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Who Controls It? #2

For each selected place, name the country that controls it.
Answers must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: January 28, 2023
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First submittedDecember 1, 2017
Times taken17,341
Average score75.0%
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Place
Country
Mount Vesuvius
Italy
Normandy
France
One World Trade Center
United States
Sapporo
Japan
Macchu Pichu
Peru
Queensland
Australia
La Sagrada Familia
Spain
Chihuahua
Mexico
Hainan
China
Timbuktu
Mali
Hermitage Museum
Russia
Baku
Azerbaijan
Place
Country
The Azores
Portugal
Mount Ararat
Turkey
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Ukraine
Gibraltar
United Kingdom
Mandalay
Myanmar
Bavaria
Germany
Southern Alps
New Zealand
Indus River Delta
Pakistan
Lake Lucerne
Switzerland
Serengeti National Park
Tanzania
Thessaloniki
Greece
Negev Desert
Israel
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Level 44
Jan 18, 2023
Why is US not accepted???
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Level 82
Jan 18, 2023
Is it that hard to add that extra "a"?
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Level 58
Jan 18, 2023
US is not accepted for most quizzes.
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Level 23
Feb 7, 2023
wont hurt to write an extra letter mate
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Level 53
Feb 10, 2023
why so lazy
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Level 74
Jan 28, 2023
Two questions sharing the same answer (Turkey)?

I don't have a problem with it, per sé, but it is unusual.

(And caused me to spend a fair bit of time scratching my head trying to figure out what country Mount Ararat could possibly be in, if not Turkey, before I shrugged and tried anyway.)

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Level ∞
Jan 28, 2023
Fixed
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Level 83
Jan 29, 2023
I mean, it is in Turkey, but if one were convinced it wasn't, there is one pretty obvious alternative: Armenia, for which the mountain remains a national symbol (it appears on the Armenian coat of arms). It's also very close to the borders with Azerbaijan and Iran.
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Level 66
Jan 28, 2023
Man, I spent so much time trying to guess the southern portion of the Alps (Italy, Austria, etc) Never even knew there was an Alps in New Zealand, guess I learned something
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Level 87
Jan 28, 2023
Same here -- Southern Alps -- let's see -- Italy? Slovenia? Took me a while too.
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Level 38
Jan 28, 2023
Me too, I guessed pretty much everything including Germany for that one.
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Level 84
Jan 28, 2023
Yeah, I guessed pretty much every Alpine country (Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, France...), then countries that were somewhat close to the alps (Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bosnia....) before finally saying "Is it not the actual Alps?" and guessed South Africa and finally New Zealand.
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Level 72
Jan 28, 2023
Very fun. Nice job.
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Level 78
Jan 28, 2023
"Controls" is a very weird way of putting it. Can a volcano be controlled? A cathedral? A mountain range?
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Level 78
Feb 5, 2023
Agreed. Why not "where are these places?" Or something similar. Control is sounds way too colonial ...
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Level 49
Feb 5, 2023
But “Where are these places?” wouldn’t work for Gibraltar or the Azores.
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Level 63
Feb 5, 2023
In a way, yes, it can be controlled. If someone decides to put a house or use some land on the volcano, if you control it, you can claim it and make them go away/pay taxes. You can even control submarine volcano, if someone decides to fish around it, you can regulate those activities as it is your area.

You control the land where it is, you don’t control the thing itself.

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Level 61
Feb 6, 2023
Didn't realize Southern Alps were in New Zealand
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Level 53
Feb 6, 2023
I was confused as there is also a museum called Hermitage in Amsterdam
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Level 72
Feb 6, 2023
and in the USA
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Level 65
Feb 6, 2023
There's a Hermitage in the mountains of NZ as well

but it's not a museum and it's not in the Southern Alps - and it closed permanently last weekend ;)

Surprised how low the scoring is, but I guess anyone is if they know the answers

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Level 44
Feb 8, 2023
Just for fun you should put Kashmir, the Falkland Islands and Essequibo