>>2) What country in South America is named for a metal?
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>Argentina
Yes. Argentina, for silver (argentum).
>>3) The flag of what country shows two people, apparently engaged in a heated discussion?
Canada. On the inside, red, is a leaf. On the outside, white (the "negative", so to say), you can distinguish the two faces - and they don't look very friendly. Probably an accident!
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
