Oh stop that! What did you miss? I go back and forth on whether I'm better right before I go to bed or better in the morning....I think I'm better before I see all you smart folks on the leaderboard!
I did....but thinking through it further, in the 1870s not sure how far into South America had been explored to even think of Machu Pichu at all. And it was much more than a settlement, kingdom of the Incas. On the other hand, I thought that history of Roman Empire would pretty much have known that Troy was not mythical. Which leaves me with Camelot and Shangri-La. I should have gone with Shangri-La....still wrong! 😒
I was pretty sure that Spanish Conquistadors saw Machu Picchu firsthand and it was known to be real. I somehow conflated Xanadu and Shangri-La. Troy definitely was the only logical answer. 😓
Going down the quick rabbit hole that might aid on future quizzes "It is thought that the Spanish conquistadores did not track down Machu Picchu because it had actually been abandoned by the Incas shortly before the arrival of Spanish soldiers to the Cusco area during their conquest of the Incas in the 1530's. In 1911, an intrepid Yale professor named Hiram Bingham located what he called the “lost city of the Incas” in the highlands of Peru.' Why was it abandoned? Another rabbit hole to fall down!
8/10. Couldn't decide between Casio and Toshiba, and I don't know that it would have made any difference, but confidently clicked cicdas without reading any other choices. Oh well.
9/10 today, and probably could've done worse on another day. Wasn't entirely confident on Monaco vs. Singapore, and the Hunger Games one was a three-way guess for me, but the one that actually caught me out was the insect lifespan question; I had no idea termites could live that long, went with cicadas instead (like the majority so far haha)
It's only the queen that lives that long.....the boys only a couple years (I only know that because I live in a cedar forest and learned it from my timber logging guy)...wonder what the world would look like if that was the case for humans?..hmmm🤔
I was really happy to be so close to beating you, only 7 points behind. I guessed correctly on the gums and insect questions, got Casio wrong, knew all the others. That's definitely (in the time we've been friends) the closest I've been to you, and it's my 9th-best score of all time.
I'm European and didn't know, I guessed. My reasoning was: Camelot and Shangri-la are fantasy and machu Picchu is a volcano, so must be Troy. Not saying that's true, just that that's what I thought haha
There is a LOT of fertile Papal history to plow.....I'm going to resurrect up on my catechism. Does it strike anyone as interesting that this is the first American Pope?
I'm fairly disturbed by the percentage of quiz takers (53% as of now) who thought Machu Picchu was believed to be mythical until the 1870s when it was dug up. Like do they think there was a second dark ages when everyone forgot about the 16th century (less than 300 years ago at that point) and Pizarro etc? Do they think all the ruins got buried and forgotten in that time? What's the logic there exactly? 😂
“ Considered a masterpiece of Inca architecture, it was gradually abandoned after the collapse of the Inca Empire in the 16th century, and then ignored for centuries outside the local population. This has given it a reputation as a "forgotten city". Machu Picchu was explored in 1911 by the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), assistant professor of Latin American history at Yale University, who made it known in a reference work. “
Surprised with the amount of people who clicked Machu Picchu on Q10. Isn't it not a settlement?
@itzingenious No wonder I was scared to let it go... I may have just created my archnemesis
quite slow so it was only my 5th best ever
I have a Casio watch lol
I think this should read: "What's the farthest planet that is visible to the naked eye?"
unlucky
“ Considered a masterpiece of Inca architecture, it was gradually abandoned after the collapse of the Inca Empire in the 16th century, and then ignored for centuries outside the local population. This has given it a reputation as a "forgotten city". Machu Picchu was explored in 1911 by the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), assistant professor of Latin American history at Yale University, who made it known in a reference work. “