Tough 2 - Christmas Eve!

Post by **merry** » Sat Dec 24, 2022 9:15 am

What links:

9 Ronna and quetta; ronto and quecto?

10 Cinnamon; ice bucket; devious lick; Kylie Jenner lip?

11 Ghawar (Saudi Arabia); Burgan (Kuwait); Ahvaz (Iran); Grane (Norway)?

12 Carole Hersee; Bubbles the clown; noughts and crosses?

13 Hieroglyphic; demotic; hieratic; Coptic?

14 Histidine; isoleucine; leucine; lysine (and five others)?

15 A Beatle; you; my two front teeth; Dukla Prague away kit?

Furby · Post by **Furby** » Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:04 pm

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OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sat Dec 24, 2022 3:41 pm

11 Ghawar (Saudi Arabia); Burgan (Kuwait); Ahvaz (Iran); Grane (Norway)? Oil Fields

13 Hieroglyphic; demotic; hieratic; Coptic? Forms of writing originating in Egypt

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Sun Dec 25, 2022 10:18 am

14 Histidine; isoleucine; leucine; lysine (and five others)?
Are these amino acids found in RNA?

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Mon Dec 26, 2022 1:09 am

10 Cinnamon; ice bucket; devious lick; Kylie Jenner lip?
Challenges! The cinnamon challenge (to try to kill yourself ingesting spices); the ice bucket challenge to fund raise for ALS; not sure about the other two.

Wildrover · Post by **Wildrover** » Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:08 pm

9. the latest additions to SI prefixes. They will probably only ever be used by scientists - kilo, mega. Giga and Tera are enough for most people but there's peta, exo, zetta and yotta above that.
12. This is the BBC test card of the 60s and 70s

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:07 am

And now the answers. I love Furby's answer to #15.

And this time it's Very Well Done to the Hard Facts Gang who scored a mighty 7/7!

9 New SI prefixes adopted in 2022.
10 Viral internet challenges.
11 Major oilfields.
12 Test Card F (central image).
13 Scripts used to write ancient Egyptian.
14 Essential amino acids.
15 All I Want for Christmas is … songs: Dora Bryan; Mariah Carey; Spike Jones; Half Man Half Biscuit.