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341o2

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Memories of school when Teacher had to keep advising that Captain Nemo's submarine was not The "Naughty Lass"
Isn't the Austrailian Bigfoot a Yowie?
 

Calthrop

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Isn't the Austrailian Bigfoot a Yowie?

Yowie, is right. @Strat-tastic and @341o2 : each of you gentlemen has answered one correctly. Is it OK for me to request you to arrange with each other, who's to take the floor? (Single combat between hairy monsters would be spectacular, but perhaps not the best way to go.)
 

341o2

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Perhaps we could have a statutory duel instead as per the Grand Duke (Gilbert & Sullivan)

By this ingenious law,
If any two shall quarrel,
They may not fight
With falchions bright
(Which seemed to him immoral);
But each a card shall draw,
And he who draws the lowest
Shall (so ’twas said)
Be henceforth dead –
In fact, a legal “ghoest”

I'm happy to offer the floor to Strat-tastic
 

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There was a song that we used to sing in primary school and I'm desperately trying to remember the words! Was it nine?
 

DaleCooper

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40?

It seems to be a popular number - it rained for forty days and forty nights, forty days in the wilderness, Ali Baba and the forty thieves (Oops! Wrong book.).
 

Calthrop

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I'm sorta-kinda into the religion stuff, and got a fair amount of it spouted at me as a kid: was annoyed that I didn't know the answer -- couldn't resist going to the source, thus putting self out of the running. Can I just say: correct answer, is in a different league from my imaginings / guesses.
 

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Is it something just so simple as -- the earliest defensively-walled city known to archaeologists?
 

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Is it something just so simple as -- the earliest defensively-walled city known to archaeologists?

That's precisely what it is. Dating back to about 8000 BC and the oldest known walled settlement, five thousand years or so before Stonehenge! There were apparently up to fourteen levels of occupation and reconstructions of the walls, but all were in ruins long before Joshua's time. Made a good story, though!

Your excavation site.
 

Calthrop

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That's precisely what it is. Dating back to about 8000 BC and the oldest known walled settlement, five thousand years or so before Stonehenge! There were apparently up to fourteen levels of occupation and reconstructions of the walls, but all were in ruins long before Joshua's time. Made a good story, though!

Your excavation site.

A considerable process of elimination via earlier attempted answers; and a blind guess on my part. Open floor, please.
 

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