How Good is Your Geographic? [4]

Interesting!

Interesting!

Can only be Cardiff, then. Or?

Correct.

From Wikipedia the longitudes are:

Edinburgh - 3 degrees 11' 20'' W
Cardiff - 3 degrees 11' W
Madrid - 3 degree 41' W
Dublin - 6 degrees 15' 35" W

Until I was told, I never realised how far west Edinburgh is and that Britain runs more NW to SE than N-S

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Originally Posted by D-Type

Until I was told, I never realised how far west Edinburgh is and that Britain runs more NW to SE than N-S

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Yeah, I guess we're all used to seeing Britain stand "upright" on a map, whereas it's actually tilted to the "left".

OK. I'm going to be a little parochial as well. This one is about flags. On your left you see the Estonian flag with it's colours: blue, black, and white. There is only one other country whose flag uses only these three colours. Name that country, please.

I seem to recall one of the African nations having a flag all blue with white trim. Don't recall if there was black as well.
Nor do I recall the country :p :

That's all I have to offer, other than a wild guess... :mark:

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Originally Posted by schmenke

I seem to recall one of the African nations having a flag all blue with white trim. Don't recall if there was black as well.
Nor do I recall the country :p :

That's all I have to offer, other than a wild guess... :mark:

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Go on, what's your wild guess? ;)

If you insist :p : ...

Namibia

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Originally Posted by schmenke

If you insist :p : ...

Namibia

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I like your answer, but unfortunately, alas. ;) Namibia's flag looks like this:

http://www.flags.net/images/smallflags/NAMB0001.GIF

I have to confess that I only this afternoon, in the course of work, saw the flag in question. It's Botswana, is it not?

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I have to confess that I only this afternoon, in the course of work, saw the flag in question. It's Botswana, is it not?

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Indeed! Schmenke was very close, but Ben has got it. :up:

http://www.flags.net/images/smallflags/BOTS0001.GIF

Here's my question. What did the small areas of West Berlin known as Steinstücken and Eiskeller have in common during the time the Berlin Wall was up?

A wild guess - they contained the Avus?

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A wild guess - they contained the Avus?

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No.

I only think this is half right. :mad:
Both areas were surrounded by East Germany and access needed to be procured in the form of buying the part of East Germany that the access covered when the wall was erected?

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Originally Posted by Mr Alcatraz

I only think this is half right. :mad:
Both areas were surrounded by East Germany and access needed to be procured in the form of buying the part of East Germany that the access covered when the wall was erected?

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I have to give it to you, I think. They were indeed both 'exclaves' of West Berlin on DDR territory, where the access was across DDR land and thus subject to particular restrictions until better routes were agreed in the 1970s. The specific link I was looking for was that those two were the only ones to have people living on them. Read more here — Berlin Exclaves

Anyway, I doubt anyone else will get closer, so your go!

That is a very informative page, thanks for sharing it. I was already in elementary school when the wall was built. I still can’t even begin to think about how easy my day to day life must have been compared to Berliners around that time.

Here is your question, it should be an easy one.

Lake Nemi held two extraordinary artifacts for almost 2,000 years. Where is Lake Nimi? What are these artifacts, and who was their owner?

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That is a very informative page, thanks for sharing it. I was already in elementary school when the wall was built. I still can’t even begin to think about how easy my day to day life must have been compared to Berliners around that time.

Here is your question, it should be an easy one.

Lake Nemi held two extraordinary artifacts for almost 2,000 years. Where is Lake Nimi? What are these artifacts, and who was their owner?

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Forgive me, but which of the two spellings you mention is correct?

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That is a very informative page, thanks for sharing it. I was already in elementary school when the wall was built. I still can’t even begin to think about how easy my day to day life must have been compared to Berliners around that time.

Here is your question, it should be an easy one.

Lake Nemi held two extraordinary artifacts for almost 2,000 years. Where is Lake Nemi? What are these artifacts, and who was their owner?

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Possibly a technicality that could affect someones getting the answer correct. I should have asked: "Who ordered what is left of these arifacts built"!

Alea iacta est

I'm finding this fascinating - I had never heard of the sand dunes of Lençóis, an exclave, Lake Nemi,or any of the other recent answers until I looked them up.

I guess this question is more difficult than I imagined. This is a giveaway, but only addresses one of the historical aspects of this question.
Here is another clue; In what may be his most popular work, the late English author Robert Graves, presented this man as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane in adulthood.

Ah. Now I've read "I, Clavdivs". Perhaps we're talking about emperor "Little Boots", Caligula?

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Ah. Now I've read "I, Clavdivs". Perhaps we're talking about emperor "Little Boots", Caligula?

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Now we are getting somewhere :up:

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I'm finding this fascinating - I had never heard of the sand dunes of Lençóis, an exclave, Lake Nemi,or any of the other recent answers until I looked them up.

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It really is a fun way to study geology, and a little history as well :)

I gather, then, that we're talking about artifacts that are pretty substantial in size, since the emperor Caligula had them built. And they were at the bottom of the lake, so perhaps they loaded something on a vessel which sank...?

Maybe some large-scale artwork depicting some military campaign? Perhaps even his father's campaign in Germany?

I have not the slightest clue what the artefacts might be. Nemi could be the name of a lake in all sorts of places, too. My first reaction was Hungary, but I don't believe that can be right.

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I gather, then, that we're talking about artifacts that are pretty substantial in size, since the emperor Caligula had them built. And they were at the bottom of the lake, so perhaps they loaded something on a vessel which sank...?

Maybe some large-scale artwork depicting some military campaign? Perhaps even his father's campaign in Germany?

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You are close enough. ;) I'm not going to drag this one question on forever. The two Nemi ships were enormous, as big as any Rome was rumored to be capable of making. Caligula used them as a Floating Palace, where he worshiped Diana, and Isis. These ships contained technology considered to have not been harnessed until recent times. Here is one link; it's a little long winded.
Nemi ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BTW Lake Nemi is 19 miles south of the city of Rome

You go studious! :wave:

Alrighty then. :cool:

Which is the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center?

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You are close enough. ;) I'm not going to drag this one question on forever. The two Nemi ships were enormous, as big as any Rome was rumored to be capable of making. Caligula used them as a Floating Palace, where he worshiped Diana, and Isis. These ships contained technology considered to have not been harnessed until recent times. Here is one link; it's a little long winded.
Nemi ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BTW Lake Nemi is 19 miles south of the city of Rome

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Interesting! :up:

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Which is the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center?

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We had this question a long time ago, before I took my last vacation ;) If my memory serves me it was a mountain in southern Central America or in north western South America. Correct so far?

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We had this question a long time ago, before I took my last vacation ;) If my memory serves me it was a mountain in southern Central America or in north western South America. Correct so far?

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Yup. :) But I wonder if anyone can give me the name of the mountain.

Aconcagua?

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Aconcagua?

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Not close enough to the equator, I'm afraid.

:s ailor: Chimborazo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POE_fHCCzxU

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:s ailor: Chimborazo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POE_fHCCzxU

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Correct! :up:

Its peak is 6 268 m (20 565 ft) above sea level, but because it's so close to the equator, it is the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center.

This country has 3 of the top 10 longest rivers. Name one.

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This country has 3 of the top 10 longest rivers. Name one.

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Danube.

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Danube.

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It was at one time, but no longer passes through this country.
Edit: It is also not one of the 10 longest, not by a long shot.

Volga