A good idea. Never thought about what you do with a wrecked out racer in a situ where a driver died. I do not think I would want to drive such a car after such an accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
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A good idea. Never thought about what you do with a wrecked out racer in a situ where a driver died. I do not think I would want to drive such a car after such an accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
I wonder if there is a marker where it is buried and is it still there and no one is quite sure where? With all the changes that track has seen, I wonder...Quote:
Originally Posted by markabilly
To get the ball rolling: the smallest city I know that has a subway is dear old neighbouring Helsinki!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
re the GT40. There is no marker for the car and it is not on the track ppty.
I do not know where it is, just near Sebring.
Paul Cooke former Comstock crew chief and now VP ASN Canada does know and he will not say. The morbid would probably be trying to dig it up if the location was known.
Helsinki is a big city compared to this one. I tripped across this nugget of information when I was Wiki surfing one night...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristjan
A clue...the city is in Europe...
Luxembourg? Not many smaller :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Don't know but I think only germans could do such things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
I know Rennes has a subway. It's not that big a town.
Nein....the official language of the city is French I believe......but not Rennes....It is.....where a substantial Sporting organization has links...
Would that be Lausanne?
Lousada..you get it and the floor is yours for the next question. I was looking up Lausanne on Wiki out of curiousity about it since so many HQ for sporting organizations are there, and that little tidbit of how a city of 135000 people had at one point 3 Subway lines and still has 2. Not really large ones, and rather unique...but I live in a city of a similar size and there isn't a hope in hades we would even begin to start the discussion of a rapid transit system here....
So..the floor is yours Lousada
I live in a city of 1 million our "rapid transit system" is the string of pick-up trucks on our roads every rush hour :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Now you guys have the C train...and I have ridden it downtown to go see the party on Electric Avenue...it works quite well. That said, Calgary's traffic doesn't hold a candle to Toronto or Montreal's...Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
I just looked it up and Rennes is actually the second smallest city with a metro system ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Right the question. I'm not that good in thinking them up, hope this is not too easy.
Which African country was the first to gain independence from their colonial masters?
Egypt?
Kenya??
Libya?
Actually, having thought about it, the clue is in the name.
Liberia?
I got beat to it by Tam, I believe it is Liberia, but I will say no one actually said to Ethiopia they were NOT a country, so it is considered to be the first official country in the modern sense to be still around now.
All wrong. Liberia and Ethiopia are the only two African countries that were never colonized, so they could not win independence from their colonial masters.
swaziland?
Congo?
No. Hint: the area used to be famous for it's gold.
I was gonna guess Tunisia, but I don't think they were/are famous for gold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lousada
South Africa?
I had better be wrong because I do not have a question.
Namibia? and I hope Drifter is right :p :
I think gold used to mined mostly in Western Africa. So maybe Ghana?
THE GOLD COAST! Damn - should've thought of that. You may well be right there Pka Stu. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristjan
Yes, the Gold Coast now known as Ghana. You have the next question!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristjan
I think you might be subject to a challenge there, actually... Here's what the always reliable Wikipedia indicates, under the article called "Decolonization of Africa". What was your source?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lousada
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../75/Africa.gif
But you're the boss of this Q and I shall claim victory in the name of France! :p : New Q coming up soon!
My source was wikipedia :s It was on one of them "did you know" pages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristjan
Well I guess we found a fault in the Matrix. :p :
I'll ask a quicky, passing the turn to the worthy person who can tell me which historical figure has had, among other things, the following named after him:
- an American submarine
- a Cuban cigar brand
- a football stadium
- a symphony orchestra
- an international airport
- a zoo
- many towns, counties and provinces in the US and elsewhere
- a suburb of one of the major cities in Australia
- an artificial satellite
- various streets in the US, Iran, France, India, Egypt etc.
- several mountain peaks
- a park in Budapest
- a currency unit
- a country
Colombus?
Not the guy I'm looking for. But you're in the right area..Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
George Washimgton?
Amerigo Vespucci? (I think the word 'America' is based on his name)
Oooh, I haven't been on this thread for ages, but think I may know this one. Is it John Cook?
edit: or is it James Cook? Or Jack? Let's say J.Cook!
No, good Sirs. Think independent countries. And currencies.
A hint: the forumer jso1985...