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| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 06 10:26PM -0700 1 Name either of the two California prisons in which Johnny Cash recorded live albums. 2 The world's tallest structure is located in which city? 3 The name of which element, atomic number 18 and one of the noble gases, comes from the Greek for "lazy"? 4 Which word is both a much-covered song title and a translation of the Hebrew term "Praise the Lord"? 5 How many arrondissements does Paris have? 6 Absinthe is traditionally flavoured with the flowers and leaves of which tree? 7 Which British university is known by the acronym LSE? 8 The Ernest Hemmingway novella "The Old Man and the Sea" is set in which Caribbean country? 9 Which city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976? 10 In the trick-taking card game Hearts, which card is (normally) worth 13 penalty points? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 07 12:33AM -0500 "Calvin": > 1 Name either of the two California prisons in which Johnny > Cash recorded live albums. Folsom. > 2 The world's tallest structure is located in which city? Abu Dhabi. > 3 The name of which element, atomic number 18 and one of the > noble gases, comes from the Greek for "lazy"? I could answer this but I'm too argon to bother. :-) > 4 Which word is both a much-covered song title and a > translation of the Hebrew term "Praise the Lord"? Hallelujah. > 5 How many arrondissements does Paris have? 20. > 6 Absinthe is traditionally flavoured with the flowers and > leaves of which tree? Wormwood. > 7 Which British university is known by the acronym LSE? London School of Economics. One of my nieces went there. > 8 The Ernest Hemmingway novella "The Old Man and the Sea" is > set in which Caribbean country? None. > 9 Which city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976? Saigon. > 10 In the trick-taking card game Hearts, which card is > (normally) worth 13 penalty points? Queen of spades. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I shot a query into the net. msb@vex.net | I haven't got an answer yet..." --Ed Nather My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 07 12:35AM -0500 "Calvin": > > 2 The world's tallest structure is located in which city? Mark Brader: > Abu Dhabi. Dang! I meant Dubai. For some reason I was thinking that that was the name of the emirate containing Abu Dhabi, not a city. -- Mark Brader | "...what can be asserted without evidence Toronto | can also be dismissed without evidence." msb@vex.net | --Christopher Hitchens |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 07 11:25AM +0200 On 2016-10-07 07:26, Calvin wrote: > 1 Name either of the two California prisons in which Johnny Cash recorded live albums. Sing-Sing > 2 The world's tallest structure is located in which city? Dubai city > 3 The name of which element, atomic number 18 and one of the noble gases, comes from the Greek for "lazy"? > 4 Which word is both a much-covered song title and a translation of the Hebrew term "Praise the Lord"? > 5 How many arrondissements does Paris have? 89 > 6 Absinthe is traditionally flavoured with the flowers and leaves of which tree? Eucalyphtus > 7 Which British university is known by the acronym LSE? > 8 The Ernest Hemmingway novella "The Old Man and the Sea" is set in which Caribbean country? Cuba > 9 Which city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976? Saigon > 10 In the trick-taking card game Hearts, which card is (normally) worth 13 penalty points? Queen of Spades -- -- Björn |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 06 08:27PM +0200 On 2016-10-04 06:13, Mark Brader wrote: > the Bank of Canada web site before *you* post your answer. > (They post it at 4:30 pm Ottawa time, zone -4, each business day, > and I will take the Date line on your posting as accurate.) 25% > are in a Canadian (or Imperial) gallon, or the reverse. Again, > you don't need to say which; but you must give your answer in > decimal form to within 2% of the true number. 