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Originally Posted by D-Type
(1) I disagree. For a multiple answers question most correct answer should be the winner.
(2) Yes because I already answered them correctly which means that they can "steal" my answers.
So for multiple answers questions, the poster with poster with the most unique correct answers should be the winner.
If tied, the poster who give his/hers answer first should be the winner.
No they are not uniquely similar in this wayQuote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
I agree with this too..Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
anyways I have no idea about the flag except perhaps they both have an animal/bird and/or a plant on it?
I set the question and judged that the person who answered the last and most difficult part should be the winner. If you think about it, with a multi-answer question the first few are easy it's the last one that's difficult. To take a recent example: all knew the highest mountain in Asia, Africa, and the Americas and most knew Europe(as now stated) and Antarctica - but who knew Australasia? Should the winner be the person who answered the easy four or the one who answered the most difficult?
If there is a tie and nobody can answer the final most difficult part then it's a different story.
We’re getting way too serious on this thread.
I think in general we can all agree that the one who answers most of the question correctly gets to post the next question, but why don’t we try to allow the original poster to confirm before we jump onto the next Q, even if it means waiting a day or two :) .
As to the current Q, I have no clue :mark:
I know that some flags have a zig-zaggy edge. Are these them then?
pas de toute, mon sewer This IS serious:Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
I think the certain way to settle it is this:
http://daily-random.com/wp-content/u...-knife-fig.jpg
No a good geographic question would be "from what country do you think the winner will be from?
Monaco? Or perhaps the US with both Las Vegas & Atlantic City?Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Not jagged edges, or a bird on them.
To keep things moving and hopefully get back to the light hearted fun type thing that this was meant to be, I'll provide the answer and ask hopefully a simpler question.
The flags of Paraguay and Moldova are the only National flags in the world to have different obverse and reverse sides. (the back and the front of the flags are different from each other)
New Question (remember to play nice :))
What does this map show i.e what is the significance of this circle?
http://www.fastcocreate.com/multisit...the-circle.jpg
Does it have something to do with a Pacific geothermal or earthquake zone?
NopeQuote:
Originally Posted by Starter
it's the rough size of the moon superimposed on the earth?
Where Flight 370 could have reached
donkey and d-type - Nope and Nope
Including China and India, I would hazard a guess that it represents the location where the majority of homo sapiens inhabit the earth?
^yeah I think so too..
Close enough. More than half of the worlds human population lives within that cirlcleQuote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
:stareup: I thought that is what I said? :confused: ;)
I don't have a question ready so I'll pass to.......Storm.
I don't have a question, so anybody else wants to have a go?
Here's a quick one.
Borders between countries either follow geographical features like rivers and mountain ranges, or they are straight lines drawn on a map.
This particular border is essentially straight lines on a map but it has a marked 'kink' around a particular geographical feature. An apocryphal story says that this is because one monarch gave this feature to another as a Christmas or birthday gift.
(1) Who were the two monarchs?
(2) What is the geographical feature?
(3) What are the two countries the border separates?
To avoid any confusion, I will consider this is solved by the person who provides the last piece of the answer not the person who provides most pieces.
That's strange....
During history monarchs fought to take territories from one to another. It's for the first time when I hear of such a gift. Probably a king who was in love with a queen from the neighbourhood.....:p
No, the two monarchs were related and their countries were at peace with each other. I don't think they had ever been to war with each other. Before that time!
The border was not between the two countries that the monarchs ruled.
There is some doubt whether this actually happened or whether the border was simply agreed in a treaty.
Could this be about the old Hashemite royal families of Iraq/Jordan? (although I can't imagine what the geographic feature might be at the 'kink')
No - wrong continent, both for the geographic feature and border, and the countries the two monarchs lived in..
Hmmm. Is it the border between England and Scotland?
Nope.
The border in question is on one continent while the countries the monarchs ruled are on another. And neither is Asia.
Old world monarchs with new world colonies?
Could it be the goofy little notch in the border at the southern tip of Colombia giving access to the Amazon? Spanish/Portuguese monarchs?
Straight line borders are only in Africa and between USA and Canada. I tend to think it's the latter and the monarchs were british and french. Continuing to speculate the geographical feature is Niagara Falls. Ha, ha. I think I've drunk a bit more.:confused:
Not either of the Americas. Not a waterfall.
Is it that odd kink on the border between Egypt and the Sudan, that extends the border of Sudan into Lake Nasser?
Not that one. Egypt was never really a colony that European powers could mess about with.
On reflection, rather than a 'kink' I could hve said a 'step'
Is it about the Brits and the Germans (Victoria & Wilhelm) re the border between Tanzania and Kenya around Mt Kilimanjaro ?
Yes that's the one! Your question
As one website puts it
I prefer the legend to the truth.Quote:
1884 - Harry Johnston, a 26-year old British explorer makes an agreement with Chagga chief Mandara to acquire absolute rights to 15 square km of forest near Taveta, north of the mountain.
1885 - Dr. Carl Juhkle, a member of the GDK, a German colonization society concludes 10 treaties with the Sultan of Zanzibar placing the territory around Kilimanjaro under German "protection".
1886 - In the complex web of 19th century geo-politics Britain, Germany, and France step towards war over this, but a treaty is reached. Each power is granted the rights to a port: Mombassa to the Brits, Dar es Salaam to the Germans, with the French consolidating positions in Madagascar. The Sultan kept control of Zanzibar and not much else. When negotiators worked out the border between Kenya and Tanzania, the 1884 and '85 Johnston and Juhkle agreements were held to be binding. Thus Taveta is in Kenya today, and the border near Kilimanjaro has a kink.
The author concludes with:
There is a story that the boundary is kinked because Queen Victoria gave Kilimanjaro to her grandson (the future Wilhelm II) as a birthday present when the Kaiser complained that as well as the most spectacul;ar falls and the largest lake in Africa she had two snowy mountains ... while he had none. The gift, the story goes, caused some realignment of the boundary. This hoary old legend, which must have come from some humorist's pen, is often presented as solemn, unquestioned fact; but there is no truth in it.
I threw in Christmas in case I needed to give a hint based on Kilimanjaro looking like a Christmas pudding from some directions.
Well, it was a good guess only ... Mt K. just stood out as something big that a border just skirted around.
OK Here's one:
Assuming that the centre of the interior of the Earth is located at a single point:
Where on the Earth's surface should you stand to be the farthest distance from that point?
Dude, are you talking about the top of Mt. Chimborazo?
Yup.
It truly is the highest point on Earth.
Your go Mr. Nuvalari
What European city is this?
http://az520697.vo.msecnd.net/cdn/1b...52098e6030.jpg
Extra credit:
What country would you be in if you were in the town of Rectum? :dozey: