THE ULTIMATE GEOGRAPHY QUIZ
NAME THE COUNTRY THAT THE CLUE REPRESENTS. Last time I saw that a couple of members named the same country twice, which is a mistake, because EVERY QUESTION IS FOR A DIFFERENT COUNTRY - THERE ARE NO DUPLICATIONS.
14 tried the last quiz, 11 the one before. Let's see if we can increase that number cause this will be the last Geography Quiz. From now on my focus will be on my Movie Games. Some of you already play the games, and to those who don't, if you can do this quiz you'll do well on the games, and have fun playing.
In this quiz the clues could be a structure, an item, a custom, tradition, person or symbol that the country is known for.
Send your answers in a PN to me, Buzz of the Orient, and I will send you a PN with your score and any corrections. Because I'm on the other side of the world of most of you, I may be asleep when you PN your answers to me, but I will get to them when I wake up. If you do not get an answer within 24 hours there may have been a glitch in the NT system, so get back to me again.
PLEASE do not put your answers in a comment here, nor should you post any kind of hint, since it will ruin this game for everyone else, and I will delete it as soon as I see it.
This game will close and the Winners' Circle will be announced Monday evening March 31st at about 11 p.m. New York City time.
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This will be the last Geography Quiz, so please give it a shot. (I was just thinking, maybe Americans might think I mean that literally instead of metaphorically.) Anyway, it's a simple challenge and a lot of fun, so I expect that by now a lot of NT members might want a taste of something different than the usual daily news.
Please do not post any kind of hint in a comment here, or you will ruin the quiz for everyone else. Please send your answers to me, numbered the same as the questions, and only one answer for each one.
This quiz will be closed on March 31st at about (and that ISN'T ''aboot'' even though I'm a Canadian) 11 p.m. New York City time.
Have some fun, folks.
Around the world we go.
In less than 80 days.
Evening...will give it a try but I am in Brisbane at the moment so not quite sure when...
You'll have a week.
answers sent , scrolled through and made my guesses before coffee this AM.
Received and scored - seems that doing it before morning coffee could be a good method.
for me at least , but i often say im not worth a damn nor human before i have had my lifers juice and blackwater medicine.
Thankfully I don't rely on caffeine to be a mood changer. At my age I wake up happy that I woke up.
Morning...shall send it through this morning with a bit of luck.. been a busy day and it's nearly 1am so better go for a snooze...
Thanks for my first smile of the morning.
Morning Buzz from soggy and warm Queensland..I have sent my answers through..
Even though your answers were soaked and overheated I got them and scored them, thanks.
Should have sent you some mozzies..they are everywhere as they had floods here the other week..🦟🦟
No thanks. I have no problem with them. During the summer I keep a crucifier lamp beside my bed that lures them and fries them on contact, and on the 15th floor of my building they're few and far between.
LOL. It wasn't until now that I noticed the misspelling of the word 'GEOGRAPHY' by the creator of the Front Page image for this quiz.
This is how they taught us to spell it in grade school: George Estep's Oldest Girl Rode A Pig Home Yesterday. That is one I remember. Spelling is hard for me but a rhyme or sentance helped.
Ha!!! That was clever.
Here's one I remember from elementary school-- its a different subject, but the same idea.
Has anyone else learned the meaning of this "reminder":
ROY G. BIV?
I learned it in a Science class...maybe third grade?
I just googled it and found two others with the same meaning (using only the first letters...):
"Richard of York gave battle in vain",
"Run over your granny because it's violent"
Not me.
Neither of those interpretations are a question, nor do they have anything to do with science, so since it should remind you of something, what does it remind you of?
Actually its not all that important. Its something I learned in "Science" classes in the lower grades (Elementary school)..
ROY G BIV was a "memory helper"-- to help memorize the colours of the spectrum (the rainbow) in order (ROYGBIV cinsists of the first letter in the name of each colour; "R" is for "red", "O" is for Orange:
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigio, and Violet.
Reallly quite harmless actually.
But one of the things I dislike about the U.S. educational system in general is to much emphasis on rote memorization-- and two little emphasis on "Critical thinking skills"...
Actually those "vibrations" (colours) occur, in that order, in nature. Rainbows of course. But also in ancient Hindu mysticism, They talk of "Chakras"-- energy vortexes, at various distances up and down the spine-- and the are those same colours in the same order (starting with Red at the base of the spine upward to the top which is Violet):
I guess rainbows don't want to include Brown.
That could be the reason for what's happening in the USA today.
That IS interesting.
Nope. No Cyan, Amber, Beige, Olive, Burnt Sienna either!
(Nor Chartreuse either!)
Psychics see those colored "Chakras".
Actually they often look at two things-- those "Energy Vortexes AKA "Chakras". and also "Auras"-- these are energy fields that go around the entire body, in different colors:
Each Chakra, as well as each layer of the Aura are related to the condition of energies in a person. Psychic healers claim they can see the conditions of the various Chakras and Auras and see what conditions of the body have problems, then in some disciplines they claim they can "channel energies" to heal the person.
