OT: Special edition: More Nations, Test #457A

[wire chief]

ABC is ending "500 Questions" tonight. What pikers! You and I have been dealing with
11,425 questions, so why ain't we on TV?

Anyway, each answer is a country, and just one nation repeats, which you handle without research
and without hitting "reply" please.

1..Where most of the action takes place in CHARIOTS OF FIRE.

2..Daniel Silva's Allon just can't come in from the cold.

3..bLOOD ON SNOW is Jo Nesbo's latest.

4..International recording star Shakira.

5..Operation "Urgent Fury" in 1983.

6..Carl Jung

7..The pop rock band calls itself "Texas".

8..Dominates the "rare earth" market.

9..Rijeka is its busiest port.

10..Former UN Sec'y Gen'l George Robertson once said that this nation has
40 to 90 American made nuclear weapons.

11..The most nearly circular shape in southeast Asia.

12..It has the world's longest bridge at 102 miles.

13..Amandala is its largest newspaper.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. I have no idea, still have not seen the movie but can hear the music.
4. Brazil
5. Grenada
6. Austria
9. Finland
9. Iceland
10. Israel

 

[meyers7]

1. England. Some in Scotland, the finale in France. Haven't timed everything out.
4. Colombia. Embarrassing I know, but she has kids with Gerard Pique (Spanish/Barcelona footballer).

 

[rbny1]

8. China
11. Cambodia?

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Israel
4. Colombia?
5. It's gotta be Grenada, right?
6. Switzerland

 

[Rocket009]

1..If action is the Olympic races, then Paris, most of the movie is in England Lots of parts (such as the opening running along the beach scene) were shot in Scotland.

4..Columbia

5..Grenada?

8..China

9..Iceland

 

[wire chief]

With apologies, my weekend got unexpectently complicated, so my feedback will be brief.

1..The setting is the 1924 Olympics in France.

2..Gabriel Allon is a fictional spy for Israel.

3..Norway

4..Columbia

5..The US invades Grenada.

6..Switz.

7..Scotland

8..China

9..Croatia

10..Turkey

11..Cambodia

12..Again, China

13..Belize