Quiz: Which Extremity of the World Are You?

[Guest]

I liked the questions and my results esp. since Shakespeare's Cleopatra is one of my very favourite characters. P.

YOU ARE THE NILE

At 4145 miles from your furthest extremity to the Mediterranean Sea, you outdo the Amazon to become the world's longest river. The piranhas hate you.

Beneath you lies an underground river with six times your volume. You kept this remarkably quiet for several thousand years. In fact, you're full of mystery; your source wasn't discovered until 1862. You're also full of water. And crocodiles. And nuclear pharaoh machines that run on light and can see through time.

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[Guest]

YOU ARE THE ALAKAI SWAMP ON MOUNT WAI'ALE'ALE, HAWAII

A stupendously rainy volcanic crater, you hold the dubious honour of being the wettest place on Earth, which may surprise some Scots. You receive 486 inches of precipitation a year, or forty and a half feet - the height of 6.89 typical Belgians. For comparison, that's over ten times the rainfall of New York, twelve times that of Glasgow and five hundred times that of Timbuktu. If you took a cube of water a third of a mile along each edge, you would then have how much water falls on the mountain every year. You would also have a fine spot to keep whales and shrimp, assuming, of course, as you would have this water in a suitable place from which to drop it mericlessly on a soggy yet unsuspecting part of Kauai, that they were flying whales. And shrimp.

 

[Remec]

YOU ARE THE ATACAMA DESERT

You are the driest area on Earth. Your annual rainfall is roughly the depth of a dollar bill. In fact, often you can go for several years without any precipitation whatsoever. If you wanted to fill a pint glass by rainfall alone, you would have to have started in 1704, five years before the invention of the piano; to get enough water to drown a man of average height would take 3600 years, or the time between us and the Hittites. You really put Canadian "dry" ginger ale into perspective.

 

[Guest]

You really put Canadian "dry" ginger ale into perspective.

That line made me larf. Rem! You put lots of stuff into perspective for me. P.

 

[Guest]

 

[Dream Keeper]

YOU ARE THE NILE

At 4145 miles from your furthest extremity to the Mediterranean Sea, you outdo the Amazon to become the world's longest river. The piranhas hate you.

Beneath you lies an underground river with six times your volume. You kept this remarkably quiet for several thousand years. In fact, you're full of mystery; your source wasn't discovered until 1862. You're also full of water. And crocodiles. And nuclear pharaoh machines that run on light and can see through time.

I got the same as you. Then again I chose some wierd answers just for fun, such as the 'Have you ever taken more than half an hour to answer the question "how are you"?' Question. I answered honestly yes. Don't ask why... Hehe.

 

[MaxSebastian]

Apparently I'm the Pacific Ocean, big and wet. Don't know where that came from...

 

[Clare Quilty]

YOU ARE VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA

The world's coldest place. You reached a low of -88.3 degrees Celsius, recorded at the convenient Russian research station on top of you, a level of intense cold that would not look out of place on Mars. At this temperature mercury is very firmly a solid, making normal thermometers useless; radon gas condenses into liquid; and a few degrees colder would have carbon dioxide freezing out of thin air. Added to this, your average temperature is a trifling -55 degrees, the only visible rocks within 600 miles are meteorites, the ice freezes eyelids shut and clothing to the body within fifteen seconds of exposure and sometimes even splits teeth open. You are, in a word, cold.

 

[Guest]

I got the same as you. Then again I chose some wierd answers just for fun, such as the 'Have you ever taken more than half an hour to answer the question "how are you"?' Question. I answered honestly yes.

I answered that one 'no', so we're not exactly the same though we rec'd the same result. P.

 

[matriarch]

I answered that one 'no', so we're not exactly the same though we rec'd the same result. P.

Moi aussi.

Wierd. Not sure what it means.

M

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

YOU ARE THE ATACAMA DESERT

You are the driest area on Earth. Your annual rainfall is roughly the depth of a dollar bill. In fact, often you can go for several years without any precipitation whatsoever. If you wanted to fill a pint glass by rainfall alone, you would have to have started in 1704, five years before the invention of the piano; to get enough water to drown a man of average height would take 3600 years, or the time between us and the Hittites. You really put Canadian "dry" ginger ale into perspective.

Have no clue what it means, lol.

