Where in the world am I?

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 12 August 06 10:31 pm

We may need a little more here methinks.

Bundyrumandcoke · Post by **Bundyrumandcoke** » 12 August 06 10:40 pm

No its not Mars, its in Oz. Red area is probably a couple of KM across, and all the clues are there to ID it.
A GR will do, as unless you know what the red is, you wont know what its actually called.

ZED! · Post by **ZED!** » 12 August 06 11:18 pm

S23 56.280 E151 19.200

Bauxite deposits from the nearby aluminium smelter at Boyne?

Bundyrumandcoke · Post by **Bundyrumandcoke** » 13 August 06 12:11 am

That'll do, actually the settling pond from Queensland Alumina Limited, the red bauxite colouring left over from the refining process of bauxite to alumina. It is very close to Boyne Smelter Limited. Locally known as the Red Mud Dam, for obvious reasons.

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 15 August 06 1:36 pm

A little lunch time Google Hunt

This is the picture of an Olympic Stadium.
 1. Name the City and the year they held the Olympics.
 2. Although hard to see from this angle, the picture shows the world's tallest what?
 3. And the biggie - Name all the Australian Gold Medal Winners from this Olympic Games, their sport or dicipline, their current city/town of residence and their date of birth.

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 15 August 06 3:03 pm

Montreal Summer Olympics - 1976

The tallest inclined structure in the world

And we didn't get any gold...

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 15 August 06 3:03 pm

Montreal Summer Olympics - 1976

The tallest inclined structure in the world

And we didn't get any gold...

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 15 August 06 3:27 pm

Correct - Both Times.

Question 3 -

(not the fact that we didn't get any gold but...)

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 16 August 06 6:00 pm

A Wednesday Evening Quickie

1. Name this Structure (too easy, so...)
 2. What is the road number of the pictured road eg the A116
 3. List a useless bit of trivia about the structure but it must be something really trivial that probably not many other people know and list the source of your answer to prove it's not made up.

Spruce Mooses · Post by **Spruce Mooses** » 16 August 06 6:18 pm

ummmm stone henge?
Road number - A344
Useless info -
Stonehenge was constructed in three phases.
It has been estimated that the three phases of the construction required more than thirty million hours of labour.
Speculation on the reason it was built range from human sacrifice to astronomy.

All from the website www.stonehenge.co.uk

and I've been there

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 16 August 06 7:57 pm

Spruce Mooses wrote:and I've been there

(cue Redgum karaoke) I've been to Stonehenge too!

Mind you, I might almost have well gone to an Imax movie of it, since the tourists are kept well away from the actual structures, behind glass or at a distance!
Still, I'm sure I absorbed some cosmic resonances from it anyway...

Little known fact: it was designed as an early computer for calculating solstices and the like. A Druid of the time called Porti coined the slogan for the construction: "Lintel Inside"

Post by **CraigRat** » 16 August 06 8:33 pm

Bear_Left wrote:A Druid of the time called Porti coined the slogan for the construction: "Lintel Inside"

Boooooooo

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 17 August 06 3:56 pm

Craigrat - Boo is right! Now to take your mind off that wonderful Bear Left pun, try this place. The border as shown is actually the border between two countries, although I think it should be actually located just a few metres further north.

1. I'm after the name of the City that is south of the border and the country of it's locale.
 2. The name of the city lends itself to a band famous in the 60's. Name the band and it's leader.
 3. There is a hint to the answer located in this post. What was it?

binns1012 · Post by **binns1012** » 17 August 06 4:21 pm

City Tijuana, band Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. country Mexico
cheers

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 17 August 06 4:27 pm

Well done on 1 & 2. And the hint re: #3 is.....