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From: thorain
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <79bg7u$t01$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, naras@my-dejanews.com wrote: > Geography quiz from Inquizitive.com, world's finest quiz > > Questions > > 1. To represent the units of Punjab, Afghan border states, Kashmir, Sind, and > Baluchistan, what name did Chaudari Rahmat Ali come up with in 1933? > > 2. On September 6, 1989, owing to a computer error, about 40,000 Parisians > received letters charging them with murder, and other heinous crimes. What > were their actual offences? > > 3. In 1937, this planet missed a major disaster by less than three seconds > when it nearly collided with a minor planet, Hermes. Which planet? > > 4. What, according to legend, did the FBI chief and strong anti-communist J. > Edgar Hoover never do while driving his car? > <snip> Only one of these questions would qualify as 'geography' (unless the subject has been radically redefined since I was in school). That question is more trivia than needed knowledge. James Powell -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e27,456a4522faa55155 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e27,public X-Google-Thread: fc521,456a4522faa55155 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc521,public X-Google-Thread: f9cff,456a4522faa55155 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9cff,public From: thorain@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Inquizitive.com-Geography quiz Date: 1999/02/04 Message-ID: <79c753$f3s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 440566199 References: <79bg7u$t01$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 199.228.142.7 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Feb 04 13:26:03 1999 GMT Newsgroups: misc.education,can.schoolnet.chat,alt.education X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)