1 us gallon is 3.78 liters, and an imperial one is 4.55 liters, so it must be 3.78/4.55 Is the calculator cheating here ? if not I'll answer 83,1 % if it is cheating I'll stop at 3.78/4.55 and leave the calculation to you > for a 2-year degree, usually attained at an institution below > the level of a university, such as a community college or > vocational college? Bachelor degree? > You can *either* give the value rounded to the nearest > integer, or else tell us exactly, expressed as the ratio > or fraction of two numbers. 180/pi > 360 is divisible (without remainder) by *all but one* of > the integers from 1 to 10. Which one is the exception -- > the one that 360 is not divisible by? 7 > D1. Anders Celsius in 1742 designed a temperature scale that > was very similar to the one named after him that we use > today, but with one essential difference. What was it? It was reversed, 0 for waters boiling and 100 for its freezing temperature > D2. In the Celsius scale that we use, what temperature has the > same numerical value as it would in Fahrenheit? -40 (As I once heard "40 below is always 40 below") > nearest major intersection -- or other landmark -- to where > you are (for example: "Yonge St. and Eglinton Av., Toronto, > Canada") and I'll score the answer as if you were there. 55 degrees north. I am in Lund, Sweden, Frejavägen 4a (50 km east of Copenhagen, Denmark) > of Greenland, is Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador. > Give its *longitude*, within 4°; again, you don't need to > say "west". 45 > * F. Deodorant > F1. The first deodorant had the brand name "Mum". Within 10 > years, when was it patented? 1920 -- -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 06 11:38PM -0500 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". Game 8 is over and the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations! > I wrote one of these rounds. That was the Canadiana. I was also the one who suggested the exact form of challenge pair E. > circular protective zone at the moment of the catch, and the > play continues afterwards. What's the name of the penalty when > an opponent fails to respect this zone around the receiver? No yards. > 2. If the US Congress votes to terminate a debate and get on with > the main vote on something, they call it "cloture". What is > the term in our parliament? Closure. 4 for Peter. > (By the way, so far we've only had one "ordinary" election since > the present rule was established.) *Either* state the rule, > or just give *any one* of the 7 dates normally possible. October 15 to 21 -- third Monday in October, i.e. one week after Thanksgiving. The minority Conservative government under Harper passed a law in 2007 calling for elections every 4 years in order to "prevent governments from calling snap elections for short-term political advantage". The following year they decided they could gain some short-term political advantage by having a snap election, so they asked the Governor-General to call one. They were reelected to another minority, which was ended by a vote of no confidence in 2011, so we had another off-schedule election. The first actual fixed-date election was in 2015. > (for the letter after the initial C) fall within a consecutive > block of 6 letters of the alphabet. Name the 5 letters or just > name the 6-letter range. F, H, I, J, K (or accepting F-K). (Toronto examples: CFTO, CHFI, CIUT, CJRT, CKEY.) > 5. Different American states have different terms for their > prosecutors, but most commonly they are district attorneys. > What is the equivalent term here? Crown attorney. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > though perhaps not quite as affectionate as "MERGE". To repeat, > we want the equivalent of "RIGHT LANE ENDS" or "LANE ENDS -- > MERGE LEFT". It's just two words. SQUEEZE LEFT. See: http://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7069/6887925955_d45d0d85ea.jpg It seems that the word SQUEEZE is not quite as obsolete was I thought when I wrote the question. After the original game, one of the players told me where they thought a SQUEEZE LEFT sign still survives. That one actually turns out to be a late variant with only one word: http://www.qsview.com/@43.638032,-79.400753,-52.15h,2.33p,2.32z But on my way out of town a few days later I spotted a surviving SQUEEZE RIGHT sign myself: http://www.qsview.com/@43.646667,-79.402658,-115.81h,1.7p,2.32z > they are "rear admiral upper half" and "rear admiral lower > half". Name either rank between vice-admiral and captain in > the Canadian navy. Rear admiral, commodore. (Exact answer required.) 