I'll field no. 17...I've heard it is Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (I of all people should get that one) if one counts the statistical metropolitan area.

Am I right?

In reply to your #10 question, I posted:


I think it would be that they're the only ones in the world that have their nomination value and country name expressed in Hebrew.


But if that's not right, please tell me what other country uses Hebrew..? ???

In reply to your #10 question, I posted:

But if that's not right, please tell me what other country uses Hebrew..? ???


Yes, but that is not what I am looking for.  No more then I would expect any country other then Japan to use Japanese, or to use the Yen.

It is something special about the stamps themselves.  And it has nothing to do with the demoniation, nor what language it uses.  And all of the Stamps in Israel share this trait.

Continuing with the saga of the largest city, knowing that you reckon it's one in the USA, I've done a bit of research. This link ( http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/sitkaarea.htm )  informs what it reckons that city is, & I suspect that's the answer you're 'paying' However, if you look at the area for that city, it's only about 20% of Mt. Isa, which as I've said earlier ... and here's my quote:


OK, here is a bit more information.  For city size, most resources look at the area of the city, or the area it encompasses.  This city actually is not connected to the majority of it's area.  The reason it is so large is because of the wording of the State's Constitution.  And yes, it is a city in a US State.

The city itself is just over 270 square kilometers.  But because of the way the state constitution is worded, a lot more land is attached to the city.

You will find that most references consider a city to be a contiguous location.  This city is not contiguous in the area it covers.

Why are people getting so defensive in this quiz?  It's an online quiz; not the SAT's.

would # 1 be the black death?

I know you don't want wild guesses but I have been reading your hints
about the largest city.I will only guess at it once and choose the obvious

#17...New York City?

"Actually, this city is bigger.  It's boarder is over 150,000 miles long."

OK, hold on a minute.  The circumference of planet Earth is something like 25,000 miles.  You're saying there's a city with a border 6 times bigger?  I really, really doubt that.  Or did you intentionally misspell "border" and this is some sort of trick question?

Also, for the question about the writer predicting the moons of Mars, you must be referring to Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathon Swift.  I misread the question earlier.

"Actually, this city is bigger.  It's boarder is over 150,000 miles long."

OK, hold on a minute.  The circumference of planet Earth is something like 25,000 miles.  You're saying there's a city with a border 6 times bigger?  I really, really doubt that.  Or did you intentionally misspell "border" and this is some sort of trick question?

Also, for the question about the writer predicting the moons of Mars, you must be referring to Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathon Swift.  I misread the question earlier.


Sorry, I made a bonehead conversion error when going from Metric to Miles.  The correct length of the boder 1,500 miles.

And yes, it was Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.  The description was in Part III, A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN.  Here is what he wrote about the moons:

They have likewise discovered two lesser Stars, or Satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the Center of the primary Planet exactly three of his Diameters, and the outermost five; the former revolves in the space of ten Hours, and the latter in Twenty-one and an Half; so that the Squares of their periodical Times, are very near in the same Proportion with the Cubes of their Distance from the Center of Mars; which evidently shews them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation, that influences the other heavenly Bodies.

Quite amazing, considering Jonathan Swift was not an astronomer.  The discoverers he credits the discovery to lived on the floating island of Laputa.

Sorry, I made a bonehead conversion error when going from Metric to Miles.  The correct length of the boder 1,500 miles.




OK.  A U.S. city that big has to be in Alaska.  I'll guess Juneau.

Yes, but that is not what I am looking for.  No more then I would expect any country other then Japan to use Japanese, or to use the Yen.

It is something special about the stamps themselves.  And it has nothing to do with the demoniation, nor what language it uses.  And all of the Stamps in Israel share this trait.


Are they round?

#10...is the glue Kosher?

#1

OK, if we're talking about an actual illness then how about the White Plague...

Now we could also say that our Creation or Evolution (depending on your beliefs) has brought us closest to extinction, because if humans never appeared on the planet then we would never have to even worry about becoming extinct!  How's that for an answer??  LOL!!

1.  What world event brought the Human race closest to extincion then anything else.



Toba supervolcano in Indonesia

Toba supervolcano in Indonesia


Exactly right!  This is the largest known Supervolcano eruption in the last 2 million years.  The eruption is believed to have lasted for over 2 weeks, and devistated the planet.  WHile this eruption occured in Indonesia, it covered India (over 4,000 miles away) in a blanket of ash between 6 inches and 3 feet thick.

This eruption also lowered average global temperatures from 3-5 degrees centigrade.  This cooling is believed to have lasted for 3-5 years.  The Ice Age rebounded, and some of the mass extinctions of Super Fauna is believed to be related to this event as well.

Human populations were estimated to be around half a million at the time of the eruption.  Within 10 years, it fell to somewhere between 5,000-10,000 people.  A lot of genotypes that have been found in fossils were wiped out.

Part of the discovery between the link was found when observing the mutations in mitocondrial DNA.  There are regular mutatuions in this Mitocondria, and it is passed from the maternal side.  They realized in the 1980's that there was not enough diversity, and were perplexed as to why.  Looking back, they realized that around 73,000 years ago, there was something that devistated the human population on a global scale.

After things settled down, a second wave of human migration started.  Eventually humans returned to Asia and beyond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

If anybody gets the chance, watch a show the History Channel occasionally broadcasts about Supervolcanos.  While it is centered around the volcano in Yellowstone, it also gives a lot of background into the Bruno-Jarbridge and Lako Toba Supervolcanos.

And this is something that can affect us all.  The Yellowstone Caldera is a Supervolcano that erupts on an average of once ever 600,000 years.  The most recent eruption was 640,000 years ago.

I have had fun with this quiz, thanks everybody for participating.

I have had fun with this quiz, thanks everybody for participating.


That was a cool quiz! Thanks for preparing it.

I have had fun with this quiz, thanks everybody for participating.
right on Mushroom,nice quiz.  I was happy I knew 1 answer, the Beatles song and only because I'd just been given this book for my birthday in Feb.  A Hard Days Write, the story behind every Beatles song" but I didn't google, and glad to see your support on another thread  ;) Jesus, Messiah, Man, Myth.