How Good Is Your Geography?? [3]

[schmenke]

Hawaii? :erm:

[Breeze]

Brunei??

[Breeze]

Sweden?

[Breeze]

Dubai?

[Breeze]

Thailand?

[Breeze]

I'm running out of Kingdoms here.......

[schmenke]

Any others that you can think of there Breeze? :p :

[Schultz]

Post whore! :p : Look Breeze mate.... there are only like 200 countries, so keep goin!

China.

[Breeze]

Ok, thanks Schultz!! I'm not really a whore, just a slut making up for lost time. :D
How about Denmark?

[Breeze]

Or Jordan?

[Breeze]

Ooo, Ooo, The Netherlands???

[edv]

Ooo, Ooo, The Netherlands???

I was gonna say that!
How about Denmark?

[schmenke]

I...How about Denmark?

Already guessed by the slut.

[Caroline]

Calm down Breeze, calm down! After all those posts you still haven't got it. In fact no one has :p

Btw, just how do you pronounce Caoline?

[Schultz]

Calm down Breeze, calm down! After all those posts you still haven't got it. In fact no one has :p

Btw, just how do you pronounce Caoline?

Don't ask. It's not flattering :p :

[Daniel]

I don't know but I'm willing to try. Gotta be better than "you" doesn't it? :p

[Daniel]

Don't ask. It's not flattering :p :
Listen you :p

Stop posting above my posts and making them not make sense. I have enough trouble making sense as it is :angryfire :p :

[Caroline]

I don't know but I'm willing to try. Gotta be better than "you" doesn't it? :p

Better than ''Oi Wench." ??

[schmenke]

...Btw, just how do you pronounce Caoline?

"Caroline" with an Elmer Fudd accent.

[Caroline]

"Caroline" with an Elmer Fudd accent.

Sounds delightful.

[Daniel]

Better than ''Oi Wench." ??
I respectfully disagree :p

[Caroline]

I respectfully disagree :p


Hmm. Shouldn't you be working?

Back to remote islands...pleeease.

[Caroline]

Erm....thread is in danger of sliding away. May I just say that one answer was remarkably close to being correct. Just a few miles out, geographically speaking.

[AJP]

Brazil?

[Caroline]

Sorry, not Brazil either.

[CarlMetro]

I just googled this one, and I think it might be around for a little while longer yet :eek:

[Caroline]

No way!

[CarlMetro]

:laugh: :p :

[schmenke]

Well Carl got me curious so I too googled...


Breeze was closest :D

[AJP]

I was way off....

plus I just re read the question...Caroline, I think you mentioned the wrong ocean..

[gadjo_dilo]

Spain?

[Caroline]

Apparently I (Caoline) am a dumbar$e (says Daniel). It is not in the Pacific - I really really thought it was. It is in the South Atlantic.

Please someone get it?

[Mark in Oshawa]

It is claimed by the Danes?

[Breeze]

Calm down Breeze, calm down! After all those posts you still haven't got it. In fact no one has :p

Btw, just how do you pronounce Caoline?

A fistfull of marbles in your mouth should do it.

Could Norway be the new owners?

[schmenke]

Breeze, after my recent shameful googling (no, I'm not blind yet :mad: ) I can assure you that the Norwegians are indeed the current squatters of that barren South Atlantic (or is it the Pacific?) rock.

Please now do endulge us all with a recent update of the travels of your avian friend :D

[Breeze]

Breeze, after my recent shameful googling (no, I'm not blind yet :mad: ) I can assure you that the Norwegians are indeed the current squatters of that barren South Atlantic (or is it the Pacific?) rock.

Please now do endulge us all with a recent update of the travels of your avian friend :D

Damn, just as I was nodding off :dozey: If I'm not mistaken, Edgar's been visiting kin in Tennessee. I'll ring him up to get the latest. Stay tuned!

[Breeze]

Ugh! Never should have made that call. I got Edgar's second cousin Delmer on the line. That crow never shuts up, just goes on an on.....Anyway, Edgar was down at the fishin' hole but I'll call back later this evening. Delmer says he's got a story or two to tell. Here's Delmer; can you imagine having that in your family tree! :eek:

[Caroline]

Nice one Breeze. Edgar has been away for far too long :p

Schmenke, stop googling at the back!

