The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I don't see the point of using Google for an answer. It's like doing a crossword by looking up the answers at the back of the book.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

What links the following landlocked countries:
Andorra, Bhutan, Liechtenstein, Mongolia, Nepal, Swaziland ( and, strictly speaking, Moldova ) ?

Principalities or kingdoms?


I'm enjoying trying to figure this out.

New Home

All countries that, with different levels of success, declared their independence?

Orion

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Principalities or kingdoms?


I'm enjoying trying to figure this out.

Was going to say principalities too.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Principalities or kingdoms?

I'm enjoying trying to figure this out.

No.

New Home wrote: »

All countries that, with different levels of success, declared their independence?

No.

P.S. As for the issue that has been raised, I would suggest that if a question isn't answered in say three days the questioner should give the answer and post another.

looksee

We were doing that with a limit of 24 hours, which would be ok in a quick moving quiz, maybe make it more or less 48 hours? We'll try and get a few more questions going too, well a second one anyway!

looksee

The fruit in the Christmas cake - raisins, sultanas and currants. What dried fruits are they?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I'm still drawing blanks on the countries.

In the meantime, as my last wasn't answered I'll toss an easy one on to keep us going.

Where is the oldest working lighthouse in Europe?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

The fruit in the Christmas cake - raisins, sultanas and currants. What dried fruits are they?

Grapes?

looksee

Lol, yes, that was a personal one, I thought till recently that currants were dried currants. But no, they are grapes. There you go Srameen, got yourself a question...*looks innocent*

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Nutmeg is made from the seed of a tree. What spice is made from the fruit of the same tree?

Corkgirl18

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Nutmeg is made from the seed of a tree. What spice is made from the fruit of the same tree?

Mace

looksee

That's a good one! Can't think of any obvious one.

Edit: oh drat, sounds right!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Mace

That's the one.

Next!

Corkgirl18

The dried fruit of the plant Pimenta from the Caribbean is more commonly known as which spice?

feargale

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

The dried fruit of the plant Pimenta from the Caribbean is more commonly known as which spice?

Pepper?

Orion

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

The dried fruit of the plant Pimenta from the Caribbean is more commonly known as which spice?

That's allspice isn't it?

Love to know the answer to the counties one. Is it that the head of state is foreign? I knew the French President is head of one of them. But Australia would also fall into that.

feargale

feargale wrote: »

What links the following landlocked countries:
Andorra, Bhutan, Liechtenstein, Mongolia, Nepal, Swaziland ( and, strictly speaking, Moldova ) ?

Time for a clue - take a look at a map.

looksee

All on the same line of latitude?

Orion

feargale wrote: »

Time for a clue - take a look at a map.

Ah. Are they completely landlocked by one country?

Edit. No - Vatican City would fall into that too

feargale

looksee wrote: »

All on the same line of latitude?

No

Orion wrote: »

Ah. Are they completely landlocked by one country?

No, but keep trying.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I had considered that they were bordered by only 2 counties but that doesn't work for Buchan in some obscure respects. Bit I'll go with bordered by two countries only.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I had considered that they were bordered by only 2 counties but that doesn't work for Buchan in some obscure respects. Bit I'll go with bordered by two countries only.

Correct. Each if them is a sandwiched country, the meat in the sandwich so to speak. Bhutan was formerly bordered by three including Sikkim, but Sikkim lost its independence to India, in 1975, I think. You need to buy a new atlas, Autumn Harsh Cloud.

P.S. Moldova is bordered by a third entity, the breakaway state of Transnistria which is recognised only by Putin and three other unrecognised states.

Corkgirl18

Orion wrote: »

That's allspice isn't it?

Love to know the answer to the counties one. Is it that the head of state is foreign? I knew the French President is head of one of them. But Australia would also fall into that.

Allspice is correct!

Orion

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Allspice is correct!

Who's first girlfriend was Thelma Pickles ?

New Home

Chuckie? Phil?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Orion wrote: »

Who's first girlfriend was Thelma Pickles ?

John Lennon, she claims.

New Home

Not one of the Rugrats, so.

Ted_YNWA

New Home wrote:

Not one of the Rugrats, so.

Wrong forum for them Newie.

looksee

The lighthouse one Srameen, isn't that Hook Head?