Doubly landlocked means it is landlocked by countries that are also landlocked. It says Uzbekistan counts, but Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan both touch the Caspian. Lichtenstein, on the other hand, is surrounded by Switzerland and Austria, which touch no major bodies of water.
Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan aren't doubly landlocked because they both border countries (Russia, Iran) that are not landlocked. Frankly, I find the concept of "doubly landlocked" to be an exercise in triviality - it makes no difference, practically speaking, whether your country is singly or doubly landlocked. It's not like you get a free pass to use neighboring countries' ports 5 times a year - this isn't a board game.
Being double-landlocked is of some importance re: trading via water shipping routes. Goods coming by way of ship need to go through two countries to get to the destination.
Doubly Landlocked is important. In order for a person or company to ship something large, for instance, overseas, they would have to pay import and export fees in two countries before arriving at a third destination.It's a good reason why warm water (or non-freezing) ports are highly valued.
The concept of "double landlocked" is much less trivial information than a lot of other information on jetpunk. It challenges and exercises your geography knowledge and has implications for double taxes/tariffs.
Now, those quizzes on jetpunk about which sports team wins the league cup each year from 1900 to 2017... That is truly useless and trivial information that has zero intrinsic value.
Getting upset about double landlockedness seems misplaced in comparison.
I can't believe the Aussies chose the lame as you-know-what emu as one of its national symbols! How can you be home to such an awesome animal as the platypus and not choose it?!
False: Softwoods and hardwoods are only applied to trees that are used for their timber. A tree is usually considered one of the two, but it is not a definitive classification, but a relative scale.
Those are types of plants, not types of trees. All plants are either angiosperms or gymnosperms. Deciduous and evergreen apply only to trees and not bushes or shrubs or grasses or ferns.
you can argue bushes and other herbaceous plants can be evergreen and deciduous as well, like the broadleaved evergreen genus: Euonymus, the common holly genus: Ilex, amongst others. None of which are trees and all of which receive the classification of evergreen.
This is incorrect. Angiosperms and Gymnosperms only make up a small part of all plants, though they do include, among others, all trees. However, there are lots of basal plants outside these two taxa, for example all mosses and ferns.
There are three recent species of elephants: African bush elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. You could however change the word “species” in the question to “genera” and have a correct question without changing the answers. The African elephants form the genus Loxodonta, while the Asian elephant is the only extant member of the genus Elephas.
Stout is a type of ale. Most beer styles fall under ale (IPA, pale ale, bitter, brown ale, hefeweizen, most porters...) or lager (pilsner, helles, dunkel, schwarzbier...) depending on the yeast used.
Each pair needs to be taken together, too. If someone said "name a type of beer", I'd probably take it to mean "style" and "stout" seems reasonable (or other more general or more specific styles). But if there's only two, it's obvious that stout isn't one of them, because one of stout's peer entities clearly can't comprise all (or almost all) beer.
And even if you could find a few edge cases (wild or unusual yeasts?) that are arguable, "ale" and "lager" are clearly the best answer if not unarguably correct for every case.
What defines the "most influential ancient Chinese philosopher"? Confucious is probably a given, certainly the most well known, but the others would be open for debate. Sun Tzu for instance.
Now, those quizzes on jetpunk about which sports team wins the league cup each year from 1900 to 2017... That is truly useless and trivial information that has zero intrinsic value.
Getting upset about double landlockedness seems misplaced in comparison.
And even if you could find a few edge cases (wild or unusual yeasts?) that are arguable, "ale" and "lager" are clearly the best answer if not unarguably correct for every case.
But does anyone else find the spelling issue very frustrating?
Was refused Rosh Hashanah because I left the H off the end, but 'Tut' is accepted in every quiz that features Tutankhamun.
I mean, you could be about to write 'Tut and car moon' and you get a point but nothing for Rosh Hashana.
Just asking.