[schmenke]

:o :dork:

[Storm]

misled by the wrong ocean else I would have got it :erm: :p :
Caoline! Do you do that often to the kids in class as well ? :p :

[Daniel]

misled by the wrong ocean else I would have got it :erm:
Caoline! Do you do that often to the kids in class as well ?
Everyday mate. When I was helping in class I was having to correct her almost every minute :eek: :p :

Argh! Get away from me with that pan! :eek:

:blackeye:

[Caroline]

misled by the wrong ocean else I would have got it :erm: :p :
Caoline! Do you do that often to the kids in class as well ? :p :

What can I say? There are just too many oceans in the world.





:p :

[edv]

Edgar back yet??

[Caroline]

He's a busy crow, don't you know..?

[CarlMetro]

Perhaps he's afraid of the reception some of us have waiting for him :devil:

[schmenke]

[Peter sellers impersonation]
"...Birdie num-num?"
[/Peter sellers impersonation]

[schmenke]

Down on page 3...
Do we continue waiting for the crow?

[Breeze]

My friends and fellow geography buffs, I am sorry for my absence and lack of geography quiz. As it happens, I am stumped by my latest visit with Edgar the crow and have been struggling to figure out what he was going on about.

I decided to take a road trip to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee where Edgar was visiting kin. When I got there, he was so completely sotted, so utterly infused with the local corn squeezins, I spent the entire weekend trying get a coherent statement from him about what he'd been up to.

If you've ever heard a loaded crow trying to talk, then you can understand why I could only catch snippets. Even on the best of days crows aren't the most fluent at human speech, except in cartoons of course. But since this is real life, I could only do my best to understand his muttering and babling.

The good news is that certain phrases and words kept coming up and eventually I was able to figure out what he was saying. Here they are folks:

The Regent, The Jubilee, The Victoria-Transvaal, The Orloff, The Cullinan.

There were more words that kept cropping up but these were the only ones I could decipher. Poor Edgar, when I left him he was still so sauced he couldn't walk, let alone fly. I left him in the (hopefully) capable hands of his second cousin once removed, Bobbie Sue. I think she has eyes for him.

So what I need help with is figuring out what and where Edgar was on about. Are you fine and educated folks up to helping me out? What I want to know is, what are these things, where are they and what do they all have in common? Aside from that, what would a crow want with them, I wonder?

[CarlMetro]

Well the Orloff and Cullinan are diamonds, so perhaps he's been buying jewelry?

Nice post BTW Breeze, well worth the wait :up: :laugh:

[CharlieJ]

Well the Orloff and Cullinan are diamonds, so perhaps he's been buying jewelry?

Nice post BTW Breeze, well worth the wait :up: :laugh:
Well spotted mate. They're ALL bl**dy big bits of supercompressed carbon.

But if he's been buying them he's a very rich crow!

[schmenke]

Good to see the return of Edgar, although I do hope that he makes a full recovery from the after-effects of Tennessee’s finest sour mash to be able to once again journey to far-off exotic lands (I understand New Jersey is pleasant this time of year...) and captivate us all with tales of his avian adventures :up: Despite the menacing presence of the variety of shotguns around here he is missed :erm:

P.s., Do please also keep us informed of Edgar’s potential courtship with Bobbie-Sue… Edgar does seem as though he could benefit from some feathered companionship.

[CarlMetro]

Perhaps his girlfriend has the same tastes as my wife :\

[Breeze]

Perhaps his girlfriend has the same tastes as my wife :\

???? Do tell, Carl.

[Breeze]

P.s., Do please also keep us informed of Edgar’s potential courtship with Bobbie-Sue… Edgar does seem as though he could benefit from some feathered companionship.
With Edgar's rapacious appetite for the "birds", I'm not too sure courtship has even entered his tiny, warm blooded brain. Goodness knows for him even first cousins are on the menu and Bobbie Sue is quite the dish, so you can just imagine what'll be on Edgar's mind when he finally sobers up. :lips:

[edv]

So, .... Edgar,.....is it the diamonds then?

[Breeze]

So, .... Edgar,.....is it the diamonds then?
Edgar say "YES", they're diamonds. Bing honking very expensive diamonds. Anyone care to guess at where they are and what those places have in common?

[Mark in Oshawa]

They were all found in South Africa. All Diamond finds tend to be in "Kimberlite" formations, named for the town of Kimberly in South Africa. These formations are old volcanic necks that have been squeezed by immense pressure over millions of years, turning what is coal or carbon into diamonds.

