Tipping Point

[TheLoneRanger]

Today ...

Q. How many sides does an isosceles triangle have??

Contestant ... 5

Contestant ... "The questions were hard today!!"

 

[BrynCartwright]

Today's pair of prunes were asked to provide the name of the world's largest 'landlocked' country...

one chose 'China', the other chose 'Russia'....

 

[JackSomething]

Today's pair of prunes were asked to provide the name of the world's largest 'landlocked' country...

one chose 'China', the other chose 'Russia'....

While I like to think I would have given a better answer than those, this question stumped me. My best guess was an African country, but I was surprised by the answer when I looked it up. Anyone want to have a guess without cheating?

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

While I like to think I would have given a better answer than those, this question stumped me. My best guess was an African country, but I was surprised by the answer when I looked it up. Anyone want to have a guess without cheating?

Mongolia or somewhere like that in Asia?

 

[JackSomething]

Mongolia or somewhere like that in Asia?

That's a sensible guess and looks bigger than any landlocked African country on the map. You're also pretty close geographically, as the answer is apparently

Spoiler

Kazakhstan

 

[MajorR]

That's a sensible guess and looks bigger than any landlocked African country on the map. You're also pretty close geographically, as the answer is apparently

Spoiler

Kazakhstan

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I really dislike Tipping Point, the contestants are usually pretty “limited” - the landlocked question is a toughie though and I’d never have got it.

 

[Pegojack]

Today:
Ben Shepherd - Ganymede is a moon of which giant planet in our solar system?

Contestant 1 - er....the Sun.

Ben (to contestant 2) - and what would you have said, Gordon?

Contestant 2 - er....the Moon.

 

[Ronald Parp]

While I like to think I would have given a better answer than those, this question stumped me. My best guess was an African country, but I was surprised by the answer when I looked it up. Anyone want to have a guess without cheating?

Is it Luxembourg?

 

[Cooperman]

That's a sensible guess and looks bigger than any landlocked African country on the map. You're also pretty close geographically, as the answer is apparently

Spoiler

Kazakhstan

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I flew over most of the length of it last week when coming back from China. Three hours of mostly blank terrain. It’s a vast, vast nation.

I thought the answer was DR Congo, but you will find a small piece of coastline when you zoom in on the map.

 

[Ronald Parp]

That's a sensible guess and looks bigger than any landlocked African country on the map. You're also pretty close geographically, as the answer is apparently

Spoiler

Kazakhstan

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That’s not landlocked.

 

[Cooperman]

That’s not landlocked.

Are you referring to the lake?

 

[Ronald Parp]

Are you referring to the lake?

Well if the Caspian Sea is a lake then yes.

 

[Ronald Parp]

Actually I’ve just looked up what constitutes landlocked so technically it is. What a load of old twaddle.

It has a coastline and a sea yet it is landlocked because the sea is locked. What a ridiculous load of old guff, but them’s the rules.

 

[Cooperman]

Actually I’ve just looked up what constitutes landlocked so technically it is. What a load of old twaddle.

It has a coastline and a sea yet it is landlocked because the sea is locked. What a ridiculous load of old guff, but them’s the rules.

It caught me out as well, but a few weeks before you. I knew it was 'on the coast', hence I went with DR Congo.

 

[Ronald Parp]

Isn’t that quite a tough Q for tipping point, or is that general knowledge? That why I said Luxembourg as that’s the kind of stupid answer I would expect on there.