19-May-2022 Theme: 'Barnacle'

(1) Are barnacles (a) crustaceans (b) bivalves (c) echinoderms (d) gastropods?

Answer: (a) crustaceans.

(2) Who famously wrote in 1852: “I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before.” (bonus: who supposedly asked, on finding out that his friend’s father did not have a study: “But where does he do his barnacles?”).

Answer: Charles Darwin (bonus: George, Charles Darwin’s son).

(3) How did the northern hemisphere Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) get its common name?

Answer: It was believed to spawn from Goose barnacles.

(4) What, in relation to barnacles, are nauplius and cypris?

Answer: Free swimming larval stages.

(5) Who was Barnacle Bill’s rival for the affections of Olive Oyl?

Answer: Popeye.

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