Phoenix - 2 to the power of 5

The famous fruit-chat quiz!
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A valiant effort.

Think of the different things you see the mad-men jumping from.. there's no trick questions in the Phoenix.
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Buildings And Straight Edges?
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Nope. It's 4 different things that you can jump off, one of which is buildings.
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buildings, aircraft, scaffolding, elicopters?
nobody ever wins on those things.
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Aircraft isn't one (nor is airplace etc). Bridges isn't one, although another bridge-related word is.

Here's a wee video that might help you

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aqueducts?
nobody ever wins on those things.
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Ermm.... you're not doing very well here. Hope my video didn't put you off, here's some clues...

A = extremely high structure

S = another word for a bridge

E = cliffs, valleys and so forth...
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©ardinal ®ichelieu™ wrote:Ermm.... you're not doing very well here. Hope my video didn't put you off, here's some clues...

A = extremely high structure

S = another word for a bridge

E = cliffs, valleys and so forth...
aerial? suspension (?)? earth?
nobody ever wins on those things.
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A = ?

S = Spans

E = Earthworks
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A = aerials

S = spans (as in bridge structures)

E = earth



I'll give the next question to UP, since he got 3 out of the 4 overall...
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hip hip...

okay

which recessive gene do scientists predict will die out by 2150 due to interbreeding. clue: it manifests itself in an obvious visual characteristic.
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I was going to say the appendix, but that's not outwardly visual so I'm going to go for...

Albinos
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Ginger hair? :shock:
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Blonde hair or white skin

Sorry two guesses, not my forte !
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yep DarCle wins, apparently the ginger hair gene is recessive and in the future there will be no white redheads.
they also said that multiracial people like wes brown escape the cull. which is as well because this is brilliant:

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if i could grow one of them i would
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