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Quiz: How much do you know about eggs?

Eggs.

EGGS. FRY THEM, boil them, scramble them, poach them.

Bake them into a frittata, cook them into some rice, or put dozens of them into a bag of liquid and sell them for £1 at Morrison’s.

You heard me.

Many of us were both disgusted and captivated by a scene shared on Twitter this week: sacks upon sacks of discounted wet eggs found in a British supermarket.

This is an enduring sight, searing itself forever into our collective minds.

It inspired this quiz – or perhaps this is a desperate cry for help, a last-ditch attempt to try and remove the image from our brain so that we can, finally, move on.

Only time will tell.

What bird lays the largest egg in proportion to its body size?
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Ostrich
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Kiwi

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Chicken
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Birds don't lay eggs
Now, which of these fish produces the largest egg? (It doesn't actually lay it - look, it's complicated)
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Fish, much like birds, don't lay or produce eggs.
The Great Complicated Daddy-Egg Trout

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Whale shark
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Tuna
The greatest political moment since the formation of the State was when former Labour TD Sean Kenny sent a tweet about eggs on 15 March 2013. In it, he asked: "Eoin, did u collect..."
"... the egg"
"... the eggs"

"... the sack of wet eggs from Morrison's"
"... my egg"
Eggs are largely pretty damn good for you, and are noted for containing high amounts of two things: Protein, and what else?
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Smaller eggs
Magnesium

Choline
Vitamin A
Some of us might love eggs, but few of us like battery farming. Is it banned in the EU?
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Yes
No
Well, that was grim. Moving on. In the iconic TV3 reality series series Tallafornia, Cormac Branagan was tasked with purchasing supplies for the household. He insisted on buying a lot of eggs - way too many eggs. What rationale did he offer for the amount of eggs he bought?
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"It's only two eggs per boy per day"
"It's only three eggs per girl per day"

"It's only four eggs per bloke per day"
"It's only five eggs per bloke per day"
How many eggs do chickens lay on average? We're thinking of the likes of the Rhode Island Red pictured here.
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Roughly six per week
At least two per day

A dozen per month, two-dozen during the laying months in autumn
Five eggs per hen per day

Chickens don't lay eggs
Enough to fill one sack of wet eggs in Morrison's
You've likely come across this scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Frank, played by Danny DeVito, offers someone an egg. What does he say?
"Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?"
"Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?"

"Would you like an egg in this trying time?"
"Can I offer you an egg?"

"Would you like me to go to Morrison's and pick up one of those sacks of wet eggs?"
I hate to bring this quiz back to fish eggs, but what is the difference between caviar and roe?
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Caviar comes from saltwater fish, roe from freshwater fish.
Roe is a cheaper version of caviar, often from farmed fish.

Caviar is a lot of small eggs, like roe is one big egg.
Caviar a type of roe.

Caviar comes from fish and roe comes from chickens that live in the sea.
There are strict guidelines for what can be called a free range egg in Ireland - the three labels are "free range", "traditional free range", and "free range - total freedom". For "free range", for how much of a chicken's life must they have had "continuous daytime access to open-air runs"? This question is getting very long, but FYI there must be one square metre per chicken in that outdoor space.
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0%
25%

50%
100%

150%
What's pictured here?
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Egg
Ah you knew this would be coming up: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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The chicken
The egg
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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You scored out of !
You're an egg
Well done.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're the chicken from question seven
You really do know your eggs, being a chicken and all.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're Cormac from Tallafornia
You're very enthusiastic about eggs. Sometimes too enthusiastic? That's your downfall.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're a platypus
You know the bare minimum about eggs, but you shouldn't know anything at all.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're an egg
Sorry.
Share your result:

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    Mute Shneak
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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:11 PM

    Good jasus.. what was that

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    Mute Andre le Flohic
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    Sep 20th 2020, 7:13 AM

    @Shneak: at least it was funny loop

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    Sep 20th 2020, 12:14 PM

    @Shneak: you still clicked

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:12 PM

    Who make up these up

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:16 PM

    @Aisling Doyle: eggsperts

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:37 PM

    @John Farrant: eggsactly. And to be honest, I’ve had un oeuf of this.

