| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 05 06:00AM -0700 On 6/4/21 2:02 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 8, Round 3 - Geography - Transportation Facilities > 1. The Panama Canal runs from Panama City at the Pacific Ocean > end to what city at the Atlantic end? Colon > 2. The Suez Canal runs from Suez at the Red Sea end to what city > at the Mediterranean end? Port Said > 3. What international airport serving western Ireland is located > near Limerick? > 4. What US city """is""" served by Logan International Airport? Boston > 5. What city """is""" served by airports whose codes are MDW > and ORD? Chicago > topics may be repeated. The New York Central's crack train > was the Twentieth Century Limited. Its endpoints were New York > and what city? Philadelphia > 10. Amtrak's fastest trains today """are""" called Metroliners. > On most trips, their endpoints """are""" New York and what city? Boston -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 05 10:14PM +0200 > in a decentralized Yugoslav federation instead of declaring > independence. He argued that there could be no war if his side > refused to fight. Who """is""" he? Alija Izetbegovic > terrified Bosnian men filmed at a place called Omarska, and > later at another place called Trnopolje ["Turn-o-POL-yeh"]. > What sort of places were these? Concentration Camps > deported the surviving women and children on buses and killed > nearly all the men -- several thousand of them -- in nearby > forests. Name this so-called safe area. Srebrenica > the TV image of 37 dead people in Sarajevo on 1995-08-28 finally > led NATO to bomb Serb positions and force all sides to the > peace table. How did these 37 people die? Mortars shot into a market place > historical monument by UNESCO was destroyed by methodical > Croatian shelling in the town of Mostar. What type of thing > was it? Bridge. And whence the name, Mostar. > the US tacitly gave Croatia permission to "ethnically cleanse" > Serbs from a Croatian border region the Serbs had inhabited > for 400 years. What is the name of this region? Kninska Krajina > brothels where women were kept as slaves and selling weapons to > the fighters on both sides, in the Zepa Valley and elsewhere. > From what country was this UN force drawn? Bangladesh? > military commander, both of whom """are""" under indictment > at the Hague for war crimes. You don't have to say which one > you're naming. Ratko Mladic (commander), Radovan Karadzic ("president") > * Game 8, Round 3 - Geography - Transportation Facilities > 2. The Suez Canal runs from Suez at the Red Sea end to what city > at the Mediterranean end? Port Said > 3. What international airport serving western Ireland is located > near Limerick? Galway > 4. What US city """is""" served by Logan International Airport? Boston > 5. What city """is""" served by airports whose codes are MDW > and ORD? Chicago > 6. What city """is""" served by airports whose codes are CDG > and ORY? Paris > in other words, most long- or medium-distance trains -- start > or finish at one of """6""" major terminal stations. In French > or English, name any *two*. Gare de l'Est, Gare du Nord, Gare St Lazare, Gare d'Austerlitz, Gare Montparnasse, Gare du Lyon. My French teacher was obsessed with that we should learn these stations. > so that a train can call at more than one. Anyway, name *any > three* of the 14. Some have two-word names, in which case *both* > words must be given. Paddingon, Charing Cross, Waterloo > topics may be repeated. The New York Central's crack train > was the Twentieth Century Limited. Its endpoints were New York > and what city? Trenton > 10. Amtrak's fastest trains today """are""" called Metroliners. > On most trips, their endpoints """are""" New York and what city? Washington |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 05 03:23PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > Gare de l'Est, Gare du Nord, Gare St Lazare, Gare d'Austerlitz, > Gare Montparnasse, Gare du Lyon. > My French teacher was obsessed with that we should learn these stations. ... > Paddingon, Charing Cross, Waterloo Shouldn't your English teacher have been equally obsessed with you learning the rest of these, then? -- Mark Brader | "[Your orders are] to figure out what I would have ordered msb@vex.net | you to do, if I really understood the situation ... [and] Toronto | to follow those orders I hypothetically would have given." -- Shan (John Barnes, "Earth Made of Glass") My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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