Geography trivia

*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? <---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.

[runner4life7]

you clearly can go east on the international dateline, you cant compare a line to a pole, come on, if thats the best you got then your answer is clearly wrong.

[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?

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

[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!"

[ClaytonN]

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

<u>US Trivia</u>

What is the most populous city east of Reno NV and west of the Mississippi River?
-LA is east of reno, sooo... LA

What is the first foriegn country that one reaches when travelling due south of Detriot Michigian?
-cuba, bc detroit is straight north of atlanta

Not Counting Alaska, which state extends the furthest north?
-minnesota

What state extends the furthest east?
-umm, technically alaska since part is west of IDL

What state capital has the highest elevation?
-santa fe (saw it on millionaire)

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

Not Counting Alaska, which state has the longest coastline?
-michigan?

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)?
-shrug

What is the only state capital to not have a McDonalds?
-dammit i remember this... i think its the one in NH

What state east of the mississippi has the largest land area
-georgia (i have to know that one)


<u>World Trivia</u>

What're the two countries in the world which start with a "A" and don't end in one?
-azerbaijan is definitely one
-i cant think of another off the top of my head

How many continents have a city named "Rome"?
-six?

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

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)?
-south korea?

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

Which county has the highest population density(per sq. mile)?
-prob something like taiwan or hong kong if that even counts

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

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[ClaytonN]

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I have to disagree with this logic completely. Alaska is east of those islands and in that same way maine is east of alaska. Its not really a trick question so much as its a stupid question because direction is relative.

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if you think about it, any city is east of another city, one just takes a lot longer. to differentiate (truly) we use the IDL, so if we cut a lin where the IDL was and laid it out cartesian style, alaska would in fact be the farthest right, or east :P

[runner4life7]

its an arbitrary line, I think its easy to distinguish. If something is x miles east of a place and x +1000 miles west of it. Then it is clearly east of the place. This doesnt change with an imaginary line.