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Posted by Sul, 17:19, 4th August 2004:
 
I got this quiz from a charity thing. Name the countries. I dont know all the answers:

1. Quite cold - Chile
2. Ready for dinner - Hungary - Foggie
3. A head looking over a wall - Chad - Andy
4. Legally obtain money from a blackbelt - Sudan - Reitsma
5. The highest Sergei Bubka - Poland - Cal
6. Ambre Solaire to one side of the head only - Tanzania - Cal
7. Shop for cravats - Thailand - Cal
8. Hippy responds in the affirmative to blokes - Yemen - Vic
9. Page 3 girl - Jordan - Vic
10. Yuletide victim - Turkey - Lau
11. I accuse you of being torn up panties - Nicaragua - DocMoc
12. I only like coffee - Haiti - Alfie
14. Dirty Eastender with German cash - Denmark - Foggie
15. That shaggy dog is brown - Afgahnistan - ILBM
16. Feminist freedom OK! - Libya - Jeffld
17. Talk about cockles and muscles - Seychelles - Lau
18. Your working life a 180 degrees - South Korea - Alfie with a some Foggie help
19. Man who softens grain in water - Malta - ILBM
20. Lubricant - Greece - ILBM
21. Klondike bloke looks for a mother - Panama - Alfie
22. Feels rough and even more poorly - Corsica - Reitsma
23. How a baby pilchard listens - Sardinia - Sul
24. Snake in agony - Spain - Alfie
25. Take a look - Uganda - Lau
26. Nonselective biological warfare - Germany - Jeff
27. Princess’ football boots - Djibouti - Vic
28. Played Spike in Hi-de-hi - Holland - Alfie
29. Orcas - Wales - ILBM
30. This place is the end - Finland - Andy
31. Person in a hurry - Russia - Andy
32. Drink for the headmaster - Serbia - Alfie
33. Silver girl - Argentina - ILBM
34. One happy automobile - America - Alfie
35. Home for eco-warriors - Greenland - Vic
36. Where mum’s gone - Iceland - ILBM
37. Metal slows down and relaxes
38. Where elephants go on holiday - Ivory Coast - ILBM
39. Not ‘er track - Isreal - ILBM
40. This lefthander goes from off to leg
41. Positive snake - Canada - ILBM
42. Latest pet - New Guinea - Alfie
43. That Transco vehicle is the angriest yet! - Madagascar - Alfie
44. Turn left young lady! - Portugal - Lau
45. Was it you who forced the wife - Jamaica - Lau
46. That person is either luffer, tower or mobile - Ukraine - Reitsma
47. Phlegm……mucus - Qatar - Lau
48. Russ Abbott fatty feels fortunate - Luxembourg - Vic
49. Petrol station - Kuwait - Andy
50. Info. Conger. Etc - New Zealand - ILBM
51. The Govnor’s close by - Bosnia - Alfie
52. Soup direction - Norway - ILBM
53. Bloke jumping out of an aircraft - Paraguay - Reitsma
54. Jerry Adam’s lot in line. - Iraq - Alfie


13's missing from the sheet too. Superstition maybe, I dunno.
Posted by Sul, 17:29, 4th August 2004:
 
They gave the first one too.

1. Quite cold - Chile
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:32, 4th August 2004:
 
2. Hungary
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:33, 4th August 2004:
 
14. Denmark
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:52, 4th August 2004:
 
47. Germany

joke
Posted by cal, 18:03, 4th August 2004:
 
7. Shop for cravats - Thailand (tie-land)
10. Yuletide victim - Christmas Islands?
Posted by Sul, 18:11, 4th August 2004:
 
Cal, 10. Nope, I've got something different that sounds more like it.
Foggie, you're on the right lines with Germany actually but its for another question.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 18:19, 4th August 2004:
 
20. grease
Posted by ilovebeerme, 18:20, 4th August 2004:
 
