1. Sao Paulo
2. Brasilia
3. Lima
4. Bogota
5.Buenos Aires
6. Santiago
7.
8.
9.
10. Caracas
trying to think of other big Brazilian Cities for one or two of the other three
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1. Sao Paulo
2. Brasilia
3. Lima
4. Bogota
5.Buenos Aires
6. Santiago
7.
8.
9.
10. Caracas
trying to think of other big Brazilian Cities for one or two of the other three
maybe Belo Horizonte and Curitiba
Brasilia is not in the top 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
Belo Horizonte is though
ummm
Salvador - Brazil (as opposed to San Salvador)
I always though Brasilia and Buenos Aires had the same population (about 3 million) :(
Rio isn't in the top 10?
Rio de Janeiro
Bogota
Quito
Fortaleza
Belo Horizonte
What we have so far
1. Sao Paulo
2. Buenos Aires
3. Rio
4. Lima
5. Bogota
6. Santiago
7. Belo Horizonte
8. Caracas
9.
10.
Two left and they are the more tricky two of the 10. So you are not missing anything easy :)
Recife
1. Sao Paulo
2. Buenos Aires
3. Rio
4. Lima
5. Bogota
6. Santiago
7. Belo Horizonte
8. Caracas
9.
10. Recife
Well done Storm.
One more to get
But Fortaleza has more inhabitants than Belo Horizonte.....:confused:
Okay now I am guessing -
Rosario
Medellin - from where comes our dear lost friend race aficionado....
edit: gadjo, steve has his own list ok? :stare:
Thats the trouble.... I saw 3 different lists and they had 3 different top 10s.
My list includes suburbs, districts and out skirts.
If y'all want to give up I can tell you.
Don't want to cause confusion. :(
How about Medellin in Colombia?Quote:
Originally Posted by steveaki13
Nope.
Medellin is 19th on my list
Guayaquil - is Ecuador's largest city, so maybe ...
Porto Alegre/Natal, Brasil
Valparaiso, Chile ?
1. Sao Paulo
2. Buenos Aires
3. Rio
4. Lima
5. Bogota
6. Santiago
7. Belo Horizonte
8. Caracas
9. Porto Alegre
10. Recife
Well done Storm.
Thats them all.
phew. who gets the q? anfield got a lot I suppose.
I guess so, but if anyone who got an answer right wants a go, I am sure he won't mind.
Ok I'll go, but Storm, you were more then welcome :)
What city is reconised as being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
Is it Damascus?
Why - yes it is :)
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence
that was quick!
Some you know, some you don't :cool: Actually I tossed a coin between Damascus and Jericho.
A 3-part railway question regarding the so-called "Lunatic Line"?
(1) Where is it?
(2) what gauge is it?
(3) What animal is associated with it?
steve might know this...
I have no idea..but I will hazard a guess, South America?
Iv'e heard this somewhere.
I am picturing Africa and people lining the train tracks trying to leap onto a moving train.
I would guess Rwanda or Uganda, but it is just as likely to be in Switzerland up the side of a mountain?
Sadly I have no idea actually.
Vietnam?
Africa is correct but you need to be more precise. It was reputedly described as "The Lunatic Railway" by the newspapers at the time it was being built
I seem to remember it was built by the Brits, and was on Africa's East coast, so Uganda, through Kenya to the sea?
Gauge - wouldn't even know how to guess (but 00 gauge is small model trains)
Animal - i would guess at either a lion, or maybe a snake. A lion because... well... it is Africa, or a snake because it winds it's way across the country like a metal snake?
(1) Kenya-Uganda Railway
(2) We still need the gauge
(3) Lions is correct - the Man-Eaters of Tsavo which delayed construction of the Tsavo Bridge by eating the workforce.
Edit: Lion-Eaters corrected to Man-Eaters
you mean the Man-Eaters of Tsavo :D
Or did Lions build a natural bridge and ended up being eaten by humans? that would be a Lunatic Line :crazy:
hmmm..... I assume its not going to be standard gauge of 4 foot 8.5 inches.
So Its either going to be broad gauge (i.e wider) or Narrow Gauge.
Unlikely to be Broad Gauge so I am guessing Narrow Gauge of 3 foot something
Yes, 3ft something but not normally expressed that way.
true, but it depends if you know it or not.
Complete guess 3 foot 6 inch gauge?
3ft 6in still mentions feet and inches. Think of something about 3ft 3 7/8 in but not measured in Imperial units.
1.25 metres
Right unit. Wrong number.
1.2 metres? or using the usual conversion ratio 1.181 metres?
Y-a-w-n. Get a measuring tape and see what 39 3/8 inches is in metres!
I thought this was a geography thread, not an archaic measurment to modern measurement conversion thread :)