Jeopardy - a Game of Life - RF #71

Hi guys, all clicked

Question = What is a horse of course.......


Okawango



:wink:

We can make a safari there on horses but that's not the peculiarity of Okawango..

I can hear the melody and those words in my head, but can't complete it. This will be driving me batty all day.

Can't make up my mind-
Question:
Which river empties into the Kalahari Desert?

Question:
What is the name of the river that forms part of the border between Angola and Namibia?

Clicked.

Good work, Ul.

I would say: Which river doesn't flow to a body of water?

(It really doesn't empty in Kalahari Desert, as you can see in this map)




Clicked.

Francis,
you are right. It is the Kalahari Basin.

Answer:
Dún Chaoin

Q: What is the most westerly part of Europe?

Yes- and a very nice place.

Nice place indeed, Dunquin, Ireland.

A: Grein.

This might look like a home field advantage.
I can think of several questions, but I first have to use a dictionary.

Which place at the Danube was granted privilege of a town by Emperor Friedrich II?

Where is the narrowest path on the Danube?
The shortest distance between the left and right river banks?

I was thinking none of those. More peculiar, I think.

Mhm,
there was a time when people had to carry the ships/boats due to the "Strudel"-white water in spring and there is a connection to a war with France. But I have to look up that.

But maybe you are not thinking of that town in Austria?

Question = Who is Ernst Grein - founder of a small stonemasonry in Graz in 1856? Now the Grein Group.

Ernst Grein

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Image as the answer. What is the question?

This could happen anywhere in the world, and probably is. The transportation industry has been responsible for the spread and movement of a great many things.

http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/may/23invasive.htm

Experts gather in D.C. to examine invasive species
KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE

. MILWAUKEE ?- The problem of invasive species flooding into the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway is now drawing the attention of some of America's top scientific minds.

The National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday will convene a committee of transportation, economic and environmental experts to explore ways to stanch the flow of unwanted creatures into the world's largest freshwater system, while at the same time enhancing global trade in the region.

The Great Lakes are home to at least 180 foreign species and a new one is discovered, on average, every six and a half months. The overwhelming majority of the invaders since the 1970s, including the quagga and zebra mussel and the round goby, made their way into the lakes in the belly of overseas freighters carrying contaminated ballast water.

Ballast water, often taken on at one port and dumped at another, is used to stabilize a ship on the high seas.

The shipping industry acknowledges the problem, and the race is on to develop a technology that will decontaminate ships' ballast water tanks.

But some members of the shipping industry are already suspicious of this new Academy study, which is funded by a grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, a nonprofit corporation established by the Great Lakes states governors to finance projects to improve the environmental health of the region.

Steve Fisher, executive director of the American Great Lakes Ports Association, says now is the time to press on with ballast treatment research, instead of spending $850,000 to take a sweeping look at the way the Seaway operates.

"These dollars could probably be better put to use in helping join with all the others who are looking at shipboard treatment systems, to help find the technology that needs to be developed to solve this problem," said Fisher, who will attend the meeting as a representative of the shipping industry.

sumac,
You have hit on a common denominator for the spread of stuff across the world. Ballast, the thing that makes a sailing ship stable, is cast off when the ship takes on bootie - love the word - or, cargo........ Next time you are in Savannah, GA - go to the "Boar's Head Restaurant" and then instead of going in - go down the walk to the river side and then go into "The Other End Lounge"................ Quite a trip. It's the basement of the restaurant. Thing is - the area is covered with cobblestones........ Each one of those cobblestones is ballast from the old sailing ships from Europe. Amazing the stuff that is here and we never think about it.

Good point.

I was thinking about this:

A: Grein
Q: Which city in Austria has the oldest town theater still in use?

I didn't know that.
Just looked it up- founded 1791 and never rebuilt or enlarged.

There is a theater in Vienna, built 1788, which is still in use. But another part was added in 1822, because the old house was already too small.
For the first opening Beethoven wrote the music and he was also the conductor.