Yeah, probably easy as a Brit to think that’s a ‘free’ question. I won’t complain. Probably only trickled down to people overseas if they have a particular interest in geopolitics
Tbh I'm not even sure it was that a big thing in the UK. It got heavy coverage in the press, largely whipped up by certain political figures, but it doesn't really feature much in everyday conversation.
7/10 for me today, not my strongest showing. Never heard of a musical called Chess; went against my first instinct on the succulent question and picked the fern instead; and by the last question I was on tilt and picked Amsterdam even though I've been to the London one 😅
I missed Q10 as well, New Orleans is cool but a little weird so I went with that. Starting a new string of only missing Q10 again after finally breaking it yesterday.
I can see the logic there, they've got a lot of French heritage there too. If anywhere in France had been an option I definitely would've gone for that without even thinking about it haha
Surprised at how many people missed the Madame Tussauds question, I thought the London one was the only one, I didn't know other cities had copied it. Though now I know there are others and I suspect many people know about those ones and are as ignorant as I was about there being multiple.
To be fair I also thought that for many years, but I got in my own head today and my thought process went something like "Well hang on, Amsterdam had the first stock exchange, so maybe they had the first Tussaud's too"
I knew there were multiple, not specifically knew about London having one. But I am most familiar with the Amsterdam one, so I instinctively went for that one. (After a short pause, could they have been the first? yea I suppose they could have)
I won't complain about UK-centric questions, and I did know Madame Tussaud's, but I missed the Kenya one and the Mariana Trench because I know it's about 6 1/2 miles but my American brain has no idea what that is in meters!
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free. 🎺 🎺🎺
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness. 🎶
Muddy old river or Reclining Buddha" 🎵
I remember singing this when I was in Bangkok. Only reason I know the musical!
todays theme = liquids
1. australia is an island (surrounded by water)
2. maps contain oceans
3. mali has desert, lack of water
4. space is a vast expanse, like oceans
5. shrimp live in water
6. deep blue (like ocean) chess bot
7. chagos islands
8. challenger deep is in the ocean
9. succulent means adept for storing water
10. wax is liquid when melted
I had heard of the musical Chess. 😊
Admittedly, not my finest hour XD