Kinzdone

Every day or so, once or twice, I'll put up new trivia question. It could range from movies to cheese and aeronautics to play-dough and hopefully after a while we'll have a decent thread filled with all sorts of trivia thats useful, good to know, totally useless or just downright silly.
Here's the first, rather easy, question:

Despite similarities to Elephants and Rhinos, the Hippo is most closely related to...?

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"...the movie you see isn't my movie or the director's movie, its the viewer's movie. How they see it and interpret it from what we have done..." Rutger Hauer.

Claireofthemoon

I sure don't know. Maybe it's an easy question if you're familiar with wild animals which I'm not.

FBI

Im taking a wild guess. Crocodiles or dolphins

Hayle_Ann08

alligators..

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Kinzdone

So very close, you're on the right track with 'dolphins'. Think bigger...

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"...the movie you see isn't my movie or the director's movie, its the viewer's movie. How they see it and interpret it from what we have done..." Rutger Hauer.

Hayle_Ann08

whales...

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Kinzdone

Correct! The answer is 'whale'.
"...genetic study and the fossil record show that whales and hippos are evolutionary cousins, closer in fact than elephants or rhinos. Their shared ancestor, an aquatic mammal, lived 50 to 60 million years ago..."

Next one:

If all the planets in our solar system were placed into a giant body of water they would all sink to the bottom, except one, that would actually float. This planet is.... ?

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"...the movie you see isn't my movie or the director's movie, its the viewer's movie. How they see it and interpret it from what we have done..." Rutger Hauer.

Hayle_Ann08

WOO HOO I AM SMART!!!!

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Hayle_Ann08

pluto..

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FBI

congrats hayle




sorry to disappoint u mr whale but we are related. Live with it!