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lonewolf
Thanks,
gm .
My courthouse odyssey started in Texas with Eastland County, famous for "Old Rip", a horned toad imprisoned in the cornerstone of the original courthouse, discovered still alive many years later ( I would have to look up the exact number)
Also, Eastland is the oil field town where Conrad Hilton started his hotel chain.
I belong to a club whose members aspire to set foot in every county/parish/borough in the US but there is no requirement to photograph the courthouse. Several have completed the 3143 county bucket list.
I have visited 3133, photographing more than 3500 new and old courthouses, lacking 10 in Alaska, but only three of those have courthouses.
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gh
42. What are the only two nations in South America that don't border Brazil?
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mcgato
Chile is one of them, I'm pretty sure. I'm not sure about the other one. Maybe Columbia?
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gh
Chile is correct.
gh
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Pego
I think it could be Ecuador.
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gh
<<42. Ecuador and Chile.>>
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gh
I love this one!
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ed gee
I think at one time they had bathrooms designated for "colored people" or whatever the appropriate term was at the time.
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kuha
Separate for officers/enlisted men.....or military/civilian...?
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gh
<<43. At the time of the Pentagon's construction in 1941-42, segregation laws in Virginia, where it is located, required separate bathrooms for whites and blacks. Signs identifying them as such were never put up, probably because President Franklin Roosevelt had banned discrimination in the federal government.>>
gh
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gh
44. The Italians call it Monte Cervino. What does almost everyone else call it?
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DoubleRBar
I think it is the Matterhorn (not the one at Disneyland).
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gh
<<44. The Matterhorn. The peak straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy, but is not nearly as distinctive looking on the latter side.>>
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45. The River Danube flows out of Germany's Black Forest and passes through or alongside 10 countries. What body of water does it empty into?
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dj
gh wrote: 45. The River Danube flows out of Germany's Black Forest and passes through or alongside 10 countries. What body of water does it empty into?
The Black Sea.
And that's Dah-NOOB, Alex.
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gh
<<45. The Black Sea.>>
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46. What city has been called the Manchester of Japan?
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Pego
gh wrote: <<45. The Black Sea.>>
Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade
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pakillo
Pego wrote: gh wrote: <<45. The Black Sea.>>
Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade
Once that was a trick question in my geography class, though little different- what 4 "letter B" national capitals does it pass through (in my language Vienna begins with B).
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tandfman
pakillo wrote: (in my language Vienna begins with B).
Igivup. What language is that?
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pakillo
tandfman wrote: pakillo wrote: (in my language Vienna begins with B).
Igivup. What language is that?
Serbian. Беч or Beč (Bech) Same in some other countries in the region. Btw, Slovenian name for Vienna is interesting- Dunaj(Danube).
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Tuariki
Bosnia? Croatia? Serbia? Hungary? Romania? Turkey? Bulgaria?
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Pego
pakillo wrote: tandfman wrote: pakillo wrote: (in my language Vienna begins with B).
Igivup. What language is that?
Serbian. Беч or Beč (Bech) Same in some other countries in the region. Btw, Slovenian name for Vienna is interesting- Dunaj(Danube).
From your previous postings, I had an impression you are Ukrainian
.
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pakillo
Pego wrote: pakillo wrote: tandfman wrote: pakillo wrote: (in my language Vienna begins with B).
Igivup. What language is that?
Serbian. Беч or Beč (Bech) Same in some other countries in the region. Btw, Slovenian name for Vienna is interesting- Dunaj(Danube).
From your previous postings, I had an impression you are Ukrainian
.
Probably because of my grammar
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gh
gh is now off on a road trip (road trip!!!!).... the quiz sections will lie fallow for much/most of the rest of the day.
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DoubleRBar
Highway 101
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Daisy
California State Route 1
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gh
gh wrote: 46. What city has been called the Manchester of Japan?
bump
(somebody was supposed to ansewr this while I was gone!)
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Dutra5
Let me apologize for the board.
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gh
<<46. Osaka. Each is the third-largest city in its nation and, at the time the nickname caught on, both were heavily industrialized.>>
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47. What nation's flag used to have a yarn-spinning wheel in the center but now has the Buddhist Ashoka Chakra, the wheel of law?
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mcgato
Hey, we're back up.
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Conor Dary
Not Nepal. Bhutan?
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gh
all wrong
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tandfman
The only other country in that region that I can think of is Sikkim.
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