[Breeze]

While that may be true Mark, what I'm looking for is 'where are they NOW'? Sorry if I wasn't clear about that. :arrows:

[CarlMetro]

In very safe places? :p :

[Mark in Oshawa]

ya got me..lol

[edv]

I'd guess they're all in the Smithsonian or the British Museum or something...but definitely NOT on my wife's fingers...

[Breeze]

Your wife would need Yeti hands to fit all that geology on them. Well you're right about one being in Washington, D C's Smithsonian and another being in London with the Crown Jewels. I reckon if nobody else shows and interest, you ask somthing more engaging EDV.

[edv]

Well, I think someone else made the diamond connection, but I'll toss up a quickie in the meantime.

This is widely considered to be one of the most hideous and pompous government buildings around.

In which city will you find it... and NO right clicking on the pic because the answer lies within
http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/bucuresti/bu_poporului.jpg

[Drew]

Bucharest. It's that hideous palace that the nasty man with that horrible name that I can't spell built but never finished, right?

[Mark in Oshawa]

Drew, I think you got it......

[CarlMetro]

He did indeed and I'm not saying that because I know, merely the fact that the url for the picture was displayed on my email notification.

No right click required :laugh:

[edv]

Indeed. Go Drew

[CarlMetro]

Bump!

[schmenke]

Drew must be too busy listening to his vast collection of Celine Dion cd's :hmph:
















:D

[Mark in Oshawa]

Schmenke...you are a cruel, cruel man....it is his Cat Stevens collection of course....

[Breeze]

I heard he was doing time for having a go with Shilpa Shetty on a restaurant table top, if you can imagine! WHILE THE RESTAURANT WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!
No connectivitiy in the Mumbai slammer, ya know. ;(

[schmenke]

I heard he was doing time for having a go with Shilpa Shetty on a restaurant table top, if you can imagine! WHILE THE RESTAURANT WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!...

Tsk Drew, that's not the proper way to charm a Hindu Asp. :mad:

[tinchote]

Bucharest. It's that hideous palace that the nasty man with that horrible name that I can't spell built but never finished, right?


The name is Ceausescu. One time that I knew an answer and I didn't check the thread :(

;) :D

[Drew]

Sorry everybody, I was interrupted by a week holiday in Cyprus staring at mediterranean beauties, the dancing on the table will happen later :p :

Where would you find the world's wettest capital? (country name is fine)

[schmenke]

Caracas, Venezuela?

[Drew]

Nope

[LotusElise]

Brazil?
I'm sure I learnt that the wettest place is somewhere in the Amazon.

[CarlMetro]

London? ;)

Or perhaps Oslo?

[CharlieJ]

Bangladesh perhaps?

It gets pretty wet out there during the monsoons.

[oily oaf]

Guyana during the cricket season :mad:

[Storm]

Bangladesh is a good guess, but I will guess Myanmar (Burma's ) capital Yangoon?

[schmenke]

I'm staying with South America...

Bogota, Columbia?

[Mark in Oshawa]

Wettest Capital? Colombo, Sri Lanka

[edv]

Dacca?

[Drew]

London seems like a pretty good bet this year, but nope nobody's got it.

[Breeze]

I'll plump for Phnom Penh, Cambodia Drew. Glad to hear the rumors of your incarceration were, err umm.........exaggerated, yeah, that's it, exaggerated!

[Fangio]

Monrovia, Liberia

[edv]

Lima Peru?

[Drew]

Still alive indeed ;)

Nope nobody's right :)

[Daniel]

Dublin?

[Drew]

Nope, only one person has even been close.

[Caroline]

Too hard....too many rainy places in the world.

Laos?

[tinchote]

Laos?

[Drew]

Ok, well Fangio is the only person to have been on the right continent...

[emporer_k]

Kinshasa, DR Congo

[LotusElise]

Djibouti. I think the capital has the same name.

[Caroline]

Cameroon? Erm, I think the capital starts with a Y..... :mark:

[Drew]

Nope :)

[Caroline]

Conakry, Guinea?

[Drew]

With 3.7 metres of rain on average each year, you're right, next question :)

[Caroline]

And I nearly typed The Gambia ..... :)

Will get back to you with a Q soon.

[Caroline]

Ok. I have a Q which will probably last all of 2 posts.

Which Spanish speaking country's name is thought to derive from the Spanish word for 'depths'.

PS I looked on wikipedia to discover that this country was involved in 'The Football War' in 1969 with its neighbour :s

[schmenke]

Paraguay?

[Caroline]

No...sorry

[schmenke]

Post number two so this should be correct...

Bolivia?

