Krakatoa is actually **west ** of Java. So I suppose the distance east is however many thousands of kilometres it takes to go all the way around the world at that parallel of latitude from Java to Krakatoa.
And a question in the spirit of the OP –
From what country in Europe did the Pennsylvania Dutch originate?
I’ll take a stab. Bill and Hillary Clinton? Hillary would be able to address the Senate anyway in her capacity as a Senator from New York. Perhaps Bill Clinton has that privilege as an ex-president?
Failing that, isn’t the current Secretary of Labour married to a senator? Perhaps the role of the Secretary of Labour carries the right to address the Senate?
Correct. Ex-Presidents were granted the privilege of the floor in the Senate in 1964; Harry Truman (who had been a Senator for ten years before becoming Vice President in January 1945) was the first ex-President to do so. And Hillary, of course, has the right to speak in her own right as Senator.
(I find it amusing that the spouses of the two major candidates for President in 1996 are both now Senators.)
Germany. They’re the Pennsylvania “Dutch” because of a faulty translation of the German word Deutsch… which means “German.”
When were women given the right to vote in the United States?
Scary as it may be, I actually knew that.
I do too, but imagine if they ran for president, how much more odd that would be.
Sooooooooooooo close it’s spooky.
The fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon:
[transcript] …
Buzz Aldrin: Contact light.
Neil Armstrong: Shutdown.
Aldrin: Okay. Engine stop. ACA out of Detent.
Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
Charlie Duke (Houston CapCom): We copy you down, Eagle.
Armstrong: Engine arm is off … Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Duke: Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.
… [/transcript]
Gotcha …
What the …
Where did that ‘a’ come from??? :smack:
::shrugs, slinks off in search of a good, reputable proof-reader::
Nobody seems to have tackled this one, and it may be out of lack of clarity in the question.
Bulldogs, is “region” the official name of the political subdivision here? Or are you talking ecology, or ethnology, or climate, or what?
Sorry, forgot to toss out a couple of new ones …
How many states did the riders have to cross in the first year that the Pony Express was in operation?
What was the offical name of the war the United States entered into after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
political. i don’t know if region is the official term, but you could break out a thesaurus or something…
The answer I fount with google is:
9 departments
subdivided into 324 sections
The answer I found with google is:
9 departments
subdivided into 112 provinces, 324 municipalities
and 1.384 cantons
Zero.
Zero or two, depending upon how you count.
The only states the Pony Express operated in were Missouri and California ended, in between were territories, not states. Since they didn’t cross MO or CA, the answer is technically zero.
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Bob is six feet tall. Bob walks around the Earth at the equator, which for the purposes of this question, we’ll assume to be exactly 24,000 miles. Bob’s feet traveled exactly 24,000 miles. How much farther did the top of Bob’s head travel than his feet?
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What fictional character has been the subject of more movies than any other in cinema history?
More precisely all reptiles and amphibians, but yeah.
I know I’ve seen the answer to this before…is it Sherlock Holmes?
No. Sherlock Holmes is tops in English language movies, though. Think Hong Kong.
Assuming a perfect circle, that Bob can walk on water, and that there’s a trench across South America, Africa, etc., with the bottom right at sea level, and probably a few other things I haven’t thought of, 2pi times 6’, or just shy of 38 feet. This answer won’t change regardless of the size of the sphere Bob walks around. If he walks around a 10’ diameter globe using magnetic boots, his head will also move about 38 feet further than his feet.
To what does the name of the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan refer?
Is it a corruption of the native word for a local geographical feature like a mountain or river?
Why is the Lincoln Memorial so named?