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, and Don Tilque. 3 for Calvin. ("Commodore" also came up the week before the original game on "Jeopardy!"! As they noted on 2016-07-15, the US navy formerly also had the rank of commodore, but not any more -- but "it lives on as the presiding officer. of a yacht club".). > 8. In the banking industry, an IRA ["Ira"] in the US corresponds > roughly to what in Canada? RRSP (accepting RSP). "Retirement fund" was not specific enough. > the Bank of Canada web site before *you* post your answer. > (They post it at 4:30 pm Ottawa time, zone -4, each business day, > and I will take the Date line on your posting as accurate.) Close date 1 USD -> CAD (accepting) 1 CAD -> USD (accepting) 2016-10-03 1.3110 (1.28478-1.33722) 0.7628 (0.74752-0.77803) 2016-10-04 1.3194 (1.29301-1.34579) 0.7579 (0.74276-0.77308) 2016-10-05 1.3182 (1.29184-1.34456) 0.7586 (0.74344-0.77378) 2016-10-06 1.3213 (1.29487-1.34773) 0.7568 (0.74169-0.77197) 4 for Dan Blum and Erland. 3 for Björn (see note). While it's still current, see: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/daily-closing-past-five-day/ In the original game, the "true number" was the closing rate on 2016-07-08, which was 1.3040, or the other way, 0.7669. (So we accepted 1.27792 to 1.33008, or 0.75156 to 0.78224). Note: While banks are not likely to do this, exchange rates are sometimes quoted as a percentage to be added or subtracted rather than a factor to be multiplied or divided. So an exchange rate of either 1.25 or 0.75 could be referred to as 25%. (This practice was more common when the rate was closer to par.) However, since 1.25 corresponds to 0.8 the other way and 0.75 corresponds to 1.3333, 25% could also translate to those numbers. Björn said "25%" rather than giving a proper exchange rate such as shown at the specified reference; because of the ambiguity, this is similar to making two guesses. Since 0.75 was within the acceptable range, I decided to accept this answer for 3 points but not for 4. > are in a Canadian (or Imperial) gallon, or the reverse. Again, > you don't need to say which; but you must give your answer in > decimal form to within 2% of the true number. 1.20095 (accepting 1.1769 to 1.225); 0.83267 (accepting 0.816 to 0.8493). 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete. The Imperial gallon contains 1.25 times as many fluid ounces as the US gallon, but the US fluid ounces are larger by about 4%. > Six Degrees of Separation, Degrees in Academia, Degrees in Geometry, > Degrees of Temperature, Degrees of Canadian Latitude and Longitude, > and, of course... Deodorant. This was the hardest round in the original game. > Separation" who plays one of the couple that Will Smith's > character cons into thinking, among other things, that he's > Sidney Poitier's son. Stockard Channing. 4 for Marc and Joshua. > game based on the "six degrees" concept that attempts to > link him to arbitrary actors? He eventually started a > charitable organization named SixDegrees.org. Kevin Bacon. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Marc, Peter, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Jason. > back with an STD. But it takes real effort to get a whole > degree in that subject. If your degree is abbreviated > S.T.D., what was your area of study? Theology. (Accepting "religion" or "divinity". It's a "Sacrae Theologiae Doctor", or Doctor of Sacred Theology.) 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Jason. > for a 2-year degree, usually attained at an institution below > the level of a university, such as a community college or > vocational college? Associate's degree. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Marc, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Jason. > You can *either* give the value rounded to the nearest > integer, or else tell us exactly, expressed as the ratio > or fraction of two numbers. Rounded: 57. Exactly: 180/pi. 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Björn. > 360 is divisible (without remainder) by *all but one* of > the integers from 1 to 10. Which one is the exception -- > the one that 360 is not divisible by? 7, duh. