h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

may be involved....

hooch

moonshine

Vodka? Whisky?

Yes have a DGI +1 for "distilling"

The answer to this QI is one of the ingredients in what are youbeing used in the distilling

MD DGI +1

for Vodka - that's one of the possible derivatives...

Grain possibly?

sugar


water

mash

jwf already said water... :P

My grandfather always used to say never mix the grape and the grain... although I'm pretty sure he had no room for grape, the amount of grain he imbibed.

Not grain, sugar or water.

GT have a DGI +1 for "mash"

wort?

Potatoes? 'Cause you can mash them *and* make booze out of them.

CORRECT! Mister Dreadful +3

Potatoes is correct.

Cor, there's a thing... how many synonyms do potatoes have then?

I'll let y'all read this one for yourselves.

The Guinness book of world records records that the the Cougar is the most synonymous animal bearing over 40 names but it has met it's match in the humble spud!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2011/february/you-say-potato-i-say-solanum-tuberosum94052.html

I was browsing the NHM website this evening and stumbled upon this story about cultivated potatoes have 600 synonyms (in the biological sense)

A graet many are found in Russia - which may or may not explain the link to using them to brew Vodka.

That's yer lot....

points...eventually.

QI - Dooyafinksaurus
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Correct (+3)
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Mr Dreadful (73)
"Potatoes"



QI Bonus (+6)
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None Awarded.


DGI Bonus (+1)
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Bel (10)
"I looked up synonym..."

Mr Dreadful (48)
"alcohol"

Gandalf's Twin (60)
"Distillation."

Mr Dreadful (63)
"Vodka"

Gandalf'sTwin (68)
"Mash"


Klaxon (-5)
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HygienicDispenser (2)
"sex"

HygienicDispenser (2)
"home"

Jwf (4)
"snow"

HygienicDispenser (5)
"rain"

Mu Beta (12)
"set"

HygienicDispenser (19)
"Moon"

HygienicDispenser (25)
"penis"

Mr Dreadful (37)
"good"


Elf Bonus (+2)
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Clive.




Total to be added or subtracted.
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Gandalf'sTwin +2
Clive +2
Bel +1
Mr Dreadful - an heroic 0!
jwf -5
mu beta -5
HygienicDispenser -25.



With his refined nasal skills for detect the finest bouquets GT, joins Clive - your humble QI researcher - syphoning the barrels of mystery, hoping to find the finer vintage of Interestingness, down on the farm the locals call "reality", sharing +2 between them.

Bel knows her limit and keeps well within the legal limit a practically sober +1

Mr D is recovering well in the 12 step programme soon to be released back into society with a liver-curdling 0!

But - unshaven trouserless and insensible, snoring under bramble - it's the wild man of the hills HD smashed out of his skull on the brain rot he's been brewing from potatoes and frost. An indecently exposed -25....

In my first klaxon hunting list, I decided to throw in something that could not possibly be right. I thought 'cheese' or 'potatoes'. I settled on potatoes. But then, after typing 'Death', I changed it to 'Texas' (as in nothing's more certain than). If I wasn't such a smart arse, I'd have got it right first post. But not for the right reasons, so I guess that's OK.

Thanks again Clive.

Anytime HD.



For next time: Good hunting....

Yeah well spuds are 95% water anyway.



And just cuz something's in the Guinness Book dinna make
it so. I would contest that water is by far the winner in the
synonym count. But that'd start an argument whether mist
was actually a synonym for falls. Or if bog was another word
for swamp. Or if brook meant river or rapids. If you get my



~jwf~