Who Controls It? #1

For each selected place, name the country that controls it.

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Place	Country
Lhasa	China
Oahu	United States
Northern Ireland	United Kingdom
Canary Islands	Spain
Cayenne	France
Zealand	Denmark
Lake Ladoga	Russia
Baja California	Mexico

Place	Country
Socotra	Yemen
Mekong River Delta	Vietnam
Andaman Islands	India
Mount Chimborazo	Ecuador
Victoria Island * world's 8th largest	Canada
Petronas Towers	Malaysia
Aruba	Netherlands
Spitsbergen	Norway

Place	Country
Port Said	Egypt
The Kaaba	Saudi Arabia
Durban	South Africa
Puncak Jaya	Indonesia
Tiber River	Italy
Mato Grosso	Brazil
Blue Mosque	Turkey
Corfu	Greece

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Level 82

Mar 19, 2018

Chimborazo isn't well known, yet its peak claims the title of the point on the surface of the Earth most distant from its centre. The equatorial bulge means it's a greater distance than to the top of Everest.

Level 31

Mar 25, 2018

You are right. It makes it quite an interesting mountain. It also means it is the point on earth closest to the Moon.

Level 38

Mar 25, 2018

Thats pretty cool! You learn something new every day!!!!!!!

Level 36

Mar 25, 2018

Depends on when in the cycle...diagrams mostly show the Moon revolving around Earth's equator, but it makes a significant difference even that far away. Besides, since the orbit is elliptical and not entirely round, astronomers don't calculate a singular distance.

Level 18

Mar 5, 2021

correct

Level 69

Mar 4, 2021

Edward Whymper was the first person to climb the Matterhorn and Chimporazo.

Level 59

Dec 23, 2023

i wonder if he's just the first person documented since south america is home to human civilizations wayyyy before we could document it

Level 70

Mar 25, 2018

Cotopaxi would be well known to schoolchildren of my generation from the poem "Romance" by WJ Turner, which has a refrain about Chimborazo, Cotopaxi. The final verse runs:-

The houses, people, traffic seemed

Thin fading dreams by day,

Chimborazo, Cotopaxi

They had stolen my soul away!

Level 70

Mar 4, 2021

I remember that poem; I was very young when I encountered it, and actually found it rather scary.

+22

Level 45

Mar 25, 2018

I kept on putting Netherlands for Zealand before realising that it's spelt Zeeland! Oh well...

Level 34

Mar 26, 2018

same here!

+11

Level 73

Mar 4, 2021

could've helped if the quiz used the more distinguishable Danish spelling of Sealand or Sjaeland, but I guess the quizmaster is going with the most common name

Level 69

Mar 4, 2021

agree!

Level 81

Mar 12, 2021

But then there's the other Sealand, population 27

Level 26

Apr 10, 2024

Me too

+11

Level 71

Mar 25, 2018

There's a lot of Victoria Islands in the world...

Level 43

Mar 31, 2018

And there is no Victoria Island in Canada. Note to quiz-masters: Victoria is the capital of the province of British Colombia in Canada, and it is located on the tip of VANCOUVER ISLAND. By the way, Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia. It, ironically, is not located on Vancouver Island, but on the mainland of BC

Level 43

Mar 31, 2018

Unless you mean the tiny Victoria Island in the city of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Or perhaps you mean the Victoria Island, one of many islands in the high Arctic of which many Canadians don't know the names because they're so remote and far removed,

Level 65

Mar 22, 2024

Most Americans don't know many of the Hawaiian islands. Just "Big Island" and maybe Maui or O'ahu and *very rarely* Moloka'i or Kauai. Victoria Island is comparable to O'ahu in that regard.

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Level ∞

Mar 31, 2018

Canada's Victoria Island is the 8th largest island in the world. The more you know.

