I remember walking through a part of three different states in one afternoon when I was a kid. (that was an easy thing to write about when I had to do “what I did this summer”)
And in what state do we find the Statue of Liberty?
Yes, yes, but in the spirit of the OP, which sort of amounts to winning drinks in a bar bet, the technical answer would be the correct one. Sheesh, people.
Geographical trick questions??
Sand dunes are located all over the word, generally indeserts. But doesn anyone know the furthest north location of Sand Dunes in the world?
The Athabasca Sand Dunes in Norethern Saskatchewan, on the shores of Lake Athabasca
Can anyone name the northernmost permanently inhabited location in the world???
Name the three states that have parts of a perfect circle in their borderlines.
If you want the answer, you have to tell me how to do a spoilers box.
Hmm…that’s got to involve Michigan and Wisconsin somehow, but for the life of me, I can’t seem to make a third state fit that description. And I just spent five minutes looking at a map over it.
According to public thought, it’s in New York. ( I can’t find my cite right now, darn it. . . )
But the halls on Ellis Island were built on New Jersey soil, while expansion to the island were brought into New York State lines. Cite.
But the Statue of Liberty, IIRC, is a little farther out from NJ shores and is in NY waters, so she falls into NY state.
Tripler
Who cares where she sits. She’s still beautiful.
Pardon me. Slight typo. The original island was NY, but expansion went into NJ.
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My bad. Damn keyboard. :mad:
Admit it; there is no third and you only put it in so someone would tell you how to do a spoiler box!
Well it worked. Just enclose the spoilt text in vB code spoiler tags as you would any other kind of text.
Delaware and Pennsylvania? Was I at least two thirds correct?
Now quote this post, or any other post with coding you’d like to emulate, to see how it’s done.
OK, here you go, three (US) States which have a potion of a circle.
Delaware and Pennsylvania… of course and New Jersey where it runs up against Delaware in the Delaware River. I like this one a lot.
Starting from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and traveling only by land, what is the fewest number of states you can travel through to reach Canada?
I dunno, how many?
IIRC it is an outpost of the mighty Canadian military. The name’s lost on me though…
Also, if you start slightly south of that starting point, 100 miles south will take you to a latitude at which the Earth’s cross section has a 50-mile circumference, which means 100 miles east will take you exactly twice around. You can then expand this to an infinite number of starting points approaching 100 miles north of the South Pole.
Which intersection of three countries used to be an intersection of four countries for a brief period of time?The intersection now encompasses The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. But for about a century, up until the end of World War I, a small yet independent country called Moresnet bordered on the intersection as well, making it an intersection of FOUR countries. Not that intersections of four countries are unique, but this is the only one I know that went from 4 to 3.If you know this one, you’re truly gifted in history and geography. I only found out about it 2 years ago.
I can easily see half a dozen ways how it can be done in five but can’t get it down to four. So?
Couldn’t you just walk on the Mexican side of the border west until you got to be south of California, then go up three states (CA, OR, WA) to Canada?
If “coast of the Gulf of Mexico” includes being in Mexico, you can go all the way across then go up through California, Oregon, and Washington, though I doubt that’s what it means.
Excellent! I was looking for a tricky way to do it and still didn’t see it. I was getting desperate and wondering if there was a Canadian consulate in Austin or somewhere making it, contentiously, one state but your solution is better.
BobLibDem’s post wasn’t there when I hit Submit, obviously. I should read these things more quickly… 