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* Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries

In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
(bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
that certain country.

1. Senegal.
2. Malaysia.
3. Saudi Arabia.
4. Denmark and the USA.
5. South Africa.
6. Austria and Switzerland.
7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.
8. France and Spain.

9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
other countries.

10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

* Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!

An "-ology" is a subject of study. We'll tell your briefly what
it's the study of, and you give us the -ology. For example,
if we said "animals", you'd answer "zoology".

1. Fish.
2. Butterflies and moths.
3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).
4. Puzzles.
5. Wine and winemaking.
6. Old age.
7. Flags.
8. The moon.
9. Reptiles and amphibians.
10. Fungi.

--
Mark Brader | ...I'm comfortably ensconced with a warm newsgroup
Toronto | so I'm asking the assembled multitude here...
msb@vex.net | --Stephanie Mitchell

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries

> 1. Senegal.

Gambia

> 2. Malaysia.

Singapore

> 3. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar

> 4. Denmark and the USA.

Canada

> 5. South Africa.

Lesotho

> 6. Austria and Switzerland.

Liechtenstein

> 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.

Suriname

> 8. France and Spain.

Andorra

> 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
> clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
> other countries.

Nepal

> 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

Timor l'Este

> * Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!

> 1. Fish.

ichthyology

> 2. Butterflies and moths.

lepidopterology

> 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).

kinesiology

> 4. Puzzles.

enigmatology

> 5. Wine and winemaking.

oenology

> 6. Old age.

gerontology

> 7. Flags.

vexillology

> 8. The moon.

selenology

> 9. Reptiles and amphibians.

herpetology

> 10. Fungi.

mycology

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 11:07:48 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries
>
> In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
> (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
> that certain country.
>
> 1. Senegal.

Gambia

> 2. Malaysia.

Brunei
> 3. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar

> 4. Denmark and the USA.

Canada

> 5. South Africa.

Lesotho

> 6. Austria and Switzerland.

Liechtenstein

> 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.

Suriname

> 8. France and Spain.

Andorra

> 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
> clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
> other countries.

Nepal; Bhutan

> 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

Timor-Leste; Papua New Guinea

> * Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!
>
> An "-ology" is a subject of study. We'll tell your briefly what
> it's the study of, and you give us the -ology. For example,
> if we said "animals", you'd answer "zoology".
>
> 1. Fish.

ichthyology

> 2. Butterflies and moths.

lepidopterology

> 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).

kinesiology
> 4. Puzzles.

enigmatology
> 5. Wine and winemaking.

oenology

> 6. Old age.

gerontology

> 7. Flags.

vexillology

> 8. The moon.

selenology
> 9. Reptiles and amphibians.

herpetology

> 10. Fungi.

mycology

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

On 7/26/23 21:07, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries
>
> In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
> (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
> that certain country.
>
> 1. Senegal.

The Gambia

> 2. Malaysia.

Brunei

> 3. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar

> 4. Denmark and the USA.

Canada

> 5. South Africa.

Lesotho

> 6. Austria and Switzerland.

Liechtenstein

> 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.

Suriname

> 8. France and Spain.

Andorra

>
> 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
> clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
> other countries.

Nepal and Bhutan

>
> 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

Papua New Guinea and East Timor

>
>
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!
>
> An "-ology" is a subject of study. We'll tell your briefly what
> it's the study of, and you give us the -ology. For example,
> if we said "animals", you'd answer "zoology".
>
> 1. Fish.

ichthyology

> 2. Butterflies and moths.
> 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).
> 4. Puzzles.
> 5. Wine and winemaking.

oenology

> 6. Old age.

geriology

> 7. Flags.

vexillology

> 8. The moon.

Selenology

> 9. Reptiles and amphibians.

herpetology

> 10. Fungi.

mycology

--
Dan Tilque

Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries
>
> In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
> (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
> that certain country.
>
> 1. Senegal.

Gambia

> 2. Malaysia.

Brunei

> 3. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar (I recall a discussion we had long ago, where we found maps where
Qatar was bordering to only Saudi-Arabia, only UAE and both. The
situation may have stabilised since then.)

> 4. Denmark and the USA.

Canada

> 5. South Africa.

Leshoto

> 6. Austria and Switzerland.

Lichtenstein

> 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.

Suriname

> 8. France and Spain.

Andorra
> 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
> clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
> other countries.

Nepal and Bhutan
> 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste

> * Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!
>
> 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).

Physiology

> 6. Old age.

Gerontology

Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-06-19,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Bloor St. Irregulars and
> are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
> have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
> please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries
>
> In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
> (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
> that certain country.
>
> 1. Senegal.

Ivory Coast; Mauritania

> 2. Malaysia.

Thailand

> 3. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar

> 4. Denmark and the USA.

British Virgin Islands

> 5. South Africa.

Lesotho

> 6. Austria and Switzerland.

Liechtenstein

> 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.

Suriname

> 8. France and Spain.

Andorra

>
> 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
> clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
> other countries.

Nepal

>
> 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

Papua New Guinea

>
>
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!
>
> An "-ology" is a subject of study. We'll tell your briefly what
> it's the study of, and you give us the -ology. For example,
> if we said "animals", you'd answer "zoology".
>
> 1. Fish.

Ichthyology

> 2. Butterflies and moths.

Lepidology

> 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).
> 4. Puzzles.
> 5. Wine and winemaking.

