We have bees on our farm, so I knew about mead as one of the uses of honey, although I've never tried it. I thought this one was pretty easy even though I don't think I'm pretty smart. (I don't think I'm ugly smart, either.)
I'm smart and civilized and got 20/20 on this and regularly practice three different sparring martial arts. Predilection for martial arts is in no way indicative of one's intelligence. Thinking there is a correlation between the two and trying to feel superior as a result is however indicative of ignorance. :)
I got 20 this time. But my opinion about boxing hasn't change a bit since 2014... hitting someone else to try to knock him/her out (which often results in brain damage and sometimes death), I don't call that civilized (the smart part was obviously a joke, as my tongue smiley clearly indicated). This said, I don't see what knowledge has to do with this? Suffice to watch some of it to understand... seriously, I was scandalized at the last Olympics, where they didn't even wear head protections anymore. Of course, I'm only talking about boxing, most martial arts are more interesting than that. I have no problem with judo, for example. Fencing is nice too.
From the home page link: "You have to be really smart to do well on this one." Hmm, maybe, but seemed to be a pretty "middle ground" quiz, this one. 19/20.
I don't think Whig is to Liberal is really a valid analogy for the Conservatives. The Whigs, who no longer exist, definitely preceded the Liberal Party, whereas the answer for Conservatives has always been a nickname they wear with pride to this day (in the UK and also Canada). Also, Americans might feel Whig is the opposite of Liberal and expect a different answer to work.
It does work. In the early 19th century, the two main British parliamentary groups were the Whigs and the Tories. Subsequently both of these groups broke up. The Liberal party arose mostly from former Whigs, and the Conservative party mostly from former Tories. Admittedly, "Tory" is now used as a nickname for "Conservative" (probably the ubiquity of this is due to the latter being too long a word for newspaper headlines), but it was used in the sense of the question long before the Conservative party existed.
Actually the opposite of a Whig was not a Federalist, as many would have been comfortable in the Federalist Party. The Whigs were in opposition to the Democratic Party during the 2nd Party System. The 2nd Party system was completely blown up by the issue of slavery, which eventually made it impossible to unite a fully national party by 1860.
This is a fair point. Krieg may mean war but it's pretty commonly known as "Lightning Strike" or "Lightning Attack". Like it wouldn't be too unfair for that to be an acceptable answer.
The Vatican is completely different from San Marino and Lesotho. It isn't the fact that it's surrounded by not only another country, but another city as well, it's the way it came into being with the Lateran Treaty in 1929. I understand that it's a sovereign nation, but I still find the whole thing a bit confusing.
It gets more complicated. International diplomacy for the Vatican and also (but distinctly) the Catholic church is conducted via the Holy See - a legally distinct sovereign body which continued to exist even when there was no corresponding sovereign territory before the Lateran Treaty.
Vatican city is technically carved out separately from Rome, but it's clearly part of the city for all other purposes. JetPunk usually works with metro areas.
My guess is that it's because a fairly recent and localized conflict compared with what people usually learn in history. I know about the Troubles because I'm Irish-American, as are most of the people I grew up around, but I never heard a word of it in history class. The Troubles were (and still are) devastating in Ireland, but beyond Ireland and the UK, the repercussions were, at most, indirect for the rest of the world. There are countries all over the world dealing with internal violence at any given moment. The only ones we study decades later are the ones that rippled throughout the world.
Jacksonian should be accepted as conservative as well. Back in the days when American whigs were around (british whigs were not specified in the question), the whigs were anti-jacksonian, and tended to be anti-conservative, as the democrats tended to be the more consevative party at the time (even though both parties were notably conservative). Accept Jacksonian, or Democrat please.
Seriously, the question has nothing to do with American politics. Whigs and Tories are British and no, Jacksonian should not be accepted. You Americans need to get out of the bubble you live in that insists your view of the world is dominant over all else.
Calm yourself. "Whig," "liberal," and "conservative" are all terms that apply in American politics. There is no indication until the answer is revealed that the question isn't regarding America, and it's perfectly reasonable for an American to think "Jacksonian" is the answer there, because it fits. You non-Americans need to get out of this bubble where you pounce on everything Americans say so you can gleefully beat down on us for our supposed egotism.
But what you are doing is insisting that your British-centric view of the world is correct. Whig, Liberal and Conservative are not British-exclusive terms, even though I too thought of British politics first.
But Liberal is capitalised in the clue, and the USA didn't have a Liberal Party in opposition to the Tories. Canada did, but I don't think they called them Whigs, so the clue still works.
I got all but the Socrates question. I knew it's some kind of poison, but even after seeing the answer I was none the wiser. I had to check the translation in my mother tongue to even understand what it is. One more new thing learned today. :)
Ok, I knew it was hemlock, but now I realize I cant remember the dutch name.. I think I do know it though... my mind is producing a picture ;)
Right family, right look, wrong plant. I was thinking of one of the heracleum plants. (According to wikipedia also known as hogweed and cows parsnip/parsley)
And I finallly found the plant that grows in my gardens after going through dozens and dozens of similar looking ones. Thankfully, not hemlock.. but Aegopodium podagraria (ground elder/ bisshop's weed) . The stuff keeps coming back and I usually dont use gloves.. but I see this one has usefull purposes :)
Because "beatnik" refers to a specific type of person, so the analogous term also needs to be a type of person. You would say "That person is a beatnik" in the same way you would say "That person is a hippie," but you wouldn't say "That person is a free love," or "That person is a flower power."
I don't understand the 'Victorian/Edwardian' which I had to guess correctly. Is this an architecture question? If so it should be 'Regency', not Victorian. The Georges were followed by William IV, not Victoria. Does he get an age?
It's not necessarily architecture, but the name of the "eras," yes. William IV had a pretty short reign, so he's usually lumped into the Georgian Era rather than getting one of his own.
Right family, right look, wrong plant. I was thinking of one of the heracleum plants. (According to wikipedia also known as hogweed and cows parsnip/parsley)
And I finallly found the plant that grows in my gardens after going through dozens and dozens of similar looking ones. Thankfully, not hemlock.. but Aegopodium podagraria (ground elder/ bisshop's weed) . The stuff keeps coming back and I usually dont use gloves.. but I see this one has usefull purposes :)