Re: Country and Capital
- From: msb@xxxxxxx (Mark Brader)
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:56:36 -0500
Philip Carter writes:
Which country and capital am I describing?
The name of the country is seven letters long. The name of its capital
city is four letters long. The name of the capital city is spelled out
in the letters of the country in the correct order.
I'd have an answer if it said "five" instead of "four", or "eight"
instead of "seven", but I don't see one for the question as written.
After thinking about it for a while, I gave up and tried searching
in the CIA World Factbook for 4-letter capitals. But the only ones
I found were Baku, Azerbaijan; Dili, East Timor; Suva, Fiji; Nuuk,
Greenland (not a country anyway); Rome, Italy; Riga, Latvia; Male,
Maldives (8 letters); Oslo, Norway; Lima, Peru; Doha, Qatar; Apia,
Samoa; Bern, Switzerland; Lome, Togo; and Kiev, Ukraine.
The answer with a 5-letter city is, of course, obvious. [:-) ?]
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Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@xxxxxxx | "Fast, cheap, good: choose any two."
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