Rare Entries Quiz XX

[Steeevooo]

It's been a little while since the last one of these (indeed, the results for Rare Entries Quiz XIX are still unannounced...), so I thought that I'd do another one. The theme for this round is Geography. The rules are as per Neils sticky thread here: http://www.tubeforum.co.uk/forum/index. ... =viewtopic

The deadline shall be at 21:17 on Monday 15th October 2012, good luck!

Question One: Name a nation in the continent of Africa whose capital city begins with the letter A.

Question Two: Name a nation that ceased to be a Commonwealth Realm between the years of 1965 and 1975 inclusive. (For avoidance of doubt, this question implies that a nation was a Commonwealth Realm at some point during this period, but was no longer so as at 31 December 1975).

Question Three: Name a river in the United Kingdom of length greater than 100 miles (using wikipedia as a source).

Question Four: Name a unitary authority of England that has a population of less than 140,000.

Question Five: Name a country in Europe whose national flag consists of only two colours.

Question Six: Name an official language of the United Nations.

Question Seven: Name a peak of the Himalayan range of elevation greater than 8,200m.

Question Eight: Name a country whose name ends in -stan. (Note that for avoidance of doubt, this refers to the English name for these countries, hence Hayastan being the native name for Armenia is NOT a valid answer).

Question Nine: Name a London borough that is currently under sole Conservative political control.

Question Ten: Name one of the cities that compete for the Golden Snowball Award.

[Going Underground]

Reminder to enter

[tubeguru]

Interesting end time ...

[Steeevooo]

I decided that as all the end times seem to be arbitrary anyway that I would just opt for a completely random end time! Don't go missing the deadline now though...

[tubeguru]

And, as usual, steeevooo has neglected to tell you all to PM him the answers ...

[Steeevooo]

I knew that you would do it for me Neil

[Steeevooo]

Just a reminder that the deadline for this is looming.

[RobbieM]

The deadline shall be at 21:17 on Monday 15th October 2012

Ping!

[Steeevooo]

The results are in!! Thanks to everyone that took part, and the results breakdown is as follows:

Question One: Name a nation in the continent of Africa whose capital city begins with the letter A.

Correct answers:
Ethiopia - greatkingrat, barrykas
Ghana - The Raven, tubeguru, RobbieM, tractakid
Algeria - Starkey7, al, Going Underground
Eritrea - snudge27

Question Two: Name a nation that ceased to be a Commonwealth Realm between the years of 1965 and 1975 inclusive. (For avoidance of doubt, this question implies that a nation was a Commonwealth Realm at some point during this period, but was no longer so as at 31 December 1975).

Correct answers:
Guyana - greatkingrat, snudge27
Malta - The Raven
Sierra Leone - tubeguru, tractakid, Going Underground
Malawi - al

Incorrect answers:
Pakistan - barrykas - Didn't leave the Commonwealth Realm in the period identified
New Zealand - Starkey7 - Didn't leave the Commonwealth Realm in the period identified
Botswana - RobbieM - Was a British Protectorate, not a Commonwealth Realm

Question Three: Name a river in the United Kingdom of length greater than 100 miles (using wikipedia as a source).

Correct answers:
Trent - greatkingrat, tubeguru
Thames - barrykas, The Raven, Going Underground
Great Ouse - Starkey7, tractakid
Severn - RobbieM
Tay - al
Ure - snudge27

Question Four: Name a unitary authority of England that has a population of less than 140,000.

Correct answers:

Bracknell Forest - greatkingrat, barrykas, Going Underground
Rutland - The Raven
Torbay - tubeguru
Darlington - RobbieM
Halton - tractakid
Hartlepool - al
Redcar and Cleveland - snudge27

Incorrect answer:
Three Rivers - Starkey7 - this is not a unitary authority

Question Five: Name a country in Europe whose national flag consists of only two colours.

Correct answers:

Denmark - greatkingrat
Ukraine - barrykas, Going Underground
Albania - The Raven
Poland - Starkey7
Latvia - tubeguru, al
Monaco - RobbieM
Georgia - tractakid, snudge27

Question Six: Name an official language of the United Nations.

