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In an attempt to get the quizzes going again, what about a fast moving, (fairly) easy quiz, Jeopardy style... with a twist

For those that don't know how Jeopardy works:
I will give the answer, and you must reply with the appropriate question.

Now for the little twist - I will give 3 answers - an easy one, medium one and a (fairly) hard one... all rated in my opinion off course (there are many mites that are alot smarter than I am - so they would find all of them easy).

You can ONLY answer 1 of the questions. You should therefor start with the hardest - if you can answer that - go ahead, but don't answer any of the other 2. If you can't answer the hardest one proceed to the medium one and so on. This would ensure that anybody at any level of knowledge can participate.

Only once all 3 questions have been answered, will I proceed to the next set.

Enjoy!

OK, I'm working on the first set... but I thought I'd put the idea out there in the meantime.

The 1st set will follow shortly.

Cool Sounds interesting ....

Brilliant idea for a quiz!! looking forward to the first set

Ok here goes the first set (as I said not meant to be overly difficult):

1. (Hard) Taita Falcon
2. (Medium) Translated to English: Porcupine
3. (Easy) Eland

1) Which rare raptor has only one nesting site within South Africa, found on the Abel Erasmus pass ?

Hi all, I don't know much and will try...

Easy: What is the world's largest antelope?

OK - lets give it a go

2) What is an Ystervark?

Not exactly what I was looking for FG, but close enough, so I will give it to you. I was looking for: What is South Africa's rarest breeding bird.... and you're right, the only nesting site is found in the Abel Erasmus pass.



Correct Anri



Again not what I'm looking for - gotta be a little harder than that PNF. A clue: it's a translation from a different African language.

To recap:

1. (H) Taita Falcon - What is South Africa's rarest breeding bird (Forestgump)
2. (M)Translated to English: Porcupine - Unsolved
3. (E) Eland - What is the world's biggest antelope (Anri)

Nungu very clever second question! and there the answer was staring at us all this time

Question: Nungu is a swahili word and translated into english is what animal?

Correct Ods:

1. (H) Taita Falcon - What is South Africa's rarest breeding bird (Forestgump)
2. (M)Translated to English: Porcupine - What is the meaning of the Swahili/Shonga word Nungu (Oddesy)
3. (E) Eland - What is the world's biggest antelope (Anri)

How about these?

(H) Mangwanduna
(M) Bulhoek
(E) he who sweeps clean

Remember only 1 answer per person allowed...

(H) Which hill's name, just north of Olifants, is said to mean "place of the zebra stallion"?

(E) Col: James Stevenson-Hamilton was given the name Skukuza by his staff - what does it mean?