wiki-illiam #104: q14

[dubdobdee]

Q14: Within the capital of which member state of the United Nations will you find:
i: calluna?
ii: 3.14159?
iii: that its alright?
iv: a Windermere resident?
v: a West Country watercourse?
vi: a pudding distinguished by ladies' fingers?
vii: a simian representative?
viii: a Tibetan monk?
ix: a semi-metal?
x: nothing?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilersall yrs after yesterday's SHOWING OFF

Comments

suggestions for starting points

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

ii. Famous for PIE?
vi. okra?
ix. Boron, arsenic, silicon, and I think I am missing one. And being over-literal.

Re: suggestions for starting points

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Haha I thought of okra too!

Googling reveals that the first one is a kind of HEATHER. And now I must go and design open day tickets :(

and wandering off at tangents

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Or, vi. there's finger-root, which is a Thai spice - related to galangal, and I don't believe ever found in puddings. Or is lady's finger another name for foxglove? In which case POISON pudding.

Re: suggestions for starting points

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there's another one that begins with A

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

important: none of the answers are North Korea.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

None of the answers are Pyongyang.

(I did have to google that, but it's not an answer.)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ii. PI
iv. wordsworth? ruskin?
v. Exe, Dart, Taymar?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv ruskin? (tho he was coniston)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

the qn says "within" so keywords could form part of longer capital city names, e.g. re viii: 'lama' = part of a longer name?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Islamabad?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

a-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, i think you might have a very good point here!

thus ii = a capital with PI in that i've been trying to think of without cheating for the last five minutes...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i think we need lists of nice long names of capitals

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah this is what I thought -

ii) Apia
iii) Bangkok

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

like the real name of bangkok which is so long it possibly includes all ten answers

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha except iii is bangkOK isn't it?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

x) Manila

am going to have to google the others as I know nothing of Windermere residents, puddings, semimetals &c

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

everyone just list capitals

london
paris
berlin (?)
rome
amsterdam
oslo
helsinki
tbilisi
delhi (?)
peking/beijing
washington
toronto
mexico city
darwin (?)
seoul
port stanley

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i) Wellington

(calluna apparently = heather or ling)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ix) Gaborone

("boron" is the name of a semi-metal, it seems)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: calluna? WELLINGTON = cap of NZ
ii: 3.14159? APIA = cap of where?
iii: that its alright? = TOKYO (bcz bangkok is not the actual name of bangkok)
iv: a Windermere resident? = ???
v: a West Country watercourse? = must be the exe surely
vi: a pudding distinguished by ladies' fingers? = TRIFBLEISI er
vii: a simian representative? BUDAPEST = cap of hungary
viii: a Tibetan monk? ISLAMABAD = cap of pakistan
ix: a semi-metal? GABORONE = cap of ???
x: nothing? MANILA = cap of philippines

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Windermere resident - otter? duck? fish? goose? eel? MONSTER? lake-ish plants of some sort. FROG! TOAD! ALLIGATOR!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Tiramisu is def the canonical pudding with ladyfingers (according to my head at least), but surely I would have noticed if that was a substring of a capital.

UNLESS the first ones upthread are right and it is the okra type of ladyfingers -- but what type of dessert could have okra? MOUSSE obv, and indeed the capital of the Ivory Coast is yaMOUSS-OKROu! Er.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

must be the exe surely

could be the TAMAR - which looks to me like the middle of a longer (asian?) place name

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, none of these appear to be ouagadougou, which can't be right, surely?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it's probably in an upcoming question!

West Country watercourses

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think it's just this one we haven't got now - I've racked my brains and I'm pretty sure that the river referred to is neither Tamar nor Exe. The only other river I can think of is Avon and I'm sure it's not that either! Would "watercourse" refer to anything which isn't a river?

Re: West Country watercourses

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Clue: if I'm right with my guess, the capital city is somewhere in the Americas