Not a bad score today, 8/10. Didn't know what an Arnold Palmer is and thought Saddam Hussein was overthrown in the Gulf war, which is currently the top score at 55% so at least I wasn't alone in my thinking.
He was overthrown in the Iraq War (or the second Gulf War) in 2003.
First war was an international action to protect Kuwait, second war was an anglo-american invasion to topple Saddam due to 'weapons of mass destruction' evidence.
Dang, fell on the last hurdle. I always thought of them as the First and Second Gulf Wars. Should’ve gone with the oil spill, but overthought the question.
Yeah I think that one needs a renaming in the question to be specifically about the First Gulf War cause I too, when I first saw that question, said "which one?" then preceded to get it wrong by choosing the first option that applied to either one.
If not a renaming then swap out the Saddam answer but I figure it would mess with stats less to just add one more word to the question.
The Gulf War/First Gulf War/Persian Gulf War - A brief conflict between 1990-1991 wherein a 42-country coalition, led by the United States, undertook the famous Operation Desert Storm, which liberated Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.
The Second Gulf War/Iraq War - A U.S.-launched war in Iraq that lasted from 2003-2011, wherein the U.S. invaded Iraq under the (false) pretense that they were harboring WMDs and overthrew Saddam Hussein and his government. Following this overthrow was a period of insurgency and instability that also gave rise to groups such as ISIS and kept the U.S. in a protracted state of conflict that was closed by President Obama in 2011.
Go on Google Maps right now and look at the body of water that borders mostly the US and a little of Mexico, all of which is in North America, and tell me what it's labeled as.
7/10. Didn't know what to do because I thought all of those states were on the Gulf of Mexico. And I don't know where the Gulf of Guinea is. Geography really is my downfall. Then I couldn't decide what happened in 1991. Knew Hussein wasn't overthrown for a fact. And I was pretty sure 20,000 US troops didn't die. I also didn't think Iran invaded Iraq, but I also thought a big oil spill would be weird. WEnt the wrong way.
8/10 here as well. I got the car one wrong too, as well as the Pebble Beach question, but I don't know much about cars or golfing venues so I'm not surprised.
You're laboring under the illusion that such an arrangement would occur under a generally accepted set of rules. It would not. Without such rules, any evaluation of the result is an absurdism.
Genuinely shocked to have gotten 10/10 on this theme, since I know next to nothing about golf, but after a complete blind guess on the first question, the rest of these were fairly easy.
Also, respect to QM for still using the correct term "Gulf of Mexico" ;)
I hope you realise that nobody outside of the US (and at most half of the people *in* the US) is taking that even remotely seriously, and that even Google still calls it the Gulf of Mexico for any IP address outside of the US.
9/10 Missed the Gulf of Guinea...should have connected gulf name with the country of guinea which is closest to Nigeria....luckily I golf - and I remember the oil spill during the gulf war
I guess it's possible we could end up calling it the Gulf of America. It's so new. Wikipedia states the name change ain't binding on any nations or the private sector.
Meanwhile Google Earth, Google Maps, and Apple Maps, among others, have it as the Gulf of America because that's its official name now, and names change. Or should "anyone with a brain" still be saying Macedonia, Swaziland, Zaire, Southern Rhodesia, Persia, Burma, Siam, Abyssinia, Constantinople, Gaul, Anatolia, Babylon.........?
Meanwhile if you're accessing any of those apps from one of the 196 countries that *isn't* the USA, it's still called the Gulf of Mexico, because it turns out nobody really cares if a US president decides to unilaterally rename something we'd all already agreed on a name for (outside of the companies that host those websites wanting to suck up to the regime domestically, so we're essentially talking about the cartographic equivalent of Disney censoring their movies for release in China lmao)
First war was an international action to protect Kuwait, second war was an anglo-american invasion to topple Saddam due to 'weapons of mass destruction' evidence.
If not a renaming then swap out the Saddam answer but I figure it would mess with stats less to just add one more word to the question.
Nevertheless, I added the year since we're not trying to trick anyone.
The Gulf War/First Gulf War/Persian Gulf War - A brief conflict between 1990-1991 wherein a 42-country coalition, led by the United States, undertook the famous Operation Desert Storm, which liberated Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.
The Second Gulf War/Iraq War - A U.S.-launched war in Iraq that lasted from 2003-2011, wherein the U.S. invaded Iraq under the (false) pretense that they were harboring WMDs and overthrew Saddam Hussein and his government. Following this overthrow was a period of insurgency and instability that also gave rise to groups such as ISIS and kept the U.S. in a protracted state of conflict that was closed by President Obama in 2011.
sooooo.....
Q7 I should know that, but don't know what happened to me.
1 Golf the sport
2 Golf as in Gulf
3 Golf as in wave (from water)
No caddies, no spectators, no witnesses of any kind.
Also, respect to QM for still using the correct term "Gulf of Mexico" ;)
also I respect the decision to keep the Gulf of Mexico as the term on the site
In China they call it they South China Sea, in Vietnam they call the same sea the East Sea.
It is ok, relax