One of the questions was "give the common name of the migratory butterfly Danaus Plexippus"...
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University Challenge 6th December 2010
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
To which they answered, 'the Emperor'!
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
If only Roger Walker had been a Lepidopterist, he'd be a lot better off. From 2002:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fLOBP_nrc[/video]
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
Paxo gave the correct answer as Monarch - I wonder if he also had Milkweed Butterfly on his card as an alternative answer?
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
He seemed like a really nice guy... i'm glad he didn't risk it. Not everybody knows that a Mother Shipton is a butterfly...Pete Eeles wrote:If only Roger Walker had been a Lepidopterist, he'd be a lot better off.
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
I didn't even know it was a moth till last year.Charles Nicol wrote: Not everybody knows that a Mother Shipton is a butterfly...
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
If he'd had an 'ask the audience' ticket left, it would have been interesting to know how many of them got it right... Would the bar chart have made a finger or a fist?
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Re: University Challenge 6th December 2010
i had never heard of any of the 4 species until about 5 years ago.
the only butterflies i could recognise before then would have been Peacock & Red Admiral & "Cabbage White" !!
My moth knowledge was equally sparse, consisting of Hummingbird Hawk Moths which we saw in Libya, and Biston Betularia which we learnt about in Biology.
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the only butterflies i could recognise before then would have been Peacock & Red Admiral & "Cabbage White" !!
My moth knowledge was equally sparse, consisting of Hummingbird Hawk Moths which we saw in Libya, and Biston Betularia which we learnt about in Biology.
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