[tinchote]

Ok. I have a Q which will probably last all of 2 posts.

Which Spanish speaking country's name is thought to derive from the Spanish word for 'depths'.

PS I looked on wikipedia to discover that this country was involved in 'The Football War' in 1969 with its neighbour :s

That's an easy one for a Spanish speaker... :D

Now, I wouldn't say it's "the" Spanish word for 'depths'. It feels ancient speak to use it that way. At least in Argentina nobody would use that word in formal speaking.

I guess I'll let others try for a while ;)

[jso1985]

yeah never heard of "Profundidades" country :p :

[Caroline]

That's an easy one for a Spanish speaker... :D



I know ;) That's why I said that it wouldn't last long!

Sorry schmenke, keep guessing :)

[tinchote]

yeah never heard of "Profundidades" country :p :

Exactly :D

[Storm]

Honduras ?

schmenke, Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar :p :

[Caroline]

Honduras is correct :)

[tinchote]

Honduras is correct :)


Indeed. "Hondo" in Spanish means "deep", although it is usually only used in an informal (even naive) way.

[schmenke]

Just curious, what is the Spanish word for "depths" from which "Honduras" is derived?

[schmenke]

Ignore my last post :p :

Thanks tin!

[schmenke]

Honduras ?

schmenke, Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar :p :

Thanks for making me feel like an idiot Storm :p :

[tinchote]

Ignore my last post :p :

Thanks tin!

You're welcome :) The most common use I can think of the word (in Argentina, at least) is when kids talk about the deep side of the swimming pool.

The standard word for "deep" in Spanish is "profundo" (as Javier said).

[schmenke]

The French word for "deep" is "profond" so I figured it might be similar in Spanish.

[Storm]

Isn't profundo used more as in deep for thoughts etc than actual depth of water...or its the same thing? (this is directed at spanish speakers )

Honduras was just a hunch though.....a question quick...I hear you at the back ! :\
hold on a bit...


schmenke ....you're welcome ;)

[Drew]

I learnt that profundidad was depth for measurements, I have idea about thought and the like

[tinchote]

Isn't profundo used more as in deep for thoughts etc than actual depth of water...or its the same thing? (this is directed at spanish speakers )


No, it's used for both (exactly as "deep" I would say). You can say

"Esta idea es profunda" (this is a deep idea)

"El mar es profundo" (the sea is deep)

[Storm]

claro tincho!

here's an easy one :
whats this and where is it ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Parcguell.jpg

(no looking at links)

[schmenke]

Bolivia :p :




I have no clue :s

[Drew]

I reckon it's a monument to some god in Indonesia.

I have no idea either :p :

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I think it's in Barcelona but I don't now what it's called :s

[Storm]

Jon you got it! Lets wait if somebody can name it (donkey would know for sure)

schmenke and Drew...you are right that you have no idea :p :

[CarlMetro]

Park Guell in Barcellona Spain.

[Storm]

Full marks to you CM...have you been there ? or are you an architecture geek ?
Its Parc Güell to be pedantic :p :

[CarlMetro]

I did an Antonio Guadi tour when I went to Barcelona a few months ago :D

If someone else wants to post a question, I have nothing ready at present and may not be around much in the near future.

[Storm]

I did a presentation on Gaudi a while ago so I remember most of the stuff he has done, hence the question :)

[Breeze]

.......If someone else wants to post a question, I have nothing ready at present and may not be around much in the near future.

This is getting out of hand Carl. Gonna start calling you Chronic Metro. :D

[Jefe Máximo]

Where in the world is odykas located?

[Daniel]

Where in the world is odykas located?
Probably near the Sun with some Penguins :)

[CarlMetro]

Are you sure it's this world? :p :

[Drew]

Turkey

[Storm]

Turkey is close..but I vote Bosnia :p :

[Breeze]

Where in the world is odykas located?

According to his profile, at La Rascasse, which as we all know is in Monaco!
What do I win?

[Caroline]

No prizes here.....just a warm glowy sense of fulfilment :mark:

[Breeze]

No prizes here.....just a warm glowy sense of fulfilment :mark:

Oh, I've got the warm glowy sense of fulfilment alright. :lips: Veerrrry warm,,,,,,,,veerrrrry glowy..........

[schmenke]

I want some of what Breeze is having :mark:

[CarlMetro]

I just want him to post a new question :p :

[schmenke]

...anybody...?

[AndySpeed]

Name any one of Melbourne's twin (sister) cities.

