Cumulative Geography Quiz #3

[stormerne]

What links the following? And (of course) why?

1. The famous movie Nightmare on Elm Street IV
2. The Swedish folk-rock band Hedningarna
3. The years 1917 and 1995
4. He = She!
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[duke o' york]

I can confidently say that I have no idea whatsoever. I haev never seen the film, never heard of the band and can only think that the dates are for someone who was born and died in those years. All lived in the same city? Enough generalisations - I shall have to resort to a search engine for this one and no mistake.
Or I could just waffle on a bit here and then hope someone answers it over the weekend - someone who has seen Freddie IV.


PS - Storm, I had a quick look for the History Quiz before but couldn't find it, and I posted to it not that long ago. What has happened to it?

 

[JellyDonut]

Originally posted by stormerne
What links the following? And (of course) why?

1. The famous movie Nightmare on Elm Street IV
2. The Swedish folk-rock band Hedningarna
3. The years 1917 and 1995
4. He = She!
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1. 
   
   Hee hee hee, it's so obvious!
   
   All your clues have vowels in them!
   Reason: the phonosyntactic rules of the English language!

 

[stormerne]

You'll have to do better than that.

OK a fifth thing to link with all these:

5. Twigs from the birch tree

 

[JellyDonut]

Originally posted by stormerne
What links the following? And (of course) why?

1. The famous movie Nightmare on Elm Street IV
2. The Swedish folk-rock band Hedningarna
3. The years 1917 and 1995
4. He = She!
5. Twigs from the birch tree
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1. 
   
   Hrm, never saw that movie, haven't heard that band, lived only one of those years, don't know any shemales, and I'm sorry to say twigs don't interest me much.
   
   So if my vowel theory is incorrect, I'm really not the one to answer this.

 

[stormerne]

...I'm going to tell you the answer, and the person who can tell why that answer is correct wins.

The answer is simply Finland.

Tell me how that answer fits all the clues and you get to ask the next question.

 

[duke o' york]

The director of A Nightmare on Elm Street IV (Dream Master) was Renny Harlin, who is Finnish.
The lead singers of Hedningarna, Sanna Kurki-Suonio and Tellu Paulasto are also Finnish.
Finland won its independence from Russia in 1917 and joined the EU in 1995.
The other two I don't know. I've got a feeling that "he" in Finnish means "she" in English or vice versa but am not sure about this. Perhaps Juize could help out here?

 

[Juize]

Originally posted by duke o' york
The director of A Nightmare on Elm Street IV (Dream Master) was Renny Harlin, who is Finnish.
The lead singers of Hedningarna, Sanna Kurki-Suonio and Tellu Paulasto are also Finnish.
Finland won its independence from Russia in 1917 and joined the EU in 1995.
The other two I don't know. I've got a feeling that "he" in Finnish means "she" in English or vice versa but am not sure about this. Perhaps Juize could help out here?

Let me demonstrate my feelings now:
Me ---> <---also me.
I haven't noticed this thread for days now. And when get easy.
I feel v e r y stupid. Anyway:
He: she means probably just the mean that in finnish,
he = hän
she = hän,
so those are same words. There are no difference whatsoever.
That's why often #### myself up when calling feminine to 'he'.
[EDIT: More text...]
5 means the sauna, where you actually beat yourself with a
bunch of leaves of birch (!). I've heard that romans also used
same methods before discovering the soap.
But it's more like a tradition in here to use birch.

Next question goes to Duke, because he answered first,
and I had no idea of answer of of of 2.
So yourk's duke, move your mass and get the question.

 

[duke o' york]

What about the twigs though?

 

[Juize]

Originally posted by duke o' york
What about the twigs though?

You caught me on the middle of editing.
Hehehe. :crazyeyes

 

[stormerne]

at last! I was beginning to despair on this one because I knew if one of our Finns had spotted the question they'd get most of it straightaway.

1. Absolutely right Duke!

2. That's right too. They also sing a number of their best songs in Suomi (Finnish), like this one - my favourite - listed on their website http://www.cabal.se/silence/nyhedning/ and reproduced here for Juize's benfit:

Tuulen Ukku tuulen Akka / tuulen kaikki ristikansa
Miestä mustoa rukoilen / suuren tuulen nostajaksi
Suuren tuulen nostajaksi / sään rajun rakentajaksi
Kisko teiltä tervaskannot / rannoilta rämäkät männyt
Tuopa taita tammen latvat / rutaise rutisen raajan
Nouse tuuli tuulemahan / vihkurit vetelemään
Nouse tuuli tuulemahan / ilmarinta riehkimään
Nouse tuuli tuulemahan / vihkurit vetelemään
Tuule tuuli kuusi vuotta / seuro seitsemän kesää
Saata koski kuohumahan / vesi vanha vellomaan
Itse kuohu kosken lailla / sekä valtona vallitse
Miestä mustoa rukoilen / suuren tuulen nostajaksi
Suuren tuulen nostajaksi / sään rajun rakentajaksi

It's a shamanic wind-raising spell. Finns (and Lapps/Sami) have long been known for their magical control of the elements.

3. Yep. Not the birth or death of a person but two very significant dates in Finland's history.

4. We had one poster suggest that this was something to do with transexuals! As Juize said, it's a strange linguistic quirk of their language where the words for he and she are the same.

5. Saunas - perhaps the thing that Finns are known best for - where you whack yourself and each other with birch twigs to stimulate the circulation (so they say ).

Well Duke, Juize has given the next question for you to set.

 

[duke o' york]

This isn't even a very hard question, but it's early in the morning and I'm knackered.

What is the full name for the part of the world with the highest population density?

 

[JBearIt]

Originally posted by duke o' york

What is the full name for the part of the world with the highest population density?

How about: "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China"?

 

[duke o' york]

Alas no.

The place I'm thinking of has over three times as many people per area unit than Hong Kong.

 

[G-Man]

When you say "area" do you mean a country, a region, a city or something else?

 

[duke o' york]

It is actually a geographical body, but I can't really define it exactly or I'd just give away the answer. I can assure you that it isn't just the tallest skyscraper in the world or anything, and JBearit was very close with his guess.

[edit: we've reached 195 posts - who bets that Az will come along now and open a new thread?]

 

[JBearIt]

You said I was close. Is it one of the parts of Hong Kong such as Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, or the New Territories?

 

[duke o' york]

No - you're on the wrong track there I'm afraid.

Maybe I'll have to open a new Cumulative Geography Quiz thread!

 

[stormerne]

How about the country of Monaco, with a population density of over 42,000 people per square mile?

 

[Dexter]

..... is it by any chance New York or Tokyo. Another idea is San Marino or The Vatican City.
Jus a guess so don't laugh