Countries by Haiku #2

We wrote a haiku / for these seventeen countries / can you guess them all?
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The giant lizards / which are found on Komodo / sometimes kill humans
Indonesia
Montana is cold / imagine a whole country / even further north
Canada
Russia on one side / Germany on the other / nineteen thirty-nine
Poland
With monks who wear orange / and pagodas aplenty / once had a junta
Myanmar
A crazy rich place / speaking English and Chinese / the Lion City
Singapore
Grenades being thrown / in the city of Malmö / can you believe it?
Sweden
The king of Belgium / who once owned this whole country / was not very nice
D. R. Congo
"Oh man" said Oman / this country that we border / has a civil war
Yemen
Up in the mountains / a tiny little country / between France and Spain
Andorra
Sinbad departed / from the city of Basra / to sail seven seas
Iraq
Looks like gazpacho / but it's made with beets instead / our national dish
Ukraine
How did it happen / when Yugoslavia split / we got the coastline
Croatia
Fly to Arusha / to see the mighty mountain / Kilimanjaro!
Tanzania
Find yourself a boat / sail due West from Colombo / one day you land here
Somalia
Our long history / throwing people from windows / defenestration!
Czech Republic
Capital city / in the middle of nowhere / shaped like an airplane
Brazil
We're in the E.U. / but we're closer to Asia / and Africa too
Cyprus
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Level 87
Nov 5, 2020
Actually, sailing due west from Colombo, you'll find yourself in the Maldives. (And if you head west from there, you're likely to be hijacked by pirates.)
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Level ∞
Nov 5, 2020
I suppose it's possible that you could bump into a Maldive, depending on what part of Colombo you left from. That will be accepted now.
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Level 49
Nov 6, 2020
"a maldive" sounds so funny i cant explain
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2023
Ask any sailor from the 11th to 17th Centuries about the odds of not hitting a reef, if you try sailing there. The odds of getting to Somalia intact (without dodging) are slim.
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Level 29
Jun 1, 2023
It accepts The Maldives aswell
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2023
Yup, I know. But, sailing west from Colombo, the odds of striking land (or coral) in the Maldives are very high. And once you strike a coral reef, you're not getting to Somalia.
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Level 43
Jun 3, 2023
Sri Lankan here.

Pretty sure we would bump into the Maldives faster than Somalia sailing from Colombo lmao😂

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Level 75
Nov 5, 2020
Technically Belgium should work for #7
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Level 87
Nov 5, 2020
He did not own the country of Belgium. He PERSONALLY owned Congo.
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Level 86
Nov 7, 2020
Yep, and that's why the "Congo Free State" was in fact a lawless area, where overseers could exploit the indigenous populations with absolutely no mercy. I'm not sure that Leopold II himself really realized what was going on there before the scandal broke.
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2023
Well, I suppose he did know that a human zoo of Congolese people was on the grounds of his estate. That might be some indication of his concern for his Congolese wards in general. I'm not willing to give him any special consideration.
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Level 80
Nov 5, 2020
Nice work. But the junta / pagodas / monks one has blown the haiku form. Lose "a" and "and"?
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Level ∞
Nov 5, 2020
Not so easy to just drop a word, but I reordered things to work now. Thanks!
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Level 63
Nov 6, 2020
Still doesn't work, there are six syllables in the first line.
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Level 80
Nov 6, 2020
How about 'With orange-dressed monks"?
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Level ∞
Nov 6, 2020
Oh, I get it. This is another US/UK thing. You can here the differences in pronunciation here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange

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Level 77
Jan 10, 2021
Okay, I still don't get it. There's little difference between the US and UK pronounciations of orange beyond the vowel sound. What they have most in common is that they are both two syllables. So what am I missing? Either way, "With monks who wear orange" is six syllables, not five. Help!
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Level 47
Jan 10, 2021
The pronunciation of "orange" in this case (I am Canadian so idk if it's the British of the American that I use) makes sense from my perspective, as I pronounce it as "ornge" rather than "O-range".
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Level 55
Jul 26, 2022
two distinct sounds in Australia as well, was very confused while reading
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Level 71
Jun 1, 2023
But they still have a junta, don't they?
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Level 82
Nov 5, 2020
Okay, I do not get "shaped like an airplane"... What am I missing?
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Level 84
Nov 5, 2020
Brasilia is a planned city, carved out of the jungle in the 60s. The city planner used a cross axis design for the central part of the city and it resembles an airplane. It's quite a unique city, was fortunate to visit about 10 years ago.
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Level 40
Apr 4, 2023
these images also show it quite well:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brasilia_-_Plan.JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levantamento_aerofotogr%C3%A1fico_de_Bras%C3%ADlia_em_junho_de_1958_-_BR_RJANRIO_PH_0_FOT_00743_0004,_Acervo_do_Arquivo_Nacional.jpg

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Level 84
Nov 5, 2020
Wikipedia photo shows it reasonably well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia#/media/File:Vista_parcial_do_Distrito_Federal,_Brasil.jpg

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Level 71
Jun 1, 2023
I couldn't tell if it was the city or the country that was supposed to be shaped like an airplane.
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Level 70
Nov 6, 2020
Bosnia, Montenegro and Slovenia also have coasts.

