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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:15 PM
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Quick quiz: without googling answer these 5 questions
1 - Which country is further East? Iran or Iraq?

2 - If you left Caracas and flew dead North, what land mass would you hit first?

3 - Which is larger - Cuba or Jamaica?

4 - Taiwan is North or South of Japan?

5 - Liberia is in West or East Africa?
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:18 PM
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1. I suck at geography but her goes...
Iran
Mexico
Cuba
South
West

Can I look now?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:19 PM
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2. Ok here are my answers - I'll edit to find out how many I got right
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 03:21 PM by LynneSin
1 - Which country is further East? Iran or Iraq? - Iraq

2 - If you left Caracas and flew dead North, what land mass would you hit first? - Canada

3 - Which is larger - Cuba or Jamaica? - Cuba

4 - Taiwan is North or South of Japan? - South

5 - Liberia is in West or East Africa? - West


Well I was right on 4 of them but I need clarification if I'm right on #2. If you consider all the caribean islands I suspect you'd hit one of them first but for actual landmass it would probably Canada or perhaps Greenland
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:20 PM
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3. Okay...
Iran
Central America
Cuba
South (and west)
West Africa
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:22 PM
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5. Most people got most right...however
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 03:24 PM by Taverner
Iraq is further East
You would hit Canada first (but you would be a few miles shy of Maine)
Cuba is larger
Taiwan is South and West of Japan
And Liberia is in West Africa
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:26 PM
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6. My face is very red over the Iran/Iraq question
:blush:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:39 PM
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9. Are you sure about Iraq?
Iran goes considerably further to the East.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 04:19 PM
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11. Oops
Yes I knew Iraq was to the left of Iran but for some reason I thought left was east...
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:09 PM
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21. Are you sure about north of Caracas?
What happened to Puerto Rico?
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 10:33 AM
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28. Island not a land mass
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:22 PM
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4. This is all from memory.
Iran is further east than Iraq.

No idea where I'd hit from Caracas.

I think that Cuba is larger than Jamaica.

Taiwan is to the South of Japan - hopefully....

Liberia is in West Africa.

If these are wrong, I wouldn't be surprised.
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:32 PM
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7. I can do that!
1. depends where you start from...especially if you are right on the border between the two.

2. I'm thinking some island or other, probably one owned by the Dutch

3. Big ups to Jamaica, mon! It's also a much bigger tourist destination than Cuba.

4. Yes

5. Probably

How'd I do?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:35 PM
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8. You're right about #3 when it comes to tourism but...
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WoodyTobiasJr Donating Member (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 03:39 PM
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10. here goes


1 - Which country is further East? Iran or Iraq? Iran

2 - If you left Caracas and flew dead North, what land mass would you hit first? Uruguay

3 - Which is larger - Cuba or Jamaica? Cuba

4 - Taiwan is North or South of Japan? South

5 - Liberia is in West or East Africa? It's on the left side when you look at a map, actually isn't it southwest? On the bottom?
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 04:29 PM
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12. Ok...
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 04:32 PM by seawolf
1. Iran
2. North America
3. Jamaica (I think) Damn. I thought that was a trick question.
4. South
5. West Africa
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 04:33 PM
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13. 3/5. I suck. I am going to go cower under my bed in shame.
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 04:33 PM by BlueIris
I actually took it upon myself to learn about African geography in 2004...a refresher course on Latin America was supposed to be next. But then shit happened...egh. Terrible.
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long_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 05:36 PM
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14. answers to some
1.Iran
2.I'll say the Pacific Coast of Central America
3.Cuba
4.South
5.West
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 08:54 PM
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15. my list:
1 - Which country is further East? Iran or Iraq? Iran

2 - If you left Caracas and flew dead North, what land mass would you hit first? Cuba

3 - Which is larger - Cuba or Jamaica? Cuba

4 - Taiwan is North or South of Japan? South

5 - Liberia is in West or East Africa? West
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 09:52 PM
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16. well liberia's in west africa
no clue abt the rest, i get lost driving to the grocery store
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 09:56 PM
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17. Oh very well
1 - Which country is further East? Iran or Iraq?

Iraq

2 - If you left Caracas and flew dead North, what land mass would you hit first?

The grave stone

3 - Which is larger - Cuba or Jamaica?

Cuba (and what's just north of it!!)

4 - Taiwan is North or South of Japan?

South... and West


5 - Liberia is in West or East Africa?

And I thought it was American. Oh well! West.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:11 PM
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23. the american liberia is in costa rica, toad
and it is not a country but a small city

i only know that because i've been there, now ask me if it's west costa rica or east costa rica and all i know is the airport was thataway!
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 09:59 PM
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18. Random_Australian!!!
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 10:00 PM by Random_Australian
I must warn you, I am AGGRESSIVELY INDIFFERENT to geography, so no laughing if all completely wrong.

1) Iraq
2) I'll assume Caracus is some kind of nation, and I will further guess this is Ameri-centric, so I will say North America
3) Cuba
4) South
5) Libya is in the one direction and if you go in the other direction you get Egypt, but I dislike East-West, ie. I have no idea whether even countries I know the location of are East or West, so for Liberia, I will guess West.

How'd I do?

Edit: Most embrassing spelling mistake EVER!
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:01 PM
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19. Ok:
WIthout checking:

Iran is further east.

Caracas ... probably one of the West Indes islands - unsure which one now, sorry.

Cuba is larger than Jamaica.

Taiwan is south of Japan.

Liberia is in West Africa.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:06 PM
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20. We're democrats and we don't know where Caracas is located?
Geez, have none of you people heard of Hugo Chavez?



Ok, although it's not listed on the map, you can find Venezuela on there, it's north of Brazil and a yellow colored country. Caracas is on the coast of the Caribean probably due north between the EZ of Venezuela on the map.

Head north folks - maybe you'd hit an island but what is the first land mass you're gonna hit.

Nuff said
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:15 PM
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25. only one person didn't know what caracas was
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 10:16 PM by pitohui
i knew caracas was in venezuela,and not a small country, i think only one poster stated he didn't know "what" caracas was, but alas the question was flying OUT of caracas what do i hit, i suppose now i come to think of it IN REAL LIFE the answer is miami not canada :-)

try to book a flight out from caracas and skip miami and see how easy it is?

you go in so many directions when you fly that it's not as easy to figure as you would think to picture how it might look on the map
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:09 PM
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22. 4/5: Missed the Caracas question.
I suppose that's not too damn shabby for an American.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:14 PM
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24. Guessing....
1. Iran
2. Uhm... The US?
3. Cuba? (Bet it's actually Jamaica :crazy:)
4. South
5. West...Northwest
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:16 PM
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26. I'll give it a whirl, but I'm not sure at all...
1) Iran
2) Puerto Rico
3) Cuba
4) South
5) East
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 10:55 PM
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27. OK, my answers, before looking...
1. Iran

2. I thought Canada, however, after looking at the map down thread, then Puerto Rico.

3. The largest Island in the Caribbean is what again? Oh yeah, CUBA!

4. South and west, Japan is northeast of the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan is definitely south of that.

5. The nation founded by some American Slaves is in West Africa.
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