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Calvin, Marc, Peter, Bruce, Pete, Erland, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Björn. > D1. Anders Celsius in 1742 designed a temperature scale that > was very similar to the one named after him that we use > today, but with one essential difference. What was it? The scale was reversed -- 0° for boiling and 100° for freezing. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Björn. > D2. In the Celsius scale that we use, what temperature has the > same numerical value as it would in Fahrenheit? -40°. 4 for everyone. > nearest major intersection -- or other landmark -- to where > you are (for example: "Yonge St. and Eglinton Av., Toronto, > Canada") and I'll score the answer as if you were there. In the original game, although we expected entrants to always answer in whole degrees, just for fun we gave the different exact answers for each pub where our games were played that night: Pub: Exact: So we accepted: Or in decimals: Artful Dodger 43°40'5" N 41°40'5" to 45°40'5" 41.6680° to 45.6681°. Bedford Academy 43°40'10" N 41°40'10" to 45°40'10" 41.6694° to 45.6695°. Duke of Gloucester 43°40'5" N 41°40'5" to 45°40'5" 41.6680° to 45.6681°. Fox & Fiddle 43°40'3" N 41°40'3" to 45°40'3" 41.6674° to 45.6675°. Tranzac 43°39'55" N 41°39'55" to 45°39'55" 41.6652° to 45.6653°. So I'll do the same for people posting here: Entrant: Exact: So I accepted: Or in decimals: Dan Blum 42°23'45" N 40°23'45" to 44°23'45" 40.3954° to 44.3955° Calvin 27°28'5" S 25°28'5" to 29°28'5" 25.4678° to 29.4679° Peter 51°39'0" N 49°39'0" to 53°39'0" 49.6504° to 53.6505° Bruce 43°54'10" N 41°54'10" to 45°54'10" 41.9025° to 45.9026° Pete 41°44'25" N 39°44'25" to 43°44'25" 39.7406° to 43.7407° Erland 59°20'25" N 57°20'25" to 61°20'25" 57.3406° to 61.3407° Dan Tilque 45°29'10" N 43°29'10" to 47°29'10" 43.4858° to 47.4859° Björn 55°41'5" N 53°41'5" to 57°41'5" 53.6842° to 57.6843° ("Exact" answers are actually rounded to the nearest multiple of 5".) 4 for Calvin, Peter, Bruce, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Björn. > of Greenland, is Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador. > Give its *longitude*, within 4°; again, you don't need to > say "west". 52°37'10" (accepting 48°37'10" to 56°37'10" or 48.6194 to 56.6195°). 4 for Peter, Bruce, and Dan Tilque. > * F. Deodorant > F1. The first deodorant had the brand name "Mum". Within 10 > years, when was it patented? 1888 (accepting 1878-98) -- as mentioned in a posting in a thread in alt.usage.english (and two other newsgroups) about words like "armpit" and "underarm", just about 24 hours before I posted the questions here. 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Calvin and Pete. > F2. Please answer the previous question before decoding the > rot13: In the 1950s "Ban" introduced the roll-on deodorant (As mentioned in the same alt.usage.english posting.) > for was also first patented in eighteen eighty-eight, the > same year as "Mum" deodorant, but a commercially successful > design did not appear until the nineteen-thirties. Ballpoint pen. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Marc, Peter, Bruce, Pete, and Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> His Ent Spo Lit Geo Sci Can Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 16 32 28 32 36 16 4 28 172 Stephen Perry 40 40 -- -- 36 36 -- -- 152 Dan Blum 23 12 4 20 36 24 8 36 151 Dan Tilque 32 8 16 0 32 12 12 40 144 Marc Dashevsky 20 20 16 4 12 20 0 28 116 "Calvin" 22 4 15 8 27 11 3 27 110 Pete Gayde 11 20 24 0 28 4 2 23 110 Peter Smyth 12 17 0 8 32 8 8 32 109 Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- 16 24 0 40 80 Erland Sommarskog 12 0 0 4 28 4 4 20 72 Björn Lundin 16 8 0 0 -- -- 3 20 47 Jason Kreitzer -- -- -- -- 0 8 0 20 28 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "People say I'm a skeptic -- msb@vex.net but I find that hard to believe." My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 07 10:40AM +0200 On 2016-10-07 06:38, Mark Brader wrote: > to 0.8493). 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete. > The Imperial gallon contains 1.25 times as many fluid ounces as the > US gallon, but the US fluid ounces are larger by about 4%. 