[Drew]

Norwich :p :

[AndySpeed]

Norwich :p :

Hahaha

No.

Norwich is far better and is twinned with Rouen :p

[jso1985]

Shanghai?

What do twin cities do between eachother?

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Milan

[Drew]

What do twin cities do between eachother?

I used to think that my town's twin city was exactly the same as my town, but in France :rolleyes:

I think they have to be a similar size (population) and then they visit each other and name streets after each other :\

Trondheim.

[AndySpeed]

Milan is one. The others are Osaka, Tianjin (CH), Thessaloniki (GR), Boston (US) and Saint Petersburg.

[tinchote]

Milan is one. The others are Osaka, Tianjin (CH), Thessaloniki (GR), Boston (US) and Saint Petersburg.

It's hard for me to see the relation/similarities between Tianjin and Melbourne (or Boston, for that matter) :s

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Name the 10 countries with the highest Gross Domestic Product in order highest to lowest.

[edv]

Sigh....whatever happened to the GEOGRAPHY questions?...

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Sigh....whatever happened to the GEOGRAPHY questions?...

What is geography?

World economy is a major segment of the Geography syllabus in schools over here.

[CarlMetro]

USA
Japan
China
UK
Germany
France
Italy
Russia
Australia
Canada

[Brown, Jon Brow]

USA
Japan
China
UK
Germany
France
Italy
Russia
Australia
Canada

Some right, others are in the list but in incorrect rank ;)

1)USA
2)Japan
3)
4)
5)
6)France
7)Italy
8)
9)
10)

[schmenke]

1)USA
2)Japan
3)UK
4)China
5)Taiwan
6)France
7)Italy
8)Australia
9)Canada
10)Indonesia

[Brown, Jon Brow]

No

[BrentJackson]

Highest to Lowest of the top 10?

1 - USA
2 - China
3 - Japan
4 - India
5 - Germany
6 - UK
7 - France
8 - Italy
9 - Russia
10 - Brazil

South Korea, Canada, Mexico and Spain also have economies worth $1 Trillion+.

[Storm]

I think India is #8 on GDP but #3 on PPP

[Schultz]

1: USA
2: Japan
3: Germany
4: China
5: UK
6: France
7: Italy
8: Spain
9: Canada
10: Australia

[Drew]

1) USA
2) Japan
3) China
4) Germany
5) UK
6) France
7) Italy
8) India
9) Russia
10) Canada?

[Brown, Jon Brow]

1: USA
2: Japan
3: Germany
4: China
5: UK
6: France
7: Italy
8: Spain
9: Canada
10: Australia

WE have the top 7 according to my source ;)

1: USA
2: Japan
3: Germany
4: China
5: UK
6: France
7: Italy
8:
9:
10:

[Brown, Jon Brow]

1 - USA
2 - China
3 - Japan
4 - India
5 - Germany
6 - UK
7 - France
8 - Italy
9 - Russia
10 - Brazil
.


1: USA
2: Japan
3: Germany
4: China
5: UK
6: France
7: Italy
8:
9:
10: Brazil

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Looks like I almost killed the thread :s

But according to wikipedia the 10 countries with the highest GDP

1: USA
2: Japan
3: Germany
4: China
5: UK
6: France
7: Italy
8: Spain
9: Canada
10: Brazil

[Drew]

Right, but who gets the next question?

[Brown, Jon Brow]

1st come 1st serve

[Mark in Oshawa]

Here is one. Name two countries that have coasts on THREE Oceans

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Canada - Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic
Australia - Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans

[schmenke]

Canada and the U.S.? Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans.

[tinchote]

And what would be the exact list of the oceans? :)

[Mark in Oshawa]

And what would be the exact list of the oceans? :)


There are 4 "official" Oceans. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic; and only 2 nations are bordering three. There are many seas but if you look at your globe, there are just the 4 Oceans and a lot of seas, which are areas that are separated slightly through island chains or seamounts from the basins of the greater ocean.

The US and Canada have coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic (Alaska giving the US that Claim).

Schmenke got it....

[tinchote]

There are 4 "official" Oceans. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic; and only 2 nations are bordering three. There are many seas but if you look at your globe, there are just the 4 Oceans and a lot of seas, which are areas that are separated slightly through island chains or seamounts from the basins of the greater ocean.

The US and Canada have coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic (Alaska giving the US that Claim).

Schmenke got it....

