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It's your turn, Iron Eyes

 

Sorry guys, I was traveling for work and didn't really go on the shard for a couple of days.

 

Name the 13 original Forsaken from the Wheel of Time.

 

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If no one has the answer, then Iron Eyes wins and asks another question. If he doesn't show up to ask a new question, someone else can ask one.

Posted (edited)

Sorry guys, I was traveling for work and didn't really go on the shard for a couple of days.

 

Name the 13 original Forsaken from the Wheel of Time.

 

 

  1. demandred
  2. asmodean
  3. lanfear
  4. semirhage
  5. mogheiden
  6. cydane
  7. hunter (perry nemesis)
  8. belal
  9. mezana
  10. samael
  11. arangar
  12. ishamael
  13. aginor.

EDIT: OH, the question is from august :S sorry

Edited by Hoid Is Dead
Posted

 

  1. demandred
  2. asmodean
  3. lanfear
  4. semirhage
  5. mogheiden
  6. cydane
  7. hunter (perry nemesis)
  8. belal
  9. mezana
  10. samael
  11. arangar
  12. ishamael
  13. aginor.

EDIT: OH, the question is from august :S sorry

 

10/13, not bad. The missing three were Rahvin, Balthamel, and Graendal.

Anyways... Next question... Name the 5 cities with the largest populations (worldwide).

Posted (edited)

City proper or including the metropolitan area?

Excellent question, lets go with metropolitan area since I know the answer to that one. ;)

Edit: Huh, 200 posts.

Edited by Iron Eyes
Posted

I think Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Delhi, and Mexico City? Not sure about the last one.

Tokyo

Seoul

Shanghai

Delhi

Mexico City X (Very close though, Mexico City is 6).

A hint, the last one is another city in China.

 

Posted

Is that according to Wikipedia? Because this site shows it's slightly different, according to 2014 stats. (That site is actually the reason I couldn't answer this question. I got a little too curious about the differences between the city proper populations and the metro areas and it meant I couldn't answer. :P)

Posted

Is that according to Wikipedia? Because this site shows it's slightly different, according to 2014 stats. (That site is actually the reason I couldn't answer this question. I got a little too curious about the differences between the city proper populations and the metro areas and it meant I couldn't answer. :P)

I was actually using a site other than Wikipedia or Infoplease that drew from the 2014 UN census database.

 

Beijing, then.

Too far north.

Posted (edited)

Must be Beijing, surely? Or not, my geography is a bit ropy.

 

* oops, what happened there?

Edited by Robinski
Posted

Since the terms of the game are to answer the question and if you get it wrong, post a funny picture, and those terms have been met, I'm just going to say this: Guangzhou, and here's a funny gif. Because i like gifs more. :)

 

And now, to get this game back on track, another question in the geography category.

 

WLIU, name 35 European capitals of sovereign nations.

Posted

Lisbon

Madrid

Andorra

Paris

Monaco

Dublin

London

Reykjavik

Rome

San Marino

Vatican city

Bern

Vienna

Berlin

The Hague

Brussels

Copenhagen

Oslo

Stockholm

Helsinki

Moscow

Riga

Kalinin

Minsk

Kiev

Warsaw

Prague

Bruno

Budapest

Bucharest

Sofia

Sarajevo

Athens

Luxembourg

Lichtenstein

And, just in case Lichtenstein is not the name of its capital, then I'll add Malta on there.

Full disclosure, my father and I worked together on this one, but neither of us looked it up.

Question - name 15 languages from the Indo-European group.

Posted

Man, this is too much like homework. I know squat about languages, but here goes:

 

English

French

Spanish

Portuguese

German

 

Flemish

Dutch

Romansh

Italian

Greek

 

Russian

Swedish

Hungarian

Czech

Basque (dialect?) - suppose I'll sub Norwegian in case

 

I already don't like some on this list!

Posted (edited)

Well, since you didn't ask the question, I'll just say some things, also WLIU, because I just like this topic.

 

So, Hungarian is not Indo-European, but Uralic language. Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish are tricky this way. :P

 

And Basque is even more tricky, since Basque is just Basque and doesn't really belong to any language group. So it's not Indo-European either. 

 

And I have to admit I didn't know there is a language called Romansh. Nice to know.

 

EDIT: Also WLIU some questions to the previous comment, about European capitals. Because that's also interesting. 

 

Where are "Bruno" and "Kalinin"? Never heard of them, but maybe my problem is that I don't know English names of some of the capitals. 

 

Also: Bern and Hague are not the capitals of their countries. And the capital of Andorra has a nice name of Andorra la Vella (I like the sound of it).

 

But amaaaazing job. You remembered so many. I would find that really hard. 

 

So yeah. What's the next question? ;)

Edited by Pestis the Spider
Posted

So Bruno was my dad and I misremembering Bratislava, in Slovakia. And Kalinin is a mangling of Kaliningrad, which is actually a Russian enclave, but we remembered it as the capital of Estonia, which is Tallinn. (Either that or my dad said Tallinn, and I misheard him, we were on the phone with a not-entirely-clear connection).

 

I could have sworn Bern was Switzerland's capital - a quick look on Wikipedia says that there is no capital de jure, but that Bern is the de facto capital.

 

About The Hague...yeah, that was just us getting it wrong. Looks like it was Amsterdam. I think I'm required to post a funny picture now, so here goes:

 

xGFC1Lb.jpg

Posted (edited)

So Bruno was my dad and I misremembering Bratislava, in Slovakia. And Kalinin is a mangling of Kaliningrad, which is actually a Russian enclave, but we remembered it as the capital of Estonia, which is Tallinn. (Either that or my dad said Tallinn, and I misheard him, we were on the phone with a not-entirely-clear connection).

 

I could have sworn Bern was Switzerland's capital - a quick look on Wikipedia says that there is no capital de jure, but that Bern is the de facto capital.

 

About The Hague...yeah, that was just us getting it wrong. Looks like it was Amsterdam. I think I'm required to post a funny picture now, so here goes:

 

xGFC1Lb.jpg

Well, I had a look at wikipedia as well, and I did not expect that Switzerland has no capital at all. So I think that Bern, as the de facto capital, qualifies for the answer then. My bad. : )

Edited by Pestis the Spider

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