Correct answers:

English - greatkingrat, The Raven, Starkey7, Going Underground
Chinese - barrykas
Spanish - tubeguru, RobbieM
Arabic - tractakid, al, snudge27

Question Seven: Name a peak of the Himalayan range of elevation greater than 8,200m.

Correct answers:

Kangchenjunga - greatkingrat, RobbieM, tractakid
Everest - barrykas, Starkey7, Going Underground
K2 - The Raven
Lhotse - tubeguru
Makalu - al
Cho Oyu - snudge27

Question Eight: Name a country whose name ends in -stan. (Note that for avoidance of doubt, this refers to the English name for these countries, hence Hayastan being the native name for Armenia is NOT a valid answer).

Correct answers:

Kyrgyzstan - greatkingrat, barrykas, The Raven
Tajikistan - Starkey7, tubeguru, al
Turkmenistan - RobbieM, tractakid
Kazakhstan - Going Underground
Pakistan - snudge27


Question Nine: Name a London borough that is currently under sole Conservative political control.

Correct answers:

Bromley - greatkingrat
Richmond upon Thames - barrykas, Going Underground, snudge27
Havering - The Raven, tubeguru
Hillingdon - Starkey7
Bexley - RobbieM
Wandsworth - al

Incorrect answer:

City of London - tractakid - The City of London is politically independent.

Question Ten: Name one of the cities that compete for the Golden Snowball Award.

Correct answers:

Buffalo - greatkingrat, barrykas, RobbieM
Rochester - The Raven
Binghamton - tubeguru, snudge27
Syracuse - tractakid
Albany - al, Going Underground

Incorrect answer:

Vancouver - Starkey7 - The do not compete.


And so, to the final scores, in reverse order:
10th - 46,656 - Starkey7

9th - 17,496 - barrykas

8th - 11,664 - Going Underground

7th - 5,184 - tractakid

6th - 2,592 - greatkingrat

5th - 1,152 - tubeguru

4th - 864 - RobbieM

3rd - 288 - The Raven

2nd - 108 - al

1st - 72 - snudge27 - Congratulations!

Any disputes over my scoring etc - tough

[tubeguru]

Any disputes over my scoring etc - tough

Exactly!

[barrykas]

Question Two: Name a nation that ceased to be a Commonwealth Realm between the years of 1965 and 1975 inclusive. (For avoidance of doubt, this question implies that a nation was a Commonwealth Realm at some point during this period, but was no longer so as at 31 December 1975).

Correct answers:
Guyana - greatkingrat, snudge27

Joined the Commwealth in 1966.

Malta - The Raven

Joined the Commonwealth in 1964.

Sierra Leone - tubeguru, tractakid, Going Underground

Joined the Commonwealth in 1961.

Malawi - al

Joined the Commonwealth in 1964.

Incorrect answers:
Pakistan - barrykas - Didn't leave the Commonwealth Realm in the period identified

I refer you to The Commonwealth Yearbook;

"Joined Commonwealth:1947 (left in 1972, rejoined in 1989)"

For completeness:

New Zealand joined the Commonwealth in 1931 and Botswana joined in 1966.

As such, I stand by my answer of Pakistan as being the only country that left the Commonwealth in the specified period, as all the others either joined during that period or were already Commonwealth members beforehand and didn't leave.

[tubeguru]

I used this as my reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realms

[greatkingrat]

Steveoo wasn't asking about countries that left the Commonwealth, he was asking about countries that ceased to be a Commonwealth Realm which is a different thing.

[snudge27]

Steveoo wasn't asking about countries that left the Commonwealth, he was asking about countries that ceased to be a Commonwealth Realm which is a different thing.

I imagine that Steveoo intended to fox us with that one. I thought he meant countries leaving the Commonwealth, too, until I found that there were no countries that fitted the description!

[tractakid]

I saw the City of London on a map with the rest of the boroughs, I didn't read the note at the bottom which said it wasn't actually a borough. It's constituency is Conservative, at least. haha