Trivia Question: Can you name five countries that end in the letter “r”? No cheating and using an atlas! It took the Snook and I about five minutes to puzzle them out. Three are easier, but the last two are hard. I’ll throw out some hints if no one gets them.
Ron
March 17, 2002 — 3:26 pm
Since you and Snook got them in about five minutes, I decided to give myself five minutes as well. I came up with Ecuador, El Salvador, Madagascar, and Qatar. I’ll probably think of this fifth one as soon as I hit the submit button.
PS: Happy belated birthday … I’ve been out of the loop a bit and am still getting caught up on my blog reading.
KMac
March 17, 2002 — 6:43 pm
is the other one myanmar? bri and i got all the other 4 except el salvador (we think the 2-word thing threw us for a loop). however, we weren’t sure if myanmar was actually a country or not. i only know that rangoon is there (thanks, video clue). it took us like 15 seconds to get those 4.
Kris
March 17, 2002 — 6:53 pm
Yep. Myanmar it is. Very good! Snook got that and Qatar; I got the others. We needed some hints though. (Granted, we had been drinking.) 🙂
Welcome back, Ron! Thanks. Hope you had a nice holiday…
KMac
March 17, 2002 — 7:06 pm
is the other one myanmar? bri and i got all the other 4 except el salvador (we think the 2-word thing threw us for a loop). however, we weren’t sure if myanmar was actually a country or not. i only know that rangoon is there (thanks, video clue). it took us like 15 seconds to get those 4.
Ron
March 18, 2002 — 2:24 am
Hmmm … I thought the fifth one was going to be Niger. It appears there are actually six answers. And yes, I cheated to find Niger. And yes, I was also working on a couple Bacardi Silvers. Yum.
Kris
March 18, 2002 — 9:36 am
I thought Niger was “Nigeria”. Isn’t it? I thought of that one too, but the guy asking the question said it wasn’t one of the answers.
Ron
March 19, 2002 — 1:28 am
Niger and Nigeria are two different countries, both in Africa AND (just to add to the confusion) are adjacent to one another. [map]
Kris
March 19, 2002 — 2:02 am
Wow. It’s obviously been awhile since my last geography class. Thanks for tracking down the info!