Geography trivia

[MonkeeMan]

Just glancing, Canada and Jersey are cake.

[ryanghall]

I teach geography (in Canada) and I'll give these an honest try without looking. We don't study much US Geog. here but I'd like to think I'm pretty good at the subject [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

1. Los Angeles
2. Canada
3. Maine
4. Hmm, I'll say North Carolina...(hope it's not Maine)
5. Denver? (hope it's not Juneau)
6. I'll say Massachusettes but it's a total guess.
7. Hawaii?
8. I have no clue so I'll say New York
9. I'll wager the capital of Wyoming.. is it Cheyenne or Casper... can't remember... Casper I think. (Juneau is my 2nd choice)
10. Georgia?

World now...

1. Azerbaijan and Afghanistan
2. Wow. I'm gonna guess 6.
3. Nepal
4. I can't even wager a guess on this one.
5. No idea.
6. I'm assuming you mean country... Singapore?
7. Kathmandu (Nepal)

Ryan

[WillMagic]

try to do these without looking at a map or other referrences. I'll post the answers tommorrow

<u>US Trivia</u>

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What is the most populous city east of Reno NV and west of the Mississippi River?

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Los Angeles

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What is the first foriegn country that one reaches when travelling due south of Detriot Michigian?

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Colombia

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Not Counting Alaska, which state extends the furthest north?

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Washington

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What state extends the furthest east?

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Hawaii

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What state capital has the highest elevation?

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Albuquerque

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What state has the highest population density( per sq mile)?

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Rhode Island

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Not Counting Alaska, which state has the longest coastline?

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Hawaii

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What is the only city in the world(of course it happens to be in the US) where a boat can sail, under a train driving, underneath a car driving, underneath a plane flying(I think I worded that one right)?

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Chicago

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What is the only state capital to not have a McDonalds?

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Helena, Montana
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What state east of the mississippi has the largest land area

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Georgia


<u>World Trivia</u>
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What're the two countries in the world which start with a "A" and don't end in one?

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Azerbaijan, and the second one escapes me. Damn it.
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How many continents have a city named "Rome"?

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5

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What is the only country to have a non-rectangular flag?

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Nepal

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What country's flag is flown Blue Side up during peace time and Red Side up during war time(this is the only country in the world who changes their flag for peace and war time)?

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Albania

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Seoul, the capital of South Korea, literally translates into what word in the Korean Language?

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South

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Which county has the highest population density(per sq. mile)?

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I'm going to assume you meant to say country, in which case my answer is Singapore.

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The Airport with the world's highest elevation is in which city?

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Kathmandu

Will

*Grunching*

LA? (First thought was Houston, but I believe Reno is west of LA).

Canada

Maine?

Hawai'i? I think it's in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Pueblo, Colorado?

New Jersey

First thought Calif/Fla. But I'll go with Hawai'i.

NYC?

I dunno...Carson City, NV?...Pierre...Bismarck?

Easy, Pennsylvania.

WORLD:

Afghanistan...and...? Antigone? &lt;---What is this? lol.

I'll say all continents but Antarctica. So, 6?

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? (I don't know much about flags!)

"Capital"?

Japan? Probably wrong. It's probably a very tiny country.

Kathmandu, Tibet?

[Spaded]

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What country's flag is flown Blue Side up during peace time and Red Side up during war time(this is the only country in the world who changes their flag for peace and war time)

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I declare shenanigans on that. Japan has red rays coming out of the red sun on its flag during wartime, but just a red sun during peacetime.

[ChipWrecked]

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What country's flag is flown Blue Side up during peace time and Red Side up during war time(this is the only country in the world who changes their flag for peace and war time)

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I declare shenanigans on that. Japan has red rays coming out of the red sun on its flag during wartime, but just a red sun during peacetime.

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Wrong.

The flag with the rays is the symbol of the Japanese Navy, not the country itself.

[Go Blue]

Here's my shot at this:

US:

1. Houston, TX
2. Cuba
3. Minnesota (and NOT Maine)
4. Maine
5. Denver, CO
6. Massachussetts (sp?)
7. Florida
8. New York, NY (VERY badly worded question, I'm not sure what you're asking)
9. Montpelier, VT
10. Illinois

World (some of these are wild guesses, I'm much better with the US one):

1. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan (sp?)
2. Five (I think, if spelled exactly "Rome")
3. North Korea
4. France
5. Peace
6. Luxembourg (I assume you mean "country" and not "county")
7. La Paz, Bolivia

[Go Blue]

By the way, I see that some people are putting Canada for the second question. I'm not enitrely sure of this. I looked at a map after I submitted my answer and it seems to me that Canada COULD be the correct answer, depending on where exactly in Detroit you start. If you include every possible point within the boundary of Detroit, I'm not 100% sure that Canada would satisfy every point but to me, it doens't seem this way. Is this correct?

[diebitter]

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4. France


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Can;t be right. When you surrender, it's no longer your "war" time, is it?

They wouldn't have time to switch em all over between war starting/surrendering, and what'd be the point, you'd only have to turn em all back again in a couple of days [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

so I say Great Britain. We're at perma-war somewhere anyway, so we've never had a peacetime to actually bother turning it over.

In fact I can see that somewhere, someons might say "Turn the flags? Bugger that, let's just start a war somewhere, much easier, what!"

LA
Canada
Minnesota
Maine
Denver
Rhode Island
Texas
Chicago
whatever the cap of Vermont is.
Georgia

No clue for any of the world Q's