If you look at a North-American globe... ;) :D

That's interesting, and typical cause of discussion in an international forum. If you check wikipedia, it mentions the three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, India) with the possible addition of Artic and Southern. The Spanish version of wikipedia doesn't discuss that and consider simply five oceans.

As there is no natural or obvious division in the continuous of salted water that we have in our World, there divisions are arbitrary and subject to opinion.

I guess it's something similar with the continents: how many are there? We'll all probably answer according to what we were tought at school, which will be different depending on which country we attended school :)

[Mark in Oshawa]

If you look at a North-American globe... ;) :D

That's interesting, and typical cause of discussion in an international forum. If you check wikipedia, it mentions the three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, India) with the possible addition of Artic and Southern. The Spanish version of wikipedia doesn't discuss that and consider simply five oceans.

As there is no natural or obvious division in the continuous of salted water that we have in our World, there divisions are arbitrary and subject to opinion.

I guess it's something similar with the continents: how many are there? We'll all probably answer according to what we were tought at school, which will be different depending on which country we attended school :)


Good points, but I believe we have 7 continents by any stretch of imagination. North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa, Asia, and Europe. My definition of the oceans are commonly accepted in most of the countries you guys are from, but I am curious to to understand where the southern ocean would come from? Antarctica is dominating the cap of the south pole, and all the oceans save the Arctic lap its shores. Since it isn't a country, it means the 3 ocean criteria in theory, but isn't the answer to my admittely simple question. I was just trying to keep the thread moving.

[tinchote]

Good points, but I believe we have 7 continents by any stretch of imagination. North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa, Asia, and Europe. My definition of the oceans are commonly accepted in most of the countries you guys are from, but I am curious to to understand where the southern ocean would come from? Antarctica is dominating the cap of the south pole, and all the oceans save the Arctic lap its shores. Since it isn't a country, it means the 3 ocean criteria in theory, but isn't the answer to my admittely simple question. I was just trying to keep the thread moving.


Oh, come on Mark, the thread is so slow anyway ;) :D

Regarding the continents, in the Spanish speaking world America is regarded as a single continent, with its parts being North, Central, and South America. And Australia is not seen as a continent in itself but rather a part of Oceania, which includes Australia, NZ, and most of the islands nearby.

As for the Antartic ocean, I'm taking the information from this site (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oc%C3%A9ano_Ant%C3%A1rtico), which is in Spanish, so I'll summarize the information:

The Antartic ocean is defined to be all the water south of the 60th parallel south. The article claims this was defined by the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000, and it agrees with the area covered by the Antartic Treaty.

[CarlMetro]

Oh, come on Mark, the thread is so slow anyway ;) :D

Regarding the continents, in the Spanish speaking world America is regarded as a single continent, with its parts being North, Central, and South America. And Australia is not seen as a continent in itself but rather a part of Oceania, which includes Australia, NZ, and most of the islands nearby.

Strange as it may seem, in English speaking England, we use the same definitions, or at least we did when I was at school.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

The Antartic ocean is defined to be all the water south of the 60th parallel south. The article claims this was defined by the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000, and it agrees with the area covered by the Antartic Treaty.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Southern_Ocean.png

The southern ocean is south of 60degrees latitude although some people only see it as the most southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian ocean.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Well there you go, schools here are maybe teaching about the Southern Ocean now, I don't know, but we were always told Australia was a continent, and North and South America were separate mainly because if you are going to consider Europe and Asia separate for this purpose, even though they have an extensive land connection, then the America's connected by the narrow isthmus at Panama would be two continents. It is a cultural thing on how things are defined, and I am surprised that the international organizations that define that stuff wouldn't have been more forceful on getting down to the definitions.

Anyhow, lets move on with another question then, and one of you guys can offer it up.

[schmenke]

Whoops, apologies... I retrieved this thread to give 'er a good bump only to realize that it's my go...

So.... perhaps an easy one...

Lusaka is the capital city of what country?

[tinchote]

Whoops, apologies... I retrieved this thread to give 'er a good bump only to realize that it's my go...

So.... perhaps an easy one...

Lusaka is the capital city of what country?

Well, not easy enough for me! :laugh:

[CarlMetro]

Zambia.

[schmenke]

Well, not easy enough for me! :laugh:

Easy enough for Carl :p :

Have a go Mr. Metro! :)

[Breeze]

I guess he's busy, or away. Am I surprised? ;) How does he know these things, I wonder?

[CarlMetro]

No I'm not away but I am busy. No you shouldn't be surprised...........and I knew the answer because I sold six portable cabins to a company working on the international airport there :D

How's your crow? Been anywhere nice lately? Perhaps he'd like to tell us about it?