29. Wales
Posted by ilovebeerme, 18:25, 4th August 2004:
 
36. Iceland
Posted by ilovebeerme, 18:25, 4th August 2004:
 
this is a bad idea it's showing up how slow my brain is
Posted by jeffld, 18:58, 4th August 2004:
 
this is very hard.. I have no idea. especially since I think this quiz is UK biased. (I mean that in the best way possible)


38. Where elephants go on holiday - Pakistan?
Posted by Andy, 19:03, 4th August 2004:
 
3 Chad
30 Finland?
31 Russia?
49 Kuwait (as in Q8)

Yes - four straight off. Fear my combination of pointless knowledge and crap sense of humour!
Posted by Sul, 19:03, 4th August 2004:
 
Jeffld, Nup.
Posted by Sul, 19:06, 4th August 2004:
 
All the same as what I've got Andy.
Posted by lau, 19:30, 4th August 2004:
 
How are we supposed to know if it's correct or not? Seeing as Sul who posted it doesn't even know all of them.
Posted by Sul, 19:34, 4th August 2004:
 
You know it if you've got them. And if I make a mistake then fuck it, it's my game and my rules.
Posted by Sul, 19:43, 4th August 2004:
 
And I know most of them.
Posted by lau, 19:44, 4th August 2004:
 
45. Was it you who forced the wife - Jamaica?
47. Phlegm……mucus - Qatar?

God I'm bad at this...
Posted by Sul, 19:52, 4th August 2004:
 
45 - yes
47 - I dont know this one and the Qatar ref isnt making sense to me.
Posted by lau, 19:54, 4th August 2004:
 
catarrh is another word for phlegm and i would imagine that's how qatar is pronounced.
Posted by lau, 19:58, 4th August 2004:
 
12. I only like coffee - costa rica?
Posted by Sul, 20:00, 4th August 2004:
 
47, I'll buy that. Nice one.
No on 12 I'm afraid
Posted by Victor Menendez, 20:00, 4th August 2004:
 
It is.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 20:01, 4th August 2004:
 
8. Yemen
Posted by Sul, 20:03, 4th August 2004:
 
8's correct.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 20:03, 4th August 2004:
 
9. Jordan
Posted by Sul, 20:04, 4th August 2004:
 
9. yes.
Posted by lau, 20:05, 4th August 2004:
 
26. Nonselective biological warfare - Nepal

Really weak link, but it's all I could think of.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 20:08, 4th August 2004:
 
27. Djibouti
Posted by Victor Menendez, 20:09, 4th August 2004:
 
35. Greenland
Posted by lau, 20:18, 4th August 2004:
 
Does anyone else think Vic has found a site with all the answers on?
Posted by Sul, 20:18, 4th August 2004:
 
26, nope.
27, one I never had. Makes sense.
35, yes.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 20:39, 4th August 2004:
 
No, but I did use a list of countries.
Posted by jeff, 22:09, 4th August 2004:
 
26 - germany?
Posted by Sul, 22:26, 4th August 2004:
 
26, sure is
Posted by ilovebeerme, 22:34, 4th August 2004:
 
6. Tangier?
Posted by Sul, 22:44, 4th August 2004:
 
6, no. Very close though. So close I thought maybe you'd mispelt it in fact until I looked it up and learnt that Tangier was in Morocco.
Posted by cal, 22:50, 4th August 2004:
 
6. tans-an-ear / tanzanier
Posted by jeff, 22:53, 4th August 2004:
 
tanzania pfft.
Posted by Sul, 22:56, 4th August 2004:
 
I'll give cal the point.
Posted by Sul, 23:10, 4th August 2004:
 
Took me ages to get that one. Partly because I was looking at Tanzania and read it as TanZaynier. As in, he's got an even more zany tan. I'm stupid sometimes.
Posted by lau, 23:14, 4th August 2004:
 
10. Yuletide victim - Turkey
Posted by Alfie, 23:18, 4th August 2004:
 
5. Sergei Bubka is a pole vaulter does that help?
Posted by Alfie, 23:20, 4th August 2004:
 
28 is holland (jeffrey)
Posted by Alfie, 23:21, 4th August 2004:
 
