Language Names in the Language

Got Japanese cos I learn Japanese. Guessed Korean from the Hang, which I assumed was Hangul script or language of Korean. Knew the rest. :) and got all of them and with 2:25 remaining :)

Can anyone explain why Cymru is pronounced Cumry? It looks like a typo that stuck...

That's just how Y and U are pronounced in Welsh.

It's a different language, but the same Latin script as English...

Script is the same, but the values of letters are different. Also, English has very weird letter values itself.

no cheating

In all seriousness.... it actually may have something to do with timing. I've noticed new quizzes tend to go up around 8 a.m. my time, just when I'm arriving at the office which is when I usually take the ones on the front page. At that point they are brand new and the only people who would have taken the quiz before are quiz junkies who go looking for stuff that has not been featured or people who are interested in the subject of that particular quiz and searched for it.

After any quiz has been on the front page for a few hours, though.. then lots of more casual jetpunk users including people who are not really interested in the subject of the quiz will end up taking it, and this probably does in fact bring down the average score.

Yep, cant agree more

yes, Yoshi. I've noticed that there are people from certain parts of the world that are never hesitant to prove certain negative stereotypes about themselves... make a sarcastic comment meant to point out such a stereotype and someone will pipe in soon enough to agree with it earnestly.

Some of us use the "recent user quizzes" part of the site which is where the new quizzes go up, before they get popular enough to be on the front page. In that part, you can just scroll down until you find a title that interests you. If you are a linguist, you would just pick language quizzes. So the language quizzes get lots of linguists taking them at first, which really boosts the stats. (This is the same for any type of quiz and its respective experts.) So by the time they reach the front page, they have very high stats on them, and the front-page-only users bring the scores down a little (since they are more casual quizzers). But since everyone here is interested in taking quizzes, most people have a higher than average general knowledge. So the percentages on these quizzes are (I would guess) about twice as high as what the average person would get. Hope this helps explain the stats to any new user.

User quizzes, when first created, do not grant points. User quizzes, once selected to be featured and given a star next to them, do. And there is usually a gap of several weeks or even months between when a quiz is selected to be featured and when it appears on the front page. This is my understanding, anyway.