Groundskeeper Willie in the News

[Hachiman]

1) Canberra..cause I live in a Walter Burley Griffin house and WBG was the architect of Canberra...also we entertained a few of your Canberra city planners and engineers a couple of years back when they came in to see the WBG houses and thge Frank LLoyd Wright houses here in Chicago.

Nicely done! I'm pretty sure I know some Aussies who couldn't tell you who Walter Burley Griffin was!

2) I'm going to have to guess on this one...Sydney? Though are we talkin' square footage or population?

Well done again! And, although I don't have the data to back it up, I suspect Sydney is our largest city both on area and population. Sydney has approximately 4 - 5 million people living in it, and the surrounding cities/suburbs. In a country of 21 million people, it has almost 20% of our population. Bear in mind that Australia is almost the same size as the continental United States of America, so our population is quite spread out.

3) New South Wales and Victoria...I've had the advantage of reading "In A Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson and enjoyed every page of it. I have repeatedly recommended it to several of my friends and relatives and they blow me off...they're missing a treat.

And Auld Argonian wins the prize!! Well, he would if there was a prize, which there ain't... but yes, New South Wales and Victoria are indeed two states of Australia.

Anyone care to name them all? Come on, America - there are only six states and two territories...you've got three of them, name the rest!

Well done, AA!

cheers,

Hachiman

[obuchiteck]

This person has the best solution to help us Americans be more global minded.. See we aren't that dumb

Geological solution from an expert

[fluter]

Boise, so there

Sandpoint. :P

[macwilkin]

Anyone care to name them all? Come on, America - there are only six states and two territories...you've got three of them, name the rest!

Well done, AA!

cheers,

Hachiman

ACT
NSW
Vic
Qld
WA
NT
SA
Tasmania

Cheers,

Todd

[McG]

Granted, all Americans should know more about Scotland. But I would like to see whether the majority of Scots could name a single city in, say, Idaho.

Then again, I doubt a majority of Americans could name a single city in Idaho, so perhaps we still wouldn't come out even on the comparison.

Where's Idaho??

[Mr. MacDougall]

Where's Idaho??

It's one of those fly-over states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho

[Panache]

This is reminding me of one of Eddie Izzard's routines where he mentions something about a another country to an American audience that they don't respond. He stares at them and asks:

"Do you know that there are other countries?"

Cheers

Jamie

[Mr. MacDougall]

"Do you know that there are other countries?"

That's a lie. There are no other countries, only regions which have not yet achieved statehood.

I hear we've offered to let that Elizabeth chick be Governor of England, if she can get elected....

[ccga3359]

That's a lie. There are no other countries, only regions which have not yet achieved statehood.

I hear we've offered to let that Elizabeth chick be Governor of England, if she can get elected....

As a royalist, I am offended (she be guv by birth-right), but not offended as I would be if you named Celine Dion Governor of the state of Canada!

[Wompet]

As a royalist, I am offended (she be guv by birth-right), but not offended as I would be if you named Celine Dion Governor of the state of Canada!

I thought Shania Twain was governor of Canada?