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:37 PM

    @John Farrant: eggsperts from Morrison’s?

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:51 PM

    @John Farrant: You’ve cracked it!

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    Sep 20th 2020, 1:05 AM

    @Aisling Doyle: Aahh lay off them…

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:14 PM

    Quiz ideas are getting scarce

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:37 PM

    @Frank Scanlon: eggstinct

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:15 PM

    This is a work of art

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:40 PM

    @ihcalaM: as long as you don’t call it ‘Sphere’. The blackcurrents already patented that one. ( plus they are not all spherical)

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:17 PM

    Probably best not to create a quiz when ur hammered

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:26 PM

    Eggscellent!

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:39 PM

    I was Eggstatic to see this yolk of a quiz.

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:51 PM

    Okay am I drunk right now? Priceless quiz ha ha

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:39 PM

    Any reference to our current minister for health is strictly forbidden.

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    Sep 19th 2020, 10:59 PM

    TheJournal can get rid of the dailyedge, but it can’t get the dailyedge out of thejournal.

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:21 PM

    @SilexFlint: haha so true, daily edge lives on!

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:22 PM

    @SilexFlint: i never noticed!

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:17 PM

    In France they only have the one egg for breakfast..they say one egg is an Oeuf

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:23 PM

    @Kris Kendellen: that *un oeuf of that now!

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:19 PM

    The answer to question 9 is actually Stephen Donnelly.

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:35 PM

    According to Genesis 1;21 the chicken came before the egg!!

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:29 PM

    i thought i’d laid the foundations of a better score, my eggcitement faded quickly

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    Sep 20th 2020, 7:12 AM

    How could there be an egg quiz without a question on Cool Hand Luke?

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:13 PM

    An eggistential amount

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    Sep 20th 2020, 12:52 AM

    That was egghausting

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:00 PM

    Eggcellent..

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    Sep 20th 2020, 3:38 AM

    That quiz scrambled my brain… Who writes this stuff…

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    Sep 20th 2020, 1:22 AM

    Not one mention of Easter

    Or humpty dumpthy

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    Sep 20th 2020, 10:00 AM

    @Nollaig Kelly: Humpty McDumpty was a Scotch egg.

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    Sep 20th 2020, 1:55 AM

    I see the Egg Advisory Council has gotten to The Journal too!

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    Sep 20th 2020, 7:30 AM

    My head is fried….

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    Sep 20th 2020, 8:12 AM

    Chicken came first!

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    Sep 20th 2020, 9:50 AM

    @Ludie Creech: nope

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    Sep 21st 2020, 8:11 PM

    @Andy Masterson: yep

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    Sep 20th 2020, 3:28 PM

    One way to find out which came first,the chicken or the egg.
    Go into McDonalds with a mate.
    One of you orders an Egg McMuffin,the other orders Chicken McNuggets.
    See which one comes first.

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    Sep 20th 2020, 12:24 AM

    7/12!

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    Sep 20th 2020, 9:02 AM

    My head is scrambled….

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:52 PM

    Chickens abortion to the educated people

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    Sep 20th 2020, 1:17 AM

    @raymond griffin: I think you’ll find it more chicken ovulation, the unfertsilsed egg is passed so to speak

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    Sep 20th 2020, 11:16 AM

    Slow day?

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    Sep 19th 2020, 11:38 PM

    Just that they go under Leftie propaganda

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    Sep 20th 2020, 1:37 PM

    Egg did not come before the chicken.

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    Sep 21st 2020, 9:45 AM

    J

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    Sep 20th 2020, 12:17 PM

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    Sep 20th 2020, 12:43 PM

    No mention of stephen Donnellys head

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