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So we are only missing the FA Cup question (I assume we have to wait for Beaker), the last Olympic combat sport, the last coastline country and the flag. nm -- (edited) - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:12 5
- In Norway they number their fjords. The longest one is F-150 -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:17
- Philippines for coastline, Holland for flag. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 20:17 2
  - and Karate. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 20:20 1
    - All of these are right. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:35
- fencing -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:14
Which country has the oldest tricolor flag (ie, that is still in use)? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:06 14
- Oh, that's a good one since flags used to represent a country is a rather modern concept. -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 20:16
- Italy -- nm - Rollo Feb 19, 20:15 3
  - Italy is a fairly recent nation by European standards -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:18
  - I would've guessed France, but ... WW2 ... and I know they've had a few different flags. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:16 1
    - I'm pretty sure even then it's post-Napoleonic. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 20:18
- Holland. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 20:14
- Tulipville with all the wooden shoes -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:14
- Portugal -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:13
- Egypt -- nm - budice Feb 19, 20:13 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:13
- Mexico - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:08 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:10
- the union jack -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:08 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:10
Ok, what 6 sports at the upcoming 2020 Olympics are classified as "combat sports"? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:05 13
- Judo. Taikwando. Fencing. Boxing (or did they remove that?) Wrestling. Javelin. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:06 9
  - Yes to boxing. The last one is also the last answer to "new 2020 sports below." nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:09 6
    - Couples Therapy -- nm - Max Feb 19, 20:25
    - Okay, serious answer: Olympic Sumo. - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:13
    - ooh, maybe it's olympic nerf war -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:11
    - olympic test krav maga would be ... bad -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:10 1
      - same for olympic UFC -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:11
    - Skateboard Fighting. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:09
  - The last is only if you do it wrong. -- nm - . Feb 19, 20:08
  - I knew I spelled it wrong. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:07
- tae kwon do, judo, wrestling, fencing, shooting, archery -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:06 2
  - Not shooting or archery. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:07 1
    - sorry, you're right, I can't imagine a battle where either of those skills would be used -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:08
Another easy one: what is the term for applying heat to ore to extract metal? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:59 4
- smelting -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:00 2
  - Yes. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:00 1
    - sthank syou -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:04
- forge -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:00
I think we've had this before, but which country has the largest number of cows? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:52 18
- Russia -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:12
- Switzerland -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:12
- India -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 20:01 1
  - Yes! nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:02
- China -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:01
- USA -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:01 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:01
- Japan -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 19:59 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:00
- England -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 19:59 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:00
- Argentina -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:56 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:58
- Cowstralia -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 19:56
- moo -- nm - mud Feb 19, 19:56
- Wisconsin. ;) -- nm - . Feb 19, 19:55 1
  - Ya hey der. - zunk lake county Feb 19, 19:58
- Brazil -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:55
What 6 countries have the longest coastline? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:50 25
- UK. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:13
- Greenland, unless its considered part of Denmark, in which case, Denmark. Also, Norway, all those fjords have to count for something. -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 20:00 6
  - Denmark is certainly possible, but if you got the second one right, you better have a Fjord Fiesta -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:02
  - Greenland #4, Norway #2. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:01 4
    - imagine that, they must have measured Norway on fjord expedition led by a fjord explorer -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:03 3
      - crash. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:09
      - ..... -- (link) - . Feb 19, 20:06 1
        
        I shall travel around Norway on a fjord mustang -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 20:09
- Greenland -- nm - . Feb 19, 20:00
- US -- nm - . Feb 19, 19:59 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:00
- India, Indonesia -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 19:57 1
  - Indonesia is #3. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:58
- China, Austrailia -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:56 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:58
- Australia -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:56
- guess - mud Feb 19, 19:53 1
  - Only Russia and Canada are correct. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:55
- Chile -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 19:53 2
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:56
  - Long Chile -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:54
- Brazil -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:52 1
  - No. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:55
- Russia, Canada -- nm - . Feb 19, 19:52 1
  - Yes. #5 and #1. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:55
Did the debate end with the other candidates dragging the bloody corpse of Michael Bloomberg across the stage? -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:48 4
