T W A U ... The Chase....today's Gem.....

[ToraToraTora]

Q: Marinus of Tyre was the first person to name which southerly continent?

A: Africa!

[TheWinner]

I wouldn't have known that.   Why shoud they be ridiculed? at least they had a guess, rather than passing. I wonder why you bother watching it.

[sandyRoe]

Antarctica or Australia?

[ToraToraTora]

21:30 but you know it's not Africa! The actual answer is as usual irrelevant.

[douglas9401]

Africa is southerly from Tyre.

[TheWinner]

yeah, but at least they had a go. (I didn't watch it today).

[naomi24]

Another one that doesn't work, TTT.  The contestant had a best guess.  Not so bad.

[ToraToraTora]

Antarctica or Australia would have been non TWAU. Africa is on the equator

[tomus42]

It might have been funny if they'd said Pirelli. 

 

[douglas9401]

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/north-africa-map.htm

[ToraToraTora]

Why are you showing us a map of Africa doug? Lots of things are South of Tyre. Europe is south of here but I would not say it's a southern continent.

[tomus42]

Half of it's south of the equator. It's not an obviously stupid answer.

[ToraToraTora]

21:58 it is when there are 2 that are completely south of the equator and Africa was known about a lot more recently than Antarctica.

[tomus42]

No. I like these TWAUs but if there isn't a valid just leave it until there is.

[1ozzy]

//I wonder why you bother watching it//

Ego trip The Winner, the temporary feeling of superiority 🤔

 

[ToraToraTora]

morning skippy!

[sandyRoe]

So, don't keep us in suspense, what's the correct answer?

[ToraToraTora]

you know the correct answer it's obvious from the question.

[douglas9401]

 

 

The name was first used in the second century CE by the Greek geographer Marinus of Tyre on a world map that has since been lost. The term had been used to describe the frozen land mass in the south since the first century AD, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the Scottish cartographer John George Bartholomew officially named the continent Antarctica on maps.

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[douglas9401]

Brigadier Bolshy begins another day of laughs and cameraderie.