25. Take a look - peking
Posted by Alfie, 23:23, 4th August 2004:
 
34. One happy automobile: A Merry Car: America
Posted by cal, 23:24, 4th August 2004:
 
5 is poland then maybe?
Posted by Alfie, 23:24, 4th August 2004:
 
54. Jerry Adam’s lot in line: IRA Queue: Iraq
Posted by lau, 23:29, 4th August 2004:
 
Now Alfie has the answers!
Posted by Sul, 23:30, 4th August 2004:
 
I have 5 as poland too. Pole end, I figured.
Peking isnt a country

10, correct.
28, correct.
34, correct.
54, correct.
Posted by lau, 23:36, 4th August 2004:
 
44. Turn left young lady! - Portugal
Posted by Sul, 23:39, 4th August 2004:
 
44, right you are.
Posted by Alfie, 23:41, 4th August 2004:
 
Peking didn't sound right, even as I was typing it.
Posted by lau, 23:45, 4th August 2004:
 
25. Take a look - Uganda
Posted by Sul, 23:48, 4th August 2004:
 
25, correct.
Posted by Alfie, 23:51, 4th August 2004:
 
42. Latest pet - New Guinea
Posted by Alfie, 23:52, 4th August 2004:
 
(Papua New Guinea)
Posted by Alfie, 23:54, 4th August 2004:
 
39. Not ‘er track - Nor'way?
Posted by lau, 23:56, 4th August 2004:
 
It's sad how addicted to this game I am. I left a party to come back home and play this. It'll make me tired at work tomorrow.

17. Talk about cockles and muscles - Seychelles
Posted by Alfie, 00:01, 5th August 2004:
 
23. How a baby pilchard listens : Tunisia
Posted by Alfie, 00:04, 5th August 2004:
 
16. Feminist freedom OK! : Yeah, Men!: Yemen?
Posted by lau, 00:05, 5th August 2004:
 
33. Silver girl - Senegal
Posted by Alfie, 00:09, 5th August 2004:
 
43. That Transco vehicle is the angriest yet!: Vanuatu?
Posted by Alfie, 00:11, 5th August 2004:
 
32. Drink for the headmaster - Sir, Beer: Serbia (and Montenegro)
Posted by Alfie, 00:15, 5th August 2004:
 
This one is pushing it but:
51. The Govnor’s close by : Boss Near (and He's Ze Govenor): Bosnia and Herzegovina

I hope that's right cos it rules.
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 00:20, 5th August 2004:
 
15. New Zealand

19. Peru

24. Painsnaking?

37. Uraguay
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 00:21, 5th August 2004:
 
Dammit, that one for 51 rules!
Posted by Alfie, 00:22, 5th August 2004:
 
38. Where elephants go on holiday: Pakiderm's Tan: Pakistan?
Posted by lau, 00:25, 5th August 2004:
 
If that Bosnia and Herzegovina one is right I bow down to you Alfie. That takes some skill. :)
Posted by lau, 00:28, 5th August 2004:
 
Damn this sucks. I have to take one and go through the whole list of countries looking for a possible connection. I miss half of them, and by the time I have one Alfie's spouted about 5, all of which are quite hard. Damnation.

Salman: Were yours completely random? Cus I see no connection at all.
Posted by Alfie, 00:31, 5th August 2004:
 
Salman's were random. There are still about 18 i haven't got yet.
Posted by Alfie, 00:33, 5th August 2004:
 
24. Snake in agony - S Pain - Spain?
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 00:34, 5th August 2004:
 
15. That shaggy dog is brown = shaggy dog story = sealand / brown = nova = new

19. Man who softens grain in water = "pe" = mauritian for "man", R.U. = relaxing 'pumpernickel' PU+pumpernickel = PEPUMPERNICKEL forst 2 letters + 8th letter + 4th letter (2, 8, 4... next number is 0). hence Peru.

