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Brasil - Brasilia counts?
Djibouti?
Kuwait?
Andorra?
Djibouti City (nope)Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
Kuwait City (nope)
Andorra la Vella (nope)
I think that that answer is none.
What about Guinea-Bissau, Bisau?
Or
Tunisia, Tunis and Algeria, Algiers which may be the same in another language.
I only want the ones that are identical, Guinea-Bissau and bissau are not the same, neither Brazil and Brasilia, not anything CITY.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
I feel a bit guilty because there ar actually none that are the same. The usual 5 that are claimed are Djibouti but the country is the Republic of Djibouti, Monaco - Principality of Monaco, San Marino - Republic of San Marino, Singapore - Republic of Singapore and Vatican City, but they are state and city.
So D-Type is on the mark.
I don't think I answered correctly either. Now that I have checked, I find my two atlases and Wikipedia all disagree over which countries are officially "Republic of ...", "Kingdom of ... ", "Emirate of ..." and which capitals officially have "city" in their names.
Anyway, I've found a nice one with a definite but unexpected answer - Which country has the most time zones?
When our clocks went forward not too long ago, the news was at pains for point out that there were six time zones on the Australian mainland. When you add Lord Howe Island, Christmas, Norfolk, the Keeling & Cocos islands and Casey, Davis, Mawson and Macquarie Island stations in Antarctica, that might be another six.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
I think Australia has twelve.
This throws me:
a definite but unexpected answer
I think that this has part of the answer:
http://rollo75.blogspot.com.au/2015/...flight-in.html
Air France flies from Charles due Gaulle in Paris to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean; which is a distance of 9,375 km. Réunion is a very curious case because being one of the last vestiges of empire, a unique solution was found for it.
- Horse 2008 - The Longest Domestic Flight... In The World, Rollo, 15th Aug 2015
France has places like Réunion, New Caledonia & Martinique which aren't overseas territories like Australia's but legally parts of France with members in l'Assemblée Nationale. I have no idea how many there are but if it's "definite but unexpected" then it's probably France.
France has 14 maybe? Knowing the French, I bet they have 25; which includes uninhabited islands like America has under its Guano Islands Act.
My guess is France.
:eek:
As France considers its dependent countries at departments of France rather than dependent countries, that could be the answer I think it has 10 or 11 when these departments are included, but if you want just the 'mother country' in which case I would offer Russia simply because it is the largest country East to West, so logically more time zones must run through itQuote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
This isn't a trick question is it?
ENGLAND :D - the answer is Loads and loads
So far, I've found thirteen:
-23:39 Belfast Time
-17 Truro Time
-13 Barrow Time
-11 Carnforth Time
-9 Liverpool Time
-7 Manchester Time
-6 Leeds Time
-5 Oxford Time
-3 Boston Time
+0 Greenwich Time
+7 Norwich Time
+14:10 Bristol Time
+30 Sandringham time (Edward VII said so)
Some places still show their defiance to the House of Commons and pooh-pooh their imposition of time:
The Bristol Corn Exchange:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8522/8...c1e777d46e.jpg
There are two different minute hands showing both Greenwich Mean Time (in black) and Bristol Time.
The answer is France because they consider all their overseas territories to be part of France.
See the Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nes_by_country
So, it's your question, Rollo.
BOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!!! :angryfireQuote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
New question:
What is the smallest distinct territory that all of the US Constitution applies to?
American Samoa
Washington D.C.?
Rollo you forgot "Fergie Time" ? :D
Samoa is my guess too.
Midway Atoll
American Samoa - Unincorporated Unorganized Territory... not all the constitution applies.
Midway Atoll - Unincorporated Unorganized Territory... not all the constitution applies.
Washington D.C. - Maybe all the constitution applies? But at 68.3 square miles, there's still something smaller.
Guantanamo
Guantanamo - is Cuban soil and subject to a lease to the United States. Some Cuban law applies, Some US law applies; not all the constitution applies
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/dip_cuba003.asp
Nope.
Long Island?
Long Island is part of the state of New York. It's not a distinct territory.
OK, Palmyra Atol
We have a winner!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grundo Farb
Although Palmyra Atoll in unorganized (meaning that it has no formal government), it is an incorporated territory.
It's only 4.6 square miles in size.
Palmyra Atoll was annexed for the second time in 1911 which meant that it was incorporated but when Hawaii became a state it was excluded.
http://www.gao.gov/archive/1998/og98005.pdf
It is not at issue that the Constitution applied in its entirety to Palmyra between 1900 and 1959. There is no clear reason why the Constitution would not continue to apply today.
...
It had been subject to theConstitution, and was a part of the United States. The Constitution had attached to it irrevocably. There are steps which can never be taken backward.
- GAO, Application of the U.S. Constitution
OK asylum seekers. If you want your kids to become US citizens under the 14th Amendment, just have them be born there. Just remember that you have to get a bunch of officials out there to confirm that this was actually true and that the nearest thing in the wide blue nothingness is Napari in Kiribati which is 230 miles away.
Ok, next question then.
What are the names of the two original Spice Islands which were the only places where nutmeg, cloves and mace were traded?
Scary and Baby :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grundo Farb
Sadly no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
Java and Sumatra?
Close but no. The area is right.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
C'mon people, the English traded the Dutch for some island called Manhattan over these islands...
Maluku Islands in Indonesia
That's the group of Islands that were traded but there were two original islands (both starting with T) one held by the Portuguese and One by the Spanish.Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
BIG clues.
I know one island in the group is called Tanimbar
Meka leka hi, meka hiney ho?Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
Malakas Hellas (μαλάκας Ελλάς)?
So, no-one here has the answer? Another day and I will give the answer and ask a different question if this is too hard.
Trinidad and Tobago
No, but you did get the malukku islands. So I guess you are the winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield5
Funny, nobody knows Tidore and Ternati. These two islands were the powerbase of the spice trade and source of conflict between Portugal, Spain, England and the Dutch. The group of islands were the only place in the world that cloves, mace and nutmeg came from. Such was their value, the Dutch traded New Amsterdam for these islands of the British but the british had already transferred most of the trees off the islands and shipped them to India.
So Anfield5 I guess it's you...
Oh... is it Britain then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grundo Farb
Cloves
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/496xn/p02k41w9.jpg
Mace
https://culturalconcubine.files.word...mmon-mace.jpeg
Nutmeg!!!
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/webima.../244652516.jpg
I like it.
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