A flamboyance of professors? John Pyle, Silvia Vignolini and Nick Bampos have fun at the alumni Call My Bluff wine tasting
Many of us have been enjoying Kathleen Pickett’s “quick quizzes”, which have brightened up our lockdown Fridays. Kathleen’s own day was considerably brightened when she received the following responses to her quick quiz question about collective nouns.Thanks to Dr Hannah Parris, who works in the Climate Change Policy Group in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, for supplying these answers, which are particularly appropriate for chemistry:
A huddle of postdocs in the Knowles Lab
1. A flamboyance of professors
2. A round of beer
3. A huddle of postdocs
4. A risk of grant applications
5. A parliament of lab technicians
6. A muster of journal articles
7. A tower of un-returned library books
8. A clowder of …..something going wrong in the lab
9. A dazzle of academic gowns walking down the road
10. A bloat of paperwork
11. A consortium of scientists
12. A mischief of undergrads
13. A flange of Bunsen burners
14. A crash of test tubes
15. A cackle of …………. Something REALLY going wrong in the lab
A mischief of undergrads at Chemistry Open Day
A clowder of something about to go wrong?
What happens when things go wrong