Friday, January 15, 2016

15 Jan, 2016: Day 32

Question 1:
In "Eats, Shoots and Leaves,” punctuation marks are compared to what highway safety device, because they keep words from banging together? Answer: traffic signals.


At first I thought that I could look for the passage in Google Books. After a few minutes in the book, finding everything and anything except the quote, I gave up and looked for what I needed using eats shoots and leaves punctuation marks highway safety. Buried in the results of the first page is a quote on the subject. “...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.”

Question 2:
Who presented Tonga's royal family with the animal that, when he died, was believed to be one of the longest-living animals on record? Answer: Captain Cook.


Please see Day 7 for the explanation.

Question 3:
When Dan Marino's jersey number 13 was retired by the Dolphins in 2000, what was the only jersey number previously retired by the team? Answer: 12.


Insert retired jerseys number "Miami Dolphins" 2000 in the search bar. You have your choice of Wikipedia articles, but I didn't bother. I went to one of the fan sites instead.

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