5 Minute Monopoly Quiz

sweek · Post by **sweek** » 31 Oct 2006, 00:41

hwolge wrote:Starkey - Close, but no cigar! ("ÃƒÂ¸" is Danish/Norwegian only. In Swedish it's "ÃƒÂ¶". Bornholm is a Danish island)

Actually they are all terribly boring:

Centralstationen (Central station)
Norra station (North station)
Ãƒâ€“stra station (East station)
SÃƒÂ¶dra station (South station)

But they are all actual station names in Stockholm...

Norra being Solna or Karlstadt? I've never seen any station named Norra over there. It's strange how there's both a station SÃƒÂ¶dra and Stockholm Syd, which is what Flemingsberg is called sometimes.

hwolge · Post by **hwolge** » 31 Oct 2006, 08:16

sweek wrote:Norra being Solna or Karlstadt? I've never seen any station named Norra over there. It's strange how there's both a station SÃƒÂ¶dra and Stockholm Syd, which is what Flemingsberg is called sometimes.

Actually, I'm not that familiar with Stockholm. I'm fairly confident all the names were authentic back in the 1930:es(?). Much has changed since. I think "Norra Station" is the one in Solna, since "Norra Stationsgatan" still exists there...

TheFatBuoy · Post by **TheFatBuoy** » 31 Oct 2006, 16:57

hwolge wrote:On the other hand we have quite a few listed "combined words" so I'd say there are lots of possibilities to significantly lengthen an already played word.

I bet German scrabble's quite easy in that respect (if you know the language, that is), as it's a well known fact that 67.2089% of words in the Oxford German Dictionary are made up from 4 or more words all strung together.

Beary · Post by **Beary** » 31 Oct 2006, 17:55

I never heard that, but it doesn't sound too far-fetched.

You live and learn...

hwolge · Post by **hwolge** » 31 Oct 2006, 20:49

According to the 1969 editon of Guinness Book of Records, the longest word in modern use in any language is Swedish: SkensmutsskjutarefackfÃƒÂ¶reningsbeklÃƒÂ¤dnadsfÃƒÂ¶rrÃƒÂ¥dsfÃƒÂ¶rvaltaren - if my meomory serves me right...

If this is really the case, I'm not sure. Don't trust GWR!!!

TheFatBuoy · Post by **TheFatBuoy** » 31 Oct 2006, 21:14

Beary wrote:I never heard that, but it doesn't sound too far-fetched. You live and learn...

LOL - you might have missed my sarcasm there (one clue was the 'Oxford German Dictionary').

Best go back to studying "Conveying Sarcasm through the written word" by some American bloke.....

Beary · Post by **Beary** » 01 Nov 2006, 06:28

TheFatBuoy wrote: LOL - you might have missed my sarcasm there (one clue was the 'Oxford German Dictionary').

Best go back to studying "Conveying Sarcasm through the written word" by some American bloke.....

Oops!

standclearofthedoors · Post by **standclearofthedoors** » 01 Nov 2006, 14:59

What does SkensmutsskjutarefackfÃƒÂ¶reningsbeklÃƒÂ¤dnadsfÃƒÂ¶rrÃƒÂ¥dsfÃƒÂ¶rvaltaren mean then?

Post by **tubeguru** » 01 Nov 2006, 15:57

According to various sites, the longest Swedish word is now

Nordostersj kustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlggningsmaterielunderhllsuppf ljningssystemdiskussionsinlggsfrberedelsearbeten

meaning

preparatory work on the contribution to the discussion of the maintenance support system for the installation equipment of the northeast coast's air surveillance simulator

Why don't we have words like that?

sweek · Post by **sweek** » 01 Nov 2006, 17:15

tubeguru wrote:
Why don't we have words like that?

Because in English you don't combine words like in Dutch, German and Swedish. Because of the big influence of the English language in the Netherlands these days, people actually start writing words like these apart from each other more and more. It's called the "English disease".

gasman · Post by **gasman** » 01 Nov 2006, 18:48

tubeguru wrote:preparatory work on the contribution to the discussion of the maintenance support system for the installation equipment of the northeast coast's air surveillance simulator

Hang on a minute - Sweden doesn't even have a northeast coast!

editorsfoot · Post by **editorsfoot** » 01 Nov 2006, 19:13

gasman wrote:
tubeguru wrote:preparatory work on the contribution to the discussion of the maintenance support system for the installation equipment of the northeast coast's air surveillance simulator
Hang on a minute - Sweden doesn't even have a northeast coast!

I think it may be the north east part of the baltic coast artillery

hwolge · Post by **hwolge** » 01 Nov 2006, 20:18

editorsfoot wrote:I think it may be the north east part of the baltic coast artillery

You beat me to it...

BTW
NordÃƒÂ¶stersjÃƒÂ¶kustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlÃƒÂ¤ggningsmaterielunderhÃƒÂ¥llsuppfÃƒÂ¶ljningssystemdiskussionsinlÃƒÂ¤ggsfÃƒÂ¶rberedelsearbeten - is the proper spelling. Strangely(?) enough I've never heard of it before!

Soup Dragon · Post by **Soup Dragon** » 01 Nov 2006, 22:30

The most recent copy of GWR that I have is the 2000 edition, there is no mention in this book at all of the longest word in the world (also suprisingly no mention of London Underground record times

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however... bringing this thread somewhat back on topic the book states that the most valuable Monopoly set is worth US$2,000,000 with the board being made from 23-carat gold and the dice has 42 cut diamonds for spots.

dudey · Post by **dudey** » 01 Mar 2011, 16:09

scrxisi wrote:What are the stations on the Worthing version of Monopoly? Worthing, West Worthing? Is there an East Worthing?

This is an horrendous bump based on me searching to see if we'd ever (as a forum) done a challenge based on visiting Monopoly squares (or the nearest stations thereto). I'll keep looking...

I would argue that "greater" Worthing has 5 stations:

Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, East Worthing

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