Saturday, July 28, 2012

olympics trivia

Which country has the fewest athletes competing in the London Olympics?


I had never heard of the answer-country, Nauru, which turns out to be a small Micronesian island with an unbelievably informative government website.

2 comments:

  1. Nauru is an interesting place but arguably also an ecological wreck and a microcosm example of what happens when people let their personal greed and self-interest overtake their responsibilities to their little part of the world.

    Check out this piece in the New York Times magazine: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/magazine/the-billion-dollar-shack.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

    ReplyDelete
  2. Nauru is also the only country whose demonym is a palindrome.

    ReplyDelete