24. No, don't have a clue about this one.
37. Metal slows down and relaxes = Relaxes = popper effect on ass = Simpsons "hey, there's a country called U R Gay", relaxed ass (made of metal?), like the "Guy with the Metal Ass", who came from Uruguay (Guinness Book of Records 1997)
Posted by lau, 00:38, 5th August 2004:
 
You are coming up with the most random links. Well no, not random, but extremely complicated. This seems like pub quiz type stuff. Don't think it would be that invlved. I was going to say the spain one, but thought it was a bit too far fetched.
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 00:38, 5th August 2004:
 
11. I accuse you of being torn up panties - nicaragua?
Posted by Alfie, 00:40, 5th August 2004:
 
"Don't think it would be that invlved"

Salman is a very special person, he wasn't being serious.
Also an "S" looks like a snake
Posted by Alfie, 00:43, 5th August 2004:
 
Thinking about it 43. That Transco vehicle is the angriest yet! is probably:
Madder Gas Car: Madagascar
Posted by lau, 00:47, 5th August 2004:
 
Damnit. Wish I'd said it now. Says a lot about my state of mind. I'm tired, and got punched in the face by a pikey this evening, so am in pain and also feel sick from amount of blood consumed.

Good luck with the rest of them, and if there are any left I'll have some more fun tomorrow. :)
Posted by Alfie, 00:49, 5th August 2004:
 
pikey's suck
Posted by reitsma, 00:51, 5th August 2004:
 
46. That person is either luffer, tower or mobile

luffer, tower and mobile are types of cranes,

ergo: Ukraine.
Posted by Alfie, 00:53, 5th August 2004:
 
damn, I even looked up that they were cranes! still didnt get it!
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 00:54, 5th August 2004:
 
That sucks man. Bloody pikeys. Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. bloody rags.

Yeah, sorry, wasn't the most of serious. Except for the peru one.
Posted by Alfie, 00:55, 5th August 2004:
 
21. Klondike bloke looks for a mother: Pan a ma: Panama
Posted by reitsma, 00:59, 5th August 2004:
 
4. Legally obtain money from ablackbelt.

Sudan?

salman - nice work with 11!
Posted by reitsma, 01:01, 5th August 2004:
 
24. Snake in agony

ok, this may sound TERRIBLE.... but "Ssssspain"?

53. Bloke jumping out of an aircraft

Paraguay?
maybe Maldives is better.
Posted by Uncle Moc, 01:06, 5th August 2004:
 
55. Firstborn Kennedy takes a dip.
Posted by Uncle Moc, 01:08, 5th August 2004:
 
4 - yeah, probably
24. - already had that
53. brilliant!
Posted by Alfie, 01:12, 5th August 2004:
 
"24. Snake in agony

ok, this may sound TERRIBLE.... but "Ssssspain"?"

Did that one half an hour ago :D
Posted by Alfie, 01:12, 5th August 2004:
 
great work on 53 though
Posted by Alfie, 01:13, 5th August 2004:
 
hahahah i just got 12!

I only like coffee - Haiti (I hate tea)
Posted by Alfie, 01:16, 5th August 2004:
 
im off to bed
Posted by jeffld, 05:30, 5th August 2004:
 
16. Feminist freedom OK!

libya
Posted by Sul, 08:46, 5th August 2004:
 
Wowzers, that was a long update.

I'll just do the no's. Sorry if I've missed anyone's. It's early.

