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I know its manly for fun but they do twist the truth to fool the contestants into giving the obvious wrong answer or to make interesting facts up.
On repeat they asked name a lake in the Lake District which Windermere and Coniston Water were klaxoned for being the obvious but wrong answer. The answer was Bassenthwaite Lake because it was the only one with lake in its name. The reason being there are no lakes but Mere's, Waters or Tarns in the others names. This is totally splitting hairs, as Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet so is these Mere's and Waters still lakes.
Windermere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Windermere is the largest natural lake in England.
They also said Tibbels was soly resonsable for wiping a flightless speices of bird out on Stephensens Island, yet on South Pacific it siad Tibbels was not totally responsible for it albeit the main culprit.
They also caught someone else out with saying water froze at 0 degreze centigrade. But they said that was wrong and 0 was the tempriture ice melted. I spoke to a chemist and they said 0 was the temprature water was in flux, +1 and ice melted -1 and water froze. And yet on a program on snow it showed that water can get a lot lower something like -22 before freezing and its only coming into contact with a contamanant like dust or even bacteria causes it to crystaliz round 0 degreez.
Stephen fry even got into an argument with Rory Grath over the latin name of a Jackdaw and I looked it up and it apperes Rory Grath was right.
On repeat they asked name a lake in the Lake District which Windermere and Coniston Water were klaxoned for being the obvious but wrong answer. The answer was Bassenthwaite Lake because it was the only one with lake in its name. The reason being there are no lakes but Mere's, Waters or Tarns in the others names. This is totally splitting hairs, as Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet so is these Mere's and Waters still lakes.
Windermere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Windermere is the largest natural lake in England.
They also said Tibbels was soly resonsable for wiping a flightless speices of bird out on Stephensens Island, yet on South Pacific it siad Tibbels was not totally responsible for it albeit the main culprit.
They also caught someone else out with saying water froze at 0 degreze centigrade. But they said that was wrong and 0 was the tempriture ice melted. I spoke to a chemist and they said 0 was the temprature water was in flux, +1 and ice melted -1 and water froze. And yet on a program on snow it showed that water can get a lot lower something like -22 before freezing and its only coming into contact with a contamanant like dust or even bacteria causes it to crystaliz round 0 degreez.
Stephen fry even got into an argument with Rory Grath over the latin name of a Jackdaw and I looked it up and it apperes Rory Grath was right.
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