१ नोव्हेंबर, २०१२

"Ancient Romans knew this animal featured in their circuses as a hippotigris."

Answer, without looking it up, in 30 seconds, with nerve-wracking music playing.

३६ टिप्पण्या:

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Horse tiger.

David म्हणाले...

Iranian sex tourist.

Sydney म्हणाले...

Horse tiger is right.

MTN म्हणाले...

Zebra. Makes you wonder what the potamus part of hippopotamus means. Something related to water, I presume.

James म्हणाले...

potamus = river. think mesopotamia

Wally Ballou म्हणाले...

Yes. Hippopotamus means "river horse" Mesopotamia means "between the rivers" (the Tigris and Euphrates). Potomac River seems like it would mean "river river" but it is actually from an unrelated Indian word.

Darrell म्हणाले...

potamus = river. think mesopotamia

Think "potable water" instead. Then go to "river."

I knew it was zebra even though the answer wasn't in the free version I got to see.

Bob Ellison म्हणाले...

What, then, would a hippopompatus be?

Darrell म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Darrell म्हणाले...

Maurice--horse's ass.

KCFleming म्हणाले...

Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

clint म्हणाले...

Zebra?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I knew "hippo" mean horse, but I would have had a hard time seeing "tigris" as a unit and making what would then be an easy leap to zebra.

I saw the "ti" as a nonsense bit of connectivity between "hippo" and "gris." I know "gris" as the French word for "gray." I'm afraid I would have wasted my time thinking about a gray horse and scribbled "donkey" ... even though what kind of circus animal is a donkey.

Carnifex म्हणाले...

Figgered it out in the time allowed.

Hippo=horse
tigris=(I thought tiger)maybe striped

Striped horse=Zebra

Da' nuns would be proud!

lemondog म्हणाले...

Tigris as in the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.

wyo sis म्हणाले...

I didn't get it in time, which is exactly why I could never compete in Jeopardy.

Scott M म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Scott M म्हणाले...

"I know which part of your mother's pot is amus, Trebek." - Sean Connery.

Wince म्हणाले...

clint said...
Zebra?

I'm sorry, despite the interrogative inflection, you failed to put your response in the form of a question.

Peter Hoh म्हणाले...

I went to horse-tiger, too.

Tip o' the hat to Doc Schettler, with whom I had one very fun year studying Latin. Wish I had started that earlier in high school.

Kylos म्हणाले...

I immediately thought horse-tiger, but I probably spent 15 seconds trying to think of horse-like cats instead of cat-like horses. When I reversed my thought process, I got it pretty quickly, I think within 30 seconds.

Eric the Fruit Bat म्हणाले...

"Be that as it may, Alex, those people have never been in my kitchen."

-- Cliff Clavin

Hammond X. Gritzkofe म्हणाले...

Got that one. Thanks to listening to Alan Moorehead's "White Nile" and "Blue Nile" on audio-book. The early English explorers referred to hippopotamus as 'water horse'. Hippotigris therefore conjurs image of striped horse, the zebra.

Revenant म्हणाले...

That one's easy if you have at least a dim memory of high school Latin. :)

Revenant म्हणाले...

That one's easy if you have at least a dim memory of high school Latin. :)

Amartel म्हणाले...

zebra?

BarrySanders20 म्हणाले...


"What, then, would a hippopompatus be?"

"Maurice--horse's ass."

If that's true, Maurice speaks of the ass of love?

I always thought that would be a great Jeapordy answer: Maurice speaks of this in the Joker. I wonder if that brilliant Mormon from ten years ago would have known.

Paddy O म्हणाले...

Pogo, I just spent a number of minutes finding--and of course watching again--that video, only to find you already posted it.

From ancient Rome to modern--what are they? Australian, English, whatever.

Paddy O म्हणाले...

I knew this mostly because it immediately brought to mind what Romans called giraffes--cameleopards (or something like that).

So, I asks myself, what kind of tiger would be found in a hippodrome?

BarrySanders20 म्हणाले...


"What, then, would a hippopompatus be?"

"Maurice--horse's ass."

If that's true, Maurice speaks of the ass of love?

I always thought that would be a great Jeapordy answer: Maurice speaks of this in the Joker. I wonder if that brilliant Mormon from ten years ago would have known.

Ruth Anne Adams म्हणाले...

Hippopotamus is 'river horse'.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

You're all wrong. The correct response is "What is a zebra."

Don't any of you watch "Jeopardy"?

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

It took me 1 second flat, but I'm a college dropout.

Steven म्हणाले...

Watching it "live", I came up with the real answer just after time ran out.

I initially got stuck on the fact that the Tigris is a river, and that "hippopotamus" means river horse, and thinking, "Well, maybe the Romans called the hippopotamus the Horse of the Tigris instead of rivers in general? It's geographically wrong, but such misattributions aren't unknown . . ."

अनामित म्हणाले...

I can't get the link to work. From the comments I'm getting the impression that the answer is supposed to be 'zebra'. My Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon tells me it's a kind of large tiger. None of my Latin dictionaries mention the word at all.

अनामित म्हणाले...

I can't get the link to work. From the comments I'm getting the impression that the answer is supposed to be 'zebra'. My Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon tells me it's a kind of large tiger. None of my Latin dictionaries mention the word at all.