Great quiz. I also notice that the river quizzes are extremely difficult for a Pole. Almost every river in our language has got a different name than here. Lost Seine (pl: Sekwana) and almost didn't get Danube (pl: Dunaj) because of this.
It may be comforting to know that you're not the only ones - we know the Danube as Donau, the Thames as Themse, the Vltava (not featured here) as Moldau and the St Lawrence as the Sankt-Lorenz-Strom. Did you guess where I'm from? ;-)
On a side note, when I started learning Polish, I was surprised that some cities' names were completely different, such as Monachium for Munich and most notably Akwizgran for Aachen. Then I realized that these are derived from the Latin names of these cities, which is a beautiful view into Old European history - the first time anyone i Poland heard of these places, it was probably some monk, court scribe or medieval diplomat conversing in Latin. I love that.
I think more than 26% probably would have gotten the Delaware, Potomac, Yellow, Ohio, Sacramento, Blue Nile, Euphrates, Tigris, Jordan, Styx, or possibly some others. I would have gotten Han or St James but those aren't terribly well known. Have lived next to both before.
Why do people keep making this elitist complaint? There are some people who aren't absolute geography nerds, and this can be a challenging quiz for them. If you can finish with a lot of time left, then good for you, but that's not enough to restrict other people's ability to even play the quiz at all
Btw I think this quiz could really benefit from a yellow box. People might start spamming famous rivers even before reading the questions. Or think ah a river in europe? And just randomly throw out a name they know which then fills another answer.
I agree, though I shamefully admit that I can never distinguish between the Rhine/Volga/Danube rivers... I know them by heart from middle school geography (as well as the Murray river) but we never got too in-depth into them
Very nice quiz, except I wonder what makes the river Murray "famous." All others appear to be world renown, international, or have significance beyond the specific country in which they are located. I am not sure about the fame of the river "Orange" either, but at least the clue is famous.
Mostly just a small request, but the Saint Laurence is in french the Saint Laurent, and so for us that live in Eastern Ontario or Quebec it can be difficult to remember the english version. I still got it, but it might be nice if that was an option. 5 stars
This happens all the time. Corse is accepted instead of Corsica, for example. And for other languages, Huang He is also accepted instead of Yellow river, München instead of Munich, etc
On a side note, when I started learning Polish, I was surprised that some cities' names were completely different, such as Monachium for Munich and most notably Akwizgran for Aachen. Then I realized that these are derived from the Latin names of these cities, which is a beautiful view into Old European history - the first time anyone i Poland heard of these places, it was probably some monk, court scribe or medieval diplomat conversing in Latin. I love that.
In short, it's not egregious to accept St Laurent