............or perhaps someone else has a question because I haven't :dozey:

[Breeze]

...........and I knew the answer because I sold six portable cabins to a company working on the international airport there :D

How's your crow? Been anywhere nice lately? Perhaps he'd like to tell us about it?

............or perhaps someone else has a question because I haven't :dozey:
Well that little tidbit took the piss right out of me! :D As for Edgar, I haven't a clue what he's been up to and after my last encounter with the fellow I have, quite frankly, lost a lot of respect for him. :dozey:

I don't have a question at hand, but I promise I'll try to come up with something. Anyone else is more than welcome to beat me to the punch though!

[Drew]

Alrighty, I had this one ready :p :

What are raskols (spelling is correct) and where would you find them?

[edv]

Ummm valleys in scandinavia?

[Camelopard]

Bad boys of Papua and New Guinea, not to be messed with........... voilent thugs and gang members.

[Drew]

Cossie's got it right, your question :up:

[Camelopard]

Ok, here goes... In what part of the world would you find a GRIOT and what are they?

[Mark in Oshawa]

West Africa, and they are poets are they not?

[Camelopard]

Yep, well done, they were originally Poets and Musicians in Royal Courts in West Africa, your turn Mark.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Since we are on cultural icons and references, I will draw one in that relates to Geography.

What is an Inukshuk and what was/is its purpose?

[Firstgear]

Every Canadian should know that one. My wife built a tiny one in one of our flowerbeds out of paving stones we had left over from when we redid our sidewalk.

[Mark in Oshawa]

yes First gear, but describe it and tell the people out there what its purpose was for?

[tinchote]

Since we are on cultural icons and references, I will draw one in that relates to Geography.

What is an Inukshuk and what was/is its purpose?

That's a good one, but I guess you should allow non-Canadians to have a shot at it! :D

[Mark in Oshawa]

Tin, I was hoping you and Schmenke would let the others have a go. Still, no one has actually described what it is and what looks like. Firstgear says his wife makes one, but I want what it was used for and what is the cultural meaning of it. Someone in Germany has no clue of what the hell I am talking about....

[Drew]

From your clues, I'm going to say that it's a little statue that brings people luck

[CarlMetro]

Is it a shelter for passing garden gnomes?

[Mark in Oshawa]

No...and....No....

[edv]

I just saw a life-sized Inukshuk on the Golf Course at Radium.

Saw dozens of them on a drive near Georgian Bay this year, too.

[CarlMetro]

An outdoor toilet?

[schmenke]

I just saw a life-sized Inukshuk on the Golf Course at Radium.

Saw dozens of them on a drive near Georgian Bay this year, too.

There's one at MEC on 10th Ave. and 8th St. :p :

[Caroline]

Is it a big pile of rocks, balancing on top of each other? I am thinking of a post card I once got from Canada (sp: Nunavit?) of a such a structure??

[Mark in Oshawa]

Caroline, you are 50% of the way there...and in the interest of having another question in there, I will give the rest to you.

It is a pile of rocks arranged as if it was a little man, or stone figure. In Innuit, it means "Stone Person" and the Innuit in the Arctic put them up as markers to guide them back to their camps/settlements (since they were nomads, how much was just favourite valleys to set up shop in is a question) or to lead them along a route between one location and other.

The symbol of the 2012 Vancouver Olympics is a stylized Inukshuk, which is kind of sad really, because with the vibrant West Coast native culture of totem poles, I think some art work from that style would have been much more appropriate and local than the Inukshuk, which exists in Nunavut and the Northwest Terrortories in the Arctic Archipeligo. It isn't a woodland thing or a mountain thing, it is a barrenlands necessity.

So go ahead Caroline...put up a nice question to have us all tormented!

[edv]

http://www.wassiagominlodge.net/Inukshuk.gif

[tinchote]

I would add that there is a language associated to them: different arrangements mean different things, like "water that way", or "settlement nearby", etc.

When you drive along the Trans Canada highway in Ontario you can see a lot of them at the side of the road. But my Inuit friends have told me that they are wrong, in the sense that they mean nothing (i.e. they have not being laid down by Inuit).

[schmenke]

I would add that there is a language associated to them: different arrangements mean different things, like "water that way", or "settlement nearby", etc. ...

"Next rest stop 100kms."

