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    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

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    Netherland Antillies (but this is probably seen as part of Netherlands - as is French Guyana).

    Tobago - or the Leeward islands?

     

    Its not one of the Leeward Islands, but it is one of the Lesser Antilles. Not the Netherland Antilles though. Trinidad and Tobago is also not it.

    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

    in South Africa

    Posted · Edited by Tara and John

    Vatican City?

    Nope.

     

    By process of elimination then - Andorra.

     

    Nor that

     

    :) Probably somehwere like Fiji where some obscure scientist was born and pushed the list over :)

    How about New Zealand?

     

    Neither of these, though you're on the right track...

    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

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    How about some place like Monaco or San Marino then? Maybe Luxembourg or Lichtenstein could be included in the mix. :unsure::blink:

     

    Luxembourg (pop ~500 000) does have more Nobel Prize winners per capita than Iceland (pop ~320 000), having collected a second late last year, after the quiz show in question was filmed. There is one country which trumps both though...

    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

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    OK. This one seems to have run its course now. I will give it to Tara and John for being the closest and for their perseverance. SuperVan won no less than 11 National Rally Championships during his career as well as numerous other titles in different forma of Motor Sport. He was no doubt one of our finest drivers in his heyday.

     

    Take it away Tara and John.

     

    Thanks cincol, that was a bit unexpected.

     

    Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners per capita?

    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

    in South Africa

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    Interesting character to say the least, albeit a shady and obscure individual that not many have ever heard about. Thanks for the inormation.

     

    Now for something completely different. The new year is upon us and the WRC for 2012 is about to kick off. WRC = World Rally Championship. South Africa never had a WRC champion but we did have SuperVan! Sarel van der Merwe was one of the greatest rally drivers that SA produced. He retired in 2002 from competitive driving which even included a stint at NASCAR in the US and even competed in the Le Mans 24 hour in 1984.

     

    How many times did he win the South African Rally Driver's Championship?

     

    Wild guess, 13.

    Statistics - bend it anyway you like!

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Have any other caches on this list been found recently? is there anyway of seeing which cachers have "revived" caches after they have been unfound, and which the longest gaps are?

    About the first question: I don't have the logs for the last few days - I'll only be in a position to answer this by Friday.

    I don't understand what you mean with reviving unfound caches?

     

    Thanks Danie, I'll check back in a few weeks, we will be offline from tomorrow until about the 23rd, so I guess there is no rush to process my questions.

     

    By reviving I mean finding these caches which have not been found in a while. I guess I should have made the questions clearer: What are the longest gaps between finds on caches in SA, and who has been logging these finds?

    Statistics - bend it anyway you like!

    in South Africa

    Posted

    How about that list that was around a while ago - the ten (or 20) caches that have not been found for the longest time? And perhaps how they have changed over the past year - I know there were a few people determined to grab a few of them.

    The 25 longest unfound caches in South Africa:

    1. GCHB5H Facing the Knife Edge, Montagu, Western Cape 2006/02/13: 5.75 years

    2. GCHB5J Bald Ibis Heights, Montagu, Western Cape 2006/02/13: 5.75 years

    3. GCHB5K Beyond the Great Mystery, Montagu, Western Cape 2006/02/13: 5.75 years

    4. GCT60Y Five Tibetans, Western Cape, 2007/01/03: 4.87 years

    5. GCVY6J Mudskipper Mayhem, Kwazulu Natal, 2007/07/21: 4.32 years

    6. GCXEW9 Solitree, Gauteng, 2007/08/26: 4.22 years

    7. GCW7AQ Magnificent Mountains, Eastern Cape, 2007/09/14: 4.17 years

    8. GCXBGM Porcelain, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

    9. GCXBGQ Black Eagle, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

    10. GCXBGR Sweaty Palms, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

    11. GCXGXF High Road, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

    12. GCD994 Uitkyk Kop, Western Cape, 2007/09/26: 4.14 years

    13. GCTP9F De Bruin Dam, Eastern Cape, 2007/09/30: 4.13 years

    14. GC822B Papkuilsfontein 4X4, Northern Cape, 2007/11/24: 3.98 years

    15. GC16KQ6 Croc, Limpopo, 2007/11/28: 3.96 years

    16. GCRD0N Mazeppa Bay, Eastern Cape, 2008/01/06: 3.86 years

    17. GCYMH6 Majubasnek, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/09: 3.76 years

    18. GCPJYZ Silvermere, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/10: 3.76 years

    19. GCTBTQ Helenius Postma's Resting Place, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/10: 3.76 years

    20. GCQ2D2 Smithfield, Free State, 2008/02/24: 3.72 years

    21. GC199Z5 Black Holes, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/29: 3.71 years

    22. GC1902T Ivory Trail - Camp Ntomeni, Limpopo, 2008/03/01: 3.71 years

    23. GC16727 A Scuba Miracle, North West, 2008/04/06: 3.61 years

    24. GC17Y0Z Nsami View, Limpopo, 2008/05/23: 3.48 years

    25. GC1C24G Upper Kei, Eastern Cape, 2008/07/11: 3.35 years

     

    (The original list was published on 22 March 2009.)

     

    The same cacher who set up the 1/5 found two caches off this list (that I know of). Have any other caches on this list been found recently? is there anyway of seeing which cachers have "revived" caches after they have been unfound, and which the longest gaps are?

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