USA City Trivia
Mar 27th 2008, 1:07 pm
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USA City Trivia
As its quiet in the office, I 've just been checking on the biggest fifty USA cities by population (2006) and was amazed to find Miami down in 43rd place. Also, San Francisco has a population of under 750,000 which surprised me. Seattle is no bigger than Bristol, England. And Boston didn't make the top 20.
Mar 27th 2008, 4:39 pm
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Re: USA City Trivia
How about more trivia for the Pub Quiz? Who recently became the first British female artist in 20 years to reach the no.1 spot on the USA pop charts? An extra point for the name of the song. It's a real cracker incidentally.
Mar 28th 2008, 6:08 am
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MM, xx
Mar 28th 2008, 7:39 am
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Re: USA City Trivia
As its quiet in the office, I 've just been checking on the biggest fifty USA cities by population (2006) and was amazed to find Miami down in 43rd place. Also, San Francisco has a population of under 750,000 which surprised me. Seattle is no bigger than Bristol, England. And Boston didn't make the top 20.
http://www.atlantahighered.org/arche...3extra_pop.asp
Once you do this, Miami is in 23rd place and Seattle's population is 2.4 million -- vs Bristol's area population of 550,000 or so. But hey -- I was surprised to learn that the City of London's residential population is less than 10,000.
Mar 28th 2008, 8:35 am
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You have to count the suburbs and look at what are called MSMAs:
http://www.atlantahighered.org/arche...3extra_pop.asp
Once you do this, Miami is in 23rd place and Seattle's population is 2.4 million -- vs Bristol's area population of 550,000 or so. But hey -- I was surprised to learn that the City of London's residential population is less than 10,000.
http://www.atlantahighered.org/arche...3extra_pop.asp
Once you do this, Miami is in 23rd place and Seattle's population is 2.4 million -- vs Bristol's area population of 550,000 or so. But hey -- I was surprised to learn that the City of London's residential population is less than 10,000.
Mar 28th 2008, 3:02 pm
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here you go...do i get extra extra points for posting the vid...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sF84pIhP5UM
MM, xx
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sF84pIhP5UM
MM, xx
Mar 29th 2008, 2:50 pm
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Was too easy, she's been on the radio all week......pretty much like her brother who then disappeared. Anyway, she's not actually English, but Australian!
Mar 30th 2008, 12:13 am
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Re: USA City Trivia
Try out his one...might be too easy...
What is the only US state not to observe any daylight saving time change during the year?
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What is the only US state not to observe any daylight saving time change during the year?
Daz
Mar 30th 2008, 2:59 am
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Re: USA City Trivia
without googling, I'm going to say Arizona - although some of the Indian reservations in the state (eg Navajo) DO observe daylight saving time.
Mar 30th 2008, 6:28 am
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in which case she is defo not an Aussie. Born in Islington
Mar 30th 2008, 9:28 am
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Ooops, they'd been banging on about Natasha Bedingfield all week, knew I should have listened!