23, no
33, no
38, no
Posted by ilovebeerme, 09:34, 5th August 2004:
 
12. China

Chi? Na.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 09:36, 5th August 2004:
 
38. Ivory Coast?
Posted by Sul, 09:40, 5th August 2004:
 
We already got Haiti for 12 thought "Chi? na" makes sense. I'm confused now. I'll stick to the original I think.
38, Bingo.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 09:42, 5th August 2004:
 
*sob* I woke up this morning went to make a cuppa and didn't fancy tea. I just about fell over with excitement.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 09:44, 5th August 2004:
 
33. Argentina?
Posted by RUSS, 09:44, 5th August 2004:
 
members.aol.com/ARLCAR50/RA...
Posted by Sul, 09:47, 5th August 2004:
 
33, right on brother.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 09:47, 5th August 2004:
 
48. Belarus?
Posted by Sul, 09:51, 5th August 2004:
 
48, nope.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 11:11, 5th August 2004:
 
31 could be Iran too :D
Posted by Alfie, 11:26, 5th August 2004:
 
Tunisia Tuna's ear definately isnt the pichard one?
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 11:59, 5th August 2004:
 
18. Korea?
Posted by Victor Menendez, 12:07, 5th August 2004:
 
48. Luxembourg.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 12:08, 5th August 2004:
 
13. Never-Never Land.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 12:42, 5th August 2004:
 
48. Belgium?
Posted by Uncle Moc, 13:23, 5th August 2004:
 
55. Firstborn Kennedy takes a dip.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 13:23, 5th August 2004:
 
48. Luxembourg
Posted by Sul, 13:39, 5th August 2004:
 
Alfie. Well I'm going to stick to my guns that it's Sardinia although not strictly a country I understand. But as baby pilchards are sardines...

18. Close
48. is Luxembourg.
Posted by Alfie, 13:52, 5th August 2004:
 
ooh Sardina good one
Posted by Alfie, 13:53, 5th August 2004:
 
18: SOUTH Korea
Posted by Sul, 13:57, 5th August 2004:
 
18, correct.
Posted by eatmypiano, 14:00, 5th August 2004:
 
11. Nicaragua
48. Belarus


I think 50 is Ireland Ir-eel-and
Posted by Alfie, 14:02, 5th August 2004:
 
Sul - Salman got number 11 but you didnt update it
Posted by Alfie, 14:02, 5th August 2004:
 
nice work on the Ireland one
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 14:03, 5th August 2004:
 
oh , come now..Chay gets the credit for 18! ;(
Posted by Sul, 14:04, 5th August 2004:
 
Sorry, missed it.
11, I never had that. Well done yes. That's a good one.

50, no not quite.
Posted by Alfie, 14:05, 5th August 2004:
 
Yeah give that to foggie, he got it really
Posted by Sul, 14:08, 5th August 2004:
 
EMP. 48 was got by Vic
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 14:08, 5th August 2004:
 
yeah!

Thanks Chay
Posted by Victor Menendez, 14:14, 5th August 2004:
 
Yeah, Eatmydust!
Posted by eatmypiano, 14:20, 5th August 2004:
 
50 is Iceland then?

And 37 could be Barbados by a long stretch of the imagination.

40. Bolivia
Posted by ilovebeerme, 15:23, 5th August 2004:
 
15. Afghanistan

22. Malaysia

41. Canada

50. I like this one - New Zealand!
Posted by Sul, 15:29, 5th August 2004:
 
EMP - Can you explain the rest of 40? I get the "bowl" bit but thats it.
15. Correct
22. Nope - although I'm not too sure exactly what you was thinking there but lets hope its not what I think you were thinking.
41. Sure is
50. A very good one.
Posted by eatmypiano, 15:30, 5th August 2004:
 
"Bowl either"
Posted by ilovebeerme, 15:30, 5th August 2004:
 
22. Malaise is an illness, clutching at straws!
Posted by Sul, 15:32, 5th August 2004:
 
Bowl either? Is that a cricket term or something?
Posted by Victor Menendez, 15:35, 5th August 2004:
 
I can see where he is coming from, not sure if it's right though.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 15:37, 5th August 2004:
 
What did you think I was thinking for 22 you perv? :D
Posted by Sul, 15:39, 5th August 2004:
 
Ma lays ya
Posted by ilovebeerme, 15:40, 5th August 2004:
 
I see.





