tourist attactions.
Rank: Fluorite
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Points: 303
Don't worry John I don't think Gus will be buying anything if he's on my team... I have a cunning plan :wink: ... I think Mike looks like he could put in a good performance for my team too...
Ben.
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Points: 688
Well after coming up with a mineral with 6 letters - having just been told its 7 letters perhaps I'll join your team as well!
Hey. I've got an idea.
We'll all be on the same team - and we've won already!!!!!!
John
Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
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re-reading I was mixing Javi's 7 letters with Gus's 6 - perhaps I was right with quartz :oops:
So next question:-
plutonic mushroom - 9 letters
John
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Will Durant
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I'm sure the answer was quartz too.
plutonic mushroom - 9 letters
Laccolith?
Mike
To me, road cuts serve more as tourist attactions.
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I think it's quartz as well, Mike, you're supposed to come up with another brain teaser for the pub team, seeing as laccolith has got to be right (unless John has found something really obscure like fungusite or something).
And, to everybody who has a long memory, yes I did say I'd buy a round last year and didn't, so I'll see you at the Lewinnick Arms tonight. If you're not there you'll dip out.
Gus
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Joined: 20/11/2004
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Laccolith is right Mike - your turn, I'm jumping in the car to drive 150 miles for vthis drink Gus is offering. Might not get another chance!!!
John
Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
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Drive safe John.
Stone Age, Iron Age, Space Age - Once Hole - 8 letters
(I'm rather proud of this one.)
Mike
To me, road cuts serve more as tourist attactions.
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I know what it is - Lee Choon, the 16,000 year old astronaut. haven't heard from him in a long time.
Gus
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That's a great answer, but look harder Gus,
The answer is right there.
Mike
To me, road cuts serve more as tourist attactions.
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Joined: 01/06/2004
Points: 1090
Drive safe John.
Stone Age, Iron Age, Space Age - Once Hole - 8 letters
(I'm rather proud of this one.)
Mike
Holocene?
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
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Bingo! Holocene is right.
Your turn.
Mike
To me, road cuts serve more as tourist attactions.
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Great stuff! Now I have to think of something...
Horse of the morning?
Eight letters.
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
Rank: Fluorite
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Points: 303
Easy! Eohippus
A Self Made Species is produced?
12 Letters
Ben.
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Hmm, that seems to have snuffed out the momentum we had going... would it help if I mentioned evolution?
Ben.
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Can we have another clue please? I'm determined to work this out but can't quite get it...
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
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Points: 2977
Stumped. More clues, please
Geologists are gneiss!!
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I can't get it either, not that I've really racked my brains over it. I haven't got my "Bumper Book of Cryptic crossword Clues" handy at the moment.
Gus
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Points: 303
Theodor Eimer?
Ben.
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ooh, I know what it is now! (only because I looked it up though ) BUT I can't think of a clue at the moment so I'm going to keep it to myself
~Jenny~
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I can't get it either, not that I've really racked my brains over it. I haven't got my "Bumper Book of Cryptic crossword Clues" handy at the moment.
Gus
.....and I've looked right through 'Noddy Goes to Town' and all my Janet and John books without sucess!
John
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Will Durant
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Orthogenesis.
My go:
Stark limestones.
Gus
Rank: Fluorite
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Points: 303
Karst.
Green Sand, Water Softner, Fertilizer?
10 Letters
Ben.
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 19/01/2006
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Glauconite
(if correct - yellow leaved brittle mica now a follower of a former US president - 14 letters)
Geologists like a nappe between thrusts
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Can't get that one. I can only find one mica with 14 letters - Siderophyllite - but that can't be right. I also came across Clintonite, but he's an ex-president. So I'm stumped, and, judging by the lack of replies, so is everyone else.
Gus
Rank: Apatite
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Points: 688
Wasn't Sid 'Ero Phyllite once president of the US?????
John
Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant