Canadian Geopub Quiz

[+Couparangus]

Okay, this question will be a multi-part one, but it'll be easy. The person to answer the last one correctly will go next so we have some sniping possible here.

 

Define these 10 hiking terms:

 

crampon

talus

posthole

belay

drumlin

cairn

cascade

gaper

tarn

howk

[+AV Dezign]

Crampon: (hey isn't that French?) Spikes for boots or shoes to prevent slipping. I use them all the time on my street.

[+Keith Watson]

crampon - the teeth on the bottom of my snow shoes

talus - fallen rocks at the bottom of a cliff

posthole - a hole dug for a post to be put in

belay - try off a rope

drumlin - a hile left over from a glecier

cairn - a pile of stone to mark something

cascade - water falls, or locks one after the other, also laundry dtergent

gaper - a persone whoe stops to enjoy the view

tarn - a mountain lake formed by glaciers

howk - a bird of prey that east small animals

[+northernpenguin]

Define these 10 hiking terms:

 

crampon

- The result of a long hike right after eating a large meal

 

talus

- Geocachers often tal us der stories at pub nights

 

posthole

- Formerly a hole, now filled in with tupperware

 

belay

- Typical reaction after a 5/5. Belay down.

 

drumlin

- What the other cachers do with their fingers while the driver gets to the parking co-ordinates

 

cairn

- Noun; See "Virtual-Cache"

 

cascade

- What a geocacher does when they walk to close to the escarpment edge

 

gaper

- Muggle, upon seeing a cacher pull that chunk of PVC pipe out of a tree in Orillia

 

tarn

- Cacher's jacket, usually after caching near hawthorne trees

 

howk

- The sound the cacher made when the tarn happened

 

I have a feeling this may not be the answers you were looking for, but I couldn't resist!

[+bobbarley]

I haven't been to the forums in while but now I'll have to stick around.

Crampons-spikes for feet

Talus-rock broken off a mountain also called scree

Belay-the act or equipment used to assist in descent or ascent of climbing

Drumlin-a teardrop shaped hill left after the retreat of a glacier. The fat end of the teardrop points to where the glacier came from

Cairn-pile of rocks used as a marker

Cascade-waterfall or a mountain range

Gaper-Some one who stands blocking the trail looking at things

Tarn-Mountain Lake

Howk-I know this now but I had to look it up.

[+Couparangus]

Okay, let's see where we're at!

 

crampon - AVD

talus - KW

belay - BB

drumlin - KW (wotch yer speeling!)

cairn - KW

gaper - BB is close enough

tarn - KW

cascade - KW was close enough. Its like a waterfall but without the "falling" part.

 

So we need the following terms defined:

posthole -

howk -

[QuigleyJones]

posthole - the hole were a post goes

howk - a howling hawk

[+TOMTEC]

So we need the following terms defined:

posthole -

Aw, come on! Anyone who has cached in Canada in winter without snowshoes (and often with) must know this! Alternately, it's a pretty good description of the evidence left behind when Fizbot crosses a creek or marsh en-route to a cache!

 

TOMTEC

[+H.F.Reign]

well, with a hint like that it has got to be that empty space left in the snow after you heave your leg out of its thigh trapping hold. I don't know if it matters if the boot is in the hole or on your foot upon extraction.

[+TOMTEC]

well, with a hint like that it has got to be that empty space left in the snow after you heave your leg out of its thigh trapping hold. I don't know if it matters if the boot is in the hole or on your foot upon extraction.

Ha ha, Boot left in hole is bonus points in my book!

 

TOMTEC

[+Juicepig]

well, with a hint like that it has got to be that empty space left in the snow after you heave your leg out of its thigh trapping hold. I don't know if it matters if the boot is in the hole or on your foot upon extraction.

Ha ha, Boot left in hole is bonus points in my book!

 

TOMTEC

 

howk - A really hard throw?

[+Couparangus]

All right Dan-O for the assist and HFR for the goal!

 

That leaves one term, Howk. I'll give you a hint. Just when you think you are there you realise you aren't.

[+H.F.Reign]

well, all I can think of for this one with that explanation, is when you drag your sorry butt up a nasty hill and reach what you think is the top only to look up and see that you were fooled and the real top is still aways to go.

 

I don't know if howk would be the psychological feeling of wanting to just throw yourself over the edge or perhaps the noise you would make when you looked up to see more slope. OR perhaps it is the pile of stuff that comes out of your mouth upon the realization that your hard sought goal was not quite enough.

 

ah well

[+Couparangus]

Okay, another hint in this encrypted message:

 

timmusaotyawehtnokaepeslafasti

 

Winner goes next! (and if I ever get another question right I promise not to post another multiple choice definition question).

Edited November 7, 2006 by Couparangus

[+LeGodFather]

Hmm.. if I read the hint correctly.. I say H.F. Reign would be correct..

[+Couparangus]

I guess HF Reign was logging the right answer as I was uploading the hint. Nice work! Take it away!

[+LeGodFather]

I guess HF Reign was logging the right answer as I was uploading the hint. Nice work! Take it away!

That's what I thought too.

 

But.. for my knowledge.. how would you use howk is a sentence?

 

Oh no, not another howk?

 

(Or.. Oh howk, not another false peak? )

[+AV Dezign]

Naa, I think it's more like an onomatopoeia as you realise that there is 400 more meters straigth up to go «howk!»

[+H.F.Reign]

I really should stop throwing my guesses out there!

 

oh...um...uh....

 

OK, a quick and easy one

 

I am making a few "enemies" locally as most of my caches are placed in swamps. What distinguishes my swamps from other wetland habitats (fens, bogs, marshes, etc).

[+Couparangus]

The presence of bullrushes??

[+H.F.Reign]

Those wetlands dominated by rushes and sedges and such would fall under the category "marshes". You won't find many bullrushes in the swamps.

[+TOMTEC]

You won't find many bullrushes in the swamps.

OK, but what about this guy:

 

You better watch out for his car too!

 

TOMTEC

[+Fish Below The Ice]

You won't find many bullrushes in the swamps.

OK, but what about this guy:

It's a swamp if you can find Keith Watson there?

 

dave

[+TOMTEC]

It's a swamp if you can find Keith Watson there?

 

Um, that's not K-W... click the link Dave.

 

TOMTEC

[+H.F.Reign]

not a bad swamp in that there ad if I must say so myself...appears to be drier but more tropical than my locale.

 

After seeing a hummer totally bogged down in a local swamp I don't think the kia would fair any better

[+VO2WW]

Swamps as I understood them, were not always wet, they often dry up and normally have trees and/or bushes growing in them which marshes don't. Different soil than marshes but I have no idea of what kind.

[+Couparangus]

Swamps have the eerily haunting sound of dueling banjos in the wind...

[+H.F.Reign]

trees and shrubs are the key. On to you VO2WW.

 

And yes, I often hear those banjos too.

[QuigleyJones]

So what is the current question?

[+VO2WW]

Easy one this time

Where is 0 longitude and 0 latitude located

[+LeGodFather]

Easy one this time

Where is 0 longitude and 0 latitude locate

Right there, at those precise coordinates..

 

Not sure.. I know where it is but not the country.. unless it's in Equador?

[+DocMagoo]

Easy one this time

Where is 0 longitude and 0 latitude located

 

I'll take a guess....The Gulf of Guinea, just under West Africa

[+VO2WW]

The point at which the equator (0° latitude) and the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) intersect has no real significane but it is in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon.

That said I stated the question sloppy, meant to ask where they started individually.

Take it away Doc

[+DocMagoo]

The point at which the equator (0° latitude) and the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) intersect has no real significane but it is in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon.

That said I stated the question sloppy, meant to ask where they started individually.

Take it away Doc

 

Name the most active volcanic region in Canada. (think beyond province)

[+shearzone]

The point at which the equator (0° latitude) and the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) intersect has no real significane but it is in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon.

That said I stated the question sloppy, meant to ask where they started individually.

Take it away Doc

 

What do you mean where they start individually? A circle has no start or no end, right?

[+shearzone]

The point at which the equator (0° latitude) and the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) intersect has no real significane but it is in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon.

That said I stated the question sloppy, meant to ask where they started individually.

Take it away Doc

 

Name the most active volcanic region in Canada. (think beyond province)

 

I know that Mount Garibaldi errupted about 10 000 years ago. In geological terms, that was yesterday. Not sure what you mean by BEYOND province.

Edited November 13, 2006 by shearzone

[+DocMagoo]

I know that Mount Garibaldi errupted about 10 000 years ago. In geological terms, that was yesterday. Not sure what you mean by BEYOND province.

 

Sorry...shoulda been more specific....what we're looking for is a particular "belt" of volcanic activity.

[+shearzone]

I know that Mount Garibaldi errupted about 10 000 years ago. In geological terms, that was yesterday. Not sure what you mean by BEYOND province.

 

Sorry...shoulda been more specific....what we're looking for is a particular "belt" of volcanic activity.

 

the coastal mountain belt?

[+DocMagoo]

the coastal mountain belt?

 

Right province, wrong belt

[+Landsharkz]

Cascades?

[QuigleyJones]

Cascadia?

[+DocMagoo]

north of 50 would put you in the ballpark.

Edited November 14, 2006 by DocMagoo

[+Landsharkz]

The Stikine Belt? It's dominated by Mt. Edziza, an ice-capped mtn that is the product of repeated eruptions.

[+DocMagoo]

The Stikine Belt? It's dominated by Mt. Edziza, an ice-capped mtn that is the product of repeated eruptions.

 

BINGO! Take it away Landsharkz....you're up!

[+Landsharkz]

Thank you DocMagoo!

 

Our question...

In 1845, when Sir John Franklin attempted to find the Northwest Passage, his ships were crushed in the ice and his crew all died while attempting to walk out of the arctic.

Two questions...

What were the names of his ships?

What was the underlying cause of death for he and his crew?

 

The first person to answer all parts of this question wins the right to ask the next....

on with the show!

[+H.F.Reign]

I'll give it a start...

 

if I recall correctly one of the ships was named terror but I know they died of starvation and scurvy.

[+AV Dezign]

I can't recall the name of the ship but I do remember there was two, not just one, and wasn't there reports of cannibalism involved?

[+Juicepig]

SWEET!! I know this one!

 

Erebus and Terror. Franklin was a lieutenant in one of my Great (great great..) Uncles (John Ross) expeditions to the actic and antarctic. When he finally got his own command of the two ships (the same used by John Ross) he ended up sinking the them! Frickin guy!

 

Starvation, cold, polar bears, choking of chunks of leather as they ate their shoes.. They died a hole bunch of ways, but mostly starvation and malnutrition, and hypothermia.

 

I will think of a new question and throw it out there

Edited November 15, 2006 by Juicepig

[+Juicepig]

I was trying to think up some trivia about my more direct "explorer" decendant, but decided he was too obscure, and not a particularly happy story, so here is one on Canadian historical geography:

 

 

What is the name of the big territory in the middle that splits NWT in twain!! TWAIN I TELL YOU!!

[+Landsharkz]

SWEET!! I know this one!

 

Erebus and Terror. Franklin was a lieutenant in one of my Great (great great..) Uncles (John Ross) expeditions to the actic and antarctic. When he finally got his own command of the two ships (the same used by John Ross) he ended up sinking the them! Frickin guy!

 

Starvation, cold, polar bears, choking of chunks of leather as they ate their shoes.. They died a hole bunch of ways, but mostly starvation and malnutrition, and hypothermia.

 

I will think of a new question and throw it out there

Juicepig, you have very correctly named both his ships and stated some of the contributing factors to their demise, but you need to wait for us westcoasters to get out of bed to find out if you answered it all correctly!

 

Much later a grave was discovered and some of the bodies were exhumed by a relatively recent scientific expedition; there was an autopsy carried out and an unexpected cause of death was determined...

 

This cause of death played a very large role in the demise of the crew as they attempted to escape the grip of the arctic. It is not what you mentioned above... it is this cause of death we are looking for... it may well have been the underlying cause for the whole crew's death. What was the cause of death?

Edited November 15, 2006 by Landsharkz