A change this week. This Friday quiz is much less cryptic than normal – for once you know the subject from the start.<\/p>\n
1. Who was banned from a trip on the Beagle by his wife?<\/p>\n
2. Who was captain on the Adventure when Fitz Roy was made captain of the Beagle?<\/p>\n
3. Why did Darwin need to check Fitz Roy’s finch collection from the Galapagos islands?<\/p>\n
4. How is Fitz Roy remembered daily?<\/p>\n
5. How did Darwin’s ‘business card’ change the week he was married?<\/p>\n
6. Neither Darwin nor Wallace attended the meeting of the Linnean Society when their joint papers were presented on 1 July 1858. Why?<\/p>\n
7. Where did Darwin learn to stuff animals and who taught him?<\/p>\n
8. What was the Navy’s interest in the last specimen left for Darwin to investigate from the Beagle expedition?<\/p>\n
9. Darwin was right. So why were the Americans drilling into rock when they said that in 1952?<\/p>\n
10. Where was Darwin when ‘On the Origin of Species” was published?<\/p>\n
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