{"id":4169,"date":"2010-05-19T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2022-03-05T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T14:38:43","slug":"cartalk-trivia-samford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/cartalk-trivia-samford\/","title":{"rendered":"That Confounding Trivia Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE: THE CONTEST HAS ENDED. THEY ANNOUNCED THE CORRECT ANSWER AS STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT. SEE COMMENTS BELOW FOR ISSUES MANY PEOPLE HAVE WITH THIS ANSWER.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People searching for the answer to a specific trivia question are hammering the Twelve Mile circle website. I\u2019ve seen dozens of search engine queries and I\u2019ve received several email messages from people desperate to know the answer. I can\u2019t help them because I don\u2019t know the exact question. I\u2019m betting that one of you knows the question and the answer, and I\u2019m hoping you can post a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here was one email message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I was listening to public radio this morning and heard part of a trivia question&#8230; Car leaves city (in state A), drives north, crosses state border to State B, returns to city, drives south, crosses border into state B, same thing apparently in four directions&#8230;.sort of a city\/state within a state&#8230;somewhere in U.S&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is another message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;What city in the USA is located in an area where it is surrounded by another single state, so that you can go north, south, east, and west and come to that state line in all four cases?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Also I&#8217;ve received every variation imaginable through search engine queries. They are filling my log files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Possibilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My cardinal rule of trivia questions is always to guess &#8220;somewhere in Alaska&#8221; or &#8220;Vatican City.&#8221; Neither seems to apply here. Alaska is an exclave that borders no other state and Vatican City, well, isn&#8217;t part of the United States. Neither are San Marino or Lesotho which would also be good choices if international situations were valid solutions to the puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d23984.07362335828!2d-95.93375507053533!3d41.28690417348338!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x87938fe109f2b255%3A0x61dadb2aa78fd75a!2sCarter%20Lake%2C%20IA!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1609536609536!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve not actually heard the radio broadcast myself. Therefore my best guess is that the answer might be Carter Lake, Iowa (<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=26\">which I&#8217;ve profiled before<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/auvet\/7339655190\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7076\/7339655190_6e2fdae626_b.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to Carter Lake Iowa. Photo by Jimmy Emerson, DVM; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That assumes the question actually involves driving a car. One cannot leave Carter Lake by automobile without entering Nebraska. Does a population of 3,200 quality as a &#8220;city&#8221; though?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: THE CONTEST HAS ENDED. THEY ANNOUNCED THE CORRECT ANSWER AS STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT. SEE COMMENTS BELOW FOR ISSUES MANY PEOPLE HAVE WITH THIS ANSWER. 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