Sicko.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 15:42, 5th August 2004:
 
52. Norway - Knorr Way
Posted by Sul, 15:46, 5th August 2004:
 
52. That makes really good sense (another one I dont have) but we've already had a Norway in 39. So one has to be wrong.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 16:03, 5th August 2004:
 
39 could be Israel
Posted by Alfie, 16:14, 5th August 2004:
 
yeah i think you are right about 39
Posted by Saltation, 16:35, 5th August 2004:
 
37. Gold Coast
Posted by Saltation, 16:43, 5th August 2004:
 
22. Brazil?
Posted by Sul, 17:04, 5th August 2004:
 
Isreal? Sorry, dont get. Can someone explain it to thicko here.

37. I dont think so. That's in australia right?
22. No.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 17:07, 5th August 2004:
 
Is a rail
Posted by eatmypiano, 17:11, 5th August 2004:
 
It's not a "cricketing term" but it's cricket related. Offside bowling and leg bowling are two types of bowling. This one can bowl either. Bolivia.
Posted by Sul, 17:20, 5th August 2004:
 
Norway and Isreal updated.

Still not sure on Bolivia mainly because of the left handed bit.
Posted by Alfie, 18:14, 5th August 2004:
 
the pun on Israel isn't "Is a rail" its " 'is rail" as in "his rail" as in "not 'er track"
Posted by ilovebeerme, 21:02, 5th August 2004:
 
I thought is a rail *shrug*

As in 'not her track, is a rail'. Yours makes more sense though.

19. Malta?
Posted by Sul, 21:04, 5th August 2004:
 
19. Bingo.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 21:06, 5th August 2004:
 
wheres bingo?
Posted by arsepuppy, 21:07, 5th August 2004:
 
55 - Maldives
Posted by Sul, 21:08, 5th August 2004:
 
Just a couple more to get.

I'd appreciate a little show of hands for EMP's Bolivia as I dont really get it but others might.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 21:23, 5th August 2004:
 
22. Estonia?
Posted by Sul, 21:29, 5th August 2004:
 
22. no
Posted by Saltation, 21:52, 5th August 2004:
 
37: yup there IS a gold coast in oz. but it's also a country in africa, on the south coast of that west-jutting top bit, before the coast turns south and heads for jo'berg

that "malta" one : bloody well done, ilbm
Posted by Sul, 22:07, 5th August 2004:
 
I might be being stupid here but I've got in that area (from west to east):
Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon.
Posted by cal, 22:39, 5th August 2004:
 
same here:

Posted by reitsma, 00:52, 6th August 2004:
 
I AM A GENIUS!!!!!!

22. Rough - Coarse. Even more poorly - Sicker.

=D

corsica for you slower ones out there
Posted by reitsma, 01:20, 6th August 2004:
 
i'm still not sure whether 53 is Paraguay or maldives...
Posted by eatmypiano, 09:33, 6th August 2004:
 
I still think "Metal slows down and relaxes" is Barbados.

Metal comes in BARs
To slow down is to BAY (as in 'keep Sul at bay')
To relax is to DOS

I vouch for my suggestion of Bolivia. There's 398 countries on this planet - none of the others fit that clue (and there isn't a country called Gold Coast. Or Sardinia for that matter.)
Posted by Brock, 10:18, 6th August 2004:
 
"To slow down is to BAY"

Nope. That is not a definition of Bay, by any means... It has nothing to do with slowing down.
Posted by eatmypiano, 10:40, 6th August 2004:
 
"The position of having been checked, slowed or held at a distance" it says in my dictionary.
Posted by Brock, 10:59, 6th August 2004:
 
Don't care. Is it a stupid American dictionary?

Cambridge and Longmans have nothing of the sort, as a serious answer to this. It's certainly always been connected with 'holding', ie stopped at a distance, rather than reducing the speed of, whenever I have come across it's usage.
Posted by eatmypiano, 11:07, 6th August 2004:
 
Why would I have a stupid American dictionary?

OK, it's not Barbados. What is it?
Posted by Saltation, 11:23, 6th August 2004:
 
oh

too much historical reading of late, sorry