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2/ One other twist to the game: in the case of dependent territories with their own ISO code you can use either the capital of the country or the capital of the dependent territory. So, for example, you can consider the capital of French Guiana (ISO code: GF) to be Cayenne or Paris.

Full rules, etc on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2024

Good luck! #fridaygeotrivia

3/ to clarify - capital names in ENGLISH, not the local language(s).

Also, in the case of countries with multiple capitals you can choose whichever you like

4/ @IIVQ opens the #fridaygeotrivia scoring with a chain of 6

Amsterdam> Berlin> Brussels> Paris-> Rome-> Vienna

5/ People, please.

ALPHABETICAL order.

You can do this. Athens does not before Ankara . Budapest does not come before Bratislava

6/ After taking a break for a few months, former champ @ccferrie is back with a vengeance, throwing down a chain of 10!

Bratislava Budapest Bucharest Chisinau Kyiv Minsk Moscow Riga Vilnius Warsaw

EDIT: unfortunately we got too excited here. Budapest does not come before Bucharest. Sorry. But @ccferrie then also submitted this chain of 9: Belgrade Bucharest Chisinau Kyiv Minsk Moscow Riga Vilnius Warsaw

7/ Was @ccferrie taking a break the last few months? OR WAS HE PRACTICING ALONE IN A REMOTE CABIN?

Behold, his chain of 11!

Addis Ababa Juba Kampala Kigali Kinshasa Luanda Lusaka Maputo Mbabane Pretoria Windhoek

8/ some good efforts to go Latin American

@arferrand discovers Belmopan - Guatemala City - San Salvador - Tegucigalpa

while @njwatt finds Asuncion Brasilia Buenos Aires La Paz Lima Quito

nice, but just not long enough. Keep searching!

9/ @Jann finds a new variant of the African chain, also for 11

Bangui – Juba – Kampala – Kigali – Kinshasa – Luanda – Lusaka – Maputo – Mbabane – Pretoria – Windhoek

10/ nice little run through the 'stans by @njwatt to find a chain of 8. But that's just not enough, current lead is 11.

Ashgabat Astana Beijing Bishkek Dushanbe Kabul Tehran Yerevan

11/ This is an interesting one by @ccferrie

Asuncion Buenos Aires Brasilia Caracas Georgetown Paramaribo

But wait ... is there more here? Who sees it?

EDIT: this chain of course has an error Buenos Aires does not come before Brasilia. We got too excited in the heat of the moment.

12/ yes, @Jann picks up the chain

Asuncion Buenos Aires Brasilia Caracas Georgetown Paramaribo Paris Rome Vatican (or Vienna or San Marino)

Still it's only a chain of 9. The record of 11 still stands

13/ Well done to late-arriving, former champ @ryankas who finds a way to direct it to Africa

Asuncion Buenos Aires Brasilia Caracas Georgetown Paramaribo Paris Madrid Rabat

EDIT - this is of course wrong Madrid does not come before Paris. SORRY! Got too excited by making it to Africa.

14/ 10 more minutes to play. Who can find a chain longer than 11?

15/ just for the record @cyclotopie corrects us on the South America to Europe path. This one is actually in alpha order

Bogota Brasilia Caracas Georgetown Paramaribo Paris Rome San Marino

16/ Wow, in the final minutes @ccferrie comes up with another chain of 11

Bujumbara Dodoma Kampala Kigali Kinshasa Luanda Lusaka Maputo Mbabane Pretoria Windhoek
#fridaygeotrivia

That could well be the game. We are now late in extra time

17/ that's it, game over!

Thanks to all of you who played, that was intense.

The May 2024 #fridaygeotrivia emoji trophy goes to ...

@ccferrie for discovering two chains of 11
Second place to @Jann who also found a chain of 11.

Final answers will be up on the blog shortly.

18/ The #fridaygeotrivia answers are now up on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2024

where you can also find all the past questions in case you want to quiz yourself
https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia

Enjoy the weekend everyone and see you next month on June 28th

@cyclotopie @Jann OH MY GOD this is impossible. Sorry

@ryankas yes, but that route is already discovered

@IIVQ @opencage #fridaygeotrivia La Paz Santiago Sucre / La Paz Santiago La Paz / Sucre Santiago (chain of infinity)

@IIVQ this is very nice effort but Sao Paulo is not a capital of Brazil

@opencage AAARGH. Then it breaks down to these 13:
()Basse-Terre->
()Fort-de-France->
()Mamoudzou ->
()Marigot->
()Philippsburg->
()Oranjestad->
()Willemstad -> Jumping to capital of constituent country
Amsterdam->
Berlin>
Brussels>
Paris->
()Cayenne (different capital of dependent country)->
Paramaribo
#fridaygeotrivia

@IIVQ checking ....

@IIVQ I like the creativity of this, but doesn't quite feel right to do the jump from one dependent territory to another if they don't border each other.

Sorry, but we're not going to count it.

@opencage #fridaygeotrivia.
Fair enough!
Thanks for the nice play though and a well-deserved win to @ccferrie with 11 "proper" countries (https://mapstodon.space/@ccferrie@mastodon.ie/112536542843453852)

Question: are there any dependent countries that land-border their mothership (or each other) so you can jump from one to another? I can't think of any other than England,Wales and Scotland.

@opencage
#fridaygeotrivia Then I guess you would've also not allowed
Amsterdam->
Berlin>
Brussels>
()Fort-de-France (as a capital of a subdivision of France, not jumping seas, only abusing the dependent country for it's capital)->
Madrid->
Rabat
I guess ;-) ?

Enjoy the weekend!

@IIVQ feels a bit twisted.

Neither Belgium , nor Spain border Martinique

@opencage I was puzzling how to apply this rule but now I see I could do Brasilia->Use Paris as capital for Guyana->Paramaribo (except that's not in alphabetical order, but imagine it is)

@IIVQ see @cyclotopie 's answer

Bogota Brasilia Caracas Georgetown Paramaribo Paris Rome San Marino

@opencage @cyclotopie Aaah, thx!

@_nd_ hadn't forseen this situaiton but sure, why the hell not.

But no points if no emoki flags and YOU NEED THE HASH TAG

@ccferrie unfortunately no, no border between Congo Brazzaville and South Sudan