Geography XI Quiz

Tommo's last quiz for a while, and as it's Katie's birthday I'll make it a Geography one.

19 What products have been named after these places? a)Corinth; b)Calicut; c)Damascus; d)Mosul; e)Lille; f)Nanking; g)Bayonne; h)Oporto; i)Milan; j)Jerez.

20 What pieces of water are joined by the a)Suez, b)Panama, c)Welland, d)Kiel and e)Corinth canals ?

21 If you travelled due South, due East, due West and due North from Glasgow, to what countries outside the British Isles would you come ?

22 Which were the original Cinque Ports? Why was this league formed ?

23 What is the origin of the English place-name endings a) chester b) ham c) thorpe d) borough e) by ?

24 In what English towns are the following famous streets to be found ? a)Briggate; b)Fargate; c)Coney Street; d)Milsom Street; e)Long Row; f)Broad Street; g)The Pantiles; h)Grainger Street; i)Deansgate.

25 In summer, does the sun - when we see the ba$tard - rise earlier in a) London or Aberdeen ? b) London or Cardiff ? Does it set earlier in c) Southampton or Sheffield ? d) Norwich or Dublin ?

26 Whereabout are these valleys to be found ? a)Lathkill Dale; [b)Ennerdale; c)Doone Valley; d)Hope Valley; e)Vale of Pickering; f)Wensleydale; g)Vale of Clwyd; h)Corve Dale; i)Ape Dale; j)Vale of Berkeley; k)Vale of Blackmoor.

27 What countries were contained in Hitler's Empire when it had reached its greatest expansion ? (3 to get)


Good Luck !

[davemay]

20
A Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea
B Pacific Ocean & Carribean Sea ( leading to the Atlantiv Ocean )
C Lake Ontario & Lake Erie in Canada ( the canal bypasses the Niagara Falls )
D North Sea & Baltic Sea
E Gulf of Corinth & Saronic Gulf ( leads to the Mirtoan Sea )

21
A Due South from Glasgow brings you to Wales
B Due East from Glasgow brings you to Sweden
C Due west from Glasgow brings you to Canada
D Due north from Glasgow brings you to Greenland

24
G Tunbridge Wells
I Manchester

26
B Lake District ( South of Cockermouth )
E South of A170 between Pickering & Malton North Yorkshire

27
Western Russia, Poland, Austria, Chechoslovakia, Italy, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, Morrocco, Algeria, Libya.

[beefy]

25) The sun rises earlier the further north you (summer) go so I would go for the foillowing

a) Aberdeen b) London

It has the same effect in the evening the further north (summer) sets later.

C) Sheffield d) Dublin

Its not quite that simple as west and east come into it if the lattitude is similar becuase of the angle to the sun in the Summer.

The Arctic circle is in constant daylight in the summer and constant darkness in the winter like the Equator is the same all year round equal daylight and night.

[beefy]

19c )Sugar j) sherry

Dave May first:

20a, b, c, d all totally correct for 4pts.
20e I can't deny that your answer is technically correct - so 0.5pt - however I would have said simply "The Ionian Sea and the Aegean Sea" to be in line with the spirit of the question:


21a incorrect ! Remember I said "countries outside the British Isles": Wales is still part of them. ;)
21b incorrect, on the right latitude, but there's another country in between.
21c correct, Labrador, part of Canada, 1pt
21d incorrect, Greenland's too far over to the west.

24g & 24i - both correct, 2pts

26b & 26e - both correct (2pts) - Yorkshire Moors would have done for e.

27 Fantastic answer ! You've identified 17 of the possible 24. 17pts.

Leaderboard:
[glow=red,2,300]Dave May 26.5pts[/glow]

Now Beefy, and taking 19 first.
f Sherry earns you a good point, it takes its name from the Spanish city previously known as Xeres. From its Arabic name Sherish, actually.
c Can't give you Sugar, as although its own brand name is manufactured there, the name sugar doesn't actually derive from Damascus.

25 is an amazing one to score, as you quite rightly say, sunrise and sunset isn't simply a matter of what lies further east or west on a map - as the earth is a globe and north and south also come into the equation. But only your first two choices are right !
Yes the sun rises earlier in Aberdeen, at the moment 4:54 as against London's 5:15. And London precedes Cardiff at 5:27.

But with the length of day being different by half an hour (Sheffield 17.5 hours as against Southampton 17.0 hours) sunset is earlier in Southampton (21:01 as opposed to Sheffield 21:12) although they are more or less on the same line of longitude.

As for Norwich versus Dublin, Norwich sees the sun first and loses it first - Norwich sunset 20:58 at present, Dublin 21:32.

