I didn't do very well. I'm glad you liked the question. It was originally just "What is the definition of brobdingnagian?", but I'm glad I at least got it right!
I think that would have been too hard, it's already a very hard one with only 43% correct right now. Personally I would have got it wrong if I hadn't had the first option as a clue to jog my memory.
Man, the Queen Victoria question is rough. It felt wrong to me so I looked it up. I guess she had German at home only until about 3, and then the household full-fledged switched to English and she never spoke German ever again at home. She said in her diary that she only ever spoke or wrote German in school beyond 3.
That would definitely have caught me out, I always assumed it was English, but knew from the available options it had to be German, I just thought the family switched to English earlier, like after George III
Q6 was actually part actually of my biology oral exam in 12th grade (whatever 'Abitur' translates into english) and here I am thinking I would never need it again
The brobdingnagian question for me was an educated guess. The only one of the four options I could see with a clear-cut opposite was lilliputian, so went for that. Process of elimination works!
I've read Gulliver's Travels (thirty years ago?) and I got it wrong. I thought about yahoos but couldn't remember the other place he went so I guessed something else, poorly.
Managed the 10/10, but just shy of 9900 club today. Dropped a bit of time hesitating between BP and Exxon, and a lot of time deciding on the TV show (thankfully I knew it wasn't House of Cards because I just finished watching that, but wasn't sure between American Idol and the Bachelor)
Gulliver's Travels was a classic creative Tale with depth worthy of revisiting.
tough questions for me, I guess. lol
Cruised though the first five, then hit the rocks and made a big ol' spill for the next four, recovering for the last one. Ouch.
I thought the queen question said Marie Antoinette for some reason and answered German cuz she was austrian
only after reading the comments did i realise it said victoria!