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More map trivia to ensure that you have the best chance of winning your next pub quiz.
We came third in one last night. Should have listened to ourselves on all the correct answers we changed.

We’ll learn.

And now, so will you. Behold:

Couple of issues with this one. The use of Istanbul does at least mean it’s in Europe, but it’s certainly not a capital city. And why is Copenhagen hiding behind a “not disclosed” tag?

That’s very suspicious.

Here in Africa, we measure these sort of things in actual zebras, because they’re all over the place down here. And they’re really good at getting in the way of cars.

Paris: 119 times more zebra crossings per square kilometre than Chisinau. Which explains a lot about why pedestrians in Chisinau keep getting knocked moldova.

I’m so sorry.

Striped things

The tigers weren’t the only striped things we saw at Vredenheim last week:

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I spotted this wasp and there were also these zebras:

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The difference being (aside from the size and the taste, obviously), that one set of stripes is to make potential predators more aware of the animal and the other is to make them less aware of the animal.

All of which brought me to thinking why we have potentially unnoticeable zebra crossings on our roads and not the far more obvious wasp crossings?

Is it really any wonder that the rules surrounding these road markings are so poorly observed when we choose to deliberately camouflage them?