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The Answer to Life- Phoenix 42
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:52 pm
by Northern Monkey
Right this may be an easy one for the regular quizzers but here goes-
Which 2 countries are "double land-locked" ie completely surrounded by countries that are themselves landlocked.
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 7:29 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Nice question.
Don't have a clue though.... I'll go for Bhutan and Laos, though I don't even think the latter is land-locked.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 9:43 am
by Northern Monkey
No and no
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:55 pm
by Cardinal Sin
I don't think andorra is.
So I'll guess Congo and Mauritania.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:07 pm
by Istenem
very good question.
but i've no idea so yemen and oman
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 4:01 pm
by Northern Monkey
Yemen and Oman are both Gulf states and as such aren't landlocked at all.
I think Mauritania and Congo are also on the (West?) coast of Africa.
Andorra is of course bordered by France and Spain neither of which are landlocked so you were right there YE.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 4:44 pm
by Istenem
i'm gonna go for lesotho (even though i think RSA must have a coastline) and
erm... hungary, now i think that one might be quite a good guess.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:17 pm
by Northern Monkey
Getting better- at least they are landlocked.
Hungary borders Croatia which i am told has some lovely coastal resorts.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:24 pm
by Cardinal Sin
I'm sure there are some land-locked African countries in the north-west. ... I'm buggered if I can remember which ones.
I'll go for... Mali and ... ooh, Kazahkstan
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:33 pm
by Istenem
how about whichever is more southerly out of slovakia and the czech republic?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:36 am
by Northern Monkey
The former Czechoslovakia is I think stymied by Poland and or Germany.
Mali looks to be next to Mauritania.
kazakstan is a good guess but I guess is next to Russia which has a pretty long coastline.
Clue- neither of the answers on the card are African.
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:42 am
by Weyland
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan? Exhasting my memory of Russio-Asian country names. Although if they both border China, I'm screwed.
Kazakstan is, IIRC, also on the Caspian Sea.
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:40 am
by Northern Monkey
Good guesses-right line of thinking but I think you are right in that they are both bordered by China.
The Caspian is treated as a lake for these purposes as despite being salt water it is itself completely landlocked.
The above comment provides a further clue as to the identity of at least one of them...
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:03 pm
by Istenem
uzbekistan and belarus?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:05 pm
by Northern Monkey
Yep Uzbekistan is one of them but not Belarus