WWTBAM Bored

• Algeria
  Angola
  Brazil
  Cuba
  Ireland
  Indonesia
  Liberia
  Lithuania
  Mauritius
  Micronesia
  Mongolia
  Sudan

Here's Fanny! wrote:So, the more observant among you might have read yesterday's Timeline and thought "WTF? Wednesday is supposed to be Reverse Timeline Day!" And you would be right. Except I persisted in thinking that yesterday was Thursday. Ha!

So, a day late, but here's the Reverse Timeline for the week! This was originally going to be more involved, but since countries seem to gain independence and lose it and get it back, I felt I needed to actually give the years with this topic. Plus I promised that the date of independence for my beloved Lietuva would be in a Timeline this month!

So, you got the dates, you got the Country Well, just match them up for 10 points each. You'll also get an additional 10 points by giving the country from which they gained their independence at that time (if multiples, you only need to name one country). That, with two 10 point bonuses, makes a possible 200 points today. Format should be as usual, country and former sovereign in bold under the year. Please do NOT put the years in the Well, it takes me three times as long to figure out your scoring like that. (Almost everybody is great about answering in the requested format and making it easy for me to score, and thank you for that!)
I should just take a zero now. I took the same history/geography course Kazoo did!!

Spoiler

Reverse Timeline - September 25


"What a Country!"


1. 1825 - Brazil


2. 1847 - Liberia


3. 1868 - Mongolia


4. 1911 - Cuba


5. 1922 - Angola


6. 1945 -Mauritius

7. 1956 - Ireland (England?)


8. 1962 - Indonesia


9. 1968 - Algeria


10. 1975 - Sudan


11. 1986 - Miscronesia


12. 1990 -Lithuania (Russia?)


Bonus #1: What is the world's newest country? ?


Bonus #2: Fitting today's theme, what's another name for a rum and coke?
Like I know this...

Country Well (no bogies)

• Algeria
  Angola
  Brazil
  Cuba
  Ireland
  Indonesia
  Liberia
  Lithuania
  Mauritius
  Micronesia
  Mongolia
  Sudan

Here's Fanny! wrote:
So, you got the dates, you got the Country Well, just match them up for 10 points each. You'll also get an additional 10 points by giving the country from which they gained their independence at that time (if multiples, you only need to name one country). That, with two 10 point bonuses, makes a possible 200 points today.

TheConfessor wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:
So, you got the dates, you got the Country Well, just match them up for 10 points each. You'll also get an additional 10 points by giving the country from which they gained their independence at that time (if multiples, you only need to name one country). That, with two 10 point bonuses, makes a possible 200 points today.

Either I'm confused or you are. I don't know which. Twelve freed countries @ 10 points = 120. Twelve former oppressor countries @ 10 points = 120. Two bonuses @ 10 points = 20. Total = 260.

Am I missing something?

WheresFanny wrote: 3. 1868

Cuba - Spain

The Ten Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años, (1868-1878), also known as the Great War, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain. It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War (1879-1880) and the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). The final three months of the last conflict escalated to become the Spanish-American War.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

WheresFanny wrote: 3. 1868

Cuba - Spain

Hmmm, seems like that was just the start of Cuban liberation, not the end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Years'_War

The Ten Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años, (1868-1878), also known as the Great War, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain. It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War (1879-1880) and the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). The final three months of the last conflict escalated to become the Spanish-American War.