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THE AMAZING RACE Checkpoint #2

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:32 am
by Godly Paladin
Here you go! The next checkpoint is...Russia!

Can you tell this is random?

The eliminated racers are: Kinkosami and Kaji! Sorry, guys!

The remaining racers are:

termyt
Namu
cbwing0
Swordguy
Smanbeyond
Mangafanatic
Lightupthedark

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LET'S GO! :thumb:

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:19 pm
by Swordguy
Russia is approximently 1.8 times the size of the US

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:25 pm
by cbwing0
The Soviet secret police, commonly known as the KGB, actually had several different names throughout their history. These names in chronological order are:Cheka, GPU, NKVD, and KGB.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:41 pm
by SManBeyond
99.6% of the total population in Russia over and including the age of 15 can both read and write.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:51 pm
by Kawaiikneko
*sets up a chair and watches* .... well thats a good thing. READING BRINGS POWER! *everyone ignores me*

welll.... this will be fun to watch

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:56 pm
by Namu
Search Engines and my computer don't mix.

This is from my globe in my room. Russia borders the following countries:

Ukraine, Kazakstan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia, and Finland.

If I get that wrong, here's one more thing so I can stay in the race.

Siberia is in Russia.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:18 pm
by Kinkosami
Ah I lost... :( I guess that's what happens when you kinda forget that your even playing... :sweat:

PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:43 pm
by LightUpTheDark
Alright! still in the game!!!! amazing... anyway...
Russia is the world's largest country extending across 11 time zones between the Baltic and the Pacific. It's area is 17,075,400 sq.km.

Taken from my Operation World book

PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:04 am
by termyt
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest rail-way in the world. It was designed in 1891 by Czar Alexander III, "completed" in 1905 by his son Nicolas in time for the Sino-Japanese War. At the time of it's initial completion, it had only one track so trains could only go one way at a time!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:25 pm
by Godly Paladin
Everyone has checked in except for Mangafanatic. We'll give her until Friday at 9:00 PM. (Termyt, you'd better hope she checks in, because you're out if she doesn't!)

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:26 am
by termyt
I don't understand, I thought all we had to do was not be the last to answer. Mangafanatic may not be checking in because she's out regardless. At any rate, I'm not the last to check in, so why would I be disqualified?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:05 pm
by Mangafanatic
Shoot, I'm out. Oh well, here's a fact for de kiddies anyways.
The Ural mountains are located in Russia.

And, Termyt, you owe me man. ;)

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:13 pm
by Godly Paladin
To Termyt's objection: I realized that after I posted, but I didn't have time to edit it. So, even if Mangafanatic had not checked in you would not have been eliminated.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:02 am
by Zane
Oh man... I missed the start of the race, can I have a wild card entry or something?? PLEASE??!!!! (the viewers would love a wildcard entry)

Im a nice guy :brow:
And I can run fast.... maybe?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:56 am
by Godly Paladin
Zane: I suppose, but this will be the only wild card.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:53 pm
by Mangafanatic
Then I'd like to be re-entered in the competition as the "AMAZING RACE ALL-STAR!!!" Come on, who would want to miss the episode where that chick who lost out to Termyt gets to come back and reclaim her rightful place as queen. It would rank up there with the most riveting of TV moments--- like that time that Charrissiterity found out that her step nephew's dog was really her alien boy friend's evil twin. It would be timeless.




Well, um, my people will be. . . . in touch. . . with your people. . .

. . . . . whenever I find out who your people and my people are.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:06 pm
by Madeline
What's going on? o_O *is confused *spam*

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:18 pm
by termyt
Do you really want to loose to me twice in the same race, Mangafanatic?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:28 pm
by Mangafanatic
termyt wrote:Do you really want to loose to me twice in the same race, Mangafanatic?



No. I suppose I wouldn't. The second time around, I guess I'd just have to beat you. It would be hard, but I'd push through it somehow. . . I know, I'm a trooper. ;)

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:16 pm
by Zane
YES thanks man.