6 for me too. I got the first 6 right. 10 caught me because I was thinking ok they had haciendas in the Caribbean when they enslaved our indigenous people. But I just could not remember what an hacienda actually was, but because I associated it with enslavement I ran with it. Uh oh
Knew this was set to be a tough one because my LB currently has a 2/10 on it 😅 I managed 8/10, had no idea for the percentage of US agricultural workers, guessed high, would never have figured it to be that low. Then for the Roman one I narrowed it down to Coloniae or Latifundiae but guessed the wrong way, though at least it seems I went with the majority on that one haha; kicking myself for not remembering it from Rome: Total War though.
Managed the others OK, and am just about at the top of my LB for now, though I don't expect that to last 😂 You know it's a tough day when 8/10 beats 92%
The Bangladesh one I knew because they've got loads of rivers (most in the world I think?) and get a lot of rain too, so very fertile. Sad though, all that arable land and people still struggle to eat.
Yeah, the Bangladesh one should also be fairly apparent from the other choices. Canada and Australia have areas of vast wilderness which are completely unsuitable for farming.
Turkey is more plausible, but much of the country is still dry or mountainous.
When i was young catastrophic cyclones seemed to kill thousands and destroy homes every year and now, despite climate change and rising sea levels, it's rare to hear of weather related problems in Bangladesh.
Very surprising 9/10. Complete and utter guesses on 6, 7, & 10. Went 2/3 on those. On Q9 I simply worked each country out (Outback, no. Tundra, no. Desert no.)
8/10 - Lucky guess on Q6, no idea on Q7, bad guess, I started to go with Bangladesh on Q9 because the % would be higher for a small country but changed to Canada, still #3 on my LB with 7,903....hard day...where's Dimby?
The easiest one for me where latifundia and Mexico, as a inmigrant living in Mexico since 4, I learned in school a lot more I should about corn, the first type of corn that was domesticated was a primitive version called teosintle or something like that and the spanish also did a bunch of latifundia here
Wow, tough one today. Leaderboard has no 10/10 and I’m scraping in at the bottom with a 7750. I should’ve known it was 1%… all agriculture is done by giant companies with mass farming techniques how. As for the last one… no clue. Went with hacienda hoping the term originated in Latin. In hindsight, it doesn’t feel very Latin at all.
the did well but mainly through skilled guessing. I debated between Tesla and Fritz Haber and got lucky. The farm simulation game was process of elimination. Got latifundia wrong and knew it was going to be wrong because Coloniae were for retired soldiers.
Missed one (Clarkson), but still did quite well (beat or equaled 97%, with an 8874), partly for answering quickly (even having to guess several)...this was indeed a very hard quiz! Good fun!
Yeah
Managed the others OK, and am just about at the top of my LB for now, though I don't expect that to last 😂 You know it's a tough day when 8/10 beats 92%
Turkey is more plausible, but much of the country is still dry or mountainous.
Only Bangladesh really makes sense.
Since 1990, real GDP per capita (PPP) has increased by 10x!
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD
When i was young catastrophic cyclones seemed to kill thousands and destroy homes every year and now, despite climate change and rising sea levels, it's rare to hear of weather related problems in Bangladesh.
One guess for the fertiliser question but other than that fairly easy. Must be because I’m from out in the sticks in the UK countryside.
Rolling through the first eight. Crashed and burned at the end!
Nevermind will try again tomorrow!