Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Trivia

Question: If you start in Vermont and go two states east, then keep going east, which province will you hit?

Answer (according to the trivia master at the pub last night): New Brunswick.

Now, I won't say that this is wrong, per se, because New Brunswick is the province just east of Maine. The problem is that if you look on a map none of New Brunswick overlaps with Vermont - it's too far north. Nova Scotia, however, shares most of Vermont's latitude, meaning if you start in Vermont and go directly east the first province you will hit is Nova Scotia (unless you start in the south of Vermont, in which case the first province you'd hit would be somewhere in China). Now, I have no problem with New Brunswick as an answer since it borders Maine and there was nothing precluding traveling north when in Maine. However, technically the first province east of Maine is Quebec, as part of Quebec lies east of the very top part of Maine.
I consider it a poor question. I don't have too much of an issue with one poor question, especially since it didn't effect the outcome, but we did have a lively debate amongst our team as to the correct answer.

Also, distinguishing this dude: from this dude:














really seems like a trick question.

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