We have another tricky quiz question for you today and a brief update on our travel distance contest. Our quiz question today is this: What is the most commonly used language in the world? A few hints: (1) The answer is easier than you might think. (2) The answer does not depend on the number of dialects you include under each language. (3) Think outside of the box a little bit. You can find the answer to this question camouflaged later in this article and we will warn you before you get to it.
As an update to our “How Far Are We Going” contest, with just two weeks to go we have a runaway leader – Ralph “Pop Pops” Hughes. Ralph predicted that with all the taxi and bus rides included we would easily travel well over 70,000 km on our 112-day adventure. Well, with two weeks and about 1/3 of the circumference of the world to go, we are over 60,000 km just in plane travel and on board the Royal Princess! The contest did not include all the taxi and bus tour travels on top of this, but what a fabulous trip it has been. Our best guess is that we will end up a touch shy of 75,000 km before accounting for tours. Adding in all of the taxi and bus tours over the past four months would probably put us a bit over 80,000 km! Comfortably in second place in this contest are Pleun and Marjolyn Van der Wel with a guess of 58,524 km. Well done contestants, and we will provide a final (unaudited) accounting around May 10 when we are back in Calgary.
WARNING: TRIVIA ANSWER IS IN THIS NEXT SECTION!
To get the answer to our trivia question, read the last letter of each letter grouping:
CALGAB
ITALIANO
ABCDCD
YYZYZY
HIJKLKL
ABCDBA
CHINHIN
GERMAG
RUSSIRU
ABCCBA
GERMAG
TIMTIME
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Excellent, I love being first. Adam you look very in charge. I am thinking though that you may wish to keep your eyes on the road so to speak. I did have trouble reading your body language though. You seemed pretty relaxed. The time has flown.
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