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Classic BAM $64000 Question
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:04 pm
by mrkelley23
$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
Re: Classic BAM $64000 Question
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:06 pm
by earendel
mrkelley23 wrote:$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
Possum (Pogo)
Re: Classic BAM $64000 Question
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:15 pm
by mrkelley23
mrkelley23 wrote:$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
A. An opossum (like Pogo)
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:05 pm
by wintergreen48
Opossum-- is that a possum owned by an egomaniacal talk show host?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:17 pm
by mrkelley23
wintergreen48 wrote:Opossum-- is that a possum owned by an egomaniacal talk show host?
hee hee.
But I try to be as correct as possible -- otherwise the nitpickers come out, with their frumious claws. The NA marsupial is an opossum. The Aussie kind is just possum.
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:20 pm
by earendel
mrkelley23 wrote:wintergreen48 wrote:Opossum-- is that a possum owned by an egomaniacal talk show host?
hee hee.
But I try to be as correct as possible -- otherwise the nitpickers come out, with their frumious claws. The NA marsupial is an opossum. The Aussie kind is just possum.
Sez who?? Back home we called 'em "possums" and that's what I hear them called here in Kentucky. Anyone who says "opossum" is just puttin' on airs.
Re: Classic BAM $64000 Question
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:26 pm
by silvercamaro
mrkelley23 wrote:$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
I've already gone home, but I suspect that it's
A. opossum.
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:32 pm
by ladysoleil
earendel wrote:
Sez who?? Back home we called 'em "possums" and that's what I hear them called here in Kentucky. Anyone who says "opossum" is just puttin' on airs.
I dunno, but I call them far worse things when I find them by my trash cans. Funny about the Pogo connection- it was a question about Pogo that got me into the Hot Seat at Play It! for the last time. BAM and possums seem to just go together for me.