Round 3116 results

[Shani Naylor]

I couldn't resist dealing HOP TU NAA and hoped that players would find the date too coincidental to be believable. But that didn't happen, and the Manx Halloween top scored with 7 votes. The winner is Paul K with an unnatural 4 and the real winner is Nancy S with a natural 3.

Apologies to those players who had italics in their defs, which somehow fell off in the voting list.

Take it away Paul!

1.       Trivial nonsense.
Dan W, who voted 2 & *11. Score: 3
Vote from Debbie E.

2.       One of 68 different square dancing calls.
Debbie E, who voted 1 & 6. Score: 1
Vote from Dan W.

3.       The ghost orchid, native to Papua New Guinea.
Nancy S, who didn't vote. Score: 3
Votes from Mike S, Judy M & Tim B.

4.       A Maori name for the Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis).
Tim L, who voted *11 & 13. Score: 3
Vote from Dave C.

5.       A short-handled club made from whalebone used by the Maori in combat.
Mike S, who voted 3 & *11. Score: 3

Vote from Alan M.

6.       A rite of passage for young men on certain Pacific islands, requiring them to dive deep for pearls.
Tim B, who voted 3 & *11. Score: 3
Vote from Debbie E.

7.       With variants, a legendary paradise in the mythology of a number of Native peoples in the American Southwest.
Alan M, who voted 5 & *11. Score: 2

No votes.

8.       [Maori] a rabbit or hare (now nearly eradicated as a pest, the rabbit was introduced to New Zealand before 1840).
Dave C, who voted 4 & 9. Score: 0

No votes.

9.       A device made from hinged marked sticks, used by Polynesian navigators to infer distance from land from wave height and wind speed.
Efrem M, who voted 10 & *11. Score: 3
Vote from Dave C.

10.   A climbing perennial diœcious plant (Humulus lupulus, N.O. Urticaceæ, suborder Cannabineæ), with rough lobed leaves shaped like those of the vine.
Paul K, who voted 10 & *11. Score: 4
Votes from Judy M, Paul K & Efrem M.

11.   The night of 31 October as celebrated on the Isle of Man, often marked by children singing songs door-to-door and the display of lanterns carved out of turnips.
OED. D7
Votes from Tim L, Mike S, Tim B, Dan W, Paul K, Alan M & Efrem M.

12.   (Chemical Engineering) trademark a synthetic rubber formed by polymerizing butadiene or by copolymerizing it with such compounds as acrylonitrile or styrene.
Judy M, who voted 3 & 10. Score: 0

No votes.

13.   Faroe Isles Idiom: The catching of pilot whales by driving them inshore and spearing them - still allowed as an ethnic practice controlled by the islands themselves rather than internationally.
Johnny B, who was DQ. Score: 1
Vote from Tim L.

[France International/Mike Shefler]

Interesting. Isle of Man issued a postage stamp commemorating it (and other Manx traditions) in 2018.

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