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lovingbothI am sure that I moaned about the quiz question a couple of years ago about which is the first country beginning with C, alphabetically.
The alleged answer wasn't even consistent - the setter reckoned that Cambodia was the 'Republic of Cambodia', ignoring that his preferred answer was also a 'Something of Somewhere'.
The actual answer, according to the UN, is...?
I was reminded of this by tonight's quiz, which is relying on the dire TV version of the original 'Halloween' being canon. Fuck off...
The alleged answer wasn't even consistent - the setter reckoned that Cambodia was the 'Republic of Cambodia', ignoring that his preferred answer was also a 'Something of Somewhere'.
The actual answer, according to the UN, is...?
I was reminded of this by tonight's quiz, which is relying on the dire TV version of the original 'Halloween' being canon. Fuck off...
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Date: 2022-03-04 08:59 pm (UTC)Yes, Jarrow is the north bit of Gateshead, the Tyne does bend down, and Jesmond is south-ish Newcastle-upon-Tyne so they do overlap in latitude, but Wikipedia - the definitive source for this quiz and the one he is using - has a more northerly OS grid reference for Jesmond: 54.98xxx degrees north vs 54.979xx degrees north.
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