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Old 10-27-2016, 08:47 PM   #1
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Default The Ultimate Canadian Geography Quiz: Geology Edition

I only got 23.

http://geoquiz.canadiangeographic.ca/ult16/

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Old 10-27-2016, 09:03 PM   #2
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I got up to #18 when I asked myself why the #### am I doing a 50 question multiple choice test right now. So I randomly picked the rest of the answers

I got a 24
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Old 10-27-2016, 09:30 PM   #3
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30! I really don't know Eastern Canada well.
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Old 10-27-2016, 09:32 PM   #4
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16.

Rocks are for nerds?
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Old 10-27-2016, 09:54 PM   #5
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I only got 25. Anyone that scores high either knows a lot of useless trivia stuff or got lucky guessing.
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Old 10-27-2016, 10:13 PM   #6
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I got 40.
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Old 10-27-2016, 10:50 PM   #7
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34 - should have done better
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Old 10-27-2016, 11:02 PM   #8
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I got 50, but I had the answers open, so we'll round down to 45.
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Old 10-28-2016, 10:36 AM   #9
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Only 23 - some of those questions were not really about geography though. I did hold my own for the Western questions, but bombed on all the Eastern questions.
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Old 10-28-2016, 10:39 AM   #10
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"At about 4.28 billion years, the oldest rocks ever found are on the Quebec side of Hudson Bay"

I thought the oldest rocks were in Australia?

http://www.livescience.com/43584-ear...ls-zircon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks

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Old 10-28-2016, 10:49 AM   #11
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21. About what I expect for this!
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Old 10-28-2016, 10:50 AM   #12
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Old 10-28-2016, 10:58 AM   #13
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maybe they meant in Canada? or perhaps it has something to do with the value of the CAN $ versus the Austrailian digerydoo or whatever it is they use to pay for goods and or services.

Outside of the above, I'd blame the NDP government or Trudeau

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"At about 4.28 billion years, the oldest rocks ever found are on the Quebec side of Hudson Bay"

I thought the oldest rocks were in Australia?

http://www.livescience.com/43584-ear...ls-zircon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
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Old 10-28-2016, 11:15 AM   #14
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"At about 4.28 billion years, the oldest rocks ever found are on the Quebec side of Hudson Bay"

I thought the oldest rocks were in Australia?

http://www.livescience.com/43584-ear...ls-zircon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
Ah, but the first article refers to a crystal... and a crystal isn't a rock. Canada wins on a technicality!

That article even says:
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The Australian zircons, from the Jack Hills, aren't the oldest rocks on Earth — those are in Canada — but about 3 billion years ago, the minerals eroded out some of Earth's first continental crust and became part of a riverbed.
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Ah, but the first article refers to a crystal... and a crystal isn't a rock. Canada wins on a technicality!

That article even says:
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Well that was a rough 19 score!
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Old 10-28-2016, 12:42 PM   #17
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31, apparently i'm a granite graduate but truth is I just guessed on about 30 questions.
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Old 10-28-2016, 12:53 PM   #18
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27.

I thought I was going to get higher.
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I thought I was going to get higher.
I thought so as well. And then I saw the questions.
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48/50. I was so close.
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