I'll start off with a few trivia questions:

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.?

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit?

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there?

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?

6) What are "blue laws?"

7) In what country was Stalin born?

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?"

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as?

10) What is another name for K2?

Try not to use search engines for clues and don't answer questions if you come from the country involved.

I'll start off with a few trivia questions:

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.?

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit?

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there?

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?

6) What are "blue laws?"

7) In what country was Stalin born?

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?"

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as?

10) What is another name for K2?

Try not to use search engines for clues and don't answer questions if you come from the country involved.


Off the top of my head...

1. I would say Kingston, Jamaica

2. Hmmm..Brasilia?

3. Canada

4. Pretoria, Johannesburg and...Cape Town??

5. Horse tastes better between those latitudes? :)

6. Temperance laws--anti-alcohol.

7. Georgia.

8. Euphrates/Tigris (Iraq) to Lebanon.

9. Formosa

10. Big pile o' rocks? Beats me...

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere? - no idea.

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.? - ottawa?

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit? - windsor, ontario

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there? - capetown, johannesburg..?

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that? - no idea.

6) What are "blue laws?" - no idea.

7) In what country was Stalin born? - georgia!

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?" - i don't know.

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as? - i don't know.

10) What is another name for K2? - for what?

1) Guyana

2) Buenos Aires?

3) Canada

4) Petoria, Johanesburg, ??

5) Don't know

6) Don't know

7) Georgia

8) Around Iraq

9) Formosa

10) Nanga Parbat?

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?
Jamaica
2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.?
Ottawa
3) What country lies directly south of Detroit?
Canada
4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there?
Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein
5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?

6) What are "blue laws?"

7) In what country was Stalin born?
Georgia
8) Where is the "fertile crescent?"
Mesopotamia
9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as?
Fiormosa
10) What is another name for K2?
Karakoram
Try not to use search engines for clues and don't answer questions if you come from the country involved.

1.) Georgetown, Guyana
2. and 3.) Canada
4.) Pretoria, Capetown,Johannasburg (don't know govt. functions.
5.) No clue.
6.) Laws against buying/selling on Sunday, especially sales on alcohol.
7.) Georgia (not the place where Jimmy Carter is from)
8.) Iraq
9.) Formosa
10.) Mt. Everest (I think I am wrong here)

fuq I spelled Formosa wrong

call me cynical but it would be interesting to see how few people actually answer these correctly without using google.

3. Windsor, Ontario.

thats the only one I'm pretty sure of.


edit: I even screwed that one up, I thought it said city :wallbash:

^^

haha, me too.

The two of K2's other names I can remember without googling are "Mt Godwin-Austin" and "Chogri".

1 - what ever the Western Hemisphere is (does only exist in US terms), so I would say Sydney or Jo'burgh as a western city. If it is the Americas Kingston, Jamaica?
2 - Must be in Ottawa or Dheli
3 - Canada
4 - Pretoria, Cape Town, Jo'burgh
5 - Because on the sailing ships they had horses crossing the ocean. If they came into these windless areas the ships were stucked sometimes for weeks and the sailors even had to eat their own horses. I think at least it is :)
6 - No idea
7 - Georgia I think
8 - Mesopotamia-Palestine-Nile Delta
9 - Formosa
10 - Austin Goodwin or the like

This is fun, too late to answer tough.:(

Nobody has gotten all right, so I'm not going to give out the answers yet. So far the best is five out of ten, but I gave half points for partially correct answers. Keep on trying, because these have some tough questions.

And remember, stay away from those search engines.

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?

Kingston

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.?

Canada

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit?

Some one in Caribbean

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there?

Cape Town (Executive), Bloefontein (Law) and Pretoria (Legislative)

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?

I don't know

6) What are "blue laws?"

I don't know

7) In what country was Stalin born?

Russia

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?"

Middle East

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as?

Formosa

10) What is another name for K2?

I don't know

Nobody has gotten all right, so I'm not going to give out the answers yet. So far the best is five out of ten, but I gave half points for partially correct answers. Keep on trying, because these have some tough questions.

And remember, stay away from those search engines.
Strange, I thought I should have 6 right - means to long away from university :lol:

This is fun, too late to answer tough.:(

It's not too late to answer. But, I need to clarify that one forumer has seven correct and an eighth that is partially correct, but it needs more information to be properly answered.

