Friday, August 16, 2019

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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Aug 15 04:14PM -0700

On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 6:39:03 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> Birds do it, bees do it, even spiny monotremes do it. Let's do it.
> Let's have a trivia round on the reproduction of plants and animals.
 
> 1. By what means do mushrooms reproduce?
 
The usual method
 
> 2. By what extraterrestrially influenced process do the eggs and
> sperm of coral meet?
 
Spawn at a full moon
 
> 3. What is unusual about how the seahorse gives birth?
 
The male does the heavy lifting
 
> 4. Name either of the mammals that are monotremes -- i.e. they
> lay eggs.
 
Platypus
 
> 5. Many species of sharks and fish, including the common guppy,
> platys and swordtails, are ovoviviparous. What does this mean?
 
They can lay eggs or give birth to live young?
 
> 6. A male donkey and a female horse produce what offspring?
 
Ass, mule
 
> another flower, the pollen attaches to *what organ*, resulting
> in pollination. Be fully specific. Hint: Despite the name,
> no trauma usually results.
 
Stigma
 
> 8. The male reproductive organ of a flowering plant is called what?
 
Stamen
 
> 9. Where are a slug's reproductive organs?
 
I don't wish to know
 
> 10. An earthworm needs another earthworm to reproduce despite that
> fact that it already has what?
 
Both male and female organs
 
 
 
> For questions #1-5, name the artist in whose style the applicable
> fish is drawn:
 
> 1. Fish #2.
 
Mondrian
 
> 2. Fish #15.
 
Warhol
 
> 3. Fish #11.
 
Munch
 
> 4. Fish #5.
 
Picasso
 
> 5. Fish #7.
 
Koons?

> And after you've finished with those, please decode the rot13 for
> questions #6-10, and give us the fish number for these artists:
 
> 6. Xnaqvafxl.
 
3, 8
 
> 7. Qhpunzc.
 
6, 9
 
> 8. Puntnyy.
 
3, 8
 
> 9. Zngvffr.
 
3, 8
yes, again
 
> 10. Zveó (Zveb jvgu na nphgr npprag ba gur B).
 
Never heard of him. 9, 12
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 15 06:15PM -0500

Mark Brader:
> > 9. Where are a slug's reproductive organs?

"Calvin":
> I don't wish to know
 
4 for Calvin. :-)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Unfortunately, real life is usually
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