 

[yui]

YOU ARE AL-AZIZIYAH, LIBYA

You burn with the fires of a million suns.

OK, so that's an exaggeration. Perhaps only a thousand. Or 0.0106 suns, to be less fantastically inaccurate: that's the proportion of the Sun's surface temperature you reached on the 13th of September 1922. Your record of 60.6 degrees Celsius beats any other recorded for anywhere else on the planet. That's enough to melt an ox, create mercury from thin air or spontaneously turn oil into soup. 'strue. Really.

Melt an ox???

 

[CharleyH]

YOU ARE MOUNT EVEREST

As Mount Everest (or Sagarmatha, or Qomolangma Feng) you are the highest mountain above sea level in the world, at 8848 metres or 29,028 feet. That's pretty damn big. To put that into perspective, you are twenty-seven and a half times taller than the best the entirety of the Netherlands can manage. Of course, you're not actually the biggest mountain on Earth. Mauna Kea is 31,796 feet, or the equivalent of Everest with the Scottish mountain Suilven perched happily on top. And you're not the farthest from the equator - that's Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador. And Olympus Mons on Mars knocks all of the above into a cocked hat at around 80,000 feet. But when you're named after someone with a beard as impressive as that of Sir George Everest, who cares about the competition?

LOL

 

[lucky-E-leven]

YOU ARE THE PACIFIC OCEAN

You are the single biggest feature of the surface of the Earth. You cover 28% of the planet, more than all the land put together, and contain enough water to fill the moon. You also contain, almost as an afterthought, four-fifths of the world's islands. If your coastline were to be stretched out straight, it would reach around the world five times, and a lot of people would get very wet indeed.

sweet!

 

[cloudy]

YOU ARE AL-AZIZIYAH, LIBYA

You burn with the fires of a million suns.

OK, so that's an exaggeration. Perhaps only a thousand. Or 0.0106 suns, to be less fantastically inaccurate: that's the proportion of the Sun's surface temperature you reached on the 13th of September 1922. Your record of 60.6 degrees Celsius beats any other recorded for anywhere else on the planet. That's enough to melt an ox, create mercury from thin air or spontaneously turn oil into soup. 'strue. Really.

 

[Guest]

YOU ARE AL-AZIZIYAH, LIBYA

You burn with the fires of a million suns.

Ooh, cloudy - you and me, baby!

 

[cloudy]

YOU ARE AL-AZIZIYAH, LIBYA

You burn with the fires of a million suns.

Ooh, cloudy - you and me, baby!

I think we were twins in another life - we end up with the same results on every quiz!

do I hear the music from the Twilight Zone?????

 

[Guest]

I think we were twins in another life - we end up with the same results on every quiz!

do I hear the music from the Twilight Zone?????

Mmmm - I'm not hearing Twilight Zone.

Something more sultry and seductive, I think?

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Chalk another Libya.

Yeah, go figure.

 

[cloudy]

Mmmm - I'm not hearing Twilight Zone.

Something more sultry and seductive, I think?

Works for me!

 

[Guest]

Chalk another Libya.

Yeah, go figure.

LMAO!!

Well now, THERE'S a surprise!

 

[alyxen]

YOU ARE MOUNT EVEREST


But of course, it's not the size that matters, right?

 

[Guest]

I dunno, I'm kinda partial to a well-built man!

 

[Xelebes]

YOU ARE VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA

The world's coldest place. You reached a low of -88.3 degrees Celsius, recorded at the convenient Russian research station on top of you, a level of intense cold that would not look out of place on Mars. At this temperature mercury is very firmly a solid, making normal thermometers useless; radon gas condenses into liquid; and a few degrees colder would have carbon dioxide freezing out of thin air. Added to this, your average temperature is a trifling -55 degrees, the only visible rocks within 600 miles are meteorites, the ice freezes eyelids shut and clothing to the body within fifteen seconds of exposure and sometimes even splits teeth open. You are, in a word, cold.

 

[English Lady]

What a wonderfully bizarre Quiz Perdita!


YOU ARE THE PACIFIC OCEAN

You are the single biggest feature of the surface of the Earth. You cover 28% of the planet, more than all the land put together, and contain enough water to fill the moon. You also contain, almost as an afterthought, four-fifths of the world's islands. If your coastline were to be stretched out straight, it would reach around the world five times, and a lot of people would get very wet indeed