Unutterably Silly Quiz

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

#3 Houston,

Stitchawl

Yes.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

#5 Ho Chi Min


Stitchawl

Yes

Originally Posted by issybird

1. Adelaide
3. Houston
5. Ho Chi Minh City
8. Monrovia

Dang! Pipped at the post.

Adelaide is incorrect, all the others correct (although, as you say, Stitchawl pipped you to the Houston and Ho Chi Minh ones.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by issybird

1. Adelaide
3. Houston
5. Ho Chi Minh City
8. Monrovia

Dang! Pipped at the post.

The timing of these multi-part questions creates too many problems. With the suggestion that we NOT edit older posts, it behoves me to think to hit 'send' as soon as I think of one answer, rather than trying for as many as I can know.

I think I don't care for this. It's become too cut-throat this way. I prefer a more laid back game...


Stitchawl

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

#8 Monroe, New York

(Right next to Orange County Choppers...)


Stitchawl

Already answered correctly by Issybird (Monrovia). I'm pretty sure that Monroe isn't the capital of the US

[issybird]

Originally Posted by issybird

1. Adelaide
3. Houston
5. Ho Chi Minh City
8. Monrovia

Dang! Pipped at the post.

oopsy:

1. Adelaide Todd ? - it occurs to me that Adelaide was named after the queen, so I have to rethink this.
3. Sam Houston
5. Uh, that would be Ho Chi Minh.
8. James Monroe

because you wanted the people, too.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

#8 Monroe, New York

(Right next to Orange County Choppers...)

Stitchawl

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

The timing of these multi-part questions creates too many problems. With the suggestion that we NOT edit older posts, it behoves me to think to hit 'send' as soon as I think of one answer, rather than trying for as many as I can know.

I think I don't care for this. It's become too cut-throat this way. I prefer a more laid back game...


Stitchawl

I actually quite like the multi-part questions. I feel I learn more (quantity wise) from them.

I don't think anybody here is too bothered about who 'wins', are they?

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by issybird

oopsy:

1. Adelaide Todd ? - it occurs to me that Adelaide was named after the queen, so I have to rethink this.
3. Sam Houston
5. Uh, that would be Ho Chi Minh.
8. James Monroe

because you wanted the people, too.

All correct apart from, as you correctly surmised, Adelaide.

[orlok]

2. Telford (just up the road from me ) - Thomas Telford

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by orlok

2. Telford (just up the road from me ) - Thomas Telford

Yes indeed. Drove through just yesterday returning from visiting friends in Shrewsbury.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I think I don't care for this. It's become too cut-throat this way. I prefer a more laid back game...

Stitchawl

All in good fun. Really depends on who's around at any given time.

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

I actually quite like the multi-part questions. I feel I learn more (quantity wise) from them.

I don't think anybody here is too bothered about who 'wins', are they?

The other aspect of multi-parts that makes them fun is that they allow for more participation.

Frankly, I like to play more than I like to win!

Now, must cogitate about those cities....

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by issybird

Frankly, I like to play more than I like to win!

Then I'm surprised not to have seen you over in this thread!

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

Well Vancouver Canada was named for Captain Vancouver. Also Vancouver Washington in the US.

Vancouver, Canada is the one I'm visiting in the summer.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Right, the Vancouver one made me think of cities named after people. So here are 10 more. Please name the city/town and the person;

1. Named after the wife of Charles Todd who was a Superintendent of Telegraphs and Government Astronomer in the country that this town is in.

2. Named after a Scottish engineer born in 1757 famous for his work with bridges and canals.

3. Named after the 7th Governer of Texas (from 1859-61).

4. Named after the title of the man who was the British First Lord of the Admiralty from 1834-1835 and who commissioned the person who named the city.

5. Named after a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was President of his country for 24 years.

6. Named after a British Whig politician who lived between 1708 and 1778.

7. Named after a British Army officer who lived 1777 to 1849. He died in Montreal, but the city named after him is not on that continent.

8. This capital city is named after the fifth president of the United States.

9. Named after the first person to circumnavigate Australia.

10. Capital city named after a French nobleman born near the end of the 15th Century who became the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.

It is entirely possible that there is more than one correct answer for some of these, so, whilst I have specific ones in mind, I'll accept any that I can verify.

Good luck!

Only 2, 3, 5 and 8 correctly answered so far. I'll give a few more clues to the others later after those people in different time zones have had a chance to see the question.

[issybird]

1. Alice Springs? Alice Todd?

[issybird]

9. Hobart?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Then I'm surprised not to have seen you over in this thread!

Talk about a competitive thread! I'll stay in this backwater.