Leaderboard:
1. Dave May 26.5pts
2. Beefy 3pts

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

22a.
Head Ports
Hastings
Sandwich
Dover
New Romney
Hythe
Rye
Winchelsea

Corporate Members
Deal and Ramsgate
Faversham, Folkstone and Margate
Lydd
Tenterden

22.b Something to to do with the Herring-fair at Yarmouth I think.

24a Leeds
b. Sheffield


26a Derbyshire Dales National Nature Reserve, Peak District.
c. Doone Valley, Exmoor.
d. Hope Valley, Peak District, Derbyshire.
f. Upper Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales.
g. The Vale of Clwyd on the Clwydian Range. Wales.
h. is that in Shropshire.
i. i. Shropshire as well.
j. somewhere in Gloucestershire i think.
k. North Dorset its part of the Stour valley.

27. Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy.
Then Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Croatia.

22 Cinque points to Jock for naming the original Cinque Ports: Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, Romney and Hythe.
It is true to say that Winchelsea and Rye were added later (followed by others, notably Brightlingsea, which being in Essex is the only one not in either Sussex or Kent) Un demi point pour chacun Winchelsea et Rye.

The purpose of appointing the Cinque Ports remains to be answered correctly.

Leaderboard:
1. Dave May 26.5pts
2. Sir Jock o'the Strap 6pts
3. Beefy 3pts

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

22b. military and trade purposes.

Military purposes earns you a point.
The league was formed to defend the south-eastern coast against attacks by the French.

I thought your earlier stab about Yarmouth was a red herring, but it does have some relevance, viz the following quote :
Hythe has a long and interesting maritime and military history. It is one of the original Cinque Ports which during Norman times were charged with providing ships and men to the King to help defend the Kent coastline from invasion. In return they were given tax privileges, the right to hold their own courts, and strangely the right to run an annual herring fair in Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. The other Cinque Ports were Hastings, Romney, Dover and Sandwich.

Leaderboard:
1. Dave May 26.5pts
2. Sir Jock o'the Strap 7pts
3. Beefy 3pts

I see you've added some more to your earlier answers, but they'll have to keep till tomorrow, as I'm off to my good bed.

[davemay]

21D

Far Eastern Russia ( could now be Siberia ) and that part of Russia is approx 100 miles from the int date line.

21B

Denmark

21A
Silly me for not reading the Question correctly. Should be
France

27 Egypt, Tunisia, Bulgaria,

Right, can attend to the second part of Jock's Test Paper........

24a, 24b both correct (2pts)

26a correct
26c. correct
26d. correct
26f. correct (in amongst the Pennines)
26g. correct (leads up north to Rhyl)
26h. correct (to the north of Ludlow)
26i. correct (to the NW of Wenlock Edge)
26j. correct (between the Cotswolds and the R.Severn)
26k. correct (a favourite part of the country of mine)
(9pts scored for no.26)

27.
Nazi Germany - the most obvious one, and correct (1pt)
Japan - not really controlled by Hitler, at this stage of the war they were doing their own thing: Hitler was trying to seize entire control of Europe (he might as well have waited until 2007 and he'd have been offered it on a plate for nothing !) whereas Japan seized the opportunity to "rough up" America.
Italy - a satellite ally of Germany, agreed, but Dave May already got the point for that one.
Hungary - correct (1pt)
Romania - Dave May got that one.
Slovak Republic -part of Czechoslavakia, already got by Dave May.
Bulgaria - correct (1pt)
Yugoslavia - Dave May got that one.
Croatia - behave, it was part of Yugoslavia.
So you found three, which means still four to get.

Leaderboard:
1. Dave May 26.5pts
2. Sir Jock o'the Strap 21pts
3. Beefy 3pts

Dave May had to get his atlas out again............. ;D
.....and has now completely sussed question 21 (which Jock had no interest in whatsoever not being from Glasgow ;) )

21D Far Eastern Russia ( could now be Siberia ) and that part of Russia is approx 100 miles from the int date line.
Correct ! journeying via the North Pole and back down. 1pt

21B Denmark - correct, gets in the way of Sweden, rather. 1pt

21A France - correct, Brittany is reached. 1pt

27 Egypt, Tunisia, Bulgaria,
1pt for Egypt (Western Egypt to be precise) Along with Albania and Libya, part of Mussolini's empire.
Tunisia I'm going to give as it was part of French North Africa, and I've already allowed Morrocco and Algeria. This may seem over-generous to others, but you weren't greedy enough to claim Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania separately from Western Russia.
So two more down and there's still three to get.

Leaderboard:
1. Dave May 31.5pts
2. Sir Jock o'the Strap 21pts
3. Beefy 3pts

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

27. Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France.

jock said:

27. Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France.

Ok, a reluctant one for Luxembourg, but none for the others as points for those already allocated to Dave May.

