Quiz.

[Bodd]

named after places

In Scotland

 

[mikeey84]

In Scotland

No.

 

[Bodd]

Norway

 

[Justin Passing]

Checked discoverers - all over the place. European is all...
There's French,, German, Dutch... Various people involved in eg calling chlorine deflogisticated acid gas.

 

[mikeey84]

Discovered in Switzerland, Scotland and Sweden according to the source I used.

So linked by discovery in a country beginning with S.

Apologies if this wasn't a good question.

 

[Justin Passing]

Platinum was brought back from somewhere down mexico way according to wot I just read...

I didn't think people would have to look anything much up for the letters one....


I did learn a lot about Gadolinium - fascinating stuff .

 

[mikeey84]

I didn't think people would have to look anything much up for the letters one..

Well I knew about Strontium and Scotland, and chlorine and Sweden, and thought people may make the leap.

Maybe I underestimated the leap required.

Platinum discovered by a Spaniard .. see the pattern?

 

[Bodd]

Discovered in Switzerland, Scotland and Sweden according to the source I used.

So linked by discovery in a country beginning with S.

Apologies if this wasn't a good question.

It kept me going

 

[Bodd]

Well I knew about Strontium and Scotland, and chlorine and Sweden, and thought people may make the leap.

Maybe I underestimated the leap required.

Platinum discovered by a Spaniard .. see the pattern?

I can see it....

 

[mikeey84]

Not sure whose next, but crystal ball and Justin got closest amongst others....

 

[Bodd]

Not sure whose next, but crystal ball and Justin got closest amongst others....

I suppose its first to the starting line...

 

[Mottie]

Gotta be Justin. He has an 's' in his name as does crystal ball but his 's' is the third letter and not the fourth so he wins………

 

[Justin Passing]

Oh, er, off top of me ed anf just 5 minutes research, what unusually large, for its type, tourist attraction would you find in Paris, Rome, Palermo, Rabat, Vienna, Brno.

There may be arguments. A lot of places eg London have small ones which I'm not counting and I may have one in or out of "large", in error.

 

[crystal ball]

Ferris wheel

 

[Ihavenojob]

Fountains