Grand Trivia Question #2 (Answered -sorta- by Jane)

Due South

You lead an expedition from Rome, Georgia. You have been instructed by your commanders to travel by land and water due south until such time as you set foot on foreign soil. When you acheive your goal, on the soil of what nation will you find yourself? (Alabama doesn't count.)


Answer Below:







Rome GA is located at 85.2º W, a line of longitude that passes out of Georgia into Alabama, across the Gulf of Mexico, just misses the western tip of Cuba and strikes the Honduran northern coast near Santa Rosa de Aguan. Traveling further in a Southerly direction will take you across Nicaragua and Costa Rica into the Pacific passing to the west of South America and finally making landfall again on the coast of the Bellinghausen Sea in Ellsworth Land in Antarctica passing just east of Vinson Massif (the highest point on the continent) before reaching the South Pole.

I suspect that a low percentage of the populace of Northwest Georgia would guess that they live west of the entire continent of South America.

Congrats to Cousin Jane who supposed Cuba or Honduras to be the answer.