Trivia Game

I'm psychic

It's a submachine gun. I think it's a 9mm.

correct

Ok, uhm.... Who discovered Australia? (Im talking about the European sailors, not the indigenous people)

I vaguely remember something like this, but I also remember that it there wasn't just one correct answer. Hmmm, let me see what I can come up with...

Magellan

nope, it wasnt him

Willem Janszoon or James Cook? This is a difficult one, because there's no one correct answer from what I can remember, is there?

There is only one correct answer. Willem Janszoon first saw the coast of Australia and recorded it, then the Dutch mapped the western coast. Then over 150 years later along comes Cook at the other end of Australia and decided to claim it for England. Saying Cook discovered it instead of Janszoon is like saying Columbus was the first European to reach the Americas when in fact (when not counting the people 10,000 years ago who crossed the Bering Strate...Ok maybe they werent Europeans and they weren't exploring for the exploration) there was a Viking who landed in North America 500 years earlier (but after some of his kind had landed in Greenland). Funny fact is that he was called Leif Ericson and our teacher about a year ago, a Swede, was called Leif Eriksson.

Anyway, Willem Janszoon is correct

Oh right, it's my turn. Here's an easy one: How many bones are there in a human head?

22?

Spot on Master Scientist, LOL.

Wikipedia gets these things right

Ok...uhm....how many flowering plant species occur on Antarctica?

Two? Am I right, am I right?

No more coffee for you And yes, you are right

How did you know I love coffee and had probably had too much?

Okay, here's the next question: Where is the phrase "rule of thumb" derived from?

I'm psychic. I am able to see/feel the brainwaves of all people in the world and when I concentrate, I can focus on one particular brainwave and access people's thoughts and memories and such....

It probably has to do with your thumb (well, mine anyway) being about an inch thick, so you can use your thumb to measure distances...?

Good answer, but unfortunately not the right one. Yay, I finally got one on ya!

Then I don't know. I may revert to Wikipedia later though

Come up with the answer yet? Lol, it seems to be only Bas and I that are involved with this thread. Come on people, I have faith in you guys!

The only other meaning I can find is that they say a man in England was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. But all sources dismiss it as being unlikely and point to the thumb as measuring tool (distance, temp and whatnot) as a more likely origin, but all say the origins of the saying is unknown...

Well, sorry to tell you that that's the answer I was looking for.

Oh, ok. Well...I guess you can come up with another querstion since I didn't really get it right (and I don't know of anything right now )

Technically you DID get it right, so you're up... Don't try to slip past this one, 'cause it ain't gonna work, lol. Take your time though.

Ok, fine. Have it your way!

In light of the Winter Olympics...Which country has won the most medals at the Winter Olympics from its first edition until now?

My country....USA!