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mind boggling?
« on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 6:06pm » |
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ok, this is completly random yes but i'm bored and thought i would share this with you.
my little sister is in the 5th grade. Her teacher gives the class 50 questions each month. There not questions from what they've been studying though, there just random questions. i was going over some of these questions one day and relized that some of the questions made me feel really stupid when i couldn't find some of the answers myself!
so anyways here's a few random one's that i picked out. give me some feedback if you can find the answer!
1. what communist country collapsed during 1992?
2. the first university in history was built in..
3.what do the letter's p.r.c stand for?
4.what type of forest is filled with evergreens and is mostly cold and snowy?
5.what roman empire "fiddled while rome burned"?
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 6:26pm » |
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1. Wouldn't this be the Soviet Union?
2. That depends on what you include as a "university". My guess would be Greece.
3. Too many possibilities to list. "Private Registration Code", for example.
4. It's just on the tip of my tongue. No, really, it is!
5. How an entire empire can "fiddle" while its capital burns, I don't know, but Nero is famous for being the Roman Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. During his reign, a great fire swept over Rome destroying the poorer sections of the city. Nero blamed the christians for setting the fire, and began the first of 10 Roman persecutions of christians. The general belief is that he set the fire himself, as he wanted to tear down these slums and replace them with new buildings (in which the former occupants would be unwelcome). The fire cleared the way for him to proceed with his plans. The charge cannot be proven, however. The charge that he actually fiddled while Rome was burning in probably false, but was a popular charge against him. Nero was not well-liked.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 7:19pm » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2004, 6:06pm, usdragonfly wrote:| 4.what type of forest is filled with evergreens and is mostly cold and snowy? |
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Taiga.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #3 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 10:37pm » |
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Isn't the forest "Coniferous" as opposed to deciduous.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 1:27am » |
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5) the eastern roman empire.. (though the burning of rome may or may not not have been literal, it at least fell to 'the barbarians' while the eastern roman empire was looking the other way)
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India claims they had the world's first university in Takshila in 700 BC
Greece claims they had the world's first university established by Pythagoras the 6th century BC
Bihar claims they had the world's first university in Nalanda in the 5th century AD
Egypt claims they had the world's first university in Cairo in 970 AD.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #7 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 1:37pm » |
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taiga is a moist subartic forest dominated by conifers that begins where the tundra ends.the answer for number 4 is tundra. oh and thanks so much for the help ya'll have given me!!
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 1:40pm » |
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oh and i meant roman "emperor" and i finally found the answer. it was Nero Claudius Ceaser
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #9 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 2:11pm » |
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here's a couple more
6. where did russia's october revolution start?
7. what does an urban geographer study?
8. where would you find the worlds icecaps?
9. in what year did washington, dc become the official capital of the usa?
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #10 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 4:45pm » |
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Wait a minute. Tundra cannot be described as a forest, are you sure of that? Maybe taiga.
6. Saint Petersburg (a guess because it was the capital)
7. The location and development of cities.
8. In the world's ice box keeping Santa's beer cold.
9. I don't know, did it burn in 1812? So before that. First was New York, then Philadelphia... then DC... maybe.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #11 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 5:01pm » |
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ok here's what i got
6. saint petersburg
7. provides population figures for us cities as well as population changes within us cities
8.Ice cap climates are only located near the poles. (which means i don't know)
9.George Washington personally selected the site of the nation's permanent capital in 1791
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #12 on: Mar 4th, 2004, 5:49am » |
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The ice cap would be at the north pole. The south pole is a continent, while the north pole is basically a huge iceberg. I could be wrong, though, and Antarctica may be an ice cap too but I do not think so.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #13 on: Mar 4th, 2004, 6:19am » |
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Antarctica is a continent capped with ice.. So it has an icecap.. 
according to merriam-webster
Quote:Main Entry: ice cap
Function: noun
1 : an ice bag shaped to the head
2 : a cover of perennial ice and snow; specifically : a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center |
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We can safely disregard meaning one I think, and under two antarctica qualifies a bit better than the north pole imo..
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #14 on: Mar 5th, 2004, 8:26pm » |
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While we are at it, also from Mirriam-Webster,
Quote:Main Entry: tun·dra
Pronunciation: 't&n-dr& also 'tun-
Function: noun
Etymology: Russian, of Lappish origin; akin to Kola Lappish tundar hill
: a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs; also : a similar region confined to mountainous areas above timberline. |
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where as, we also have
Quote:Main Entry: tai·ga
Pronunciation: 'tI-g&
Function: noun
Etymology: Russian taiga
: a moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends |
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I.e. the correct answer to (4) is taiga, not tundra.
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You know what is weird, I am in 7'th grade and my teacher gives me fifty questions every six weeks... (not kidding)...
And those questions are the exact same as a few of mine...
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #16 on: Apr 7th, 2004, 6:12pm » |
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on Apr 6th, 2004, 3:58pm, Colby wrote:You know what is weird, I am in 7'th grade and my teacher gives me fifty questions every six weeks... (not kidding)...
And those questions are the exact same as a few of mine... |
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It must be a nation-wide conspiracy among teachers 
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #17 on: May 24th, 2004, 4:28pm » |
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... using weapons of mass-instruction.
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Re: mind boggling?
« Reply #18 on: May 24th, 2004, 7:47pm » |
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Hey grimbal have you seen the <Math Jokes> thread... 
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