9/10 for me today, couldn't decide between eggplant and spinach for spanakopita, and guessed the wrong way. Rest of the questions fell pretty nicely for me. Would've liked some more ancient Greece/mythology questions though 😜
The plates smashing thing... I've been a few times to Greece, have actual Greek friends and never heard of that. Even watched "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and it completely went over my head, if they showed it there.
Must be an American-Greek thing (as in - carry-over from something that was true some 100 years ago, but is now only a "die-hard" trope now).
Greek here. It was popular in nightclubs and restaurants with live music around the 50s to probably 70s-80s. Growing up in the 90s I recall plate smashing happening but very occasionally. You can also see it in Greek films from those decades. It is quite possible it stayed more alive as a "tradition" in the States or other places where Greeks immigrated to. It's just a stereotype that doesn't really happen these days but absolutely based on truth.
In Turkey during the 2000s until maybe early 2010s, our Greco-Turkish singer Fedon used to do "sirtaki" on tv time to time. We also had a tv series about a love story between a Greek boy & a Turkish girl called Yabancı Damat. Maybe it was shown in that series as well, I'm not sure. But I remember seeing sirtaki a lot on tv as a kid.
That was an easy 10/10, 9,803 - just had a slight thinking pause on Q9. Did you know Lord Byron was the father of Ada Lovelace, the mother of computer programming?
She was in the mid-1800s, developing machine language algorithms (along with Babbage) for a mechanical calculator, the fore runner of computer punch cards. As far as an 'influencers', in 1979 the US DOD named a new computer language in recognition of her contributions. History sweets.....
10/10 but some wild guesses. I figured s,p,vowel,n something something with a "pita" on the end must be a spinach pita sandwich. Took me twenty years to figure out though.
(or maybe the questions were just easily estimatable? idk)
(I apologise)
Must be an American-Greek thing (as in - carry-over from something that was true some 100 years ago, but is now only a "die-hard" trope now).
Opa!
And on this specific theme makes it so much better.