1. MetaQuizziks Meetings Topic: Birds

2. It was a notorious Soviet signal that could be heard on the shortwave radio bands worldwide between July 1976 and December 1989. It sounded like a sharp, repetitive tapping noise , at 10 Hz. The random frequency hops disrupted legitimate broadcast, amateur radio, and utility transmissions and resulted in thousands of complaints by many countries worldwide. The signal was long believed to be that of an over-the-horizon radar (OTH) system and this theory was publicly confirmed after the fall of the Soviet Union. Name it. 1

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4. Russian Woodpecker

5. The Greek playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed in 456 or 455 BC by a tortoise dropped by an bird who mistook his bald head for a stone. Which bird, referred to as ‘bone-breaker’ is considered the most likely candidate? 2

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7. Bearded Vulture / Lammergeier

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17. 6 X was a Chinese statesman and military leader of the late Qing Dynasty. His achievements prompted a cook from his home-town of Xiangyin County, Hunan to name a dish after him, and this dish has become the most popular item of generic “Chinese food” the world over. Identify.

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19. General Tso’s Chicken

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22. Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz

23. In an early Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Geordi is looking for someone in a bar and is told to talk to a Gorn bartender who knows everything. "He knows everything, huh?" states Geordi, skeptically and proceeds to ask him a question. The bartender, on hearing the question, asks for a clarification which convinces Geordi that the former does know everything. Whats the question? What is the clarification? 8

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25. “ What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?” “ What do you mean? An African or a European swallow?”

26. Some cheap wordplay; reverse one to get the other. 9

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28. Skua & auks

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31. Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav