Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a French videogame with a "fantasy Belle Époque setting" that came out earlier this year. I haven't played it yet but it's supposed to be quite good. I think Dimby is suggesting that it might have been an inspiration for today's DTC theme.
Thanks! I don't master all those languages! I speak English and Spanish (and French obviously), I learned (and struggled with) German, but I can understand Italian and Portuguese and manage to make myself understood. Thanks to English and German, I can decipher Dutch but would never be able to formulate phrases.
Polish and Finnish are just quizzes I took that didn't require too much effort to understand and that I could answer to with some practice (learning how to spell the countries' names in those languages particularly).
Oh dear 4/10 although I felt like I'd know the answers. In hindsight I should have got false story as that's what an Ente means in German and it's the word for duck.
Grand Jeté was 50/50 between ballet and fencing and I chose wrong.
Didn't know George Orwell was a nom de plum but I knew for sure the others weren't, so at least I got that one right.
9/10 again, canard caught me ought this time, somewhat embarrassing given my line of work but not a term I've heard often lol. Quite surprised by the low percentage on bourgeoisie though.
Ugh.....7/10....didn't know Q2, if I had thought through Q9 I should have got that one, didn't know Q10 other than the Owen Wilson movie, Midnight in Paris..eh, I speak better Italian than French
In keeping with the JetPunk tradition of obnoxious pedantry, technically the coup was successful as Gorbachev was removed from power, the USSR was dissolved, and Yeltsin became president. Maybe should be rephrased from "attempted" to "carried out"
The coup was not led by Yeltsin nor undertaken on his behalf. The leaders of the coup were trying to overthrow Gorbachev so they could revert back to a hardline Soviet regime.
It didn't just fail, it accomplished the exact opposite of what they wanted.
It helps to have been alive when all this was taking place.
Not a criticism of question 8, as it's entirely clear what it intended - but there were *two* deaths at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. It's just the Roland Ratzenberger's fatal crash in final qualifying was rather overshadowed by the one that occurred during the actual race.
Polish and Finnish are just quizzes I took that didn't require too much effort to understand and that I could answer to with some practice (learning how to spell the countries' names in those languages particularly).
Grand Jeté was 50/50 between ballet and fencing and I chose wrong.
Didn't know George Orwell was a nom de plum but I knew for sure the others weren't, so at least I got that one right.
Other ones I knew were 1, 8 & 10.
Canard question got me.
Also I've just noticed the typo in my original comment and it's too late to change it, curse you autocorrect! XD
Edit; of course you can "correct" it by mentioning it in a new comment
The coup was not led by Yeltsin nor undertaken on his behalf. The leaders of the coup were trying to overthrow Gorbachev so they could revert back to a hardline Soviet regime.
It didn't just fail, it accomplished the exact opposite of what they wanted.
It helps to have been alive when all this was taking place.
With time bonus, your score is 1,944
You beat or equaled 1% of test takers
Avoided my worst score of all time by guessing the last question correctly.
How is that possible?
BTW why is it called a 'test' and not a 'quiz'?
I was prefect up to the last question, and i narrowed it to a 50-50 guess. i chose poorly.
C'est la vie!