Playing Prairie Chicken : Surpress desire to google

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I'm one devoted Googler, but sometimes think that I should quit this habit and read more books. My friends & I are sharing same childhood reading experiences, so that we can simulate very loose type of a book club. Like this :

"Hey, you know what? The Father, in The Brothers Karamazov, is a model of clown, I think. "
"Oh, I remember him. I agree, real clown. Like me. "
"Or me. "
"We can't get out of this. "
"Yeah. "

This loose book club often confronts a problem. Once I referred Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie and blankly said, "I always wanted to taste roasted prairie chicken. " In hearing this, my friend asked even more blankly : "How big is a prairie chicken? " Of course I didn't know. No one of us knew.

We were talking in my room and there was my PC. But, different from the usual trivia-craving attitude, I didn't turn on the PC. My friends too.

Instead, we guessed.
"Hmm, in Little House on the Prairie, Laura's Pa brought several that chickens in one day's hunting. It cannot be a turkey big. "
"Did they consumed it one day? I recall that Laura's Ma had excellent food-preserving skill. "
"But birds? Birds in salt? Not bacon or fish? I don't think it works. "
"I meant carrying problem. Can a man carry several turkeys at once, with a gun in one hand? "
"Nice point. "
"Maybe the same size as a familiar chicken. "

Silly, I know. But we made this into a game and called Playing Prairie Chicken. The rule is simple. Do not immediately google it. Guess it, with references you can remember. Richer references make the game more interesting. We played this game with various topics. What is the adjective form of New Zealand? In USA, eating a cookie dough is common? What does "fellows of the right kidney" mean? Is it from "a man of right kidney"? Then why did it get that meaning?

Back to the size of prairie chickens...according to wikipedia, they are 14 inches (360 mm) long. And except New Zealander, others remain uncertain. The last one is from James Joyce's A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This time I googled it, and I couldn't get an answer.