Bakers Dozen

[Bullitt]

@gkster

7. Alaska - simultaneously the easternmost and westernmost US state, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere.

Northernmost too!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Geographical anomalies

1. West Fulton county Kentucky - cut off from the rest of Kentucky by the meandering Mississippi, only land border is with Tennessee, and almost entirely surrounded by Missouri
2. Northwest Angle, Minnesota - Northernmost point of the continental United States
3. The easternmost point on the continental USA is a place called West Quoddy Head, ME
4. Four Corners - the only place in the US where four states meet (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
5. Bir Tawil - an 800 square mile area along the border between Egypt and Sudan that neither country wants to lay claim to
6. Point Roberts, WA - a town on a peninsula that you can only access by land from the continental US by going into British Columbia.
7. Alaska - simultaneously the easternmost and westernmost US state, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere.
8. A part of Delaware is east of the Delaware River, and you can step from Delaware into New Jersey on dry land.
9. Llanymynech - has a national border running down the middle of its main street. The eastern side of the road lies in England, and the western side of the road is in Wales
10. Bratislava, Slovakia: the only capital city in the world that is located at a country tripoint: the intersections of Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria (the tripoint is outside the urban area but the city’s administrative area extends out to the borders)
11. Four Corners, the only point where four U.S. states come together

Four Corners Monument

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Geographical anomalies

1. West Fulton county Kentucky - cut off from the rest of Kentucky by the meandering Mississippi, only land border is with Tennessee, and almost entirely surrounded by Missouri
2. Northwest Angle, Minnesota - Northernmost point of the continental United States
3. The easternmost point on the continental USA is a place called West Quoddy Head, ME
4. Four Corners - the only place in the US where four states meet (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
5. Bir Tawil - an 800 square mile area along the border between Egypt and Sudan that neither country wants to lay claim to
6. Point Roberts, WA - a town on a peninsula that you can only access by land from the continental US by going into British Columbia.
7. Alaska - simultaneously the easternmost and westernmost US state, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere.
8. A part of Delaware is east of the Delaware River, and you can step from Delaware into New Jersey on dry land.
9. Llanymynech - has a national border running down the middle of its main street. The eastern side of the road lies in England, and the western side of the road is in Wales
10. Bratislava, Slovakia: the only capital city in the world that is located at a country tripoint: the intersections of Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria (the tripoint is outside the urban area but the city’s administrative area extends out to the borders)
11. Four Corners, the only point where four U.S. states come together.
12. the island of Hendaye - For six months of the year, from February 1 to 31 July, it’s under Spanish rule - and for the following six months it’s French.

The island that switches countries every six months

[Tangent]

Geographical anomalies

1. West Fulton county Kentucky - cut off from the rest of Kentucky by the meandering Mississippi, only land border is with Tennessee, and almost entirely surrounded by Missouri
2. Northwest Angle, Minnesota - Northernmost point of the continental United States
3. The easternmost point on the continental USA is a place called West Quoddy Head, ME
4. Four Corners - the only place in the US where four states meet (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
5. Bir Tawil - an 800 square mile area along the border between Egypt and Sudan that neither country wants to lay claim to
6. Point Roberts, WA - a town on a peninsula that you can only access by land from the continental US by going into British Columbia.
7. Alaska - simultaneously the easternmost and westernmost US state, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere.
8. A part of Delaware is east of the Delaware River, and you can step from Delaware into New Jersey on dry land.
9. Llanymynech - has a national border running down the middle of its main street. The eastern side of the road lies in England, and the western side of the road is in Wales
10. Bratislava, Slovakia: the only capital city in the world that is located at a country tripoint: the intersections of Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria (the tripoint is outside the urban area but the city’s administrative area extends out to the borders)
11. the island of Hendaye - For six months of the year, from February 1 to 31 July, it’s under Spanish rule - and for the following six months it’s French.

cleanup - Four Corners was already on the list

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Oops, sorry!

