Nice country :) Just surprised that the saint is already accepted after typing a few letters, where the protestant church options require all letters (thinking of the P one)
Why do so many of these country quizzes refer to HM Elizabeth II as 'technically' the head of state?
There's no need for the qualification - she very literally is the sovereign/monarch/head of state for 16 separate nation states and we recognise her as such.
Well of course it's true that there's a separate head of government, as there is in any constitutional monarchy. But that's not what "technically" implies - it implies that people might think someone else was head of state. No one who knew the country would think that - so it's misleading rather than helpful.
Technically implies that what is written in the rules and in theory is not what is practised in real life. She is technically the head of state but in practise she has barely any authority over the islands
I echo what others have said - there is nothing "technical" about who the head of state is. Adding a misleading word like that really detracts from the quiz.
I got millionaires, and it's in the quiz deliberately. Not everyone would do that but it makes sense given that if somebody types millionaires they obviously have the right idea and for the purposes of quizzing they're essentially the same thing. It would be really annoying to people who just typed millionaires otherwise as well.
Pretty sure it is because of the short scale and long scale. In other words what some you call a billion is what others call a milliard,10^9. And a billion in other languages still means 10^12 (which you would call a trillion)
The original sense of a billion is a million million (and not a thousand million), and it remained that way in most languages. They often use a form of milliard in those languages where the US uses billion. France was the one that shifted its meaning from a million million to a thousand million, that is where the US got it from, but France reverted back to the original meaning. The UK ended up adapting to the US usage relatively recently (mid 70s)
There's no need for the qualification - she very literally is the sovereign/monarch/head of state for 16 separate nation states and we recognise her as such.
The original sense of a billion is a million million (and not a thousand million), and it remained that way in most languages. They often use a form of milliard in those languages where the US uses billion. France was the one that shifted its meaning from a million million to a thousand million, that is where the US got it from, but France reverted back to the original meaning. The UK ended up adapting to the US usage relatively recently (mid 70s)