trick question (geography)

[xouper]

My favorite trick question in geography is this:

If you go due south from Detroit, Michigan, what is the first foreign country you will encounter?

Answer: Canada. The next one would be Cuba.


Another one. If it's 5 PM in Tampa, Florida, what time is it in the capiltal city of Panama?

Answer: same time.

[xouper]

If you have a favorite trick question in geography, let's hear it. :2thumbsup:

[slimshady2357]

My guess for the second trick question is:The same time!

The answer to the first question is: Canada!

I can't think of any trick questions right now.....

Perhaps... Which is farther North, Crescent City, California or Windsor, Ont, Canada?

Adam

[livius drusus]

If you go due south from Detroit, Michigan, what is the first foreign country you will encounter?

:chuckle: I totally fell for that one.

[godfry n. glad]

Windsor is further north than Crescent City.

But which is the more northern: Halifax, NS, or Portland, OR?

Portland, OR, of course.

How about Portland, OR, and Portland, ME...which is more northern?

Again, Portland, OR

What's the most western point in the continental U.S.?

[Skep]

What's the largest state (in area) east of the Mississippi River?

Georgia, at 59425 sq.mi. Many people give New York or Pennsylvania as the answer, 54556 and 46055 sq. mi., respectively.

[Crumb]

Skeptoid:

What about Florida? it is 65,758 mi^2

[Dingfod]

Crumb:
I show Florida at 58,664 sq. mi. (http://www.mapquest.com/atlas/?region=florida), which is slightly less than Georgia's 58,910.

[Crumb]

You're right, I am an idiot, but damn it sure LOOKS bigger than Georgia.

[ceptimus]

If you go far enough east of the Mississippi, you'll arrive in Texas.

[Dingfod]

If you go far enough east of the Mississippi, you'll arrive in Texas.
Not unless you start east from somewhere south of Kentucky.

[xouper]

This has been an interesting thread.

Another trick question. If you are going through the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico, actually), what general compass heading are you going?

Answer: northwest.

a link (http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/camerica/pncanal.htm)

another perhaps better link (http://www.tylersterritory.com/travel/namerica/canal_cruise/canal/canal-map.html)

[livius drusus]

My guess was basically right, but I was picturing it quite differently. Very cool question and links, xoup.

[xouper]

Yet another "which is farther north" question: Moscow (Russia), or Edmonton (Canada)?

Answer: Moscow. But not by much.

Edmonton 53° 34' N

Moscow 55° 46' N

Source: http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong.html

[xouper]

Another trick question:

How many different times zones are there?

Answer: As best I can determine there are 36. There are of course the standard 24 times zones (one for each hour of the day), and an additional 10 "political" time zones that are off by a half hour, and two more that are off by a quarter hour. I have yet to find a single website that lists all 36 in one place. Perhaps someone has a more definitive answer and link.

[Petra]

I got one! I got one! :D


What is the name of the place that is the first to see the new day?


Gisborne, NZ

[Petra]

Another trick question:

How many different times zones are there?

Answer: As best I can determine there are 36. There are of course the standard 24 times zones (one for each hour of the day), and an additional 10 "political" time zones that are off by a half hour, and two more that are off by a quarter hour. I have yet to find a single website that lists all 36 in one place. Perhaps someone has a more definitive answer and link.

Wow. I had no idea about the "political" time zones. Cool.

[xouper]

lunachick: I got one! I got one! :D

What is the name of the place that is the first to see the new day?

Gisborne, NZ
Millennium Island, Kiribati.


:oops: Edited to add: I stand corrected.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/first_sunrise.html

[godfry n. glad]

Another trick question:

How many different times zones are there?

Answer: As best I can determine there are 36. There are of course the standard 24 times zones (one for each hour of the day), and an additional 10 "political" time zones that are off by a half hour, and two more that are off by a quarter hour. I have yet to find a single website that lists all 36 in one place. Perhaps someone has a more definitive answer and link.

Wow. I had no idea about the "political" time zones. Cool.

Yeah, and China has one time zone from the Yalu River to Kashi....but they still keep local time, Kashi being three hours behind Beijing.

I think Labrador is one half hour ahead of Nova Scotia.

[Petra]

lunachick: I got one! I got one! :D

What is the name of the place that is the first to see the new day?

Gisborne, NZ
Millennium Island, Kiribati.


:oops: Edited to add: I stand corrected.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/first_sunrise.html


Ooops! So do I. Although I was very close. :doh:

[Dingfod]

lunachick: I got one! I got one! :D

What is the name of the place that is the first to see the new day?

Gisborne, NZ
Millennium Island, Kiribati.


:oops: Edited to add: I stand corrected.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/first_sunrise.html


Ooops! So do I. Although I was very close. :doh:

You were right.
From that site:
The first populated land where the Sun will rise in the new millennium (and at the beginning of any other year) is at Kahuitara Point (44° 16' S 176° 9' W) on Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands, a dependency of New Zealand.

[Petra]

Yeah, but it's not quite Gisborne, NZ, though.

[Shake]

This has been an interesting thread.

Another trick question. If you are going through the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico, actually), what general compass heading are you going?

Answer: northwest.

a link (http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/camerica/pncanal.htm)

another perhaps better link (http://www.tylersterritory.com/travel/namerica/canal_cruise/canal/canal-map.html)
Yeah. I knew that.

Also, it's a place where you could watch the sun rise over the Pacific and set over the Atlantic!