A guy wrote a book about Australia called The Lucky Country. Like most people here, however, I immediately clicked Ireland because of the luck of the Irish. 😂
It was meant to be a criticism as well, the quote from the book is "Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck."
The author wasn't too happy that many Australians mistook it as a compliment, once saying "I have had to sit through the most appalling rubbish as successive generations misapplied this phrase".
This is a great fact. As someone who was born and raised in Australia and is thankful I no longer live there, I look forward to trotting this out the next time it comes up.
i think that Switzerland is considered as a happy country because is also peaceful due to something,but happy and peaceful isn't same so this makes no sense.
The Cooler sure was a movie. I remember William H. Macy in a dingy hotel room/apartment, and being just generally sad and lonely. I cannot remember much else, aside from him being bad luck for the casino patrons. 🤔
8/10 for me today, I didn't know the William H Macy movie, and I knew the Chinese unlucky number was either 4 or 8 but I guessed wrong. You could say I wasn't lucky today 😅
8/10. Like a lot of people said Ireland. And, on the latin one, I used process of elimination, but apparently incorrectly. Fortis means strong, Sanctus sounded like healthy, and I thought Felix was happy. Didn't know what lex was, so chose that.
LOL I picked the right answer most of the time, and in two cases picked the very popular wrong answer. On just one question I picked an unpopular wrong answer--the MUSIC question. I'm CLUELESS about any music after 1996!
The author wasn't too happy that many Australians mistook it as a compliment, once saying "I have had to sit through the most appalling rubbish as successive generations misapplied this phrase".
😁
Let's just say I didn't do too good.
"Unbelievably low score" some might say.
Can't I just get a 10/10 for once?
Kicking myself for not getting the last question correct.
You know, I think I'll accept what I got.
6/10
I got 7. Missed 3, 7 and 10.
With time bonus, your score is 9,997
You beat or equaled 100% of test takers
I don't think I'm beating this anytime soon...