Leaderboard:
1. Dave May 31.5pts
2. Sir Jock o'the Strap 22pts
3. Beefy 3pts

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

Why reluctant?

23a Chester, A roman term for fort, or camp then later town.
b Ham, a Saxon term for village.
c Thorpe, a Viking term meaning Daughter Settlement.
d Borough a self-governing township.
e by, Viking term for farm, or Village.

24c Coney Street, York?
d. Milsom Street, Bath?
e. Long Row i think might be Nottingham, I'm sure I ate pizza from there once. (it was a particularly unforgettable pizza)
f. Broad Street, Oxford, famous for it's bookshops.
g. Grainger Street, Newcastle, been down this street, on way to football ground, you walk down it coming from the train station.

Some much needed points for you, buddy !

23 gets you the full complement of 5pts, only thing I could add is that Chester comes from the Latin "castra" meaning camp.

24 all correct, and half-point bonuses each for the extra details on Long Row, Broad street and Grainger Street. (6.5 in all)

Leaderboard:
1. Sir Jock o'the Strap 33.5pts
2. Dave May 31.5pts
3. Beefy 3pts

Remaining : Q19 (9pts a/v); 27 (3pts a/v)

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

19a pottery?
b a type of cotton (Calico)
d. Muslin or Marble.

19b Calico and 19d Muslin are correct. 19a I can't give as it bears no direct link back to the name.

2 more points to the Jockmeister.

Leaderboard:
1. Sir Jock o'the Strap 35.5pts
2. Dave May 31.5pts
3. Beefy 3pts

Remaining : Q19 (7pts a/v); 27 (3pts a/v)

[CraigC]

Come to this one a bit late, but here goes for a couple of points:-

19.g - the bayonet originated from around Bayonne
h - Port wine is named after Oporto

Thanks for putting the Cinque (pronounced sink) ports question in Tommo. Sandwich was an important little town in medieval times, and still is in golf (and also for a certain pharmaceutical company and one of their products).

2pts there, Craig, for 19g and 19h.

The Cinque Ports have been an important feature of the defence of our shores and I would invite more comment. Deal I believe was included as one at a later stage: when I visited there a couple of years ago I noticed what I think is a Martello Tower.

Here's some more about them:
The area around Dover is steeped in military history going back centuries. Much physical evidence remains: for example, a number of anti-invasion watchtowers from Napoleonic times, Martello Towers, still line the coast. In those days, local militia practised musketry in the area. The Royal Military Canal was also built in this era as a strategic route sufficiently far inland to avoid raids from the sea. It ran westwards from the shore at Folkstone to Rye, skirting the north of Romney Marsh.
Then, from the 1850s parts of the coastal region were developed as artillery and small arms ranges – which have been in use ever since. One of them even gave its name to a type of high explosive, Lyddite, developed there during the 1880s.
Strange concrete structures also still survive on the cliffs – parts of a sound-locating system built in 1940 to hear German aircraft taking off from airfields in France during the Battle of Britain.

There, are of course, fortifications too along the south coast (eg Portsmouth, Plymouth). According to the book The Melancholy Hussar by Thomas Hardy, Napoleon had big plans to invade England via the Dorset coast, and The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers describes the Kaiser's sights on an invasion at the turn of the 20th Century via the Essex and Suffolk coast and was mobilising troops at the East Friesian islands to this effect.

Leaderboard:
1. Sir Jock o'the Strap 35.5pts
2. Dave May 31.5pts
3. Beefy 3pts
4. CraigC 2pts

Remaining : Q19 (5pts a/v); 27 (3pts a/v)

Time to draw this one to a close.
The products associated with the places :
a)Corinth - currants !
c)Damascus - damask (linen) and steel.
e)Lille - lisle (Def: A fine, smooth, tightly twisted thread spun from long-stapled cotton; fabric knitted of this thread, used especially for hosiery and underwear).
f)Nanking - nankeen - definition given in link below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankeen
i)Milan - millinery

Finally, 27 - the three missing countries controlled by Hitler at the zenith of his power:
1. Denmark
2. Spain (Franco being fascist and an ally of Hitler and in his debt following the Spanish Civil War)
3. The Channel Islands !!! :-[ A good propaganda move on Hitler's part, occupying British Soil, but it suited England at the time not to defend them (apologies, guys !) for the following reasons:
a)They were not strategically important;
b)All the time Hitler was fortifying them (10% of his entire supply of concrete was shipped out there) he was not concentrating elsewhere, like in the north of France.
c)German troops outnumbered the Islanders by 2 to 1: had we decided to bombard them, it would have taken out their troops but there would have inevitably have been civilian casualties.
So, in retrospect, probably the right decision.

Final placings:
1. Sir Jock o'the Strap 35.5pts
2. Dave May 31.5pts
3. Beefy 3pts
4. CraigC 2pts