Dear Colleagues,

It's that time of year again.... Please find below the annual int-boundaries
quiz, compiled this year by last year's winner, Brendan Whyte. Enjoy!

m a r t i n


THE ULTIMATE BOUNDARY QUIZ OF THE MILLENNIUM

THE RULES:

1) Entry is open to members of the int-boundaries email list. Of course,
anyone else can easily sign up to that to enter. No purchase necessary.

2)Each question is worth one point, though some may be worth more.

3)Answers are due with Brendan Whyte ([log in to unmask]) by
0000hours, 1 January 2001, Australian Eastern Summer Time (ie the dawn of
the new Millenium at Melbourne).

4) The judge's decision is final, although correspondence is allowed and
encouraged (we are all here to learn, after all)

5) The highest scoring person will win a boundary-related prize, supplied by
Brendan Whyte.

6) There is no rule 6.

7) Clarifications may be sought if necessary. Questions 21-24 will NOT be
clarified.


THE QUIZ:

1) The 1974 Land Boundary agreement commonly known as the Indira-Mujib
Accord was, inter alia, supposed to sort out the 'problem' of the Cooch
Behar enclaves for once and for all. Has either side ratified it, and if so,
who and in which year?

2) According to the above agreement which enclave does Bangladesh get to
keep, and why?

3) To the nearest 10km, how much of the India-Bangladesh land border remains
undemarcated?

4) For how long and for what price has India granted Bangladesh a lease of
the Tin Bigha corridor?

5) India calls it New Moore Island. What does Bangladesh call it?

6) Boundary-wise, what is unusual about Lake Titicaca?

7) How many enclaves of Belgium exist inside the Netherlands?

8) Some houses in the Belgian/Dutch village of Baarle straddle the border.
How is their nationality decided?

9) What is unusual about the house at 19 Loveren, Baarle-Nassau,
Netherlands?

10) What is the name of the Belgian railway which enclaves 5 parcels of
Germany, south of Aachen?

11) What is the railway currently used for?

12) Several islands or island groups along with their territorial waters are
enclaved within another country's waters. Name all current cases.

13) The Zimbabwe/Botswana/Namibia/Zambia quadripoint question has still not
been resolved. Do any legitimate international land quadripoints (a point
where 4 boundary lines meet) currently exist, and if so, where?

14) The world's newest recognised enclave was demarcated in 1995. Whose is
it, who hosts it and where, exactly, is it?

15) When did Switzerland acquire sovereignty over Verena Hof?

16) How many enclaves have resulted from the break-up of the USSR, and which
countries do they belong to and exist in?

17) Assume every international boundary has at least one legally accessible
road across it. At how many boundaries is it necessary to change the side of
the road one drives on, when crossing?

18) What was the reasoning behind the creation of the Leticia salient?

19) Why was Llivia not given to France despite the 1659 Treaty of the
Pyrenees?

20) Some countries have more than one border with the same neighbour. Apart
from (true) enclaves, name all current examples of countries having separate
border segments with the same neighbour.
As an example, from 1918-1939, Germany had 2 separate borders with Poland:
Germany proper/Poland, and East Prussia/Poland.


By Popular Demand:
For these questions, which are all hypothetical, submit your own personal
answer. Each answer will score points equal to the number of persons
submitting that answer. If there are no common answers to a question, then
everyone submitting an answer scores 1 point.
Eg if 4 people say 'Guinea Bissau', 2 say 'Tuvalu' and one says 'Malta' for
one of the questions below, then the former 4 people each score 4 points,
and the next 2 each score 2 points, and the latter person scores 1.
These are as much  about thinking what everyone else will guess, as about
being 'right'.

Collaboration or conferring is NOT allowed.

21) The first boundary treaty of 2001 will be between which countries?

22) The first boundary war of 2001 will be between which countries?

23) What will be the next country to become independent?

24) What will be the next countries/territories to merge into one?