I feel like I interpreted/justified it as just "since 1996" because you see Olympic football gold medals and Brazil comes up first it's very hard not to click immediately lol
Hell I'm someone who grew up calling it soccer and football and it didn't occur to me it was American football. Not a totally unfair question given it's an American site but mannnn
Gonna be real, the only sport I really watch is (ice) hockey, professional women's and NHL. Knowing nothing about soccer or football, I assumed Brazil would have more
There is also a county in California and a town in Arkansas called "El Dorado." I've spent time in both, plus in Avalon, CA. Badly written question and (worse) badly edited quiz.
Understanding context is important. Three famous mythical places and one real place that is mentioned in a famous literary work should be pretty obvious. That’s why 70% or people got it right.
Q10 is great. I would probably disagree if I had been quicker and just went Brazil because its the obvious answer. And it isn't really a case of being too vague; if it was world cups, not explicitly mentioning the Women's game counting might be a bit deceitful. But the Olympics is both genders and everyone knows it (whether they think of it immediately or not).
7/10. I was hovering above lute, but changed my mind and said lyre. Argh. Didn't know the newspaper color one. And was fooled with a lot of people by the football question.
10/10, albeit not my fastest, at 9,872. Quite a few gave me pause for thought here. I wasn't sure if the Newfoundland question was a trap, and on the Olympic football one I almost went for Brazil until I saw the "all since 1996" part.
Yeah, the question is worded poorly. It turns out it's asking "Which country has won the most Olympic medals in football since 1996?" (USA) and not "Which country has won the most Olympic medals in football all time? (And all of them since 1996)" That question would actually nave no correct answer since Brazil has won the most all time but not just since 1996.
No, it isn't. You just aren't reading it correctly. It is in fact asking which country has won the most Olympic GOLD medals all-time, and the answer is the US. The women's team has five gold medals. All Brazil's teams combined have two, both won by the men's "Under 23" team since 2016. So you're wrong on all counts. The US has the most Olympic gold medals all-time in football. The US has the most Olympic gold medals in football since 1996. Both questions you posed have only one correct answer, and they're both the same answer.
6/10 with a score of 5,909. Clicked Dulcimer (albeit it was a 50/50 between that and Lute), never heard of 5 or 6, and am one of many who got fooled in 10.
not to be annoying, but it would be more correct to say that ALW is famous for writing scores for musicals or being a musical theater composer. "Writing songs for musicals" implies he contributes as one-offs, opposed to being responsible for the entire score.
Well, I'm a day late so no one will ever read this, but I can't believe the complaints about the place names. You have to recognize that they are literary references, not just random names. In only one case does the famous literary work refer to a place that really exists. Of course there are other, generally insignificant, places by those names. The state of Wisconsin alone has places by all three of the wrong answers.
Did you even consider for a moment that women also compete?
I guess that serves me right for not reading all of the answers beforeland
Loving that Andrew Lloyd Webber is a quantum physicist and surprised so few people knew the FT is on pink paper.
Quasimodo predicted all this
Unless you count East and West Germany combined. Then it is an 11-10 lead over Brazil...