Cumulative Geography quiz #4!!!

[duke o' york]

Those who bother to read my location on my posts and those who read my posts at all will know that I only use the net at work and I live in Britain. This means........ that I'm going home in about ten minutes and won't be posting again all weekend so if anyone else wants to keep this going over the weekend with a new question then they are welcome to.

 

[JBearIt]

I'll take Duke 'o York up on his offer to post another question:

Many cities have been known by different names during different parts of their history. For instance Constantinople to Istanbul. What are the current names of the following two cities?:

1) Ragusa
2) Laibach

 

[stormerne]

Ragusa >>> Dubrovnik
Laibach >>> Ljubljana

[Edit] If that's right, here's my question, staying in Europe.

What do the following cities have primarily in common?

1. Vitoria-Gasteiz
2. Helsinki
3. Tallinn
4. Budapest
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[joespaniel]

Stormerne beat me to it. I was using the search engine.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by stormerne
Ragusa >>> Dubrovnik
Laibach >>> Ljubljana

[Edit] If that's right, here's my question, staying in Europe.

What do the following cities have primarily in common?

1. Vitoria-Gasteiz
2. Helsinki
3. Tallinn
4. Budapest
   [/list=1]

1. 
   
   Language group: Finno-Uralic.

 

[JBearIt]

Originally posted by stormerne
Ragusa >>> Dubrovnik
Laibach >>> Ljubljana

[Edit] If that's right, here's my question, staying in Europe.

What do the following cities have primarily in common?

1. Vitoria-Gasteiz
2. Helsinki
3. Tallinn
4. Budapest
   [/list=1]

1. 
   
   Stormerne - you were right on the city names from my question.
   
   As for your question, this probably isn't what you're looking for but all of those cities are capitals.
   
   Vitoria-Gasteiz is capital of the Basque (or Euskadi, if you prefer) region of Spain.
   Helsinki is the capital of Finland
   Tallinn is the capital of Estonia
   Budapest is the capital of Hungary

 

[Graeme the mad]

OOOOOHHHHHH I KNOW THIS ONE

All those cities contain lots of earwigs (im right aren't I, I know it)

 

[stormerne]

You're right JBearit on two counts: they are all capitals and that wasn't what I was looking for! The capital thing is just a pointer and not really a clue or answer in itself.

I should have said "What do these have in common that London, Paris, Oslo and Rome don't?"

And Graeme... you're mad. But I think you already know that.

 

[stormerne]

Twelve hours passed and no guesses, so here are two clues:

• Language
• The thing that the four places have in common is that they are exceptions

 

[Juize]

Those are all finno-ungrian language lands capitals!..
No wait...
What the Spain will do there? I dont understand... Aaagh...
*brain melt*

 

[Juize]

The lands which capitals those are do NOT have indo-european based language!
(Like other european countries) Am I correct? If so, go ahead and
ask the next question, I am too tired to make up (its 0:36 AM here)

Edit: more text
Edit2: No, NO, NO, u see now how tired I'm? 0:36 AM, not pm.

 

[stormerne]

Full marks (eventually) Juize!
All the "first languages" of Europe are Indo-European except in those four places whose capitals I named. (Three are Finno-Ugric, and the other - the Basque language - is an oddity all of its own.)

Wow that took a long time and it needed a Finn to solve it. Better make the next one much easier.

Where would you find a Rayah?

 

[JBearIt]

Originally posted by stormerne


Where would you find a Rayah?

Qatar?

 

[stormerne]

No, not Qatar, or at least that's not where the term has been in use for many centuries. Rayah is, however, an Arab word and there is still a newspaper in Qatar called Al-Rayah. But that's more likely to throw you off the right track, though of course finding out what Rayah means might help you. (It's in some more complete dictionaries.)

 

[JBearIt]

After checking 4 different online dictionaries, I finally found one with the term: "Rayah". It means "a Christian subject under an Ottoman ruler." Therefore, I guess you would find a Rayah in the Ottoman Empire.

 

[Graeme the mad]

It is actually a non-muslim subject of the OTtoman empire (and shouldnt this be in the history quiz therefore

 

[stormerne]

It's actually the Turkish word for any non-Muslim living in Turkey. And yes it was in use up to the end of the Ottoman Empire (which continued to the 20th century). But I don't think they stopped using the word just because the empire is no more.

So the answer is Turkey.

Who was nearest? I think Graeme. (Though you were pretty close JBearIt)

 

[Graeme the mad]

Okay my question:


Which two countries are likend by the Karakourum highway?

 

[joespaniel]

I'll guess China and Russia. Mongolia seems too obvious.

 

[Graeme the mad]

Wrong