1 us gallon is 3.78 liters, and an imperial one is 4.55 liters, so it must be 3.78/4.55 Is the calculator cheating here ? if not I'll answer 83,1 % if it is cheating I'll stop at 3.78/4.55 and leave the calculation to you > Björn Lundin 16 8 0 0 -- -- 3 20 47 81.6 < 83.1 < 84.9 Was using the calculator cheating ? If not I think I should have scored 7 points instead in round 9 -- -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 07 03:49AM -0500 Björn Lundin: > Was using the calculator cheating ? "Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup, based only on your own knowledge." -- Mark Brader, Toronto "I tried reading a book on Zeno, but msb@vex.net I only got halfway." --Lee Ayrton |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 06 10:22PM -0700 On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 2:02:19 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 In musical notation, how many lines are in a stave? 5 > 2 In which country did Barack Obama live from the age of 6 to 10? Indonesia > 3 Which 18th century Scottish philosopher is considered the father of modern economics? Adam Smith > 4 Based on Ian Fleming's novel, which British author wrote the screenplay for the 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"? Roald Dahl > 5 In medicine, for what does the abbreviation "MRI" stand for? Magnetic Resonance Imaging > 6 The Frankfurt Galaxy, Barcelona Dragons and Scottish Claymores competed in which defunct sports league? NFL Europe > 7 Which 1954 film won eight Oscars, including Best Actor for Marlon Brando? On The Waterfront > 8 How long is one period of play in a standard ice hockey match? 20 minutes > 9 Which form of traditional medicine draws on "meridian theory"? Acupuncture or Acupressure > 10 Which comic strip duo were created by Bill Watterson? Calvin and Hobbes no relation Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 459 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 63 Dan Tilque 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 50 Peter Smyth 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 8 58 Chris Johnson 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 8 60 Mark Brader 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 7 53 Gareth Owen 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 7 56 Marc Dashevsky 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 6 48 Bruce Bowler 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 6 50 Pete Gayde 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 25 Erland S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 28 Bjorn Lundin - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 10 6 6 2 8 3 8 9 4 9 65 65% Congratulations Dan. cheers, calvin |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 07 01:30AM -0700 Calvin wrote: > Congratulations Dan. Wow! Haven't won one of yours in a long time. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 06 11:45PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-18, and should be interpreted accordingly. On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup, based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". I wrote one of these rounds. * Game 9, Round 2 - Science 1. What branch of medical science is this round about? One of its best-known practitioners was Wilder Penfield. After you have finished with question #1, please decode the rot13 as far as the "=====" separator after question #10, *but no farther*. Gb or rknpg, gur ebhaq vf nobhg arhebfpvrapr -- *naq ol gur jnl, qbrf nalbar urer fzryy oheag gbnfg?* 2. Anzr gur Pnanqvna vafgvghgvba, qrqvpngrq gb pyvavpny naq erfrnepu arhebfpvrapr, sbhaqrq ol Jvyqre Crasvryq va 1934. 3. Crasvryq'f erfrnepu ohvyg ba n sbhaqngvba rfgnoyvfurq znal qrpnqrf rneyvre ol gjb 19gu-praghel fpvragvfgf. Ynetryl guebhtu gur fghql bs ynathntr shapgvba, gurl pbapyhqrq gung qvssrerag nernf bs gur oenva ner erfcbafvoyr sbe qvssrerag shapgvbaf -- naq rnpu bar abj unf bar bs gubfr nernf anzrq nsgre uvz. Anzr rvgure zna. 4. Oevgvfu arhebybtvfg Wbua Uhtuyvatf Wnpxfba vasreerq gur shapgvba bs gur zbgbe pbegrk ol bofreivat cngvragf jvgu jung qvfbeqre? 5. Qbcnzvar, rcvarcuevar, tyhgnzngr, frebgbava, naq gelcgnzvar ner nyy rknzcyrf bs jung glcr bs purzvpny? 6. Gur qrngu bs qbcnzvar-trarengvat pryyf va gur "fhofgnagvn avten" bs gur oenva erfhygf va flzcgbzf bs juvpu arheb-qrtrarengvir qvfrnfr? 