Cumulative Geography Quiz #3

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Well thge country's the Ukraine, but I'm not sure who the border was for. Must be the Russians, but possibly also the Poles. Natural boundaries are the Black Sea and the Carpathian mountains? I don't know if you want all the possible boundaries all around the country, but I can't be bothered to dig out my atlas again - someone else can fill in the rest.

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Correct. Ukraine is the country, from Ykraïha meaning "borderland", originally a borderland of Russia. Many geography books say it has no natural boundaries and certainly for 80% or more of its own border it doesn't. But as you correctly point out the Black Sea for a short sector in the south and the Carpathian mountains for a short stretch in the West are natural enough. The vast majority of the Ukraine however merges with the great plain of Russia and the Polish lowlands.

Well done. I'm going to have to make them more difficult! Your turn.
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Oh damn - I hate having to think up new questions. The obvious response to which is to stop answering other people's but that's fun.

Well then.


Question 8: What is the connection between Zimbabwe, Taiwan (sort of) , the Solomon and Cook Islands, Christmas Island, Singapore and New Zealand? And what are the other countries this applies to? (There are 10 of them)

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they were all explored/discored or at least took part in James Cook's voyages... right? and you could add Australia, Chile (Easter Island), uhhh... Hawaii (United States), and........... ... . . . ... i dont know...
 
That can't be right. Zimbabwe is a long way from the coast in continental south Africa. That doesn't fit unless Captain Cook used a land yacht!
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On the other hand I'm having a hard time to come up with a flawless case all round.

The most obvious link is that, with the exception of Taiwan, they've all been British colonies who received their independence in the 20th century. On the other hand a lot more than 10 other colonies did so too, so I'd need to make an artifical narrow time window for that to work. And Taiwan has never to my knowledge been even close to becoming a British colony, let alone "almost" - though if Duke meant to say Hong Kong instead I might be onto something.

The other thing that almost works is that they were nearly all the destinations or sources of famous polynesian migrations in the last 1000 years or so. But not of course Zimbabwe!

Aaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh! [brain melt]

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Gotcha! Maybe...

I reckon the answer is that the currency of all these places is called "the Dollar". Except for Taiwan which is called "the New Dollar".

On the other hand, there are more than nine places remaining that also use a dollar. In case some of these are bound up together in your required answer, I'll list them all in alphabetical order...
Anguilla, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Is, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, Montserrat, Namibia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago.

What do you reckon?

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You're right of course, but I didn't have that many on my list of other countries. I didn't include Hong Kong because it's a province of China, despite the fact that it has its own currency - Taiwan is disputed but internationally recognised I believe - if only to p*ss off the Communists.
I had: Puerto Rico,
Namibia,
Liberia,
Jamaica,
Guam,
Fiji,
Canada,
Barbados,
Australia and Hong Kong.

Your question then.


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Yay! That had been bugging me for a while. For some reason I'd discounted currencies at first but even considered obscure things like TV systems (PAL/NTSC/SECAM).
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Right... I've been wanting to ask this one for a while.
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Question 9:
Part a: Where was possibly the first recorded great scam in the real estate/property industry perpetrated? (I'm talking about a documented case in the 10th century here, so I'm not interested in earlier stuff.) World maps still bear the effects of this confidence trick to this very day.
Part b: What is the obvious linguistic link between that place and the perpetrator of the escapade?

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Originally posted by stormerne:
Question 9:
Part a: Where was possibly the first recorded great scam in the real estate/property industry perpetrated? (I'm talking about a documented case in the 10th century here, so I'm not interested in earlier stuff.) World maps still bear the effects of this confidence trick to this very day.
Part b: What is the obvious linguistic link between that place and the perpetrator of the escapade?
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Öööh... Okay, I can understand about 20% of these words...
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more engrish...

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Originally posted by Andu Indorin:
Certainly, you are talking about Eric the Red and Greenland. As for linguistic link, I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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Correct Andu! The linguistic link is simply RED and GREEN.

"He [Eirik the Red] sailed back to Iceland the following summer and put in at Breidafjord. He named the country he had discovered Greenland, for he said that people would be much more tempted to go there if it had an attractive name."
-- Vinland Saga, chapter 1, about events around the year 984.

Your go Andu.

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Correctamundo!

The Ries Crater at Nordlingen provided compelling evidence to support the late Eugene Shoemaker's theories on the role of high velocity meteor impacts in shaping the Earth's geologic history.

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Question # 11:

Two part question. When Illinois became a state, Nathaniel Pope was able to convince the US Congress to change Illinois' northern border. Part A - what natural features were supposed to be used to determine Illinois' northern border? Part B - what was the name of the law that the US Congress ignored when it enacted the change in borders?
 
I believe the answer to Part A is the Chicago River...no clue on part B

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(A) not sure... Lead deposits near Galena,rich dairy sections. (B) Northwest Ordinance

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Originally posted by spycatcher34:
(A) not sure... Lead deposits near Galena,rich dairy sections. (B) Northwest Ordinance

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Spycatcher,

You got part B. As for Part A, the mines in Galena were one of the contributing factors to the push for a changed border but its not one of the natural features that provide the answer. Note that there are 2 natural features that together provide the answer to part a.

 
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