Answers to Diana’s Quiz – October 14, 2017

by Diana Filer

1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1790 wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Man”,   2 years before she wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”.
2. In horses, a sorrel is another term for a chestnut.
3. Human chimerism indicates two complete sets of genomes rather than the normal single set.
4. A rookery is a breeding colony of penguins, seals or turtles.
5. In sailing, the leech is the back end of a symmetrical sail, or the aft end of a fore and aft sail.