How much do you know about the World Today?

[Kinniken]

I thought posters here would be interested by that World Today Quiz. It has five difficulty settings, and contains questions covering the whole planet, from elections in Brazil to Chinese economic growth.
Better yet, visitors are warmly encouraged to submit additional questions. Relatively easy questions are the most welcomed though, making impossible one is too easy
If enough people participate, this has the potential to be a very, very interesting Quiz.
BTW, there is also a "World History" and a Science & Technology quizzes on the same website.
Have fun!

[Gangerolf]

cool. but quite hard.

13/20 on the normal world today quiz.
14/20 on the normal history quiz

[Harry Tuttle]

13/20 Normal World Today

[Q Classic]

well, i got the asian questions right. ^^;

[VetLegion]

18/20 on the easy. I'll do the harder ones later.

[orange]

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[orange]

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[Ben Kenobi]

Only 18/20 on the World today supposedly 'Easy' questions.

These are the ones that I missed:


WHICH COUNTRY DOES NOT HAVE GERMAN AS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

Switzerland
Belgium
Austria
The Czech Republic


I knew Belgium had French and Dutch, but German?

But this is the real sticker:



WHICH COUNTRY DID NOT HAVE A COLONY IN NORTH AMERICA.

Russia
Germany
Sweden
Netherlands

I said Sweden, and I'm wondering where was Sweden's colony? Greenland from when they took over Denmark?

BTW, IIRC Germany bought one of the islands in the Caribbean, forcing the US purchase of the Virgin Islands to protect the Canal Zone.

Does the term 'North America' include the Caribbean?

[chequita guevara]

Sweden had a colony in what is today New Jersey.

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[Combat Ingrid]

I think Delaware used to be "New Sweden"

[Japher]

9/20... why is considered "Today" if it happened over 100 years ago, and I didn't even take the history quiz, but they asked me about something that happened in 1820!

[Whoha]

Its apparently not flat.

[Ben Kenobi]

I think Delaware used to be "New Sweden"

There were many German immigrants to America.

Are you telling me there were no 'German' colonies in the US?

BTW- I'm right about Greenland, after the union of Kalmar, unified Denmark and Sweden, the agreement supposedly also included Greenland.

Not an 'easy' question at all!

[Ben Kenobi]

BTW- both Che and Combat Ingrid are right.


"The ships reached Delaware Bay in March 1638, and the settlers began to build a fort at the site of present-day Wilmington, Delaware. They named it Fort Christina, in honor of Sweden's twelve-year-old queen. It was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley.

During the next seventeen years, twelve more Swedish expeditions left the homeland for New Sweden. A total of eleven vessels and some 600 Swedes and Finns reached their destination. The colony eventually consisted of farms and small settlements along both banks of the Delaware River into modern Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland."

http://www.colonialswedes.org/History/History.html

[Az]

well, Germany only came to existance long after the USA.

[Ben Kenobi]

Are you telling me there were no 'German' colonies in the US?

@ me.

There was no Germany back then, not until 1872.

[laurentius]

According to the test Finland is not part of scandinavia

[Ramo]

I noticed there was an error in one of the questions:

Where was the last man to successfully invade England from? - Correct
Normandy
Germany
Norway
Naples

Clearly, the obvious choice is Normandy, but the real answer is the Netherlands. The test maker is forgetting William III of Orange.

[laurentius]

Well he forgot other things too. Like wasnt the Alaska the biggest land purchase made by the united states ?

[Kitschum]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi

The colony eventually consisted of farms and small settlements along both banks of the Delaware River into modern Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland."

And to complete the picture, a map of New Sweden (1638-1655) here:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nfbt/0095.html

[Japher]

Louisianna Purchase?

[Kassiopeia]

According to the test Finland is not part of scandinavia

Scandinavia is the peninsula of the Scandic mountain range, namely Sweden, Norway and Denmark (not sure about the last one, I think it is, but how firmly is it part of the peninsula geologically?).

If you want to lump Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland under one geographical name, use Fennoscandia. That will cover Karelia as well. Or just use "Northern Europe" or "the Nordic" so that the Icelandics won't feel left out.

[Ramo]

According to the test Finland is not part of scandinavia

And it isn't. Scandinavia represents a linguistic group which excludes Finnish (which isn't even a Germanic language).

[ixnay]

I like it.

I like it when it's green.

But sometimes it's mean as hell.

[Ben Kenobi]

Clearly, the obvious choice is Normandy, but the real answer is the Netherlands. The test maker is forgetting William III of Orange.

That's more of a revolution, and not an invasion, per se. You did not have an army in England trying to kill William when he landed.

[laurentius]

Kassi: Yes, but what I was wondering was how the hell is Denmark part of scandinavia?

Ramo? I've never heard anyone using scandinavia like that.

[mrmitchell]

Well he forgot other things too. Like wasnt the Alaska the biggest land purchase made by the united states ?

Very wrong.

Spoiler:

Louisiania Purchase

Note: If you haven't taken it yet, don't read that

Made 15/20 on Normal. WIll try history now

[Kassiopeia]

Kassi: Yes, but what I was wondering was how the hell is Denmark part of scandinavia?

Yes, I was wondering that myself. I think Denmark is on the same tectonic plate as the rest of Scandinavia, but Finland isn't. Of course, you can always argue whether you're talking about a geological, a cultural, a sociopolitical, a linguistic or a heraldrical Scandinavia...

[Ramo]

That's more of a revolution, and not an invasion, per se. You did not have an army in England trying to kill William when he landed.

That's because James chickened out and ran off to France when he saw William's army. And since when are revolutions necessarily non-bloody?

Yes, but what I was wondering was how the hell is Denmark part of scandinavia?

Danish is a Scandinavian language.

[Az]

Louisiana was indeed much larger than alaska. It was about 1/3rd of the total US territory, today, IIRC.