- RQFTCI07 Game 6 Rounds 6-7: capitals, secessions - 4 Updates
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Aug 26 01:32PM > * Game 6, Round 6 - Geography - State Capitals > 1. St. Paul. 28 > 2. Nashville. 56 > 3. Santa Fe. 13 > 4. Olympia. 3 > 5. Boise. 7 > 6. Boston. 47 > 7. Baton Rouge. 53 > 8. Sacramento. 5 > 9. Albany. 44 > 10. Trenton. 48 > Confederate States of America, and 4 others quickly joined them. > For most of the ensuing 4 years, what was the CSA's capital city? > You can give its name *or* just give its number on the map. Richmond > 2. One of the Confederate states had seceded from its parent country > once before, in 1836. Still earlier it had been Spanish and > then French territory. Name the state. Texas > 3. Which territory with capital Grozny was eventually recaptured > by Russia after several years of de facto independence in > the 1990s? Chechnya > (1) Abkhazia; (2) Nagorno-Karabakh; (3) Transnistria, also called > Pridnestrovie. Name *any one* of the three *parent* countries; > you don't have to say which secessionist territory it goes with. Azerbaijan > a generally unrecognized, but de facto independent, country > ever since. Meanwhile the parent country joined the European > Union in 2005. Name the parent country. Turkey > 6. The next two questions are about Africa. The secession of this > country """has""" left Ethopia landlocked; name it. Eritrea > rich in oil but needed to import food, and a Nigerian blockade > starved it into submission. We need the name adopted by the > secessionist area. Biafra > *parent* country to be lengthened by inserting a 9th word. > Both countries have the same predominant language; name the > one that *seceded*. Ireland > 9. """Last year""", what became the last of the former Yugoslavian > republics to separate from what is now called Serbia? Montenegro > 10. Czechoslovakia separated into two countries on January 1 of > what year, within 2? 1993 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 26 08:46PM +0200 > In each case, simply give the correct city number. > 1. St. Paul. 17 > 2. Nashville. 56 > 3. Santa Fe. 13 > 4. Olympia. 3 > 5. Boise. 9 > 6. Boston. 47 > 7. Baton Rouge. 53 > 8. Sacramento. 5 > 9. Albany. 44 > 10. Trenton. 48 > Confederate States of America, and 4 others quickly joined them. > For most of the ensuing 4 years, what was the CSA's capital city? > You can give its name *or* just give its number on the map. 61 > 2. One of the Confederate states had seceded from its parent country > once before, in 1836. Still earlier it had been Spanish and > then French territory. Name the state. Texas > 3. Which territory with capital Grozny was eventually recaptured > by Russia after several years of de facto independence in > the 1990s? Chechnia > (1) Abkhazia; (2) Nagorno-Karabakh; (3) Transnistria, also called > Pridnestrovie. Name *any one* of the three *parent* countries; > you don't have to say which secessionist territory it goes with. In order: Georgia, Armenia, Moldova > a generally unrecognized, but de facto independent, country > ever since. Meanwhile the parent country joined the European > Union in 2005. Name the parent country. Cyprus > 6. The next two questions are about Africa. The secession of this > country """has""" left Ethopia landlocked; name it. Eritrea > rich in oil but needed to import food, and a Nigerian blockade > starved it into submission. We need the name adopted by the > secessionist area. Biafra > *parent* country to be lengthened by inserting a 9th word. > Both countries have the same predominant language; name the > one that *seceded*. Ireland > 9. """Last year""", what became the last of the former Yugoslavian > republics to separate from what is now called Serbia? Montenegro > 10. Czechoslovakia separated into two countries on January 1 of > what year, within 2? 1993 |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 26 02:46PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > Name *any one* of the three *parent* countries... Erland Sommarskog: > In order: Georgia, Armenia, Moldova Now he can't count to one. I will score this as two guesses of Georgia and Armenia. -- Mark Brader "The spaghetti is put there by the designer of Toronto the code, not the designer of the language." msb@vex.net -- Richard Minner |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 26 11:06PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:fsadnQL1m8k4f9jCnZ2dnUU7- > capitals, and we're going to ask you about 10 of those. > In each case, simply give the correct city number. > 1. St. Paul. 28 > 2. Nashville. 56 > 3. Santa Fe. 13 > 4. Olympia. 3 > 5. Boise. 7 > 6. Boston. 47 > 7. Baton Rouge. 53 > 8. Sacramento. 5 > 9. Albany. 44 > 10. Trenton. 48 > Confederate States of America, and 4 others quickly joined them. > For most of the ensuing 4 years, what was the CSA's capital city? > You can give its name *or* just give its number on the map. Richmond, Virginia > 2. One of the Confederate states had seceded from its parent country > once before, in 1836. Still earlier it had been Spanish and > then French territory. Name the state. Texas > 3. Which territory with capital Grozny was eventually recaptured > by Russia after several years of de facto independence in > the 1990s? Chechnya > (1) Abkhazia; (2) Nagorno-Karabakh; (3) Transnistria, also called > Pridnestrovie. Name *any one* of the three *parent* countries; > you don't have to say which secessionist territory it goes with. Georgia > a generally unrecognized, but de facto independent, country > ever since. Meanwhile the parent country joined the European > Union in 2005. Name the parent country. Cyprus > 6. The next two questions are about Africa. The secession of this > country """has""" left Ethopia landlocked; name it. Djibouti > rich in oil but needed to import food, and a Nigerian blockade > starved it into submission. We need the name adopted by the > secessionist area. Biafra > *parent* country to be lengthened by inserting a 9th word. > Both countries have the same predominant language; name the > one that *seceded*. Republic of Ireland > 9. """Last year""", what became the last of the former Yugoslavian > republics to separate from what is now called Serbia? Montenegro > 10. Czechoslovakia separated into two countries on January 1 of > what year, within 2? 1993; 1998 Pete Gayde |
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