Ok a simple question to keep things moving.
Measured from base to summit what is the highest mountain on Earth?
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Ok a simple question to keep things moving.
Measured from base to summit what is the highest mountain on Earth?
I read about a couple of days ago but I don't remember so I'm guessing on Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Not Kilimanjaro
Denali aka Mt Mckinley.Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
EDIT if you are speaking of the height above the surrounding ground.
If speaking of from the base of the ocean to the top maybe Kilauea or Mauna Loa however it is spelled. in Hawaii.
From base to summit the tallest mountain in the world is 10.1 km tall (Everest is 8.8km tall) and its name is Mauna Kea - 6 km of it is under water, it raises up directly from the North Pacific seabed.
Your question - janvanvurpa
I don't think they like asking questions and are not around much. Someone else got a question who had a go at answering the last?
In fairness, if someone isn't prepared to play the game fully and ask a question then see it through, they shouldn't be answering should they?Quote:
Originally Posted by steveaki13
To keep things going: When Owen Falls Dam was built another set of falls was submerged. What falls, what river?
Owen Falls has a quite English sound to it however I doubt you have any falls in BritainQuote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
so I guess it is somewhere in North America, probably somewhere in the USA.
I have absolutely no idea what falls it is so lets call it the Wilson Falls in the Missouri river.
this rings a vague bell is the Owen falls dam in Central/East Africa? Something is relating it to the top reaches of the White Nile near lake Victoria? It may have been mentioned on Top Gears finding the source of the Nile. As to the name of the falls it obliterated/replaced, I have no idea :)
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
Twice he has answer and left the new question part. :dozey:
Without saying too much (I've looked it up now that I have posted an answer) and you areQuote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
way closer then me, thats for sure.
Hey I don't live on this Chit chat forum and quite frankly there are some real bossy types who get all bitter when they can't have their way, D Type. Last visit 23 Feb 2014 22:14 . Time currently 22.29 one day later almost exactly...Quote:
Originally Posted by steveaki13
Maybe you should learn to play by the rules and quit butting in ahead--and complaining...
See I work--and work long days taking care of kids and manufacturing motorsport parts... I don't live at a desk or work at a desk--except work correspondence...
We are in different time zones many of us and don't all have the chance to fock off at work playing games...
But whatever, I guess you Dtype and Steveaki run this game and just decide to run it any way you want.
jeezuz.
I assume based on this, that you wouldn't be asking the next question. Sorry Janvavurpa :)Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
I don't claim to run the game. I simply remind people of the rules occasionally.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
The game is
(1) Someone finds a geographical question and posts it.
(2) Others then answer it, without looking up the answer.
(3) The person who posted the question then tells people if their answer is correct, maybe gives hints and if necessary liftsthe ban on Googling. In short administers it.
(2) is the fun part. (1) and (3) are the price you pay to play the game. So, if you are not prepared to go to the trouble of researching a question, asking it and fielding the responses then the answer is simple - don't answer.
On the Owen Falls question.
It's not in North America or in Britain (we do have some waterfalls but they are small ones with little hydro potential). The Owen falls hydro-electric scheme is in a country where English is not a native language but is one of the official languages.
I signed up on this forum way back in the early 00ies, have always like geography, traveled all around the world---racing---as a way to see what what I had read about since i was a kid with my nose stuck in maps...and i developed a good memory...Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
The game has lain dormant to dead for weeks at a time several times in the time interval since the early 00ies.
I have seen numerous people, NUMEROUS, including some i consider good guys, answer questions and for whatever reason, not pose a question...
NONE were ever lecture, scolded and told, in essence to leave.
NONE were lectured and scolding in your step by step way, when they won, and knowing they didn't have a question graciously passed the baton on...
Prior to you and whassis name complaining and breaking the rules because i didn't instantly pose a question..
You may--or may not---notice that I tend to look in LATE at night--when I'm tired, or early in the morning when peeking in while fixing brekkie and getting my girls off to school...
Those aren't exactly times I can concentrate on posing a question.....but I know what I know..
Whatever...
Obviously you want to run this game and you only want 2-3 people playing..Have at it, boss.
(ever wonder why it lays dormant for months and years at a time? :stareup: )
Already said sorry Janvanvurpa :( Didn't mean to jump in. I saw you post earlier about not wanting to post questions. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
J-V Grow up!
Nobody has asked you to leave the forum. All we have asked is that you (and others) don't answer questions if you are not prepared to go to the trouble of posting the next one. (Have you not noticed how the game stalls when someone does that)
(And I am fully aware that when pointing a finger at someone you are pointing three at yourself - I accept I have also ducked out of posing a question)
Ahem! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
Sorry, my response got lost in answering our aggressive friend.
You're on the right lines.
Any idea on the river?
The submerged falls are upstream of the Owen Falls dam?
I am guessing that the original falls were named after ans explorer from the past, so a wild guess would either be Stanley Falls, or Livingstone Falls or maybe the Speke Falls?
Is the river in question a tributary of the White Nile? If so it might be known as the Victoria Nile?
Yes, it is the Victoria Nile.
Speke named the falls after an obscure politician. Go on - google the last bit of the answer to close this one out.
I was not aggressive and I find it amazingly insulting that you characterize my answer as such....Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
You clearly intend to drive people away and you have accomplished that but you do not need to slander them and lie about what they said.
For God's sake, this was meant to be a light hearted enjoyable thread :rolleyes:
Oh well, we tried...
Don't give up hope Schmenke. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
:kiss: :kiss: :kiss: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :)Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
Ripon Falls - I would never have guessed that, I have never heard of George Robinson - 1st Marquess of Ripon.
Good question D-Type!.
Where in the world is this
http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-c...ia-china-1.jpg
On reflection, maybe Ripon Falls was a bit too obscure an answer. It's difficult to know where to draw the line
Is that a genuine photo or are the colours artificially enhanced?
it is 100% natural, the hills look like this immediately after rain, when they are dry, the colours are still there but slightly duller.
Somewhere in Arizona?
NopeQuote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
some mineral rich hills...wild guess, Australia?
Storm already said Australia so I'm going with Kenya.
Ah..the Rainbow hills in China. My coffee table books are good for something!
Books, eh? The only thing typically on my coffee table are my feet :dozey:
NopeQuote:
Originally Posted by Storm
Absolutely!! The picture is of the painted hills known as Zhangye Danxia in Northern ChinaQuote:
Originally Posted by edv
those are in Northern Guangdong province...not terribly far from Shaoguan---where Asia Pacific Rally Chinese round ran till a few years back..My wife too her driver's licence in Shaoguan and recognized them..(third time was the charm :stareup: )Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
Guangdong Province is er um South, bumps up against New territories of Hong Kong...
And of course its nearly impossible to find a photo where the colors are not cranked up to max contrast and saturation..
Uh oh, better run before somebody complains about adding some details... :disturb: