Um, no. Hate to break it to you but the quiz is in English, not Latin. If you accept "Plumbum", then you'll have to accept every language ("plomb", "blei", "piombo", "chumbo", "plomo" etc.)
I actually replaced about half of the questions. My quiz writing style is much different than it was in 2013, which is the last time this quiz was featured.
kind of tough when you have taurus in your head. After many tries I thought of torro, heard it in my head. But that didnt work either, not untill later I tried it with one r
I didn't know the answer, but I thought, who would be dumb enough to say something like this. After I tried 'Madonna' and did not have the correct answer, I tried to think of Britney Spears but I drew a blank. So I typed 'Beckham.' Bingo.
I thought the question "What is the nearest city to New York City that has a population over 10 million?' meant the city that was physically closest to New York City and had 10 million residents.
Yeah, what do you mean? I realize that some of Gandhi's views have come under more scrutiny in the past decade or so, but no one's calling him a monster. It's literally the Nobel Peace Prize, and Gandhi organized one of the biggest nonviolent resistance movements in history. Also, the Nobel Peace Prize isn't particularly impressive when its laureates include such humanitarians as Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, and Abiy Ahmed.
Yeah, I know that. And just to be clear, I wasn't trying to say we should completely ignore the personal demons he had. But then again, who doesn't have personal demons? When you take everything into account, Gandhi was still a net positive for the world, and we can still respect him while acknowledging that some of the things he said/did shouldn't be acceptable today. The same can be said of MLK, Mandela, Lincoln, etc.
If I'm expected to know things that David Beckham has said or the names of his spawn, then surely it should not be out of bounds to ask a European to know the Heisman trophy.
Also... "WHO are" in the ABBA question? Are you sure you're American, Quizmaster?
They were living in USA at the time and it was widely reported on news stations everywhere. As for the complaint about the English language; this from a supposed English teacher who thinks THAT and THAN are interchangeable?
If you know david beckham good chance you know he has a kid named brooklyn ( even if you dont know beckham, there are only a few (too many) weird kid names out there) You do not need to know what he has said or anything else about him.
I literally only know his name, that he is a soccer player and the name of his kid (you only have to hear it once to make it stick)
David Sideris: The vet told me (of my sick cat) I should think about euthanasia. I imagined Japanese children spilling out of their school. He said, "are you thinking about it?" Yep, I replied.
I'm pretty sure the Youth in Asia clue comes from that guy on twitter who accidentally wrote a 2 hour presentation about youth in Asia instead of euthanasia hahaha
That reminds me of when I was taking a Sociological Theory class in college and we were peer-reviewing essays written by our classmates. One of the essays I reviewed was supposed to be about Weber's The Protestant Ethic, but the student had instead written about the "Protest and Ethnic". As you might imagine, the essay was not exactly cogent.
The expression birds of a feather flock together can be traced to a 1545 work called The Rescuing of Romish Fox, written by William Turner: “Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together.” The proverb doesn't include "stick" as much as some folks may seem to want to re-write it to do so.
Only the main form (Roman Rite) of the Catholic mass was almost always in the Romans' language (ignoring the Greek and Hebrew fragments), while the eastern Catholic churches have had a variety of rites in different languages. There was also the special exemption for Church Slavonic mainly in parts of Croatia.
It doesn't affect the ability to guess the answer, but the question isn't quite correct.
The amount of variations on 'predict/see the future' I put for the Paul the Octopus question without getting the right one... Should increase the acceptable range of answers
Technically the maginot line did what it was designed to do which is to force a german invasion to go through Belgium as that would make the United Kingdom help defend France as France and the United Kingdom had only joined forces in the First World War because of the same scenario. They had underestimated the Germans further during the battle of France like when they assumed the Germans would not/could not attack through the Ardennes because it was forested
(This isn't a 'um akshaully' I just keep seeing people immediately assume that the maginot line was entirely a waste when it did what it was meant to do sorry if it comes off as aggressive in advance)
You know that technically lead is simpler to type in.
Technically you're just being pedantic.
Stick together
Fly together
Stay together
I completely forgot flock together
Also I feel that my life would be unaffected by anyone winning the Noble Peace Prize (unless I got a share of the winnings).
We have a tendency to cover up the crimes of great men like Gandhi, MLK, and Nelson Mandela because it goes against what people want to believe.
I still think he deserved a Peace Prize.
Also... "WHO are" in the ABBA question? Are you sure you're American, Quizmaster?
I literally only know his name, that he is a soccer player and the name of his kid (you only have to hear it once to make it stick)
no
not yay
It doesn't affect the ability to guess the answer, but the question isn't quite correct.
(This isn't a 'um akshaully' I just keep seeing people immediately assume that the maginot line was entirely a waste when it did what it was meant to do sorry if it comes off as aggressive in advance)