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You were supposed to toast Spike! Ah well.
In Middle Age Europe a cheap clay named pygg was used to make mugs, plates. All manner of containers.
How has the word pygg survived into the modern world?
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Piggy bank.
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Correct. [Image Can Not Be Found]
I've got the sinking feeling I've used that one before. I've also got the rising happy feeling the question is now Jen's to deal with!
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I just bet your happy feeling is rising! I think that is a fairly widely known bit of trivia, whether or not you've used it before.
Several elements have been known through millennia, such as gold, silver, and mercury. In 1649, though, the first element discovered through
scientific inquiry was found by Hennig Brand. What was that element?
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How about a gas...helium?
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Not helium.
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Oxygen?
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Nope, move away from the gasses...
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Antimony?
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Because none of us would be here playing trivia without it...how about silicon?
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Neither of those. Sorry, ladies.
Here's part of the description: "It is an essential component of living systems and is found in nervous tissue, bones and cell protoplasm."
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I'll wear the chemistry [Image Can Not Be Found] and guess carbon. Seems like that would have been discovered eons ago, shortly after the "discovery" of fire, but....
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Jen said:
Neither of those. Sorry, ladies.
nervous tissue, bones and cell protoplasm."
I'm looking at my vitamin bottle.......iodine? (My vitamin bottle has a very long list, so I will just keep guessing.)
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Potassium?
Life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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Phospherous?
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If not Carbon, then Calcium?
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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Aud got it with phosphorus [Image Can Not Be Found]
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Well done, Aud! The first element identified through scientific inquiry. Who'd've thunk?
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