Bosnia's is massive!

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Level 77
Nov 7, 2020
How do Bosnians go to the beach? One at a time.
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Level 60
Nov 13, 2020
Gotta be careful with that foot placement, or you'll be invading Croatia twice.
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Level 72
Nov 6, 2020
I love the last one! A nice little joke, considering all the discussions the Quizmaster must have seen on this website.
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Level 49
Nov 6, 2020
well to be fair, cyprus should not be considered asian. HEAR ME OUT. The only difference between europe and asia is a cultural. youll never really find a clean border, like there is with africa and asia. and as cyprus is cultutrally european, you should consider it as that.
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Level 86
Nov 7, 2020
Say that to the turkish half of the island ;).
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Level 76
Nov 12, 2020
Yeah, it's complicated. Cyprus is more culturally European but geographically Asian. East Timor is more culturally Asian but geographically Oceanian. Jetpunk isn't really consistent with this stuff, determining Cyprus by its geography but determining East Timor by its culture.
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Level 60
Nov 13, 2020
Nobody is consistent, really. Not that I've seen.
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Level 75
Jan 10, 2021
We're all Earthlings. Anything else is arbitrary convention.
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Level 74
Feb 7, 2021
geography is not a real science.. just ask How many continents there are? and a real expert will say ... uhm depends on what you want to do with that information.
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Level 76
Jun 1, 2023
Wow. I hope you're joking. Otherwise, putting down a whole field of study just cause of one point of debate is absurd.
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Level 89
Nov 7, 2020
Ukraine, keeping Schrute Farms the most lucrative business in greater Scranton.
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Level 71
Jan 10, 2021
Grenades in Malmo? Not sure what that means.
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Level 71
Jan 10, 2021
Interesting...
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Level 64
Jan 10, 2021
The "Looks like gazpacho / but it's made with beets instead / our national dish", when u mean like Gazpacho i'm thinking about "cold" soup, because you don't eat the Gazpacho hot like borscht

And the clues clearly refer to lithuania's national soup, saltibarsiai, that are made of beets, is one of the national dishes and someway is similar to gazpacho (cough, cold).

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Level 60
Jan 13, 2021
I thought it was Lithuania too.
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Level 76
Mar 4, 2021
Well, the phrase "looks like" doesn't point to temperature.

As for the clues, they *clearly* don't refer to saltibarsiai, as that is not the answer given (that is, the quiz maker *clearly* wasn't referring to that); but you could say that it is an alternate answer that should be equally valid. Then again, it doesn't much look like gazpacho.

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Level 46
Jan 10, 2021
Explain to me how Brazil is shaped like an airplane
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Level ∞
Jan 10, 2021
Brasilia is shaped like an airplane, not Brazil.
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Level 84
Jan 10, 2021
When Yugoslavia "split." Haha I see what you did there. :)
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Level 77
Jan 10, 2021
Fun fact: the English version of a Haiku doesn't really match the Japanese definition. The Japanese Haiku doesn't take into account the ever present diphthong. "The highway cowboy" would count as 5 syllables in English, but would be 10 vowel sounds in Japanese. On an unrelated note, "orange" is two syllables unless it's being rushed--I assume like foliage and similar words where saying it properly goes out the window when a person is in a rush.
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Level 78
Jan 13, 2021
Orange can be one syllable in certain accents, especially American
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Level 88
Jun 9, 2023
Apparently so, based on the comments here, but I've lived in the USA my whole life and in my experience most people pronounce it with two syllables.
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Level 44
Apr 15, 2021
Ah, my haiku:

Haikus are easy

But sometimes they don't make sense

Refrigerator

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Level 78
Aug 17, 2021
"To freeze the moment

In seventeen syllables

Is very diffic..."

Thank you JCC.

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Level 57
Mar 30, 2022
I love how Maldives is a type-in for Somalia
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Level 66
Mar 3, 2023
Grammatically and rhythmically, "it's made with beetroot instead" would work better, in my opinion
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Level 70
Jun 1, 2023
Great quiz!
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Level 59
Jun 1, 2023
..very nice..but easy...
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Level 42
Jun 4, 2023
with monks that where orange is 5 syllables
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Level 67
Jun 8, 2023
Pardon my ignorance. Can someone please explain the defenestration in Czechia?
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Level 88
Jun 9, 2023
Several incidents in the late medieval and early modern periods involving mobs throwing people out of windows in what is today the Czech Republic. The third incident is probably the most famous, and is often cited as a cause of the Thirty Years' War.

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

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Level 74
Aug 19, 2023
Isn't "Grenades being thrown" only four syllables?
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Level 46
Nov 23, 2023
Grenades is 2 syllables, Being is 2 syllables, Thrown is 1 syllable, so 5 syllables
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Level 46
Nov 23, 2023
May need to change the Myanmar one as it currently has a junta