A little history/geography quiz

[CGM]

no ideas on Scrap's questions. damn these are getting tough.

[Scrap]

Also they both have five Rivers.

[Scrap]

Actually the Russian one is hard, being a Sheffield lad I found it interesting they have both got a River Don, the Russian one is bigger by about 2,000 miles . The Sheffield Don 40 years ago rats couldnt live in it it was toxic, now its got Barbell and Salmon amazing

[CGM]

Actually the Russian one is hard, being a Sheffield lad I found it interesting they have both got a River Don, the Russian one is bigger by about 2,000 miles . The Sheffield Don 40 years ago rats couldnt live in it it was toxic, now its got Barbell and Salmon amazing

Lake Ontario and Erie, of the Great Lakes, are like that. Back in the '70s they were polluted to hell, now they are not that bad, thanks to cleanup efforts and pollution controls. Just goes to show, Mother Earth can work wonders to heal herself if you give her half a chance.

[Scrap]

Heres one, for years everybody has been looking for the the evolutionary missing links. They found them,in 2005 Where ?.

[CGM]

Heres one, for years everybody has been looking for the the evolutionary missing links. They found them,in 2005 Where ?.

Borneo

[Scrap]

nowhere near

[CGM]

manchester stadium?

[Scrap]

No Nearer to Home

[killersheep]

um Mexico?

[Scrap]

No think about it

[killersheep]

Madagascar?

[Scrap]

no,really I suppose its not obvious, because everybody had been looking in the wrong places. Forgeting that the Earths on the move, it was the Geolegists that gave the clues as to where to dig.

[CGM]

OK, while we're struggling with Scrap's question on missing links, I'll throw this one out...

What was the claim to fame of Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923?

[Scrap]

They didnt say atually where, but its in the Artic circle North Greenland.