I am making no claims that any of thise is real, and no claims that these can be usused to diagnose or cure any condition. (I am posting this for amusement purposes only!)
Psychics see those colored "Chakras".
Actually they often look at two things-- those "Energy Vortexes AKA "Chakras". and also "Auras"-- these are energy fields that go around the entire body, in different colors:
Each Chakra, as well as each layer of the Aura are related to the condition of energies in a person. Psychic healers claim they can see the conditions of the various Chakras and Auras and see what conditions of the body have problems, then in some disciplines they claim they can "channel energies" to heal the person.
I am making no claims that any of thise is real, and no claims that these can be usused to diagnose or cure any condition. (I am posting this for amusement purposes only!)
Each Chakra, as well as each layer of the Aura are related to the condition of energies in a person. Psychic healers claim they can see the conditions of the various Chakras and Auras and see what conditions of the body have problems, then in some disciplines they claim they can "channel energies" to heal the person.
I am making no claims that any of thise is real, and certainly not making any claims that these can be used to diagnose or cure any disease or condition. (I am posting this for amusement purposes only!)
IIRC, in Buddhism (and perhaps some related belief systems) they say that the Aura of the Buddha was visable for 100 miles!
Of course there is no scientific proof of any of this..
In some ways it reminds me of Accupuncture. Accupuncturists claim there are "energy medidians" in the body. Different energies flow along different meridians. And there are points along each meridian which, if stimulated by inserting a needle on a particular point cans cause healing effects.
IIRC, dissecting cadavers does not reveal any physical structrurs where the meridians are supposed to be! But some people believes Accupuncture works. (Although it seems hard to believe). Indeed, it may be sheer "Poppycock"!
(If I recall, I mentioed that my cousin is a certified Accupuncturist who's now mainly retired. She is somewhat "famous" in the U.S. Accupuncture community. (She's worked with Ted Kaptchuk) in a project IIRC at the NIH). She explained a lot of this to me, and in fact has treated me a few times using Accupuncture).
Actually this might be the sort of thing that NT member #Veronica might find interesting?.
And then there are Fibonacci Numbers . . .
I don't find it particularly amusing, but it is somewhat educational.
Nobody I know has ever said that they have tried acupuncture. I have no interest in trying it myself.
Well, when it comes to math, I'm somewhat famous myself. In my first year of university I succeeded in achieving the lowest score in the final calculus exam ever recorded at the university, and I'm pretty sure it will remain so unless someone hands in a paper without ansering ANY of the questions. .
Off the page. Hope someone will do something to get this back up. My comments won't do it.
Well, mine certainly won't!
Oh yes they will.
i will give it a shot with a like and a comment .
I believe you did the trick, thank you.
Beat me to it.
Working on submitting but got sidetracked this morning.
No problem, I didn't have to wait long.
Just submitted.
Since my earlier weather report the temperature has now dropped to freezing, so if anything starts dropping from the clouds now it will be some sort of freezing.
Received and scored. Thank you.
I saw in the News about Toronto this morning that there was going to be freezing rain.
Toronto is actually south and east of us. We do have a brutal easterly wind this morning which maybe the reason it isn't freezing rain right now, warm Lake Huron waters, if you actually want to call it warm.
Sent them in, some are wild gusses
Received and scored, thanks.
Up on the front
Are places to hunt
but do you know
where they go?
The time to solve is almost done
But still some time to have some fun
A country quiz will be no more
Musicians next will get best score
This game will close and the Winners' Circle will be announced Monday evening March 31st at about 11 p.m. New York City time.
Is it tomorrow yet?
Is that a rhetorical question?
This quiz is now closed. Only 5 members participated, notwithstanding 14 had tried the previous one. There will be no more geography quizzes, and the next one will be on musical instruments, so hopefully those who are musical will give it a try.
The winners who all got perfect 20 scores are, in order that they submitted their answers, Mark in Wyoming, Dig and bccrane. In second place is shona1 with a score of 19, and charger 383 is in third place with a score of 16. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to those of you who participated.
Here are the answers with their clues:
1 France - a guillotine
2 Mexico - a pinata
3 Jordan - Petra
4 Monaco - Princess Grace
5 Portugal - Port wine
6 Sweden - ABBA
7 USA - American Gothic painting by Grant Wood
8 Peru - Machu Picchu
9 Germany - Bavarian castle
10 Italy - famous Venice bridge and gondola
11 Australia - Kata Tjuta mountain
12 Scotland - bagpipes
13 China - Beijing "Bird Nest" Olympic stadium
14 England - The "Eye" ferris wheel
15 Panama (Ecuador also okay) - a Panama hat
16 Austria - a Viennese waltz scene
17 Denmark - Danish pastry
18 South Africa - Nelson Mandela
19 Poland - Auschwitz concentration camp
20 India - Ravi Shankar with a sitar