Well let's see... there is upstate (and downstate), state of shock and state of benign neglect, out-of-state and in-state, the state of the weather and the state of your health, and a jillion other states.......... + 50. :s mokin:
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Well let's see... there is upstate (and downstate), state of shock and state of benign neglect, out-of-state and in-state, the state of the weather and the state of your health, and a jillion other states.......... + 50. :s mokin:
Ah... I got it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
you were looking for 1.
United States of America;
But you asked for "states" (no capital), therefore zero.
:s mokin:
Well, there are 4 commonwealths, so I would guess 46 states.
4 Commonwealths?? I can think of Mass and Virginia.....what would be the other two?
Bingo - Correct! We have a winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by edv
Virginia was never a state as had itself formally ceeded from Britain on Jun 29, 1776
Kentucky county pertitioned the Commonwealth of Virginia to be known as "free and independent, to be known by the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky." it got this in 1792
The Official Seal of Pennsylvania does not use the term, but legal processes are in the name of the Commonwealth and it is a traditional official designation used in referring to Pennsylvania.
According to the constitution of 1780 Massachusetts is officially named "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" before this time it was referred to as the Province of Massachusetts Bay and as one of the 13 orginal colonies, it never needed to establish itself as a separate entity with the Continental Congress.
The United 46 States, 4 Commonwealths and 1 Not Really Anything of America just doesn't really have the same ring as the USA, does it?
For all intensive purposes, they are all States...but I forgot about PA and Kentucky.
At least us Canadians just have plain ole Provinces or Territories....keeps it simple...
Mark, I posed a similar question in the old thread, naming the 4 commonwealths. I couldn't remember now the names of them, but I remembered the number of them. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Lemme go map-hunting and I'll be back shortly with a Q.
I haven't done the Geog. thread that much....and once I get working again, likely not a whole lot in the future....
OK.
Here is a pic of a remnant of a temple. The red columns are pretty distinct.
It's from one of my favorite ancient civilisations. (They were the original hippies)
Where is the temple? (Bonus: Name the civilisation)
Central America? Inca?
Um, total guess... Syria? The Babylonians?
Gannex...wrong continent
Schmenke..getting warmer
crete the Minoans
Original Hippies?that is some sort of clue.... The Philostines and the temple is in the Middle east?
sorry forgot to add knossosQuote:
Originally Posted by sxis
Correct sxis! It is Knossos in Crete. The Minoans basically lived by a motto akin to Make Love Not War. Lots of drinking and topless women. It was the earthquakes that did them in.Quote:
Originally Posted by sxis
Your Q sxis
So they felt the earth move...?Quote:
Originally Posted by edv
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Not much good on this computer thingy but here go's How many lakes are there in the English Lake District [there is a catch in the question ! ]
Gotta love those minoans, making love and drinking all the time!!
For the Lakes, lets say 14
0?
nope & nope
1?
2?
If you look at the OS road map, only Bassenthwaite Lake is a lake. The rest are all Waters, Tarns or Meres, there's also a few Resevior as well. In total there's 81 bodies of water though.
Clever, Rollo, and I bet you're right according to sxis. But I'd say that Windermere, Ullswater and the rest are also lakes. They don't have "Lake" in their names, granted, but not all towns have "Town" in their name either; doesn't stop them from being towns. Now if sxis had asked how many Lakes, with a capital L, he'd have a better argument that there's only one. But I maintain there are nearly as many lakes in the Lake District as there are bodies of water.
I'll also bet that I'm probably the only one anoraky enough to have bothered to count them all as well :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gannex
As an aside, it takes 4000 holes to fill the Albert Hall which co-incidentally is the same number of holes as Blackburn, Lancs.
Well, now they how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall....
I guess 10 Lakes
9 lakes...
Walrus 81 & Rollo Correct
A lake is a lake is a lake...silly English...getting hung up on WORDs.
Lets see ya count the number of lakes in Ontario....(hell I have no idea on the answer myself, so don't take this as a question)
Silly canadians getting hung up on quize's
If I wanted to surf on a single wave for the longest possible time, apart from artificial machines, where would I go to do this?
the mouth of the Thames?
Yeah I think I saw this on TV once...in England somewhere they showed a guy standing on a board with a tidal bore about 18inches high...he coulda been sipping a cup of tea while surfing. Went for miles and miles.
I'll guess the Severn River?
The Amazon River
St. John River in the Bay of Fundy? Somewhere in the Bay of Fundy, home of the world's highest tides.
You guessed right.Quote:
Originally Posted by edv
There are reports of people being on the Severn Bore for as much as 2 hours. By the time the wave hits Gloucester it's barely rideable but people have been known to get there.
This castle has been cited as one of the greatest in the world.
Where can it be found?
Scotland?
I only know this because Im a huge history buff
The castle is called Krak des Chevalier, located on the eastern slope of the Djebel Ansariya Mountains.
It was an Arab castle but crusaders captured it and made countless additions to it, so its the way it looks today. It overlooked the Homs Pass which was a strategic point on the way to Egypt. It was granted to the venerable Knights Hospitalers.