What is a calm ocean region near the equator called?
Correct answer: The doldrums
WaldoLydeker
How interesting! That's where that term came from. Had no idea. I love this game.
Tincantitan1
I still remember the doldrums in the animated movie The Phantom Tollbooth, which shows how old I am!
Player #27149342 pixie
as a kid I was told by parents to stop acting like I was in the doldrums...this referred to sitting around doing nothing ha ha.
Player #1881512
Reminds me of the book the phantom tollbooth. It’s in there. But it’s just a phrase they say wen they are bored.
Player #10639782
I just thought about being in the doldrums. didn't know it was an actual word
Nannad
Used this saying a few times but never knew the origin of it although my Dad was in the Navy and got a lot of sayings from him
Player #15188857
WaldoLydeker, I agree WaldoLydeker. I have learned sooo much from playing this game,it is a jewel.
Binni ji
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wileycoyote
Calm sounds positive, doldrums sounds negative, but they are fairly the same. English is really a great language.
Burts
WaldoLydeker, same!
Dana
I remember hearing this term while viewing Mutiny on the Bounty...the. mean Captain Blye made the sailors pull the ship to "get out of the doldrums". He was so cruel.
Horace
Mary Kowalski, I too always thought it was a state of mind and not meteorological phenomenon.
LimaOscarVictorEcho
Tincantitan1, I remember it from an episode in Outlander. it's called "The Doldrums"
Enda
I learnt this in Form 1 geography class
Mary Kowalski
Isn't DOLDRUM an old name for a low "feeling?" Sort of a sadness?
Veronica
Tincantitan1, same. that cartoon was amazing. I used to watch it over and over.
treez
notablelover, a saying here is ur down I'm the doldrums (being sad)
SQinfoNUTS
Player #1881512, there's a little more to it than that.
Player #1328939
Player #1881512, That’s the first thing I thought of too.
notablelover
WaldoLydeker, How romantic the doldrums sound. I suppose it would not work with sat. direction navigation today. ( my word )
Player #1081396
dollis1963, part of the reason Columbus's travels took so long