Cumulative Geography Quiz #3

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#25: What do U.S. Highway 62, U.S. Highway 281, and Interstate 5 have in common (besides being highways in the U.S. of course)? And bonus: What cities did the historic and famous U.S. Route 66 link (each end of the route), and which states did it pass through? (NOTE: this highway no longer exists.) Answer both for the next question....

BTW, storm: your question was fine for the geography quiz--those poetic lines by Duke just threw me, I thought I missed something is all....
 
:goodjob: The answer is indeed Hull. Very few people refer to it by its full name unless they're being officious.

Hull stands at the junction of the river Hull and the river Humber. The Old Norse name for a deep river place is hylr (pronounced hew-lr).

PL is Philip Larkin. In December of 1984 he was offered the chance to succeed Sir John Betjeman as Poet Laureate but declined, being unwilling to accept the high public profile and associated media attention of the position.

Andrew Marvell acted at unofficial poet laureate to Oliver Cromwell from 1654. Poet laureates really only started after the monarchy was restored shortly after.

The population of Hull is about 300,000, but swells to 450,000 with commuters. A size 8 city is 360,000 in Civ.

It's your go Allan, though as a bit of recreation you can have a go at something I decided to leave out of the question because Duke was certain to know it. For centuries Hull was part of "The East Riding of Yorkshire" until some power crazed bureaucrat decided to remap the county boundaries a few decades ago, create north Humberside and put Hull in it. Thankfully now some sanity has been restored. But what were these "Ridings of Yorkshire", North, West and East? Where does the name "Riding" come from?

Anyway that's optional. :)
 
I apologise for all the crosswordy guff earlier.

Does anyone think that it's ironic that Rutland lost its county status with all its history and Humberside was created from nothing?

I, erm, do.

So I can assume that it was not: Coventry, Sherbourne, Sowe although how I managed to link Wilberforce and Larkin to Coventry so confidently is beyond me and most people. Sorry.:(
Oh yeah, and I'd also like to apologise for my atrocious Lady Godiva pun. :crazyeyes
 
"But what were these "Ridings of Yorkshire", North, West and East? Where does the name "Riding" come from?"

Well, since it's optional, I'll just take a wild guess without research: I noticed before (when I was researching the last question) on the map that Yorkshire was divided into different regions labelled by compass points (whether they are relevant now or not, they were still on the online map I looked at). I'll assume "riding" refers to use of horses to traverse the vast area of Yorkshire, perhaps for early postal routes, and so subdivisions were drawn in Yorkshire to represent different postal routes (one postman would ride east, one north, and one west from York city)? How's that for a guess? Am I right?

Anyway, my question is above your post (we must have been writing at the same time).
 
No problem Duke. I always look forward to your posts, whether or not they are on the right track! I wouldn't call the demise of Rutland ironic. Demonic perhaps, and most regrettable.

Allan, your answer to the optional question is inspired and entertaining but completely wrong! Yorkshire was a part of England settled by the Danes and other Scandinavians. It was they who divided that area into three parts and they called them "Þriðjungr" = a third part. This was dialecticised to "Triding" and later contracted to Riding. Romantics say the final contraction was a clerical error, e.g. the letters of two words were run together to make OSTTRIDING (East Riding) and then split up in the wrong place!

I'll look at your own question later - if it's still there!
 
For convenience, I'll repost it:

#25: What do U.S. Highway 62, U.S. Highway 281, and Interstate 5 have in common (besides being highways in the U.S. of course)? And bonus: What cities did the historic and famous U.S. Route 66 link (each end of the route), and which states did it pass through? (NOTE: this highway no longer exists.) Answer both for the next question....
 
I've never heard of those roads so maybe someone else would like to fill in the real answert, but for the bonus points I will be happy to trot out the states on Route 66 (as was), since everyone who has ever entered a pub quiz really ought to know them :D.
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. In order :)
From Chicago to California, no?
America's main street, and a stunning testament to the motor car spreading thousands of miles through a range of terrain.
 
Check out an online road atlas of the US (there are several), but one of the U.S. highways is hard to spot in places, as it intertwines with interstates for part of its route....

Interstates are always freeways (what I understand you call "motorways"), U.S. Highways sometimes are but usually aren't.... The intertate symbol is like a shield, the U.S. highway symbol is similar but "fatter" at the bottom. Hope this helps....

But look in North Dakota for US 281, look in New Mexico for US 62, and look in California for I-5.... Then follow their paths.

BTW right on with route 66, except the western terminus--yes, it's California, but can you name the city (the nearby major city is fine, but technically it ends in a smaller city on the coast....) I don't do "pub quizzes" (too busy chasing all the women around and making a fool of myself, I guess :)...), so I didn't realize this was a popular question. So the other one's the real trick, then....
 
Well, I see the difficulty of my other question is "more than standard custom"....

Come on, check out those online road atlases (or look at your own US road atlas if you have one)....
 
There was a "hint" in my last post....

Other highways that also have the same thing in common are U.S. Highway 81 and U.S. Highway 95.

Another hint--U.S. Highway 66 did NOT have this thing in common with the other highways.

Come on, if you have access to a US road atlas it's not that hard!
 
The 3 highways run from Mexico to Canada...(just a guess as I keep losing track of US 62 and the even number suggests that it is an east-west highway not north-south)...
 
Got it! U.S. 62 runs from Niagara Falls, NY, to El Paso, TX (actually NE-SW, hence its "even" (E-W) designation--I intentionally threw this highway in to make the question trickier); US 281 runs from the North Dakota-Manitoba border to Brownsville, TX; and I-5 runs from San Ysidro, CA (a San Diego suburb on the border) to the Canadian border south of Vancouver.

Next question, jiml_63....
 
Bringing it back to page one, so we don't forget about it.... Have you a question, jiml? You got mine right, ya know.... :)
 
* bump *
That was jiml's last post on CFC Allan. He's just away it seems. What say you we wait another 24 hours, and if he hasn't posted by then you post another question in his stead?
 
*kerboing!*
Is a much better word than *bump*, although it serves the same effect. The new forums contain far fewer threads per page than the previous ones, which means that favourites such as this can easily be pushed off the front page when we are waiting for a new question. It would be rude not to let jim post a question, but we do need to keep going and so I agree with our Lögsögumaðr to wait another day (half a day at the moment) before continuing. If jim doesn't post, then we're expecting something quite taxing allan, given that you've had so long to think of it.
 
My apologies folks...I had an emergency at work....

Here's an easy one....

#26:
Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL has a large castle as it's trademark. What castle was it fashioned after and where is it located (town and country)?
 
What do you mean by official: some official state religion or the one of the majority? I'd guess that the majority of the guyanese are protestant christians (or Hindu- I think there are a lot of indians there).
 
This is a catch question surely. Guyana is constitutionally a secular state. Doesn't that mean it has no official religion?

(By the way the religious spread of Guyana is: Hindu 34%, Islam 9%, Protestant 18%, Roman Catholic 18%, Anglican 16% which puts Christianity on top.)
 
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