Level 78

Sep 7, 2020

Victoria Island may refer to:

Victoria Island (California), United States

Victoria Island (Canada), in the Arctic, the eighth largest island in the world

Victoria Island (Argentina), in the Nahuel Huapi National Park

Victoria Island (Chile)

Victoria Island, Lagos, in Nigeria

Victoria Island (Russia), named for British steam yacht Victoria that sailed nearby

Other

Labuan (Malaysia), also known as Victoria Island

Victoria Island, a fictional island in MMORPG, MapleStory

Hong Kong Island, unofficial name is home to the territory's capital Victoria City, Victoria Peak and nearby Victoria Harbour named for the monarch.

Chaudière Falls in Ottawa (Canada) include a Victoria Island

Level 74

Mar 4, 2021

Yep, I was typing Hong Kong, China and everything I could think of to describe Victoria Island (across from Kowloon). Oh well.

Level 18

Mar 5, 2021

This stuff needs to be specified by images.

Level 65

Mar 6, 2021

Victoria island isn't in British Columbia,It's an island between Northwest Territory and Nunavut.

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Level 66

Mar 6, 2021

Let's say I'm taking a trip to Miami, and I tell my friend this. There's a Miami, Florida, Miami, Oklahoma, Miami, Arizona, and a Miami, Indiana. Do I need to specify which state I'm going to if I just said "I'm going to Miami"?

Level 75

Mar 8, 2021

It's not like there's one hugely famous Victoria Island and a few other not-so-famous ones. They're all pretty obscure.

If this were a picture quiz that would be cool and remove all doubt...!

Level 34

Jan 8, 2023

In a few words, Victoria Island controls the world.

Level 58

Mar 25, 2018

Parts of the Andamans are also controlled by Myanmar

Level 75

Mar 25, 2018

What is the photo? It looks like mushroom trees.

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Level 78

Mar 25, 2018

Dracaena cinnabari (Socotra dragon tree) on the island of Socotra. Google some pictures of the island, they're really cool! It almost looks like another planet.

Level 75

Mar 26, 2018

Thanks. You're right, they are amazing and "unearthly".

Level 68

Mar 25, 2018

I kept putting New Zealand for Northern island before realizing it was the UK.

Level 79

Feb 22, 2021

Also that island is actually North Island 😁

Level 71

Mar 4, 2021

Northern IRELAND

Level 44

Mar 26, 2018

knew the one for the Draceanea but I couldnt spell the country name, I guess I should lay off the vodka LOL

Level 67

Mar 4, 2021

Zealand is a province of the Netherlands as well (in French Zelande in Netherlands and Seeland in Denmark)

Level 72

Jan 9, 2023

Yes, but that one is spelled Zeeland.

Level 63

Sep 8, 2023

Yes but the danish one is is spelled seeland

Level 49

Mar 4, 2021

very fun, even tho i did very bad. but maybe accept the netherlands for zealand as well, they have the province of zeeland

Level 71

Mar 4, 2021

Did "Lake Ladoga" make anyone else think of "Lake Laogai" from Avatar?

Level 47

May 24, 2023

yes

Level 64

Mar 5, 2021

Nice one,

Thanks!

Level 27

Mar 8, 2021

good

Level 66

Mar 25, 2022

Socotra is part of Yemen, but Yemen doesn't really have control over it.

Level 50

May 1, 2022

True. But nobody would get the answer if you had to type 'Southern Transitional Council', which, according to Wikipedia, is who controls Socotra.

Level 43

Aug 27, 2022

Zelend is Netherlands

Level 59

Jan 8, 2023

Doesn't the UAE defacto control Socotra? Consider adding that as a type in?

Level 44

Jan 8, 2023

"UAE" should be a valid answer for who control Socotra

Level 75

Jan 8, 2023

Good quiz, this time I managed to get them all with only a little bit of brute force needed for Ladoga.

Are there more in the series? I'd lap 'em all up!

Level 57

Jan 8, 2023

Easy

Level 44

Jan 8, 2023

Its Seeland not Zealand in Denmark

Level 60

Jan 8, 2023

There is a place called Zealand in New Brunswick.

Level 56

Jan 9, 2023

We own zealand too #netherlands4life

Level 64

Apr 9, 2023

i cant believe i missed northern ireland

Level 63

Sep 8, 2023

Please add the netherlands for zealand since we also have a zealand province

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