Online Gaming Fail

Today, we have an interactive game for my dear readers. It's a speed test to complete the following:

Pick a number between one and 10.
Multiply it by nine.
Add the two digits of the resulting number together.
Now subtract five from that.
Take your number and match it up with a letter of the alphabet (so 1 would be A, 2 would be B, etc.).
Pick a country that begins with that letter.
Pick an animal whose name begins with the last letter of the country name.
Pick a fruit that begins with the last letter of the animal's name.


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This is called the Orange Kangaroo game. Because most people come up with Orange, Kangaroo and Denmark as the last three answers. Our friends over at Cracked have a pseudo-scientific explanation for it, but the reason I'm linking today is because I lost the game.

Not because I couldn't think of a country that started with D, but I ended up with Apple Iguana Djibouti. This probably means I would have failed the Antarctica winter psych test.

Today's link to the Big Dead Place blog is so you can check out all of your Antarctica-related questions. It's a rather entertaining compilation of articles written by a scientist/writer/alcoholic friend-of-a-friend who spent a few years in Antarctica doing Antarctica stuff.