Pangea, Chromosomes...

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What common knowledge do you assume most adults would know but apparently not...

What Pangea is. Based on the Apprentice episode, not as widely known as I assumed.

How many chromosomes a standard human has. DH had to Google it when explaining our sons condition to a friend. I am utterly flabagasted.

All those saying they know what B&H did.; Please tell me what they did;
You're probably wrong.;

They dug up graves to sell the bodies to medical students and doctors, but when it became difficult to get corpses they resorted to murder to supply the medical profession with what it required. I think they were charged with the murders of 16 people.

Interestingly grave robbing wasn't an offense, it was only when they started killing people that they crossed the line into criminality.

matt

Sorry, you're wrong.

I didn’t think Burke and Hare were grave robbers - thought they were ‘just’ murderers?

There was a lot of grave robbery happening at the time, I believe, but not by them.

I knew all of these, but to be fair, all I ever do is read.

I've always spelled it "flabberghasted" so I looked it up. I'm right but so are pp who spelled it "flabbergasted"
Evidently my way is "archaic".
Like me

For me, I'm always surprised by the number of people who don't realise that there is no "universal" sign language and that each country has it's own SL.

This drives me mad! I sign and the number of people who not only are amazed they’re not all the same but also complain that it would make more sense if all sign languages were the same so people could communicate more easily.

VeniVidiWeeWee so what did they do then?

smiling is correct.

There is a verb, "burke"; which means to strangle.

I knew all 3!

Do I get a prize?!

B&H just killed their lodgers, didn't they? I think they sold the bodies to the medical school, but they didn't dig up graves. The medical school probably thought that was how they got them, though. And there was a lot of grave-robbing panic around that period. Watchmen, concrete graves, iron bars etc.

I knew all 3, I'm pretty good at general knowledge if I do say so myself but honestly I think it's because I read a lot!

matt

They were murderers.

Hare turned Queens evidence and was released. Burke was hanged
and , I believe, anatomised. IIRC his skeleton is still in a Scottish university.

'Burking' is a type of suffocation, it was how they killed their victims

Not a clue what Pangea is. Yes to chromosomes and yes to Burke and Hare. Yes to planetary order.

I knew Pangaea (useless pub quiz knowledge), chromosomes, B&H (I'm an anatomist) AND the difference between GB/UK.

Does that make me a genius?

Trying to think what I know that a lot of people don't. Animals with 4 knees anyone?

I know all these things. But I'm an incurable quiz addict.

I've heard of Burke and Hare but can't remember what they did. Wonder if they were in horrible histories at all?

I know what Pangea is.

I've googled how many chromosomes we have and I was one out. Pretty close.

. Animals with 4 knees anyone?

Elephant!

Camels look cross enough to have four in the knee department?

Yes to Pangea (mainly thanks to my DC1 obsession with dinosaurs)

Yes to Chromosomes (due to DC3 rare genetic condition which is the result of a deletion in one of her chromosomes)

No to B&H. I'd heard of them but wouldn't have been able to tell you their names.

I didn't know about chromosomes and I'm confused about gb vs UK but I do know why shouldn't leave your shoes on your table

Burke and Hare weren’t Resurrection Men, they murdered their lodgers. Burke was publicly dissected after his execution, and his skin was used to bind a note book. It’s in a museum in Edinburgh

I’d spell it Pangaea (as per my old text books) but can’t see the link with a party airline either.