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Welcome to the Greenwood.Net Curiosity Corner
Geograhy Quiz
Jan 30, 2012
It’s quiz time!
You got out of a quiz last column, but not this time. Time to test your knowledge. I just ordered a new world globe. Mine was out of date – countries changing names, countries added, etc. There are something like 196 countries in the world today (depending on how you count them). The breakup of the U.S.S.R. added a few, which I can’t spell, other than the “stan” endings. Africa and other places are big on renaming countries. Let’s see if you’ve kept up. I’ll give you a new name, and you give me the old name. These will be relatively popular countries – there are some little ones I’ve never heard of.
Current name:
1. Zimbabwe
2. Sri Lanka
3. Myanmar
4. Czech Republic
5. Slovakia
6. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DCR)
7. Croatia
Answers:
1. Rhodesia
2. Ceylon
3. Burma
4. Czechoslovakia (country divided)
5. Czechoslovakia (country divided)
6. Zaire (Belgian Congo when I studied geography in the fourth grade.)
7. part of Yugoslavia
That was short, so let’s have another. I was watching a CD on the Civil War and was impressed by the initials in Southern names. Impressed because I didn’t know what they stood for. Do you?
Name:
1. Robert E. Lee
2. Jefferson F. Davis
3. J.E.B. Stewart
4. Joseph E. Johnston
5. P.G.T. Beauregard
Not Civil War – just for fun and sports fans.
6. O.J. Simpson
7. The real name of Yogi Berra
Initial Answers:
1. Edward
2. Finis
3. James Ewell Brown
4. Eggleston
5. Pierre Gustave Toutant
6. Orenthal James (not Juice)
7. Lawrence Peter Berra (Yogi picked up his famous nickname from a friend who said he resembled a Hindu yogi while sitting around with his arms and legs crossed while waiting to bat or looking sad after a losing game.)
C.P.S. (Curious Postscript): You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. ~Yogi Berra
Curious about something? Send your questions to Dr. Jerry D. Wilson, College of Science and Mathematics, Lander University, Greenwood, SC 29649, or for e-mail, www.curiosity-corner.net. Selected questions will appear in the Curiosity Corner. © JDW
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