Geographical anomalies

1. West Fulton county Kentucky - cut off from the rest of Kentucky by the meandering Mississippi, only land border is with Tennessee, and almost entirely surrounded by Missouri
2. Northwest Angle, Minnesota - Northernmost point of the continental United States
3. The easternmost point on the continental USA is a place called West Quoddy Head, ME
4. Four Corners - the only place in the US where four states meet (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
5. Bir Tawil - an 800 square mile area along the border between Egypt and Sudan that neither country wants to lay claim to
6. Point Roberts, WA - a town on a peninsula that you can only access by land from the continental US by going into British Columbia.
7. Alaska - simultaneously the easternmost and westernmost US state, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere.
8. A part of Delaware is east of the Delaware River, and you can step from Delaware into New Jersey on dry land.
9. Llanymynech - has a national border running down the middle of its main street. The eastern side of the road lies in England, and the western side of the road is in Wales
10. Bratislava, Slovakia: the only capital city in the world that is located at a country tripoint: the intersections of Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria (the tripoint is outside the urban area but the city’s administrative area extends out to the borders)
11. the island of Hendaye - For six months of the year, from February 1 to 31 July, it’s under Spanish rule - and for the following six months it’s French.
12. The Point of Beginning for western American surveys is now actually under the Ohio River

Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

[Thin_Ice]

There’s still more housekeeping to do:
KO replaced IG’s no. 9 with his own post.

[jtur88]

Geographical anomalies

1. West Fulton county Kentucky - cut off from the rest of Kentucky by the meandering Mississippi, only land border is with Tennessee, and almost entirely surrounded by Missouri
2. Northwest Angle, Minnesota - Northernmost point of the continental United States
3. The easternmost point on the continental USA is a place called West Quoddy Head, ME
4. Four Corners - the only place in the US where four states meet (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
5. Bir Tawil - an 800 square mile area along the border between Egypt and Sudan that neither country wants to lay claim to
6. Point Roberts, WA - a town on a peninsula that you can only access by land from the continental US by going into British Columbia.
7. Alaska - simultaneously the easternmost and westernmost US state, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere.
8. A part of Delaware is east of the Delaware River, and you can step from Delaware into New Jersey on dry land.
9. Llanymynech - has a national border running down the middle of its main street. The eastern side of the road lies in England, and the western side of the road is in Wales
10. Bratislava, Slovakia: the only capital city in the world that is located at a country tripoint: the intersections of Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria (the tripoint is outside the urban area but the city’s administrative area extends out to the borders)
11. the island of Hendaye - For six months of the year, from February 1 to 31 July, it’s under Spanish rule - and for the following six months it’s French.
12. The Point of Beginning for western American surveys is now actually under the Ohio River
13. The only US common 5-point, where five counties meet, is in the middle of Lake Okeechobee, Florida

Next:

Well-known sings that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River

(Note that the Star Spangled Banner and Dixie start with the same three notes, so would not qualify.)

[Bullitt]

(Typo fix. I hope you don’t mind)

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn

[Infovore]

(Typo fix. I hope you don’t mind)

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water

[Bullitt]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long

[jtur88]

Well known SONGS, not arrangements. Recognizable lno matter whose version is it. 100000000000 rock songs start out with the first three notes of Smoke on the Water. Same for You Shook Me

[Bullitt]

Well you did not say “unambiguously recognizable by everybody on earth, as well as a music database that logs all notes”. My entries are unambiguously recognizable by me.

1st 3 notes of You Shook Me All Night Long, with the pacing, and the guitar, and it is unambiguous.

I stand by my play, jtur!

[buddha_david]

@jtur88

100000000000 rock songs start out with the first three notes of Smoke on the Water.

They do? Show me one.

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)

[Leo_Bloom]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)
6. Johnnie Be Good

[Infovore]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)
6. Johnnie Be Good
7. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

[Bullitt]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)
6. Johnnie Be Good
7. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
8. The theme song for MAS*H

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)
6. Johnnie Be Good
7. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
8. The theme song for MAS*H
9. The Stars and Stripes Forever

[NDP]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)
6. Johnnie Be Good
7. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
8. The theme song for MAS*H
9. Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra

[gkster]

Well-known songs that are unambiguously recognizable by their first three notes.

1. Moon River
2. The Marine Corps Hymn
3. Smoke on the Water
4. You Shook Me All Night Long
5. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (okay its really four notes, but otherwise we’ll be here all night…)
6. Johnnie Be Good
7. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
8. The theme song for MAS*H
9. The Stars and Stripes Forever
10. Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra
11. Over the Rainbow

The “Somewhere over the rainbow” chorus, that is, and not the introductory verse that hardly anyone knows

[jtur88]

@Bullitt

Well you did not say “unambiguously recognizable by everybody on earth, as well as a music database that logs all notes”. My entries are unambiguously recognizable by me.

1st 3 notes of You Shook Me All Night Long, with the pacing, and the guitar, and it is unambiguous.

I stand by my play, jtur!

Whistle the first three notes, and see how many people recognize it.