Cumulative Geography Quiz #3

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(A) This probaly isnt right but...Charles mound and lake Michigan

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ARRGGHHHH If only i had a decent map of Illinois:/

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In some of the information I found, it stated that the original border was to be approximately 11 miles north of Lake Michigan's southern tip. Nathaniel Pope argued for it to be changed to 41 miles north of that point. The only other geographic points I can think of is a combination of the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers.

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Both Spycatcher and Jiml have correctly identified Lake Michigan as one of the natural features (although the Northwest Ordinance specified the southern bend of Lake Michigan). HINT: My question asked which natural features were to be used to determine the northern border of Illinois? That doesn't necessarily mean that the natural features were supposed to be the northern borderline themselves. I think you're both MISSing the obvious as for the other feature.
 
Oh, the Mississippi River?
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Originally posted by spycatcher34:
Oh, the Mississippi River?<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/confused.gif" border=0>
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Spycatcher, you found the final piece of the puzzle. According to the Northwest Ordinance (answer to part B), the original northern border of Illinois was supposed to be an straight line drawn between the southern bend of Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River (answer to part A). Thanks to the efforts of Nathaniel Pope, the Illinois border was extended an additional 41 miles north and as a result, the future city of Chicago (the perfect place to construct a canal linking Lake Michigan to the Illinois River and thereby providing a water route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River), the mines of Galena, and Rockford (well, there needs to be some trade-offs
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) became part of Illinois.

Spycatcher - your question.
 
Finally
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Ok here's an unusal one:

Question #12
What's the highest point on MARS?
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Happy Hunting
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If you mean the planet Mars, then it's the volcano Olympus Mons which is the highest mountain in the entire known Solar System.

If you mean the village of Mars in France, there are four to choose from, though I bet the one by the Ardeche has the highest altitude! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">
 
Question 13 ... [Edit: Add question number]

It's not the coldest place on Earth, but its extent is vast and the temperature is always below -50C (-60F), often a lot colder. The only life there is on the wing, passing through on migrations to warmer climes. Where am I talking about?

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Sorry duke, but you're on completely the wrong plane of thought. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
 
Your answer is close Lefty in one way, but you're a mile away from the right answer. Perhaps reading the question again - carefully, making no assumptions this time - will help.
 
The temperature of the upper stratosphere can be as high as -5°C (23°F). Sorry.
 
Originally posted by stormerne:<br /><strong>Your answer is close Lefty in one way, but you're a mile away from the right answer. Perhaps reading the question again - carefully, making no assumptions this time - will help.</strong><hr></blockquote>

A mile away would put it at about 31,000 feet altitude.

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Lefty, my dear curmudgeonly friend (of whom I'm very jealous having such a wonderful appellation as that), it would make it over 34,000 feet altitude. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[LOL]" />

Why not take that idea and develop it? <img src="icon12.gif" border="0">
 
*Bump*...

(...because I need a little light relief once in a while in the midst of all this serious stuff, and this quiz had fallen back to page 2.)

A reminder of the text of Question 13:<br />It's not the coldest place on Earth, but its extent is vast and the temperature is always below -50C (-60F), often a lot colder. The only life there is on the wing, passing through on migrations to warmer climes. Where am I talking about?

So far we've established that:<br />* it's not Siberia (which was on the wrong plane of thought);<br />* it's not the Himalayas (which is a mile away from the answer);<br />* it's not the upper stratosphere (which can be much warmer).

People were a lot nearer than they thought in solving this mildly cryptic question. Surely it's not that hard! <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">
 
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