- Too good for TurboTax and the American People -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:51
- Poor Mike -- (link) - TWuG Feb 19, 19:51 [youtube]
- just three of them, Amy & Pete are still wrestling on the podium -- nm - mud Feb 19, 19:50 1
  - I could watch 3 hours of Klobuchar bodyslamming Buttegieg -- nm* - budice Feb 19, 19:51
After aardvark and aardwolf, what animal comes next alphabetically? (I don't know the source of the list, but the answer is not totally obscure.) nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:47 8
- aardyak. - . Feb 19, 19:49
- abalone? -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:49 4
  - that's not nice, Dano -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:52
  - YEAH! nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:51 2
    - Thank Island of the Blue Dolphins for that one -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:53 1
      - I protest the question. Since when was the Abilone an animal? -- nm - Meg Feb 19, 20:01
- Ant -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 19:48 1
  - Nope. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:49
The Friends studio lot had 4 permanent sets during filming. Name them. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:44 4
- Monica/Rachel's apt, Joey/Chandler's apt, Central Perk, ugly naked guy's apt (Ross's) -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:46
- Monica and Rachel's apartment, Joey and Chandler's apartment, the hallway between them, Central Perk? -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:45 2
  - Yes! nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:45 1
    - Gum would be perfection! -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:46
I won't insult you with the question about which actor played various Batman villains, but I assure you they were easy. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:43
What is the significant of Captain Alan Shepard to the sport of golf? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:42 3
- Moon golf? -- nm - . Feb 19, 19:44 2
  - Yes. (First and only person so far to hit a golf ball on the moon.) nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:44
  - Blah! You beat me to it. -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:44
Name the 5 Premier league teams to have won the most FA Cups since 1945. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:40 3
- Hotspurs! Juventus! (... I am all over the map here.) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 20:15
- Geez. FA Cup? Who care? Fine... Arsenal, Manchester, Liverpool, Flaxton-on-Don, Willoughby, Dancy, Red Rover -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:43 1
  - Nothing is forcing you to guess, fren. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:45
Easy one for our favorite teacher guy: What is the common term used to describe movement from a high pressure zone to a low pressure zone? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:39 2
- Wind -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:41 1
  - Ding. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:41
Excluding principalities, name the 6 European countries with constitutional monarchs (other than the UK). nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:36 7
- The Netherlands? -- nm - . Feb 19, 19:42 1
  - #6. bn - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:45
- I'll add Norway to Mop's list -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 19:40 1
  - Correct (though mud got it first :P ) nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:41
- guess - mud Feb 19, 19:39
- Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Spain -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:39 1
  - 4 of 6. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:40
Speaking of Olympic sports: which sport has had the highest number of failed drug tests? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:34 8
- Russia - call me Ishmael Feb 19, 20:03
- Figure skating -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:37 1
  - I knew that 15-year-old girl shouldn't be able to bench 400 lbs. -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:38
- track and field -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:36
- weightlifting seems too obvious but I'll say it anyway -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:35 1
  - But I'll say it first because I want to be first wrong! -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:37
- Weight lifting? -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:35 1
  - Correct. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:37
Ok kittens: name the 6 new sports being added to the 2020 Summer Olympics. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:34 19
- Rollerball? (nm) - howie Feb 19, 20:15
- Ballroom Dancing? -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:45 1
  - Only in your heart, Dano. Only in your heart. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:48
- Pickle ball -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 19:42
- New, not returning? Cause they're bringing baseball back. -- nm - . Feb 19, 19:41 3
  - Yes, including returning. Baseball is 3. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:42 2
    - Then I think basketball and/or softball are back? -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:53 1
      - Softball is #4. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:54
- Surfing -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:38 1
  - That's 2. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:39
- pokemon? -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:38
- Rock climbing -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:36 2
  - Sorry, I just saw this #5. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 20:02
  - Are they not calling "rock climbing"? Boulding, then? -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:40
- mumbly-peg -- nm - mud Feb 19, 19:36
- Dodgeball, shuffleboard, Call of Duty, penny can, toss the shoe on the power line, and hide and seek. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:36
- skateboarding -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:36 1
  - This is the only correct one so far. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 19, 19:37
- underwater basketweaving? -- nm - budice Feb 19, 19:36
If tonight doesn't end Bloomberg, there is no justice. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:25 2
- "hold my billions" -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:26 1
  - Okay. - IRS Feb 19, 19:31
Survivor spoils - crash davis Feb 19, 19:23
Four years and a month (and a half) after my car accident, there is now a traffic light at that intersection. -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 19:21
(repost) Reagen told me that the green Cholula is good, and folks, he did not lead me astray. -- nm -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 19:14 3
- The cadance of this post makes it sound like a dad joke. -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 19:36
- Green and Red Cholula are good. Green and Chipotle Tabasco are also good. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:16 1
  - of all the Tabascos, Chipotle is definitely my favorite one -- nm - crash davis Feb 19, 19:18

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