Son of Geography Trivia
Today I have one question I'd like you to try to think of the answer to without consulting any references and one in which you're welcome to use references.
1. (No references.) California is in the Pacific Time Zone. Disregarding Daylight Saving Time, or whether the same time zone in a different country might have a different name, can you tell me where you would be if (A) you traveled north along the coast from California until the time zone changed, and where you would be if (B) you traveled south along the coast from California until the time zone changed.
Take a guess and post it in the comments. You're welcome to consult a reference after you've posted a guess, but please don't post the answer after you've consulted a reference.
2. (References OK -- except for Wikipedia's ordered list of islands by population.) Can you name the five most populous islands in the United States? I'm not including territories and such like Puerto Rico or Guam. Can you put them in order?
UPDATE: I've now listed the answers in the comments.
posted by Adam Villani @ 9/09/2007 01:36:00 AM
9 comments
9 Comments:
1a. Russia
1b. Chile
2. Long Island, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Staten Island, Fantasy Island
Re: Mike
1. Wrong for both.
2. 3/5. The ones you got right had the correct ordering.
1a. Canada
1b. Mexico
Hagus - Please be more specific. I don't need latitudes or anything, but just something like "the border between X and Y" or something like that.
1a. I think the border between British Columbia and the Alaska panhandle.
2. I think Oahu would be in the top 5, probably at #3, but I can't think of what would be #5.
Joshua --- right on both accounts. Now we just need the answers to 1b and Island #5.
Well, I've already looked up the answers, so I can't post them and stay within the rules.
OK. I'll post the answers myself in a couple of days if nobody else does first.
The answers!
1a. The border between British Columbia and the panhandle of Alaska.
1b. The border between Baja California and Baja California Sur. The northern half of the peninsula is in the Pacific Time Zone and the southern half is in the Mountain Time Zone.
2. Long Island, Manhattan, Oahu, Staten Island, and the Big Island of Hawai'i.
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