7. Fbzr arhebaf vapyhqr n ybat cneg gung genafzvgf vzchyfrf njnl sebz gur pryy obql. Anzr vg. 8. Byvire Fnpxf, jub qvrq va 2015, jnf bar bs gur sberzbfg genafzvggref bs arhebfpvragvsvp yber gb n cbchyne nhqvrapr. Bar bs uvf obbxf gbbx vgf gvgyr sebz gur fgbel bs n zhfvp cebsrffbe jub jnf tenqhnyyl ybfvat gur novyvgl gb ivfhnyyl vqragvsl pbzzba bowrpgf. Jung jnf gung gvgyr? 9. Fnpxf jnf vasyhraprq va uvf jevgvat ol juvpu tebhaqoernxvat Fbivrg culfvpvna naq cflpubybtvfg, nhgube bs "Gur Zna jvgu n Funggrerq Jbeyq", jubfr jbex urycrq gb rfgnoyvfu arhebcflpubybtl nf n qvfpvcyvar? 10. Urael Zbynvfba, jub qvrq va 2008 naq sbe zbfg bs uvf yvsr jnf xabja gb gur jvqre jbeyq bayl nf "U.Z.", vf creuncf gur zbfg snzbhf cngvrag naq erfrnepu fhowrpg va gur svryq bs arhebcflpubybtl, orpnhfr bs gur hahfhny naq qrinfgngvat qvfnovyvgl ur jnf yrsg jvgu, sbyybjvat fhetrel gb gerng frirer rcvyrcfl. Jung qvfnovyvgl? ===== After completing the round, please decode this final piece of rot13: Vs lbh nafjrerq "nzarfvn" sbe gur ynfg dhrfgvba, tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp. * Game 9, Round 3 - Historic Geography - Former Capitals For those of you who track rounds by category, note that there will be several "miscellaneous" rounds in this game, and to make room for that, we'll be doubling up on some other categories. This round is on former capital cities, and we're calling it "historic geography". 1. Between 1789 when the US adopted its constitution, and 1800 when the capital was finally moved to Washington, the country's two largest cities each had a turn as capital. Name *both* of them. 2. When West Germany was created as a new country, nobody expected it to stay a separate country for long, so its capital was was chosen on a provisional basis -- and they deliberately avoided choosing an important city that might later attempt to remain the capital permanently. But in the end that provisional choice remained the capital for over 40 years until the reunification with East Germany finally took place. Name the city. The remaining questions all refer to countries that have simply moved their capital to a different city, where it still is now. In some cases this was a newly created city, in others not. In each case the date we mention is the year that the new location was officially designated as capital, and does not mean that all government functions were transferred that year. In some cases they still haven't all been transferred! But that doesn't matter. All you have to tell us is what city was the *previous* capital, *before* the move. If the city name is multiple words, the full name (as commonly used) is of course required: for example, "Las Vegas", not "Vegas". 3. Nigeria. Since 1991 the capital has been Abuja. What was it before? 4. Côte d'Ivoire ["COAT dee-VWAHR"], or the Ivory Coast. Since 1983, Yamoussoukro. What was it before? 5. Kazakhstan. Since 1997 the capital has been Astana (or Akmola, its previous name). The usual question: what was it before? 6. Pakistan. Since 1967, Islamabad. 7. Tanzania. Since 1996, Dodoma. 8. Turkey. Since 1923, Ankara. 9. Russia. Since 1918, Moscow. 10. Brazil. Since 1960, Brasilia. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "If you want a 20th century solution, the msb@vex.net | obvious answer is helicopters!" -- Bob Scheurle My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 06 10:34PM -0700 On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 2:45:21 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 9, Round 2 - Science Pass > when the capital was finally moved to Washington, the country's > two largest cities each had a turn as capital. Name *both* > of them. Philadelphia and New York > the capital permanently. But in the end that provisional choice > remained the capital for over 40 years until the reunification > with East Germany finally took place. Name the city. Bonn > 3. Nigeria. Since 1991 the capital has been Abuja. What was > it before? Lagos > 5. Kazakhstan. Since 1997 the capital has been Astana (or Akmola, > its previous name). The usual question: what was it before? > 6. Pakistan. Since 1967, Islamabad. Karachi, Lahore > 7. Tanzania. Since 1996, Dodoma. Dar es Salam > 8. Turkey. Since 1923, Ankara. Istanbul, Smyrna > 9. Russia. Since 1918, Moscow. St Petersburg > 10. Brazil. Since 1960, Brasilia. Rio de Janeiro cheers, calvin |
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