This is a quiz where the answers are never as they seem. They are based in incorrect "general knowledge" answers.
Rules/regualtions
You get 1 point for a correct answer, more (whatever I feel) for being interesting (relevant to the question) but 10 points off for giving the obvious answer. You can only guess once per question and, most importantly, I'm always right this stuff is all off of QI.
Well, if you are not washing yourself, you carry the bachteria. And possibly the fleas... And dead people would be carriers as well, though they would be unable to infect people as it seems to be infecterous through bites and so > >... It has to go through the skin, right?
Ok I like that your debating the wrong answer. and even worse both gave the obvious answers of rats/fleas.
The bacteris Yersinia pestis (the bubonic plague) is found in the Marmots in Mongolia. They spread it to things like fleas and rats and humans by coughing. all the great plagues of Eruope and east Asia came from these marmots. they have caused the deaths of over a billion people and are second only to the malarial mosquito in death tolls.
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sorry... obvious answers get points off, interesting answers get extra points.
jezz is right on both counts... marco polo or more specifically MArko Pilic (mark chicken in english) was born in Korcula, Dalmatia in 1254. Technically it was a protectorare of Venice only but whatever...
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Who invented the steam engine?
a) James Watt b) George Stephenson c) Richard Trevithick d) Thomas Newcomen e) A Heron from egypt
Ok I'm bored so the answer was e) A Heron from Egypt (well done Cenere) Newcomens engine of 1711 os about 1,600 years too late. Heron lived in Alexandria in (about) AD62 he invented the aeolopile or more approprialely a steam engine. It worked on a similar system to jet propulsion and span a metal sphere at 1,500rpm. No one could think of a practical function for it though and it was seen as a novelty. 700 years ealier though in Corinth the first railway had been invented by Periander.
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