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Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

NO OUTSIDE HELP of course!
Send your solutions to me, do not post them here.
Wipe-out rules, per question:
1 correct = 1 point
2 correct = 3 points
3 correct = 6 points
4 correct = 10 points
5 correct = 15 points
6 correct = 21 points
7 correct = 28 points
However, even just one wrong asnwer per question means a total wipe-out for that question, 0 points.

1. Name the seven countries where the lowest point exceeds 500 m:
Andorra
Bhutan
Botswana
Burundi
Lesotho
Mongolia
Nepal
Rwanda
Switzerland
Uganda

2. Name the seven countries where the highest point exceeds 4000 m:
Austria
Cameroon
Iraq
Japan
Malaysia
Morocco
Papua New Guinea
Rwanda
Uzbekistan
Venezuela

3. Name the seven countries where the coast line is at most 100 km:
Belgium
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Brunei
Gambia
Iraq
Jordan
Lithuania
Saint Lucia
Singapore
Slovenia
Togo

4. Name the seven countries where part of the land (including islands) is crossed by the equator:
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Indonesia
Kenya
Republic of the Congo
Singapore
Somalia
Tanzania
Uganda

5. Name the seven countries that have the most northern capitals
Canada
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Iceland
Ireland
Latvia
Norway
Russia
Sweden

6. Name the seven countries that have the most southern capitals
Argentina
Australia
Botswana
Chile
Lesotho
Namibia
New Zealand
South Africa
Swaziland
Uruguay

7. Name the seven countries with less than a million inhabitants
Bahrain
Brunei
Comoros
Cyprus
Equatorial Guinea
Estonia
Fiji
Oman
Qatar
Slovenia

Tie breaker: Name the seven countries I have not visited
Denmark
Finland
Ireland
Norway
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Slovakia
Sweden
Turkey
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PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

I'll be astonished if anyone beats my score Razz

Having now checked my answers against wiki, only 6 of the 7 countries in Q7 have a population under 1m.
Maybe this be assumed to be <1.4m?

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Wikipedia sucks.
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PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

CIA sucks!

Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

I would like to point out that this game discriminates against Americans, because we are so dang ignorant of the rest of the world.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

referee · June 21st, 2004 Member

First down and nine - fourteen and four tenths, Quailman!
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Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Deadline: this Friday.
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Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

The wipe-outs were:
1. Bhutan, Nepal, Switzerland
2. Austria, Iraq, Japan
3. Brunei, Saint Lucia, Singapore
4. Equatorial Guinea, Singapore, Tanzania
5. Canada, Denmark, Ireland
6. Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland
7. Estonia, Oman, Slovenia (Qatar, see discussion)
TB: Denmark, San Marino, Slovakia

the scores:
Agamemnon: 0-0-10-28-28-15-0 TB=0, score = 81
Zag: 0-0-3-0-15-0-0, TB=10, score = 18
Courk: 0-0-1-3-6-6-0 TB=0. score = 16
PuzzleScot: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 TB=0, score = 0

Congratulations, old Bean!
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Well, I hadn't finished this yet... but I think I would have tied with PuzzleScot in the end.

PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

Well done to Agamemnon - that was tricky.

I got 13/21 of the wipeouts, and still finished just outside the top 3! Razz

PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

Just to fill in on the discussion on Qatar.
I told DP that Wiki reported 1.4m. DP said CIA has 833285.

However the CIA number says "estimated", with no sources cited.
Always being suspicious of anything that has the words "American" and "Intelligence" in the same sentence (sic), I investigated further...

World Bank (The one referred to by wiki) 1,280,862 (2008)

UN (p.18/71) 1,409,000 (2008)

Oh, and finally:
the government of Qatar "The population of Qatar amount to 1,500,000 inhabitants (according to the initial results of the second stage of the 2009 population census)."

I would say the 4 sources above are ranked in increasing order of reliability.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

We only were counting the terrorists and WMDs!