I'd argue Vatican City. There may not be any snakes there right at this moment but at any given time one could make its way there from Italy. Unless I'm mistaken, Vatican City shares infrastructure with Rome. A snake could make it there as easy as a tourist walking from the Pantheon to St. Peter's Square. Hell, the Tiber is within throwing distance.
Remember when the Catholic church declared that beavers were fish so they could be eaten on Fridays? I'm not sure I trust the Pope when it comes to biology. ;)
As the snake, to Christians, represented pagan beliefs maybe he was speaking metaphorically? St Patrick is credited with having been mainly responsible for introducing Christianity to Ireland and so was also credited with having banished the "snakes".
Sulfuratus, I don't know if you're reading this right now, but in the Bible, the Hebrew word used for "fish" means something closer to any animal that inhabits the water. That's why bats and locusts are in one portion translated as "birds", when in English it doesn't really make much sense. So what they were actually doing is assuring people that they could eat beavers, just like we can eat any marine animal, not just biological fish.
Can't imagine snakes just willy-nilly slithering on the streets of Rome, a big metropolitan city. It's as unlikely as stumbling upon a snake on 5th Avenue or Times Square in NYC. There's the Hudson river too, and Central Park, but still no.
For me this quiz needs masses more time. I only know one country that has no snakes (I live in it) the rest is a process of elimination. 90 seconds doesn't leave much time for the dozens of potential answers
I missed 2 of the countries. And I knew one right as I ran out of time. I don't think it needs any more time, there's enough quizzes where you can type in half the world and get them answers. If you are clever about it there isn't that many countries you need to guess.
the only ones I knew going in were iceland and ireland. I agree about the Vatican, it's just a neighborhood of Rome and I guarantee there are snakes in Rome, at least as pets
@MisterDuhn The girls must be impressed with how quick you are. I thought quizzes were to see how much knowledge you hold and to learn. Nobody's keeping track here for a competitive hiring process involving how rapidly someone can rattle off cocoa producing nations or to name the archdukes of the First World War.
Yea if you only know 2 you only know two, you don't need enough extra time to be able to type all the countries in the world, that kind of defeats the purpose of the quiz. You do need time to be able to make a few educated guesses imo, and I think it allows for that.
I think one more minute would work. There should be some time to think about it but not enough to just type half the countries in the world. Like when it endedI just thought of the pacific islands countries but didn't have the chance to try them.
It says, "native snake species." If, at one point all snakes were removed from Vatican City, then no snakes there would be native. They are all migratory from Italy.
NZ is hardly next to Australia. It's +2000 km (~1350 mi) from Australia to NZ. I don't see many snakes swimming the distance just for the hell of it. It would be more possible (but as unlikely) for the snakes to swim to Ireland from the UK.
Think about this: if New Zealand had snakes, than it wouldn't be the homeland of all its weird wingless birds! They literally forgot how to fly because there were no predators to treat them!!! :D
Btw I have this image now of some predators and birds sitting in a circle with some beers and snacks haha, predators treat!
Around a little fire ofcourse, maybe a movie projected ;) Sounds fun ( as long as the treats weren't to fatten them up, and they would end as main course at the end of the night!)
My definition of paradise is a place with no venomous snakes (I like nonvenomous ones), no mosquitoes or other biting insects, no highly-venomous spiders, and low humidity. Does such a place exist? (besides Antarctica)
Waters are colder in NZ ... no snakes here ... we do though have the odd Aussie Mossie, and spider who have migrated to NZ .. not saying Aussie's are odd at all!
just to let you know that northern Ireland has no snakes and is a country on its own it might be part of Ireland but it is still a country without snakes.
Vatican City is kind of a stretch. The description says that it measures native species, and there are snakes native to Italy in the area around Rome. Does this list not count places with snakes expelled by human actions? If it simply counts the presence of snakes, then places with invasive populations of snakes wouldn't be included. Here's a source I found on the spread of snakes: https://www.popsci.com/places-with-no-snakes/
I didn't realize that Saint Patrick had been so successful. And I also dispute the Vatican. A veritable nest of vipers that place is. Plus... I assume any snake native to Italy could potentially be found in the Vatican. Kind of silly to say it's not "native" just because the area is so small and has been paved over... maybe they were temporarily displaced and came back, did they lose their native status in that interval? I guess. maybe.
I think many people in the world (including me) have no idea what st Patrick's day is about. (Besides obviously ireland and UK, no idea about the US). And think about people drinking and stuff coloured green. That is the main image you get from a country where it isnt celebrated.
I actually did know there were no snakes ireland and that it was supposedly been the work of a saint, don't think I knew they were talking about thát st Patrick. (and somehow I always mix up the one that got rid of the snakes with the one that slayed a dragon, st George ( we call him Joris)
How can you say that Vatican City doesn't have snakes when Italy has 19 different species, do they have snake checkpoints at the border to stop them from entering?
Just for the record, despite the fun story, St Patrick did not perform some miraculous feat of biology (or any other kind) to rid Ireland of snakes. They never lived there to begin with.
Around a little fire ofcourse, maybe a movie projected ;) Sounds fun ( as long as the treats weren't to fatten them up, and they would end as main course at the end of the night!)
I actually did know there were no snakes ireland and that it was supposedly been the work of a saint, don't think I knew they were talking about thát st Patrick. (and somehow I always mix up the one that got rid of the snakes with the one that slayed a dragon, st George ( we call him Joris)