Geographical Riddles
Written by Barns on July 26, 2008 – 6:57 pmAfter offering this very easy riddle to my Com Sci 3’s this week:
Where I live, I have a calendar but no clock (as it is always wrong). Where do I live?
I felt compelled to make a far more difficult one. This was the result:
Where I stand, I see the East to one side and the West to the other. Below me runs the Ox-ford. On what am I standing?
Feel free to post comments with the answer…
Tags: geographical, riddles
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August 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Having discussed this with my 3rd years, it would appear as though no one was able to get the answer. Its fairly simple really, but requires a useless bit of knowledge:
Ox-ford is very roughly English for Bosporus. The Bosporus strait separates Istanbul into two halves, one in Asia, the other in Europe…
Therefore, I am standing on one of the two bridges which cross the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am
The photo I added is one I took whilst in Istanbul.