[Mark in Oshawa]

the Inuit are the true founders of it. We in the rest of Canada just like glomming onto the idea for fun, but for those guys lost in a snowstorm or stumbling around in the near dark of winter, they could save their lives.....just by letting the people know they were heading the right way.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Anyhow, Caroline, the honour is yours.....

[Caroline]

Thanks. Can't promise a nice question though ;)

Ok, the Casamance River flows into the Atlantic, but which country does it flow through on its journey?

[Daniel]

I'll take a stab and say somewhere in North Africa?

[Caroline]

Hmm....'somewhere'? I like your style. More specific than 'anywhere' yet slightly ambiguous and intriguing.

PS. Stabbing is dangerous.

[CarlMetro]

Morocco?

[Caroline]

Sorry Carl, not Morocco.

[Daniel]

Mauritania?

[Caroline]

Nope :)

[Camelopard]

hhhmmmm, I'll say Portugal.

[Caroline]

Sorry, guess again :)

[Camelopard]

So with 'casa' am I right in thinking the area was formally Spanish/Portugese?

The Atlantic is a big ocean, any more clues to narrow it down? :D

[Caroline]

Oooh I am too mean to give out any clues so early on. Except to say that Portugal did have a trade interest in this country.

[Camelopard]

Another guess, Angola?

[schmenke]

Côte d'Ivoire?

[schmenke]

Ivory Coast?

[Caroline]

Sorry Angola is incorrect.

Schmenke, non and no to you :p :

[Drew]

Portugal had an interest in this country?

Brasil?

[Caroline]

Not Brazil. Interesting...you have veered from Africa? :p :

Portugal, along with Britain wanted to form strong trade links (erm, colonise)with this country but it ended up being ruled by another European country until after WW2.

[Drew]

Not Brazil. Interesting...you have veered from Africa? :p :

Portugal, along with Britain wanted to form strong trade links (erm, colonise)with this country but it ended up being ruled by another European country until after WW2.

Well, just about everywhere else I thought of had been said and was wrong :p :

Back to the drawing board, tbh I have no idea.

[CarlMetro]

Nigeria?

[Camelopard]

Not Brazil. Interesting...you have veered from Africa? :p :

Portugal, along with Britain wanted to form strong trade links (erm, colonise)with this country but it ended up being ruled by another European country until after WW2.

Hints at being a former German colony? Maybe Togo?

[schmenke]

...Schmenke, non and no to you :p :

Sorry about the double post... When I first typed the French characters the databased barfed out some cryptic error message, so I reposted with the English name :mark:


Are we clammoring for a Dutch colony then...?
Ghana?

[Caroline]

Keep clamouring!

[Drew]

Maybe even a Belgian colony?

Congo - don't ask me which one, I have no idea :p

[malscar]

Portuguese Guinea is my guess, but it is not known as that any more. Buggered if I can remember what though

[Camelopard]

Portuguese Guinea is my guess, but it is not known as that any more. Buggered if I can remember what though

I'm with you on this one, Equatorial Guinea?

[Caroline]

Keep guessing please!

[Camelopard]

Guinea Bissau? San Tome and Principie (sp)?

[Caroline]

Nope. I am surprised as I thought that it was am easyish Q compared with some!

[Drew]

So it's in Africa then? Name random African countries on the atlantic time.

Benin?

[Caroline]

Yes.

Then no.

[schmenke]

I'm tempted to guess South Africa... :s

[Daniel]

I'm tempted to guess South Africa... :s
I would say with almost 100% certainty no :p Doesn't sound like the name of a river in SA to me at all ;)

[schmenke]

Yeah, that's what I figured :mark: .
Well, I'm stumped. Have at 'er everyone! :p :

[Caroline]

Not South Africa.

For a Motorsport loving forum I thought that this country would be well known, at the very least the capital city :D

[LotusElise]

Senegal?

[Caroline]

Aye! Well done. It flows through Senegal before reaching the Atlantic :)

Your Q.

[LotusElise]

Where would you find Sealand?
Exact location please.

[schmenke]

The Netherlands? :s

[Drew]

In the English channel just off the coast on an ex-RAF something or another :p :

[CarlMetro]

It's in the North Sea, just off the coast of Harwich.

[Daniel]

Where would you find Sealand?
Exact location please.
There's a Sealand in the Dee Estuary near Chester but I suspect you mean the other Sealand :p

[Drew]

There's a Sealand in the Dee Estuary near Chester but I suspect you mean the other Sealand :p

RAF Sealand. I found that funny it's got it all covered, air, sea and land :p :