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kpete

(71,965 posts) Mon Sep 16, 2019, 12:30 PM Sep 2019

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Pearl Harbor is there, right?

TeeVee Experts
TV pundit, challenge round:

Name 4 cities in Iran.

They can't do it, my friends.

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https://www.eschatonblog.com/2019/09/teevee-experts.html#disqus_thread

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Pearl Harbor is there, right? (Original Post) kpete Sep 2019 OP

I'm afraid I can only name one, but I'm just a trucker! A HERETIC I AM Sep 2019 #1

To be fair, 98-99% of Americans couldn't name anything beyond Tehran off the top of their heads. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2019 #2

Well, I can't, but maybe we should expect more from "experts"... Wounded Bear Sep 2019 #3

Three off the top of my head. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2019 #4

I didn't know Isfashan, but I had the other two plus Qom and Bam. 11 Bravo Sep 2019 #10

Not that much of a surprise FBaggins Sep 2019 #5

Doesn't every state have a Springfield? VMA131Marine Sep 2019 #6

A surprising number have a "Columbus" or "Columbia" though. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2019 #11

IIRC it's about half of them FBaggins Sep 2019 #12

Tehran...persopolis, ninevah?, Ur?...evidently my history teachers were better than the Karadeniz Sep 2019 #7

Off the top of my head sarisataka Sep 2019 #8

Bandar Abbas Cirque du So-What Sep 2019 #9

I just used google maps and found Shiraz! iscooterliberally Sep 2019 #13

Four, right off the bat. . . DinahMoeHum Sep 2019 #14

A HERETIC I AM

(24,362 posts)

1. I'm afraid I can only name one, but I'm just a trucker!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 12:33 PM

Sep 2019

"Foreign Policy Expert" is above my pay grade

( Tehran, of course)

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,155 posts)

2. To be fair, 98-99% of Americans couldn't name anything beyond Tehran off the top of their heads.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 12:34 PM

Sep 2019

I'm embarrassed to say I fall into that category, and I'm better at geography than most people.

Wounded Bear

(58,605 posts)

3. Well, I can't, but maybe we should expect more from "experts"...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 12:35 PM

Sep 2019

Just sayin'

greatauntoftriplets

(175,729 posts)

4. Three off the top of my head.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 12:39 PM

Sep 2019

Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz -- I know that because of the rugs.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)

10. I didn't know Isfashan, but I had the other two plus Qom and Bam.

Reply to greatauntoftriplets (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:14 PM

Sep 2019

("Bam" always tickles me for some reason. That's probably why I remember it.)

FBaggins

(26,721 posts)

5. Not that much of a surprise

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 12:40 PM

Sep 2019

Many people can't name four cities in a given state if it isn't adjacent to where they live.

VMA131Marine

(4,136 posts)

6. Doesn't every state have a Springfield?

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:02 PM

Sep 2019

A HERETIC I AM

(24,362 posts)

11. A surprising number have a "Columbus" or "Columbia" though.

Reply to VMA131Marine (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:20 PM

Sep 2019

19 have a Columbus and at least 25 have a Columbia

FBaggins

(26,721 posts)

12. IIRC it's about half of them

Reply to VMA131Marine (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:28 PM

Sep 2019

Though most probably wouldn't qualify as "cities"

However... in looking this up I saw sources that claimed that "Greenville" exists as a place name in every state and "Riverside" is in all but four.

Karadeniz

(22,475 posts)

7. Tehran...persopolis, ninevah?, Ur?...evidently my history teachers were better than the

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:04 PM

Sep 2019

Geography or current events ones!

sarisataka

(18,501 posts)

8. Off the top of my head

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:09 PM

Sep 2019

Tehran, Tabriz, Qom, Bandar Abbas

Do I win a prize?

Cirque du So-What

(25,908 posts)

9. Bandar Abbas

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:11 PM

Sep 2019

and I only know that one because my friend's ship made a port call there in the days before the shah was overthrown.

iscooterliberally

(2,860 posts)

13. I just used google maps and found Shiraz!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:37 PM

Sep 2019

I wonder if they have a merlot too?

DinahMoeHum

(21,776 posts)

14. Four, right off the bat. . .

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:41 PM

Sep 2019

Tehran
Isfahan
Tabriz
Mashhad

further thinking:

Shiraz
Qom
Bandar Abbas

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