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    Posted: 28-Jan-2005 at 08:37

It's the weekend....

For those of us sad people who are stuck at home.... Here's a game..

The rules are simple.....Just name as many former British colonies as possible that didn't have a civil war after they got independence.

2 points for a correct answer, if you are the first person to mention the country.

1 point for a correct answer if someone already mentioned this country before.

- 2 points for an incorrect answer.

1 point for an "it's debatable whether this counts or not" answer.

 

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Canada, Belize, Malta, Egypt, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Singapore, Malaysia, Burma/Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Ghana, Kenia, Malawi, Zambia
how many points?
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Americas:
Canada, Belize, Jamaica, St. Kitts (& Nevis), Antigua (& Barbuda), Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent (& the Grenadines), St. Lucia, Bahamas, Dominica, Guyana

Europe/Africa:
Malta, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Botswana, Cameroon (was part British part French, they united after indipendance), Gambia, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland,

Asia/Pacific:
Kiribati, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Singapore, Burma/Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Bhutan, Brunei, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Qator, Singapore, UAE, Jordan



Uncertain (where these really civil wars?):
Papau new Guinea (one island tried to break away)
Malaysia (communist insurgency aka 'the emergency')
India (succesionist movements)
Pakistan (Bangladesh broke away)
Bangladesh (succesionists in the Chitagong hill tracts)
Nepal (marxist woes)
Nigeria (civil war or succesionist movement?)




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Not such a popular game

Anyways here's an update on the scores.

MixcoatlToltecahtecuhtli  -26
Cywr  -49

Not so good

Somebody could come along give only 10 answers, get them all wrong and take a commanding lead.
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2 points for an incorrect???? hmmmm....do they even have to be former british colonies or can i just get something completely wrong and get 2 points?
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Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man 
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That Ex British Island now part of Columbia?
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The USA definately had a civil war
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btw, what are the possible points here
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Well for Canada -2,

USA -2

That Ex British Island now part of Columbia?

Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man -6

Still nobody in positive figures.

To answer your question, I haven't worked out the exact maximum number of countries, but it's not many. This quiz is based upon disproving the famous urban legend that every single former British colony had a civil war after independence.
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France ! (well large parts of it were some kind of a colony at one point)
Ireland ! ( I put that in only for a laugh!)

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2 points for an incorrect???? hmmmm....do they even have to be former british colonies or can i just get something completely wrong and get 2 points?


oook sorry i'm an idiot i read it wrong....i should have realized i had some bad reading skills when i came up with this logic

i didn't see the minus before the -2
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France was an English 'colony?' not British and Ireland had a civil war after Irish independence. In fact Britain had a civil war after Irish independence. (Then again I think Irish independence was a British civil war in itself)

 

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The Principality of Sealand!
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Canada had a Civil war?

Or are you using some bizare definition of civl war?

That Ex British Island now part of Columbia?

San Andres Y Providencia. Though the English speakers there are predoninatly of Scotish stock AFAIK.
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How about Heligoland, in the North Sea off the German coast, British occupied from 1807-1890, when the Brits swopped it with the Germans for Zanzibar.
Must admit, didn't have much of a population to start a civil war, three old fishermen with, a few mangy sea-gulls and a Dachshund, named Colin(!). But still......

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And of course the 1945-149 British Occupation Zone in Germany.
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