Curse the trick answer on the second-to-last question! That'll be a 9/10 for me, I'll take it considering that today seems to have been more difficult for most people.
easy for Brits even those of us born just after decimalisation because shilling coins and 5p coins were interchangeable for a long time. Each 1/20th of a pound.
I remembered that 21 shillings made a guinea, because then you paid one shilling to your assistant / secretary or something and the got to keep the pound
10/10 but a few there I was not at all confident on 😅 Was torn between France and Singapore for question 3, and I flat-out guessed the shillings one (I may be British but I know virtually nothing about our pre-decimal currency lmao).
As a poli sci minor, I can verify that they’re different. Kleptocracy refers to countries like Idi Amin’s Uganda, where leaders focus on spending the wealth of the country on themselves. Plutocracies, though, aren’t inherently corrupt. It’s rule by the richest… like the United States by the end of the month.
OOOOF, I feel your pain, we had a chance to get hold of some back in the 90s when the guy who ran our local game store was going out of business, he wanted to sell my mum his entire stock for a couple of grand, but we didn't have the money. There were boxes of unopened Alpha boosters in there man, just one of those would've paid back that investment today 😭😅
7/10. I really wanted to say 500 pounds, but figured the highest answer is never the answer when they ask for the highest. And I got the shillings pence mixed up. And jsut flat out did not have any idea on the last one. Totally sounded like a mushroom to me.
Questions 4 and 9 have 52% and 59% submitting the same wrong answer, respectively. You know it's a better-than-average quiz when you can get JetPunk nerds to do this.
With shillings, I remembered there was something with 20, so I thought 1 shilling was 20 pennies (which would make one pound 5 shillings). However, if a pound was 20 shillings and one shilling was 12 pence, it means a pound was not 100 pence (like today, isn't it?), but 240 pence. That is outright crazy! Or well, thingking of foot, yard and miles, maybe not so much...
my dad had a black lotus back when he played the game, but sold it for cheap with all his others in college(?), not knowing how much it was worth even back then lol
It seems that more than half the users, like me, thought oligarchy meant rule by the rich. Looked it up, and it’s rule by the few - the exact opposite of democracy. Maybe because the “few” are also invariably quite rich? Does anyone know of an oligarchy where this doesn’t apply?
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Klepto means steal
Pluto means wealth
Fun fact: I owned an Unlimited version Black Lotus and sold it over a decade ago for much… much… much less than it’s worth today.
“It costs $300”, he said.
“What a rip-off”, I replied.
At least we're not that guy who paid for a pizza with 10,000 bitcoin though 😬😂
Should have been obvious that klepto = kleptomaniac = something to do with theft. Oh well...
With shillings, I remembered there was something with 20, so I thought 1 shilling was 20 pennies (which would make one pound 5 shillings). However, if a pound was 20 shillings and one shilling was 12 pence, it means a pound was not 100 pence (like today, isn't it?), but 240 pence. That is outright crazy! Or well, thingking of foot, yard and miles, maybe not so much...