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Baja Trivia: A Game, Questions 1-5:
Here is #1:
Back in the 'old days' on the Amigos board, we played this... BajaHwy (La Tijereta) was one of the best contestants!
Anyway... to learn and have fun: Can you name this historic site from a nearly 100 year old photo? Reply 'Yes' or 'Maybe' and then U2U your answer to
me (so others can take a shot at the answer). Dr. Jackson is disqualified as he knows too much LOL!!!
[Edited on 8-5-2004 by David K]
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Question 2:
Can you name this historic site? Photo taken in 2001:
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Question 3:
Dry Lakes are known as 'lagunas' in all of Baja California. What is another name for them, but used only in Baja California Sur?
[Edited on 8-6-2004 by David K]
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Question 4:
The tallest mountain in Baja is Picacho del Diablo... Can you provide other map names used for this mighty peak (not with Diablo in them), over the
years? Winner will be the first one to give the most names applied to Diablo.  
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Photo in question #1
David. Least you forget, I provided you with the copy of the photo used in question #1. so I guess I should know what it is.
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Question 5:
In 1853, a crazy gringo invaded Baja and named himself the president of the Republic of Lower California. Who was he?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by academicanarchist
David. Least you forget, I provided you with the copy of the photo used in question #1. so I guess I should know what it is. |
YES you did (and even stumped me with it)... Note in my post I disqualified you!!!
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Yes I saw that
Yes, David. I did see the disqualification. The site in question #2 is too easy.
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David,
Great post.
As I told you when we met at Gonzaga I have been riding Baja on motorcycles (racing) since 1972.
When racing you ride in a tunnel and miss all the good stuff.
Keep all the good stuff coming.
Corky 
 
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Correct answers.....
1). Tijuana border crossing...1878...
2). Complaint department about corupt police....
3). runway for drug dealers...
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Some guesses
Surfer Jim, they say close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades... you're not close. But, I did like your dry lake answer!
Elizabeth, You did so good at #5 I declare you the winner on that one with your answer, shown here (nobady else even tried to answer):
The rest of my answer is Gen. William Walker was unhappy with the Treaty of Guadalupe...he wanted to add another slave state to the confederacy...he
took La Paz in 1853...and in some accounts called himself the President of the Republic of Sonora. He later tried an invasion in Nicaragua where he
was subsequently executed.
If you go to my Miscl. Baja Links section at VivaBaja.com there are two web sites on William Walker as well as one on the flags he used for his
Republics (Lower California and later renamed Sonora when he added that state).
Your answer for #2 was not complete, other sites also had that name.
Mexitron, you are ahead in the Diablo Mountain aliases guess... there are more!
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William Walker
Walker's filibustering expedition in Sonora ended in a gun fight at Caborca, one of the missions in the Pimeria Alta (northern Sonora and southern
Arizona). As to site #2, I first visited it in 1975, and had to make a hasty retreat because there were hornets nests in the ruins and they came
after me.
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William Walker Web Site
I just discovered the links on my site to Walker are dead. I will have to update them... in the meantime, here is a good one, with links to other
sites: http://ralphandsue.com/WilliamWalker/
Here is even more details on Walker's Baja invasion with mention of his time in San Vicente: http://www.fotw.net/flags/mx-rso.html
Walker was executed in Honduras, by the way. Here's a photo of his grave!:
http://www.goodfelloweb.com/honduras/trujillo/walker.html
Go to the Baja Historic Interest Forum later, as I will post the chapter on William Walker that Choral Pepper wrote from the unpublished book!
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Good One!
David,
Your #1 image I know I have seen published Image #2 is in color, and I have
not been down that road.
#3 For what few dry lakes we have here in BCS.. They are called "Llanos" I believe.
#4 Other names I have seen are "Calamahue Mtn" and "San Pedro Martir" for naming this range
#5 William was a young 29 years old when arrived with his "filibusters"...
What was the name of his ship that sailed into La Paz??
Happy Trails....
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Hi Kris!
Good to see you here like the old days, when you were being 'trivial' as 'BajaHwy'!
#1) Yes, it is from a book (hint everything I ask can be found in my web site, but since I have so many photos there, it may take hours or days to
find, ha!)
#2) Yes, I took that photo in Dec. 2001... You can see the structure from Hwy. 1!!! How old is the site? Elizabeth got part of the name in a U2U.
#3) Mexitron beat you to the answer for what dry lakes in Baja Sur are often called (by U2U)... Yes it is Llano (also means plain).
#4) You and Mexitron are almost tied... give me more names!
#5) Elizabeth won this.
Yes I know the name of the ship.. But, how about the rest of you? I gave the links, just read. There was another ship first... it mysteriously sailed
out without Walker, what was its name???
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Llano, plainly means PLAIN. there are many in BCS, my old baja Almanac lists several-teen lagunas in
BCS!!!
[Edited on 8-6-2004 by Tucker]
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Yes, in Baja Sur 'laguna' is used (as well as llano) for a dry lake. In Baja Norte, llano is not used for dry lake. Llano means plain, yes.
Now for example (in the Almanac), see Llanos Hiray just north of the Puerto Cancun road; Then, near Comondu are several dry lakes: Llano San Julio,
Llano Chipi, Llano Catarina, Llano San Pedro, even a Llano la Laguna!!! There are more... It is just interesting that the custom to use 'llano' for a
dry lake is found in Southern Baja... Perhaps a missionairy started that?
FYI, it was originally Lorenzo de Baja who used this as a trivia question on Amigos...
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David
I don't have any objection to your game, I do though, object to you presenting bogus information as fact. You have not presented one iota of
information backing up your assertion. You should at least be responsible enough to protect your reputation as a "Baja expert", perhaps you should
limit your posts to "Shell Island" or whatever that place is you re-named.
\"I think it would be a good idea.\"
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What more do you need than examples I gave of DRY LAKES called llanos? La Tijereta saw this without any help from me.
Here (again) is what I posted above for you:
Now for example (in the Almanac), see Llanos Hiray just north of the Puerto Cancun road; Then, near Comondu are several dry lakes: Llano San Julio,
Llano Chipi, Llano Catarina, Llano San Pedro, even a Llano la Laguna!!!
Buenos Noches
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You must be having brain cramps
Those are all plains!
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