A short quiz in honor of a biologist blogger
Tomorrow, biologist and writer PZ Myers will help Philadelphia celebrate the last Friday the 13th before the alleged apocalypse coming on the 21st. Myers is famous for is blog Pharyngula. And what the heck is a pharyngula?
A short quiz in honor of a biologist blogger
Biologist and writer PZ Myers will be in Philadelphia to help celebrate Friday the 13th at an anti-superstition party thrown by the Freethought Society. More details here. His irreverent and colorful science blog, Pharyngula, is one of the most popular on the web.
What's a pharyngula? That’s a good question, and I thought it would behoove me to find out before he arrives. So try the accompanying quiz.
Extra credit points go to anyone who can figure out which three wrong answers refer to real things with proper biological names and which two I just made up.
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Nope, it's 1, 2, and 5.— goofball- Come on. How can anyone not know about #1, which Saturday Night Live made famous with a skit? It's called the uvula.
2 & 5 are the other two real biological phenomena with proper biological names.— Aquaria - SPOILERS AHEAD
1 is the uvula.
2 is the baculum
3 is silly.
4 sounds painful.
5 is the candiru.
6 is the pharyngula, as well as the correct answer.— wmdkitty
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