Place guessing

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #240 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:23:38 PM

And if that didn't describe what I felt then... :blink: :blink: :blink:

I'm going to think of one up soon...

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #241 on:** April 16, 2005, 04:02:29 PM

I got one:

There are two famous landmarks in my home state of Arizona. They are both craters, but they are also very different. Name the craters and why they are different.

Malte279 · **Reply #242 on:** April 16, 2005, 08:23:09 PM

One which springs to my mind immediately is the Barringer crater, propably the best preserved crater caused by a meteor impact on this planet. I need to look up for a second crater, but from your description I stongly suppose that the other one won't originate from a meteor.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #243 on:** April 18, 2005, 04:22:12 PM

I don't think Barringer Crater is in Arizona, but one of the craters was in fact made by a meteor, and this one also looks well-preserved to me.

Nick22 · **Reply #244 on:** April 18, 2005, 08:13:24 PM

Meteor Crater and I can't thinbk of the other one...

Malte279 · **Reply #245 on:** April 19, 2005, 09:09:21 AM

The Barringer crater really is in Arizona according to several webpages e.g. http://www.barringercrater.com/science/
Another Arizonian crater I found would be the so called "Sunset crater" (which originates from volcanic erruptions): http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_i...img_sunset.html

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #246 on:** April 19, 2005, 04:39:16 PM

Ok. Barringer Crater was also named Meteor Crater, the name I was thinking, so that's right.

And Sunset Crater was in fact a result of volcanic activity, and was named especially because of the sunset color of the top part of the mountain.

Since you got them both right, the floor is yours, Malte.

Malte279 · **Reply #247 on:** April 19, 2005, 04:51:51 PM

At this holy and educated place the northmen struck first on this important island.

Nick22 · **Reply #248 on:** April 20, 2005, 09:41:55 AM

That would be the Viking raid on Lindisfarne Monastery in England in 793.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #249 on:** April 20, 2005, 11:29:59 AM

Perfectly right Nick! Good going! Your turn.

Nick22 · **Reply #250 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:18:31 PM

I know that because I did a paper on it in 2003. Anyway this place is where great and small put on sackcloth in fear.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #251 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:47:53 PM

Aphek? It's a place mentioned in the bible:

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1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

Nick22 · **Reply #252 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:48:57 PM

Nope, but this place is mentioned in the Bible.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #253 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:10:55 PM

Nineveh? A town of great influence, which was said to be very sinful and was finally destroyed (I think by the Babylonians, but I'm not sure).

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Jonah 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

The quote seems to fit better than the first as it includes the greatest and the least.

Nick22 · **Reply #254 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:12:07 PM

Yep, it was Nineveh. Your turn malte

Malte279 · **Reply #255 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:43:22 PM

Hometown of one of the worlds famoust tragic pair of lovers.

Nick22 · **Reply #256 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:44:27 PM

Verona Italy

Malte279 · **Reply #257 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:52:57 PM

Right!
Many people think that Romeo and Juliet lived in Venice (and perhaps the historical Romeo and Juliet did, I don't know for sure), a fact being exploited by the tourist business in Venice, but they really came from Verona.
Your turn Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #258 on:** April 20, 2005, 04:30:12 PM

This place is the setting for a famous Broadway play

Malte279 · **Reply #259 on:** April 23, 2005, 04:22:44 PM

There are quite a few famous Broadway musicals. I guess we need a bit more information to make more than mere guesses.