Is it a building?

was it build before 1 bc?

It is a building.(11th)

It is not known for certain when it was built but estimates are that it is PROBABLY that old.(12th)

13th?

is it still standing

That it is!

14th?

is it that big statue on the hill with has arms apart?

Titonator, do you mean the colossal white statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro? I'm sure that it wasn't built before 1 B.C.

What we know so far:
It is a man-made building which still stands to this day.
It was probably built before 1 B.C.
It does not operate on electrical power.
It has no moving parts.
It is considered a work of beauty.
It was not created by a single artisan.
It is not triangular in shape.
It is not located in Europe or America.*

* Question to Mog/midnightstalka: to which America does that last statement refer?

Question for Mog: Is this building located in Asia?

Surely America can only ever mean United States of America if you want to refer to a continent you say North America or South America and if you want to refer to them both then they are the Americas.

I don't feel the date is the only thing ruling out the christ statue, surely the main problem is that its a statue and therefore not a building.

I'll disregard the statue question.

America refers to the United States in my opinion, it is the only country with that in its name. No offense to South America but nobody says "I'm going to America" when they mean any country south of the US border, they use the country name.

Once again, I have to stress that "Asia" is not really a decided upon area. It could include anywhere from Turkey to Viet Nam. So I'll ask you, which part of Asia do you mean? Middle East, Far East, what? A country name would be far easier to answer.

Still 14th question...

14th?

is it in middle east asia?

Is it in the middle east?

My question was referring to the entire territory of the Asian continent as we learned it in grade school. It was intended to help narrow down the location of the building by eliminating the continents of Africa, N. and S. America, and Australia.

I believe the commonly accepted border between the continents of Asia and Europe is represented by a rough dividing line passing through the Ural Mountains, the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea. I've never really examined this border on a map, and I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit that my general understanding of this border comes from a mental picture of a Risk game board.

Though I'm sure that the Arabian peninsula is considered to be a part of Asia (and not of Africa), I am not as sure as to which continent the Sinai peninsula belongs -- but this uncertainty probably bears little significance, because I don't think there are any 2000+ year-old buildings in Sinai.

It is in the middle east.

15th?

Is in Israel?

Nope!

16th?

Is it in Saudi Arabia?

I have a couple of clarifying questions. Don't answer if you feel they are not needed!

First, do you consider Egypt to be part of the Middle East? The Middle East is rather poorly defined and covers parts of Asia and Africa depending on who you talk to.

Second, do you consider the Pyramids to be 'triangular'? I guess they could be described that way, but...

Finally, if you answer No to the Saudi question, I would like the 17th question to be: Is the building meant to resemble an animal or beast of some sort?

Last Edited : Monday, 18 December 2006 - 12:07

SIDE NOTE: this post is NOT relevant to the game, please feel free to ignore it.

@mwmoss - unless Mog made a colossal geographic blunder and I seriously doubt he did, then Egypt's continental membership is clearly Africa. Egypt is part of the African League and its sports teams play in all the African championships. The only questionable part of Egypt in this respect is the Sinai Peninsula which Egypt got from Israel in the 1978 Peace Agreement. Israel is considered to be the land where the three continents meet- Africa, Asia and Europe.
The countries that make the Middle-East DO include Egypt and even Cyprus, but the Middle-East is NOT a geographically bound location, rather a general area of social, demographic, religious and political importance.
But then again... that was not the question here not the appropriate thread.

Um, yeah. Hence the request for clarification from Mog, right Sanshiro? Mog said this building is in the middle east and unless I missed something he never said it wasn't in Africa. Because there isn't really a defined geographic middle east and given that Egypt is definitely part of Africa, I thought I would get some clarification. I personally, and many others also, consider Egypt part of that general social, demographic, religious, and political area/idea called the middle east. I do not know if Mog would as well. So, since Mog says this building is in the middle east and not in Israel it must be somewhere near. If it is not in Saudia Arabia, it must be in another middle eastern country. Ergo, if Mog considers Egypt to be middle eastern, well, I want to know if the building is meant to resemble an animal or beast (i.e. the Sphinx). Make sense?

Let's get clarification on Egypt's status first before we ask the animal resemblence question, because I can't think of any building other than the Sphinx that resembles an animal. So I think that would be a wasted question if Mog says Egypt is not part of the Middle East (I also view Egypt is distinctly Africa, except for the Sinai).

mwmoss, please retract it for now.