The answers to my questions from earlier are posted below.
A boat load of stray cargo to amuse you today.
Image Whale Expeditions.
One
What is the young of a whale called?
Answer: Calf
The term ’calf’, when referring to a young whale, is derived from the same root as the word for a young cow, which comes from Old English cealf and Proto-Germanic kalbam. This usage has been extended to marine mammals, where the adults are called bulls and cows, and the young are referred to as calves/calves.
Two
What were the first names of Mason and Dixon, after whom the Mason-Dixon Line is named?
Answer: Charles and Jeremiah.
The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon from 1763 to 1767, initially served to resolve a land dispute between the Penn and Calvert families by marking the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It later became a symbolic boundary between slave and free states in the United States before the Civil War.
Three
What eight letter word means ‘the study of Chinese language, history, customs, and politics’, and from what does the first three letters of the word ultimately derive?
Answers: Sinology; Qin.
The terms sinology and sinologist were coined around 1838, Sinae, in turn from the Greek Sinae, from the Arabic Sin—which ultimately derive from Qin, i.e. the Qin dynasty.
— Wikipedia ultimately the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 3rd edition 1992): 1686.
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Four
In the northern hemisphere, what astronomical season ends at the vernal equinox and what three months form the equivalent meteorological season?
Answers: Astronomical winter; December, January and February.
Astronomical winter starts with the Winter Solstice about December 21st in the northern hemisphere and ends with the Vernal Equinox about March 20th. Meteorological winter covers the months of December, January and February.
Five
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
The opening words of which English novel, first published in Florence Italy in 1928, are quoted above. What is the novel’s title and who is the author?
Answer: Lady Chatterley’s Lover; D.H. Lawrence.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence’s final novel, explores the relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman. The novel, influenced by Lawrence’s life and the story of Lady Ottoline Morrell, faced obscenity trials in the UK and US before becoming a bestseller. It was not published fully and openly in the UK until 1960.
Sailing to Philadelphia – The Post Title
The title refers to Mark Knopfler’s album from 2000, and its title track which was inspired by Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, a novel about Mason and Dixon. The track features American singer-songwriter James Taylor.
Sailing to Philadelphia
Mark Knopfler
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie Boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I’ll enjoyAll Durham and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth…He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening skyThey’d cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker’s boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society…We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon lineNow you’re a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you’ll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie ladYou talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker’s boy
In the forest of the Iroquois…Now hold your head up, Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of DelawareCome up and feel the sun
A new morning is begun
Another day will make it clear
Why your stars should guide us here…We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon Line
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