Look Smart Trivia: Minerals
5Animal is obviously the star of the game, and vegetable gets some play now and then - but almost nobody ever asks you to guess a mineral. As these five citizens of the mineral kingdom illustrate, minerals are worthy of the spotlight even if we can’t eat them, or they can’t eat us. As usual here, I’m using the term “mineral” loosely. I don’t care if any of these are technically gemstones or just plain rocks. First to name all five will stake a claim to a $5 Meh coupon. Insert signoff catchphrase here!
Time for an acknowledgement of the accomplishments of @cinoclav, who was the first to get 4 out of 5 in our 15-Letter Words quiz:
- Personification
- Congratulations
- Armadillidiidae
- Methamphetamine
- Disorganization
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Thank you @JasonToon. So, ‘personification’ was what you were looking for in #1?
@cinoclav it’s indisputableish
@medz I think you might be right on 3 but not specific enough on 4…
I thought #3 might be gypsum, but an image search didn’t yield anything that looked similar.
Now I think it might be asbestos.
edit: NM, looks like @medz found the right answer for #3.
No knowledge; just some post-Googling guessing
@lehigh
just in (neko) case…
@medz If it is Nekoite, I guess it’s just a case of bad luck for me…