Oenology

> 6. Old age.
> 7. Flags.
> 8. The moon.

Lunology

> 9. Reptiles and amphibians.
> 10. Fungi.
>

Pete Gayde

Mark Brader:
> > In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
> > (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
> > that certain country.
>
> > 3. Saudi Arabia.
Erland Sommarskog:
> Qatar (I recall a discussion we had long ago, where we found maps where
> Qatar was bordering to only Saudi-Arabia, only UAE and both. The
> situation may have stabilised since then.)

It's come up in this newsgroup more than once: first in connection
with my Rare Entries contest MSB1 in 1996, where I ruled on the basis
that Qatar bordered the UAE, and then in connection with Dan Tilque's
Rotating Quiz 132 in 2014s, when Joshua Kreitzer kindly located my
1996 posting (which I no longer had a copy of) where I said:

|| If this had been pointed out to me during the protest period, I
|| would've allowed Qatar, to the benefit of Aidan Hollinshead and Mark
|| Huckabone.
||
|| It turns out that the border between Saudi Arabia (hereafter SA) and
|| the UAE is undemarcated, and different maps show at least three
|| versions of it.
||
|| The oldest maps I have, in atlases dated 1972 and 1980, show the UAE
|| as extending inland about 100 km from the coast along pretty much its
|| entire east-west extent. ,,, The 1980 atlas (Rand McNally New
|| International), in a map of scale 1:6,000,000, shows the SA-UAE border
|| reaching the coast at exactly the same point as the west end of the
|| Qatar border. In other words, in this version the *only* country that
|| Qatar appears to have a border with is the UAE, but (since the SA-UAE
|| border is a dashed line, indicating uncertainty) it is possible that
|| either Qatar at its southwest corner touches SA, or that the UAE again
|| touches the coast. ...
||
|| The atlas I used for the contest was the 1990 Rand McNally New Inter-
|| national. It shows the UAE as being wider in the east than the
|| earlier maps, extending over 150 km inland in places; but it is
|| narrower in the west, only about 25 km wide, and does not extend as
|| far west. On this map about 60% of Qatar's land border is with SA,
|| and 40% with the UAE. ...
||
|| However, [Dean Edmonds'] reference evidently shows a third version of
|| the border. Presumably it agrees with the one that Erland and I found
|| in the current online CIA World Factbook. This is almost the same as
|| the second version, but the western tip of the UAE is cut off at
|| longitude 51.6, the border extending straight north to the sea. The
|| CIA World Factbook identifies this line as the de facto boundary. I
|| take this to be the most current information, and therefore, as I
|| said, I would have accepted the answer. ...

and I then (in 2014) added:

| Thanks to Joshua Kreitzer for digging that up. I just have one thing
| to add, which is to note that the current CIAWF agrees with Google Maps
| as to the shape of the borders, and differs from all three of the
| layouts that I found mapped in 1996.

Now I find that these sources almost agree, but the CIAWF places the
east end of the Saudi-Qatar border a few miles north of what Google Maps
shows. In any case they agree that Qatar does not touch the UAE.

For what it's worth, Wikipedia's article on the Treaty of Jeddah (1974)
discusses the borders in this area and who recognizes what. For trivia
purposes I think we must accept that Qatar borders only Saudi Arabia.
--
Mark Brader "People with whole brains, however, dispute
Toronto this claim, and are generally more articulate
msb@vex.net in expressing their views." -- Gary Larson

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-06-19,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".

> * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Bordering Countries

> In each case we list *all* the countries that share a land border
> (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name
> that certain country.

> 1. Senegal.

(The) Gambia. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland.

> 2. Malaysia.

Brunei. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland.

> 3. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland,
and Pete.

See ny separate posting regarding this border.

> 4. Denmark and the USA.

Canada. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland.

> 5. South Africa.

Lesotho. 4 for everyone.

> 6. Austria and Switzerland.

Liechtenstein. 4 for everyone.

> 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France.

Suriname. 4 for everyone.

> 8. France and Spain.

Andorra. 4 for everyone.

> 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater
> clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no
> other countries.

Nepal, Bhutan. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Dan Tilque
(the hard way), Erland (the hard way), and Pete.

> 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers.

Timor-Leste (East Timor), Papua New Guinea. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua
(the hard way), Dan Tilque (the hard way), Erland (the hard way),
and Pete.

> * Game 6, Round 3 - Science - Study-ology!

> An "-ology" is a subject of study. We'll tell your briefly what
> it's the study of, and you give us the -ology. For example,
> if we said "animals", you'd answer "zoology".

> 1. Fish.

Ichthyology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 2. Butterflies and moths.

Lepidopterology. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

> 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine).

Kinesiology. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

> 4. Puzzles.

Enigmatology. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

This term was coined by Will Shortz when he was a university student
to define his unique field of study. He is still the only known
person to hold a degree in it.

> 5. Wine and winemaking.

(O)enology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 6. Old age.

Gerontology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Erland.

> 7. Flags.

Vexillology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.

> 8. The moon.

Selenology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.

> 9. Reptiles and amphibians.

Herpetology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.

> 10. Fungi.

Mycology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.

Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Geo Sci
Joshua Kreitzer 40 40 80
Dan Blum 36 40 76
Dan Tilque 40 24 64
Erland Sommarskog 40 4 44
Pete Gayde 28 8 36

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msb@vex.net | a variety of grape plant, but
Toronto | if you put it that way..." --Jan Sand

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