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

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  • #8972
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    feargale wrote: »
    Unless as above Pennsylvania and Delaware have alot of straight lines too, as well as some crooked ones.

    There is something unique about the border not found on any other border


  • #8973
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,201 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Quazzie wrote: »
    There is something unique about the border not found on any other border

    Rivers?


  • #8974
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    New Home wrote: »
    Rivers?

    Nope


  • #8975
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Quazzie wrote: »
    There is something unique about the border not found on any other border

    As between the two there's a perfect semicircle. Some guy with a compass couldn't resist showing off how good he was with it.


  • #8976
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    feargale wrote: »
    As between the two there's a perfect semicircle. Some guy with a compass couldn't resist showing off how good he was with it.

    Correct, but not for the reason you state. When laying out the states they decided that anything within 12 miles of the New Castle courthouse was within Delaware, so they drew a 12 mile radius with the courthouse as it's centre, and it's therefore the only state border with a perfect curve.


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  • #8977
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Those were great questions!


  • #8978
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery?


  • #8979
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery?

    I know Paraguay only ratified the 1926 convention relatively recently but don't know if they had actually abolished slavery prior to that.


  • #8980
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I know Paraguay only ratified the 1926 convention relatively recently but don't know if they had actually abolished slavery prior to that.

    Not Paraguay.

    The decline and eventual end of slavery in Paraguay began in 1842 with the Free Womb Laws which stated that the children of slaves after that date would be free. During the War of Triple Alliance in 1864 the country unofficially ended slavery as many Afro-Paraguayans, slave and free, became soldiers. Most of them, along with most of the Paraguayan population, were killed in that conflict. All slaves were officially declared free in 1869.


  • #8981
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Hardly Brazil, was it?


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  • #8982
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Hardly Brazil, was it?

    It is Brazil.

    Slavery was not legally ended in Brazil until 1888 by the Lei Áurea ("Golden Act"), a legal act promulgated on May 13 by Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil.

    Cuba was second last. Slavery was abolished there by royal decree on 7th October 1886.

    There is a very good Cuban film based on slavery called The Last Supper (1976.) It's well worth seeing.


  • #8983
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Forgot I was due to ask one. :(


    Where would you find

    Goffal
    Shona
    Makua
    and
    Venda.


  • #8984
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Forgot I was due to ask one. :(


    Where would you find

    Goffal
    Shona
    Makua
    and
    Venda.

    Africa?


  • #8985
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Africa?

    Yes, Southern Africa to be precise. All native peoples.


    You're up, so.


  • #8986
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes, Southern Africa to be precise. All native peoples.


    You're up, so.

    No question prepared so a related one - where would you find the Korowai?


  • #8987
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Bump.


  • #8988
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    No question prepared so a related one - where would you find the Korowai?

    Africa is too obvious so I'm guessing Polynesia?


  • #8989
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Africa is too obvious so I'm guessing Polynesia?

    Yes - but can you be more specific? :D


  • #8990
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Papua?


  • #8991
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Papua?

    What took you so long?! :D:D:D


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  • #8992
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What took you so long?! :D:D:D

    I knew it but wanted others to have a shot first.

    I'll think of a question later.


  • #8993
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What connects

    Brazil nuts
    Almonds
    Cashews
    &
    Peanuts?


  • #8994
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    They're not nuts


  • #8995
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    They're not nuts

    Correct. Three seeds and a legume.


  • #8996
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I knew Peanuts & brazil nuts weren't.



    What is the only country named after a woman?


  • #8997
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    I knew Peanuts & brazil nuts weren't.



    What is the only country named after a woman?

    St. Lucia?


  • #8998
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Yep, Saint Lucia was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French


  • #8999
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Standard Poodle, Scottish Terrier, West Highland White Terrier, American Cocker Spaniel.....next please.


  • #9000
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,201 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'd guess it's Crufts' winners, so it's Whippet. (I guessed the first part, but I'll admit I had to look up the second part)


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  • #9001
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Precisely. Your question...
    New Home wrote: »
    I'd guess it's Crufts' winners, so it's Whippet. (I guessed the first part, but I'll admit I had to look up the second part)


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