- RQFTCI07 Game 6 Rounds 6-7: capitals, secessions - 2 Updates
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 27 10:50PM +0200 > Erland Sommarskog: >> In order: Georgia, Armenia, Moldova > Now he can't count to one. Given all questions where I have not entered a single answer where I was supposed to give at least one, I'm still below average. > I will score this as two guesses of Georgia and Armenia. Which will give me way too many points, given that my attempt to show off includes a embarrassing error. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 27 09:25PM -0700 On 8/25/20 9:18 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 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. 52 > 11. If you want to show off, for fun but for no points, then give > the *number and name* for any or all of the 6 capitals marked > that are *not* in the US or Canada. 11 Mexicali 19 Hermosillo 20 Chihuahua 63 Nassau, Bahamas > name all the US state capitals and Canadian provincial (not > territorial) capitals that are *not* on the map. You must give > the complete list to be counted as correct. Juneau (Alaska) Honolulu (Hawaii) Halifax (Nova Scotia) Charlottetown (PEI) St John's (Newfoundland & Labrador) > 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 VA > 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. 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. Eritria > 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? 1992 -- Dan Tilque |
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