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| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 16 09:02PM +0100 >> 9 What is the southernmost South American capital? > Montevideo Brilliant question! I walked right into the trap. ...but the answer could have been Viedma. (To wit, in the 1980s, President Alfosín floated an idea to move the federal captial to Viedma, which is just on the border to what counts as Patagonia. Not much happened out of it, though.) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 16 02:20PM -0600 "Calvin": >>> 9 What is the southernmost South American capital? >> Montevideo Erland Sommarskog: > Brilliant question! I walked right into the trap. Whereas I cleverly evaded the trap that Erland walked into, and walked right into the *other* one. I knew that from a past email discussion that small-scale maps are often misleading[1] as to which of Buenos Aires and Montevideo is farther south, but forgot which relative position was false and which was true. [1] When a city is on the coast, the dot used to represent it on a map is normally placed fully inland rather than centered on the coastline. Since Montevideo is on a south-facing coast, this pushes its dot north. If the map is small-scale enough, this can makes it look farther north than Buenos Aires. -- Mark Brader "Well, I didn't completely test it, and Toronto of course there was a power failure the msb@vex.net next day." -- Louis J. Judice My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 16 11:03PM +0100 > that small-scale maps are often misleading[1] as to which of Buenos > Aires and Montevideo is farther south, but forgot which relative > position was false and which was true. Not sure what you mean. I answered Santiago, as I seemed to recall that it slightly south of Buenos Aires. Montevideo I did not even consider, and when I saw people entering I thought they were totally confused. My mental picture of it all was that since Montevideo is across the river from Buenos Aires it must be north from B.A. You could of course say that I did two mistakes. First ignoring Montevideo and then picking the wrong of Buenos Aires and Santiago. So, yes, you did better than me. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 16 10:23PM > You could of course say that I did two mistakes. First ignoring Montevideo > and then picking the wrong of Buenos Aires and Santiago. So, yes, you did > better than me. This would probably be a bad time to admit that I got this correct by guessing, right? -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 16 05:07PM -0600 Mark Brader: >>> that small-scale maps are often misleading[1] as to which of Buenos >>> Aires and Montevideo is farther south, but forgot which relative >>> position was false and which was true. Erland Sommarskog: >> Not sure what you mean. Santiago is the obvious answer because Chile is long and straight and it doesn't make sense for the capital to be so far north, but it is, and I cleverly knew that was wrong. >> My mental picture of it all was that since Montevideo is across the river >> from Buenos Aires it must be north from B.A. Whereas I knew that the relative position of those two on some maps looks wrong, but I also knew that since Montevideo is across the river (estuary, really) from Buenos Aires it must be farther north. Dan Blum: > This would probably be a bad time to admit that I got this correct by > guessing, right? I'd say it serves us right! -- Mark Brader | Are governments capable of evil? Yes, of course they are. Toronto | All institutions are. But they're MORE capable of incompetence. msb@vex.net | (That's good! I should post that.) --Sherlock Holmes (Craig Sweeney, "Elementary") |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 16 12:02PM -0600 "Calvin": > 1 For what purpose would a tandoor normally be used? Baking. > 2 Which infamous island can be viewed from the Golden Gate Bridge? Alcatraz. > 3 Which author wrote the 1844 fairy-tale 'The Snow Queen'? Andersen. > 4 Commonly used in biology, which word means 'state of living together'? Symbiosis. > 5 A line from whose 1819 poem inspired the title of F Scott > Fitzgerald's 1934 novel 'Tender is the Night'? Keats? > 6 What country was divided into four different occupied zones from > 1945-1949? Both Austria and Germany were occupied in four zones in 1945. The occupation of Germany continued until the 4+2 treaty took effect in 1990, and I thought Austria only became unoccupied about 1955. I'll say Austria, anyway. > 7 According to a 2006 hit by Shakira, which body part doesn't lie? Hips. > 8 Named after a famous Briton, what is the capital city of North Carolina? Raligh. > 9 A sesquicentennial celebrates how many years? 150. -- Mark Brader "This must be a serious issue! Toronto It's spawned a new interjection!" msb@vex.net --Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 16 12:03PM -0600 Mark Brader: > Raligh. (Raleigh, that is.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto "As always, breakfast recapitulated msb@vex.net phylogeny." -- Spider Robinson |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Jan 16 12:07PM -0600 On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:09:35 -0800 (PST), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >1 For what purpose would a tandoor normally be used? Cooking >2 Which infamous island can be viewed from the Golden Gate Bridge? Alcatraz, Treasure Island >3 Which author wrote the 1844 fairy-tale 'The Snow Queen'? Hans Christian Anderson >4 Commonly used in biology, which word means 'state of living together'? Cohabitation >5 A line from whose 1819 poem inspired the title of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel 'Tender is the Night'? Keats? >6 What country was divided into four different occupied zones from 1945-1949? Germany >7 According to a 2006 hit by Shakira, which body part doesn't lie? Hips >8 Named after a famous Briton, what is the capital city of North Carolina? Charlotte >9 A sesquicentennial celebrates how many years? 150 >10 Which rock band had hits in the 1980s with 'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Paradise City'? Guns N' Roses ArenEss |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 16 08:55PM +0100 > occupation of Germany continued until the 4+2 treaty took effect in > 1990, and I thought Austria only became unoccupied about 1955. I'll say > Austria, anyway. He only gave an approxamite time frame when the occupation started and never said when it ended. :-) I guess he considers the occupation to have ended in 1949 when the two German republics were formed. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 16 02:14PM -0600 >> 2 Which infamous island can be viewed from the Golden Gate Bridge? > Alcatraz, Treasure Island Perhaps Calvin could use the explanation that although Treasure I. is famous as a fictional island, there is also a real island of that name in San Francisco Bay, and as you can check in Google Street View, it can indeed be seen from the the Golden Gate Bridge. Therefore how to treat this answer depends on which, if either, of these islands is best considered "infamous". -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "C takes the point of view that the programmer msb@vex.net | is always right" -- Michael DeCorte My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 16 11:57AM -0600 Mark Brader: > > PARIS' MONTMARTRE AREA ONCE HAD 30 WINDMILLS; TODAY THE BEST-KNOWN > > ONE IS THE MOULIN OUTSIDE THIS NIGHTSPOT "Calvin": > Why put moulin in the question I wonder, rather than mill? A hint. > Gives it away entirely. With only a few seconds to answer, that's not necessarily the case. -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net Irving Thalberg's advice on GONE WITH THE WIND: "Forget it, Louis. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel." |
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