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Old 21-April-2008, 02:29 AM
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This is what I was thinking of, and it is very large compared to the Bonneville Salt Flats. But NullArbor Plain is much larger and considered almost completely flat.
So, once again, who has the correct answer?

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Old 21-April-2008, 01:34 PM
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Geonuc.


I was hoping to find a larger flat portion on Antarctica, but so far no answer.
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Old 21-April-2008, 01:57 PM
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Oh, man. I hate asking questions. Mine are all dumb.

OK, here it is:

The Big Island of Hawaii comprises five coalescing shield volcanoes. Name them. Hint: Loihi isn't one of them.
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Old 21-April-2008, 02:48 PM
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Kohala
Hualalai
Mauna Kea
Mauna Loa
Kilauea (I suppose Pu'u O'o counts as a crater of Kilauea, otherwise it would be six).

Holy Haleakala, that was hard to memorise...
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Old 21-April-2008, 03:33 PM
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You got it.

I thought perhaps Hualalai might not be that easy to guess (absent googling, of course).
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Old 23-April-2008, 04:01 PM
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Arneb's turn?
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Arneb's Turn is is a switchback on a very narrow mountain road in southern Lichtenstein, made famous by the Lichtensteiner Formula 1 driver Arneb Luxembourg who was able to take it in a four wheel drift at over 60 km/hr.
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Old 23-April-2008, 04:35 PM
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the road? the switchback?
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Arneb's Turn is is a switchback on a very narrow mountain road in southern Lichtenstein, made famous by the Lichtensteiner Formula 1 driver Arneb Luxembourg who was able to take it in a four wheel drift at over 60 km/hr.
Hmm, 36 mph. Mr. Luxembourg was driving a school bus?
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Old 23-April-2008, 08:56 PM
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Switchback mountain......(didn't they make a movie about that) .......lol
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Very short radius turn, high crown, 1,500 foot straight drop outboard, loose gravel. Even in a Formula 1 it's hairy. And this was in 1955, remember.
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Old 23-April-2008, 09:26 PM
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I've driven that turn, directly in front of the prince's house.
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Old 23-April-2008, 10:04 PM
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Of course. I'd forgotten.
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Old 23-April-2008, 10:12 PM
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I'm surprised Arneb didn't mention it before; it's only about 75 miles from Aachen.

Has anybody seen Arneb? I hope the turn didn't get him.
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Old 23-April-2008, 10:42 PM
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Arneb's turn?
Yes, Arneb's turn.
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Old 26-April-2008, 02:26 PM
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Yes, Arneb's turn.
Not sure what the rules are, but as Arneb seems to have absented himself for time being, and as I was up last, I'd say the quiz is open to any who might care to pose a new one.
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Ok. What's the name of a small city in Louisiana that you can spell by punching some numbers into a calculator then read by turning the calculator upside down?

I'll give you a hint: There are seven letters in the name of the city.
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Old 26-April-2008, 05:13 PM
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There's only one? impossible

PS: OK, I'm convinced. The letters that result from inverted numbers are I Z E H S G L B O, right? From these lists of cities/towns in LA, I found none that could be inverted. Here are the few seven letter ones:
Louisiana Bigger Cities (over 6000 residents)
Bastrop
Crowley
Estelle
Gardere
Hammond
Harahan
Lacombe
Laplace
Marrero
Oakdale
Reserve
Slidell
Sulphur
Zachary
Cities, towns, and villages in Louisiana between 1000 and 6000 residents
Baldwin
Bernice
Berwick
Cameron
Carlyss
Chauvin
Clinton
Deville
Elmwood
Gueydan
Jackson
Killian
Lafitte
Livonia
Lutcher
Mansura
Mathews
Oberlin
Paradis
Poydras
Supreme
Vidalia
Towns, and villages in Louisiana with fewer than 1000 residents
Anacoco
Ashland
Belcher
Cankton
Chatham
Clayton
Doyline
Florien
Gilbert
Grayson
Hessmer
Hosston
Mangham
Maurice
Natchez
Norwood
Pollock
Rodessa
Sarepta
Simpson
Tickfaw
Varnado
Wallace

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Old 27-April-2008, 08:19 AM
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The letters that result from inverted numbers are I Z E H S G L B O, right?
Surely there's a Boghill somewhere in Louisiana. Ireland is full of them!
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Old 27-April-2008, 08:50 AM
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Surely there's a Boghill somewhere in Louisiana. Ireland is ful of them!
Ask Shirley, she'll know. Unless you've discovered an hhEb09'1 nickname we're not aware of.

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Old 27-April-2008, 04:46 PM
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