Hmmmm…would that be London or The City? I can believe The City is the smallest city in England.
We don’t use capitol in the way that Americans use it. Here capital refers to the appropriate city e.g. Canberra for Australia, Sydney for New South Wales, Brisbane for Queensland etc.
Nope—there’s an even trickier answer.
It is a trick question - lots of people say “Sydney.”
Wild guess…the candy bar, not being around until the twentieth century, was named after quite a few billion people.
I don’t have answers for any of these, so I hope no one minds if I post another president-related question that my history teacher gave us, for just such equations as this thread.
Who was the first president of the United States?
Q: Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?
Surprising Answers:
- Nobody - his tomb is above ground, not buried.
- In it are Grant and his wife.
Surprising answer:
In all liklihood, Babe Ruth.
Although Samuel Huntington has been proposed, I’ve heard from several sources (including this page) that John Hanson qualifies. Which (if either) man did you have in mind?
SV1: How many National Football League teams play their home games in New York?
SV2: The De Soto automobile was named for Hernando de Soto. The La Salle was named for Robert Cavelier de La Salle. For whom was the Hudson auto named?
The Jets and Giants both play in New Jersey, but as far as I know the Bills are actually in Buffalo, so…one?
Mine is still open…
What movie set in Philadelphia won an Academy Award for best cinematography?
You got it - the City of London (never referred to as just “London”) is the ancient part that includes the financial district, the Tower of London, St Paul’s etc. It’s a city in its own right, is less than two square miles in area and has a resident population of only about 7,000 (Wells has ~10,000). Of course, its weekday population is somewhat larger…
Ok then…
Why is the premier baseball event called the World Series?
Go north from Derry in Northern Ireland. What’s the first foreign country you come to?
Because Americans are unbelievably solipsistic?
Ireland (the Republic) – the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal.
Russia has ports on three different oceans, counting the various seas and bays as parts of the ocean to which they open. It has one year-round ice-free port. What port, which ocean is it on, and why is it the only one?
Which word in this sentence is spelt wrongly: colour, centre or meter?
Russian Ports.
Obviously ports that open to the Arctic do not remain ice free. And those ports that open to the Atlantic via the Baltic also ice over on occasion. But I would expect that the southern Pacific ports of Vladivostok and its neighbors Nakhodka and Vostochnyy remain ice free. And, of course, all ports on or near the Black Sea (which leads to the Med and then the Atlantic), such as Rostov, Novorossiysk, and Tuapse remain ice free all year round.
OK, Polycarp, what’s the trick? I’ve obviously missed it. Darn it.
You’ll have to be a bit more specific. Which spelling conventions are to be used?
To me, the only word not spelt correctly in the sentence is meter. I’d spell it metre.
However, from my knowledge of the way Americans spell, I think they’d generally consider there are three incorrect words:
*spelt * (they’d say spelled)
*colour * (they’d say color)
*centre * (they’d say center)
*Spelt * is never the correct past tense or past participle of to spell. The three “example” words are all correct spellings of words with two or more correct spellings (color, center, and metre are acceptable alternates).