highest salutes to brendan & martin for these multi quantum leaps into
frivolity
wishing i had a clue
m
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>From: Martin Pratt <m.a.pratt@...>
>Subject: THE ULTIMATE BOUNDARY QUIZ OF THE MILLENNIUM
>To: INT-BOUNDARIES@...
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>It's that time of year again.... Please find below the annual int-boundaries
>quiz, compiled this year by last year's winner, Brendan Whyte. Enjoy!
>
>m a r t i n
>
>
>THE ULTIMATE BOUNDARY QUIZ OF THE MILLENNIUM
>
>THE RULES:
>
>1) Entry is open to members of the int-boundaries email list. Of course,
>anyone else can easily sign up to that to enter. No purchase necessary.
>
>2)Each question is worth one point, though some may be worth more.
>
>3)Answers are due with Brendan Whyte (b.whyte@...) by
>0000hours, 1 January 2001, Australian Eastern Summer Time (ie the dawn of
>the new Millenium at Melbourne).
>
>4) The judge's decision is final, although correspondence is allowed and
>encouraged (we are all here to learn, after all)
>
>5) The highest scoring person will win a boundary-related prize, supplied by
>Brendan Whyte.
>
>6) There is no rule 6.
>
>7) Clarifications may be sought if necessary. Questions 21-24 will NOT be
>clarified.
>
>
>THE QUIZ:
>
>1) The 1974 Land Boundary agreement commonly known as the Indira-Mujib
>Accord was, inter alia, supposed to sort out the 'problem' of the Cooch
>Behar enclaves for once and for all. Has either side ratified it, and if so,
>who and in which year?
>
>2) According to the above agreement which enclave does Bangladesh get to
>keep, and why?
>
>3) To the nearest 10km, how much of the India-Bangladesh land border remains
>undemarcated?
>
>4) For how long and for what price has India granted Bangladesh a lease of
>the Tin Bigha corridor?
>
>5) India calls it New Moore Island. What does Bangladesh call it?
>
>6) Boundary-wise, what is unusual about Lake Titicaca?
>
>7) How many enclaves of Belgium exist inside the Netherlands?
>
>8) Some houses in the Belgian/Dutch village of Baarle straddle the border.
>How is their nationality decided?
>
>9) What is unusual about the house at 19 Loveren, Baarle-Nassau,
>Netherlands?
>
>10) What is the name of the Belgian railway which enclaves 5 parcels of
>Germany, south of Aachen?
>
>11) What is the railway currently used for?
>
>12) Several islands or island groups along with their territorial waters are
>enclaved within another country's waters. Name all current cases.
>
>13) The Zimbabwe/Botswana/Namibia/Zambia quadripoint question has still not
>been resolved. Do any legitimate international land quadripoints (a point
>where 4 boundary lines meet) currently exist, and if so, where?
>
>14) The world's newest recognised enclave was demarcated in 1995. Whose is
>it, who hosts it and where, exactly, is it?
>
>15) When did Switzerland acquire sovereignty over Verena Hof?
>
>16) How many enclaves have resulted from the break-up of the USSR, and which
>countries do they belong to and exist in?
>
>17) Assume every international boundary has at least one legally accessible
>road across it. At how many boundaries is it necessary to change the side of
>the road one drives on, when crossing?
>
>18) What was the reasoning behind the creation of the Leticia salient?
>
>19) Why was Llivia not given to France despite the 1659 Treaty of the
>Pyrenees?
>
>20) Some countries have more than one border with the same neighbour. Apart
>from (true) enclaves, name all current examples of countries having separate
>border segments with the same neighbour.
>As an example, from 1918-1939, Germany had 2 separate borders with Poland:
>Germany proper/Poland, and East Prussia/Poland.
>
>
>By Popular Demand:
>For these questions, which are all hypothetical, submit your own personal
>answer. Each answer will score points equal to the number of persons
>submitting that answer. If there are no common answers to a question, then
>everyone submitting an answer scores 1 point.
>Eg if 4 people say 'Guinea Bissau', 2 say 'Tuvalu' and one says 'Malta' for
>one of the questions below, then the former 4 people each score 4 points,
>and the next 2 each score 2 points, and the latter person scores 1.
>These are as much about thinking what everyone else will guess, as about
>being 'right'.
>
>Collaboration or conferring is NOT allowed.
>
>21) The first boundary treaty of 2001 will be between which countries?
>
>22) The first boundary war of 2001 will be between which countries?
>
>23) What will be the next country to become independent?
>
>24) What will be the next countries/territories to merge into one?
>