The Thursday Quiz is a twelve item is-it-or-isn't-it test of your knowledge, reasoning, stamina, and moxie!
Remember always the Fundamental Rules of the Thursday Quiz:
1. The Thursday Quiz is a POP quiz. No research, Googling, Wikiing, or use of reference books. Violators will never be able to look at themselves in the mirror again.
Unimaginably Vast Asian Cities!2. Don't get all stressed out about it! It's supposed to be fun!
My goodness, some of these places are just so incredibly huge that it seems like they should sound kind of familiar. Except, some of them I just confabulated. IS THEY or ISN'T THEY real big Asian cities?
1. Antananarivo, Mongolia: 2.2 million
2. Busan, South Korea: 3.3 million
3. Chengdu, China: 2.3 million
4. Chittagong, Bangladesh: 2.6 million
5. Harbin, China: 2.7 million
6. Lauxhin, China: 4.3 million
7. Manaus, Cambodia: 2.8 million
8. Myanming, Burma: 3.4 million
9. Riga, Bangladesh: 3.1 million
10. Surabaya, Indonesia: 3 million
11. Wuhan, China: 4.5 million
12. Xi’an, China: 2.6 million
Submit your incredibly vast answers in the comments.
17 comments:
Given that my mother and roommate semirecently spent two weeks in China, plus "Turandot" is my favorite opera ever, I should kick ass in this quiz. Or not. Here we go:
1. No, I don't like that name.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. No, the city is okay but not sure about the country.
5. Yes.
6. No.
7. No.
8. No.
9. No. Oh, dear, that's too many no answers in a row. Well, so be it.
10. Yes.
11. No.
12. Yes.
Xi'an is mentioned in one of the lovelier songs in "Turandot."
The Chinese cities - yes, the rest - no
(I am only sure about 2 answers.)
Oh, brother. Here goes.
1. no
2. yes
3. yes
4. yes, and the only one I've heard of.
5. yes
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. no
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
1. no
2. no
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. no
8. no
9. no
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
1n 2y 3y 4y 5n 6y 7y 8n 9y 10y 11n 12y
1. No. Does Mongolia even have that many people in the whole country?
2. yes
3. yes
4. I like this name and want it to exist, so I'll say yes.
5. no
6. yes
7. no
8. no
9. No - that's in Latvia
10. yes
11.yes
12. yes
You'll be happy to know that The Google comes up with LATofM5K as the first option if you Google #8 (which I did after I sent my answers in to see if I was right about the ones I wasn't sure of). In all likelihood, you'll probably make an appearance in some poor college freshman's cobbled-together-at-the-last-minute term paper about the Country Formerly Known as Burma.
1 no
2 yes
3 yes
4 no
5 no
6 yes
7 no
8 no
9 10
10 yes
11 no
12 yes
incredibly vast ignorance, alack...
Jot wants to play!
1. yes
2. no
3. yes
4. yes
5. no
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. yes
10. yes
11. no
12. yes
Now I play, even though I already looked at jot's answers...that's allowed, right?
1. no
2. yes
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. yes
10. no
11. yes
12. yes
1. Isn't
2. Isn't
3. Is
4. Is
5. Isn't
6. Is
7. Isn't
8. Is
9. Is
10. Is
11. Is
12. Isn't
1. No
2. Oh yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No
6. No
7. Yes
8. No
9. No no no I guessed on all the other ones just so I could enjoy saying no to this one and laughing again at how much you love Estonia
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Yes
< blushes bright red > I responded too quickly and screwed up my Baltics!
I'm going to say no to them all.
No: Antananarivo, Riga, Manaus, Myanming, Lauxhin
Yes: Busan, Chengdu, Chittagong, Harbin, Surabaya, Wuhan, Xi’an
1. Antananarivo, Mongolia -- NO WAY. Antananarivo is the capital of Madagascar.
2. Busan, South Korea -- YES
3. Chengdu, China -- YES
4. Chittagong, Bangladesh -- YES
5. Harbin, China -- YES
6. Lauxhin, China -- NO. I just made it up.
7. Manaus, Cambodia -- NO. Manaus is the Brazilian city in the heart of the Amazon.
8. Myanming, Burma -- NO. Made it up, deviously taking advantage of your mild confusion over "Myanmar," the alternative name for Burma.
9. Riga, Bangladesh -- NO. Riga is the capital of Esto... psych! It's the capital of Latvia.
10. Surabaya, Indonesia -- YES.
11. Wuhan, China -- YES.
12. Xi’an, China -- YES.
Yielding a Gold Star for the always formidable la gringissima and a Silver Star for mhwitt, both of whom nailed it with 12 correct responses.
The Blue goes to Elizabeth, who score 10/12. Green Stars to the other 10/12ers: Cartophiliac, DrSchnell, fingerstothebone, and the blushing nichim!
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