Random geeky things you've done

**LittleGrizzly** · 03-29-2009, 22:39

Brazil - Brasilia

Rio De Janerio... surely ?

South Africa - Pretoria? [gah]

Isn't it cape town ?

I suppose my memorizing of familys number plates as a child (6-8) was fairly geeky... impressive party trick i could pull out to impress the adults!

Im generally quite good as remembering things like numbers plates, phone numbers... most type of code things... i could make a fairly long list of all the various codes a remember for various reasons...

**Aemilius Paulus** · 03-29-2009, 22:50

Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly

South Africa - Pretoria? [gah]

Ahhh, my favourite. SAF (South African Republic) has three capitals, all of which have different functions. Capetown, Praetoria, and Bloemfontein. Legislative, executive, judicial. Peculiar folk they are.

That aside, naming capitals on the Internet forum seems silly and pointless to me. You can just look it up. That is not fair. What we should do is an instant message quiz.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 03-29-2009, 23:03

Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly

Brazil - Brasilia

Rio De Janerio... surely ?

No, Brasilia is correct.

**desert** · 03-29-2009, 23:13

What's the capital of New York?

**Aemilius Paulus** · 03-29-2009, 23:19

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

No, Brasilia is correct.

Yeah, they did it like Australian way. They cleared the land, and planned the whole city out, right from the very beginning. Brasilia is their capital, but that is about all. Just like Canberra, the capital of Australia. Yes, Australia's capital is not Sydney.

The capital of NY is Albany. Why the laugh? Did you expect people to say NYC?

**desert** · 03-29-2009, 23:23

Did you expect people to say NYC?

You wouldn't believe how many people do that.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 03-30-2009, 00:10

I didn't cheat, honest!

Didn't even do that well lol

But I did learn them 11 years ago. Maybe if I relearn them over the week we could have a little contest via instant messenging?

**A Very Super Market** · 03-30-2009, 00:26

American (And some Canadian ones) capitals of states and province are wonky.

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg, not Pittsburgh or Philadelphia
Washington - Olympia, not Seattle
Texas - Austin, Not Dallas or Houston.

The list goes on. The only one that makes the any sense are the Midwestern states, and maybe California.

**Beefy187** · 03-30-2009, 01:09

Other then geography, and coin collection, I used to do a bit of pokemon.

Remembered all 251 pokemon at my best (Gold and silver) and I was able to sing the pokemon theme song and pokemon collecters song in Japanese.

I would say history, but after knowing Org, I kinda lost my confidence...

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 03-30-2009, 01:14

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

American (And some Canadian ones) capitals of states and province are wonky.

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg, not Pittsburgh or Philadelphia
Washington - Olympia, not Seattle
Texas - Austin, Not Dallas or Houston.

The list goes on. The only one that makes the any sense are the Midwestern states, and maybe California.

Eh, Sacramento isn't that big. In the US we have a fairly long tradition of designating relatively unimportant cities our capitals. D.C was built from the ground up as our capital, Montpelier is a small town even by Vermont standards, Albany is a bit of a pit but holds NY's governmental centers, and so on.