General Knowledge Quiz

[MotCO]

Senegal
The Gambia
Nigeria
Chad

Sorry, none are correct.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Portugal?
Liberia?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Cote D'Ivoire?

 

[MotCO]

Portugal?
Liberia?

Nope

 

[MotCO]

Cote D'Ivoire?

And another nope!

 

[FrodshamJnct]

France?

 

[Calthrop]

Have done what I rather often do: succumbed to temptation, done looking-up, and thus barred self from submitting results thereof -- hope it isn't giving the show away, to say that one of the eight struck me as decidedly unexpected !

 

[MotCO]

France?

Yes, but it has already been 'got'.

 

[MotCO]

Have done what I rather often do: succumbed to temptation, done looking-up, and thus barred self from submitting results thereof -- hope it isn't giving the show away, to say that one of the eight struck me as decidedly unexpected !

I think I know the one you mean!

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I will try another west African country

Togo

 

[xotGD]

Norway?

 

[Gloster]

Faroe Islands?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Morocco and/or Algeria.

Either or both of these?

 

[MotCO]

I will try another west African country

Togo

Togo is correct

 

[MotCO]

Norway?

Nil points for Norway!

 

[MotCO]

Faroe Islands?

Not the Faroe Islands.

 

[DerekC]

Does Antarctica count as a country?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Does Antarctica count as a country?

Don't think so, but that's for @MotCO to opine upon.

 

[MotCO]

Don't think so, but that's for @MotCO to opine upon.

It wasn't one of my 8. Artica and Antartica are not usually recognised as soverign states - they don't send anyone to the Olympics for example

 

[MotCO]

Either or both of these?

Algeria is correct

 

[MotCO]

Spain

Mali(?)

Sorry I missed your entries - both are correct

 

[MotCO]

Mali -- @AndyPJG: sorry ! didn't notice your entry of Mali -- I'm not sure about this one either, but it's a long country east-to-west ...
Burkina Faso

Sorry I missed your entry yesterday. Bukina Faso is correct.

 

[Calthrop]

Dare I observe: that it would seem that all eight have now been named?

 

[MotCO]

All answers are now in. The full list (north to south) is:

United Kingdom stevem70

France stevem70

Spain AndyPJG

Algeria MCRWarrior

Mali AndyPJG

Burkina Faso Calthrop

Ghana stevem70

Togo Ohnoapacer


I declare @SteveM70 the winner; please take the floor

 

[MotCO]

Dare I observe: that it would seem that all eight have now been named?

(I was working on this when you replied. For some reason I missed two responses from yesteday - I think it was a bottom-of-the-previous-page problem.)

 

[Calthrop]

Togo was my looked-up unexpected one -- wretched sneaky country: only its tiny extreme north-west corner is, just, traversed by the Meridian.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I think that if Antarctic territory claims were accepted as being part of the claimant country, which they are not, then Norway would have been a correct answer, if I have understood the Antarctic claim locations correctly.

 

[DerekC]

I went to consult the globe I thought we had in our living room. Mrs C on being asked tells me that we gave it to one of our granddaughters five years ago!!

 

[SteveM70]

Bit of a crossover question with the railway general knowledge quiz…..which train service calls successively at four founder members of the football league…..name the route and the stations/clubs

 

[perryman]

Accrington Stanley, Burnley, Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End?

I don't know the name of the line.