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Guernsey Quiz – How Well Do you know the Bai...
Sep 23, 2022 | Channel Islands, Guernsey, Quizzes, Trivia
The Race is on : Why the Greek Hero Hercules Can N...
Jun 24, 2022 | Philosophy
New Jersey – How & When did it Get It...
Jun 17, 2022 | Channel Islands, Jersey
Channel Islands
Latest“Sarnia Cherie” – Guernsey’s Unofficial Anthem
Jun 3, 2022 | Channel Islands, Guernsey
The song "Sarnia Cherie" is arguably Guernsey's most well known "Unofficial Anthem". It gets sung on numerous 'patriotic' and sporting events from Liberation day on 9th May each year to the Island Games medal ceremonies. But if you look at the lyrics it isn't extolling any particular patriotic fervour of people on the island but rather a melancholic longing of someone who is far from Guernsey shores. In this article we look at its origins and place in Guernsey social history.
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Guernsey and the French Revolution
Apr 15, 2022 | Alderney, Channel Islands, Guernsey, History, Jersey
General Interest
LatestWhy Do Onions Make us Cry When We Cut them ?
May 27, 2022 | Food & Drink, General Interest
Why Do Onions Make us Cry When We Cut them ? : In a Nutshell : Breaking open onion cells which releases enzymes which in turn react with other released substances to release a volatile gas - which when it reaches our eyes, it reacts with the water that is intended to keep our eyes moist.
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LatestThe Science of Aging – Why do we age at all ?
May 6, 2022 | Science
While many search for the elusive Fountain of Youth, you might be wondering, Why do we age in the first place? What is it about our bodies or cells, biologically, that causes us to grow old?
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Time for a Party Game – Pub Quiz Challenge
Apr 8, 2022 | General Interest, Quizzes, Trivia
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The “Other” Guernsey – Guernsey County : Guernsey Pioneers in The New World
Apr 29, 2022
Most people will be familiar with our sister island's namesake in the US - New Jersey, but less well known is that there's also a Guernsey in the US , or to be precise a Guernsey County in Ohio. Guernsey County is almost as old as the United States itself. It was formed on the 10th March 1810 when the US was only 24 years old. The County is located in the State of Ohio and rests in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Guernsey and the French Revolution
Apr 15, 2022
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Columbanus – The Monk Who Saved Europe
Mar 25, 2022
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The Race is on : Why the Greek Hero Hercules Can Never Beat a Tortoise in a Race – Zenos Paradox
Jun 24, 2022
Philosophy is full of perplexing paradoxical thought experiments and Zeno's paradox is a real brain bender. It is about a race between the fleet-footed hero of the Trojan War Achilles and a tortoise.
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How Should We Regard the Bible in the 21st Century?
Nov 20, 2020
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Mysteries of History : Atlantis
Oct 30, 2018
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Socrates’ Antidote to Gossip – The Three Filters
May 5, 2017
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Which Came First – The Chicken or the Egg ?
Jan 3, 2017
Bonus Question : Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?
Feb 8, 2019
We at guernseydonkey.com are always keen to promulgate that ever exapanding 'body of knowledge' we like to call "intenet fluff". Accordingly we recycle here for your delectation a story that seems to have begun its life way back in 1997 when the internet was still young. Multiple examples now exist and its opening often varies - who the setter supposedly was and at what institution - but the core of the piece is always the same. Enjoy! :)
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The One Man Invasion of Sark
Dec 21, 2018
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The Four Stages of Public Opinion
Jun 1, 2018
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Heroic Failures
May 23, 2017
Time for a Party Game – Pub Quiz Challenge
Dec 23, 2022
Party time is always a good time for a game or two and everyone loves a "good ol' pub quiz". To test your knowledge we've gathered together a few pub-style quiz questions to challenge the "little grey cells". 40 questions guaranteed to tempt & tease out those nuggets of information that we're sure you will have squirrelled away somewhere.
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Guernsey Quiz – How Well Do you know the Bailiwick ?
Sep 23, 2022
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What’s the Meaning and Origin of the Phrase Catch 22
May 13, 2022
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Time for a Party Game – Pub Quiz Challenge
Apr 8, 2022
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The Science of Aging – Why do we age at all ?
May 6, 2022
While many search for the elusive Fountain of Youth, you might be wondering, Why do we age in the first place? What is it about our bodies or cells, biologically, that causes us to grow old?
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Can Sneezing Pop Your Eyeballs Out ?
Mar 4, 2022
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What’s the Meaning and Origin of the Phrase Catch 22
May 13, 2022
The phrase “catch-22” is, in short, common parlance for when someone is trapped in an inescapable dilemma. But where does the phrase come from?
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Some Chaucer Factlets
Mar 12, 2021
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The Semi-Colon – What’s the Point? & How to Use it
Mar 27, 2020
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Inside the Mind : Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue!
Apr 1, 2022 | General Interest, Social Sciences |
I remember asking a friend once about how he thought about things. I’d asked if he heard his own voice in his head when he thought about things or when reading. He looked at me blankly and said “Err I don’t hear anything”. So do we all have an inner monologue if not how do some people think ?
Read MoreMore Guernsey Folklore Tales – The Singing Rock & The Broken Kettle
Feb 25, 2022 | Channel Islands, Guernsey |
A small island community like Guernsey is rich in folklore tales. Here are but two such tales … “The Singing Rock” & “The Broken Kettle”
Read MoreThe Way We Speak – Why we use Adjectives in a certain way
Feb 18, 2022 | General Interest |
There is a rule we all seem to follow unconsciously to do with English adjective order. A blueprint discovered by writer Mark Forsyth.
[opinion – size – age – shape – colour – origin – material – purpose]
What’s the Origin of the Term OK ?
Feb 11, 2022 | General Interest, Trivia |
“OK” – the all-purpose American expression that became an all-purpose English expression that became an all-purpose expression in dozens of other languages. It’s amazing that we ever got along without it at all. But we did. Until 1839.
Read MoreWho Invented Spaghetti?
Jan 28, 2022 | Food & Drink, General Interest |
There seems to be a fair bit of controversy and some urban myth surrounding this particular question, which could also be asked as “Who invented Pasta ?” In this article we look at the origins of pasta and spaghetti.
Read MoreHow Old is Your Cat in Human Years ?
Jan 21, 2022 | General Interest, Trivia |
A question often asked by cat owners when trying to decide if their pet pussy is young, middle-aged or just plain ‘over the hill’. The calculation is fairly simple. Compared to dogs, which have greater variation based on size and breed, the method to calculate a cat’s age is pretty standard.
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