I'll start off with a few trivia questions:

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?
Kingston Jamaica if you include the carribean, if you only include the continental land mass, Windsor Ontario

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.?
Buenos Aires?

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit?
Canada

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there?
Pretoria-executive, Bloemfontein-courts, Capetown-legislature

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?
Winds blow poorly in these latitudes. Sailors would be stranded and would either have to eat their horses on board for food, or throw them overboard to reduce load.

6) What are "blue laws?"
Laws prohibiting commerce or business activities on Sunday to reinforce religious doctrine that the sabbath be a day of rest. Saturday blue laws are found in Isreal. and friday blue laws in Islamic states.


7) In what country was Stalin born?
Georgia

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?"
Stretches from southern Israel through Syria then down the Tigris-Euphrates Valley in Iraq.

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as?
Formosa

10) What is another name for K2?
Mt. Godwin Austin and Qinquo (I think this is the Chinese name, not sure.)

Try not to use search engines for clues and don't answer questions if you come from the country involved.

svs

One wrong svs, but very good.

One wrong svs, but very good.

The mistake has to be the british embassy which was a complete guess.

Is it Ottowa or Brasilia? I don't need any points, I'm just curious.

^^According to an article I read a few months ago in the Economist magazine it's the capital of the former British colony= Kingston, Jamaica.

I'll start off with a few trivia questions:

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?

Kingston, Jamaica

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.?

Ottawa, Canada

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit?

Canada. Windsor, Ontario is directly south of Detroit.

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there?

Capetown=Executive, Pretoria=Legislative, Bloemfontein=Judiciary

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?

Latitudes of Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Genghis Khan and Crazy Horse, all of whom were great horse riders.

6) What are "blue laws?"

Is it related to the laws of Ocean Shipping since the Seas are blue in color?

7) In what country was Stalin born?

The Iosif Vissarionovich Dzugashvillis a/k/a/ Joseph Stalin is from Georgia

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?"

Modern Iraq or the old Mesopotamia (land between two rivers)

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as?

Formosa (Spanish for beautiful)

10) What is another name for K2?

K stands for Kanchenjunga, one of the tallest mountains in the Himalayas.

^^

so intelligent.

:cheer: :sleepy:

1) What is the largest English speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere?= Kingston, Jamaica

2) Where is the second largest British Embassy in the Western Hemisphere after the one in Washington, D.C.? Ottowa, Canada

3) What country lies directly south of Detroit? Canada

4) What are the three capital cities of South Africa and which branch of government sits there? Pta-admin, CT-legislative, Blf- judicial

5) Why are the "horse latitudes" called that?n/a

6) What are "blue laws?"n/a

7) In what country was Stalin born? Poland?

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?" n/a

9) What was the island of Taiwan formerly known as? Formosa
10) What is another name for K2? Mt Everest?

1 - what ever the Western Hemisphere is (does only exist in US terms)
I think it's simple, everything that has a 'W' in the cordinates is Western Hemisphere.

10) What is another name for K2?

K stands for Kanchenjunga, one of the tallest mountains in the Himalayas.

It stands for Karakoram, the number denotes it was the second mountain in the area to be survayed by the British. Most of the more out of the way mountains in the sub continent were originally named in such a way but either reverted back to a local name or one the brits invented, for some reason(because it happened to be the second tallest in the world I guess just as Everest sounds like a "big" name rather than that of a victorian map maker) though the K2 name stuck.

What is another name for K2?- This is a wild guess, but something is tells me it may be Mount Kilimanjaro?

It stands for Karakoram, the number denotes it was the second mountain in the area to be survayed by the British. Most of the more out of the way mountains in the sub continent were originally named in such a way but either reverted back to a local name or one the brits invented, for some reason(because it happened to be the second tallest in the world I guess just as Everest sounds like a "big" name rather than that of a victorian map maker) though the K2 name stuck.

close enough.

What is another name for K2?- This is a wild guess, but something is tells me it may be Mount Kilimanjaro?

Mount Godwin-Austin :banana:

8) Where is the "fertile crescent?" Nile valley + Palestina + Mesopotamia

the fertile crescent


region of origin of food plants and farming

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