Trivia Esoterica

Poststructural Pub
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Here’s a trivia quiz sure to please the entire family.

  1. The Paris Peace Conference of 1920 decided to divide Albania between which three countries?

  2. What was the previous name of the Democratic Republic of Congo?

  3. What West African nation, with it’s capital of Dakar achieved independence from France in April 1960.

  4. Argentina born General San Martin was intrumental in the independence of Argentina in 1814 and which other South American nation in 1824?

  5. The zloty is the currency of which eastern European nation?

  6. This “Grand Duchy” was founded in 963 but did not achieve full independence until 1867

  7. From which North American country came the lament, “So far from God, so close to the United States”

  8. The Funan state, founded in the first century AD was located along which Indochina river?

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which family are you referring to geek?

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zaire

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:boggle:



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Slan,
D.

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2: Zaire
3: Senegal
5: Poland
6: Luxembourg? (educated guess)
8: Mekong?? (blind guess)

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Because I put you guys through a few trivia contests of my own, I will take part in this one and show how I don’t know a lot about geography/history of the world. Let’s see . . .

  1. Yugoslavia would be my best guess. Don’t know the other two.
  2. Zaire???
  3. I know Dakar, but can’t think of the country
  4. Bolivia???
  5. Poland??? (The only East European country I can think of at this early hour)
  6. Grand Fenwick!!! (Just joking. I believe this Grand Duchy was created by Leonard Wibberly in The Mouse That Roared and starred Peter Sellers in the Movie with the same name) Actually, I really don’t know.
  7. I like the lament . . . but don’t know the answer. It would be nice if it was Canada.
  8. The only major Southeast Asian river I am familiar with is the Mekong River (which is very muddy, by the way).

I have to admit that my answers are all guesses (and not very educated ones at that). Yougosovia is the only one that I feel comfortable enough to bet the house on.

Will O’Ban

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It looks like Charlie and I are on the same wave length with three of the answers. So I feel pretty confident about those three at least – Charlie seems to be pretty good at this sort of thing. :slight_smile:

Will O’Ban

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Ok, I’ll give it a try.

  1. Greece, Yugoslavia, Macedonia (guess)?
  2. Congo Belge, then: Zaïre
  3. Senegal
  4. don’t know
  5. Poland
  6. that’s my homeland, guys! although the official date of independence is 1839.
  7. don’t know
  8. don’t know either
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Very picturesque, Claudine. Makes me wish I was there right now. Thanks for sharing it with us.

It saddens me, though, when I think of all the destruction that the bombs and shells did to countless towns like that during the war. :sniffle:

Will O’Ban

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That’s a great picture Claudine. Wow. Beautiful.

Anyway. I didn’t really expect much from this anyway. I just wanted to get my post count up. I looked all this up on the CIA World Fact Book website. They apparently aren’t always correct.

The Answers are-------

  1. Italy, Serbia, Greece

  2. Zaire (Belgian Congo prior to that)

  3. Senegal

  4. Peru

  5. Poland

  6. Venezuela (just kidding. Luxembourg. I may have to call the CIA and correct some dates. They’ve made me look like a FOOL.).

  7. Mexico.

  8. Mekong.

If I ever trivia again I’ll make it something at least mildly interesting.

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Well . . . there goes the house. But wasn’t Serbia also Yougoslavia? Countries have been carved up and changed names so often that I have a hard time of keeping track of what’s what.

Will O’Ban

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You’re sorta right, Will. The Versaille Treaty created a country called “The Kingdom of Serbs, Slovens and Croats” in 1920, which received a hefty slice of Albania. In 1929, King Alexander I (? don’t cite me on that one), renamed the country Yugoslavia (“land of the Southern Slavs”).

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Thanks, Bloo. My knowledge of geography is on the sketchy side. Everything is still based on the globe I got when I was 10. That was 40+ years ago. The base of the globe also shows the number of moons that each planet has . . . er had . . . er was thought to have had at that time (you know what I mean). While I was doing the trivia I was wondering how much the globe would be worth. Santa Claus paid $2.98 for it in 1961 (it’s written in magic marker on the base). I don’t really want to sell it, though I’m curious what old globes are worth to a collector. Perhaps I’ll search the internet. . .

Will O’Ban