So? there are a lot of words, some old some new, some still in use. I didn't stand out for me untill blizzard mention it, but I agree.
You could put 1+2 in a quiz and then say yes well they was a mathematician born in this country.
Just because words exists and a person that was born in that country used words is not a reason to put it on a quiz. Not even if that someone had a way with words and invented many himself. (And to be clear forsooth is not one of those words)
That said I don't mínd it being there, but if there was a question which of these might not belong on this quiz, the vocabulary one would be the answer ;)
Yeah, I don't think it really belongs here. Other than the fact that the English language is from Britain, there's nothing that particularly links this word to the subject of British history, anymore than asking a calculus question on the grounds a British person was a principal figure in its development.
Just so you know the answers are in a different order each time, so 'the second answer' isn't very helpful :)
the codebreakers were definitely deserving as well, I don't know anything about the battle of waterloo so I can't say whether they were also deserving.
Well the Battle of Waterloo only involved a small number of British (most of Wellington's army was German and Dutch, to make no mention of Blucher's Prussians), about 31,000. At the time Britain's population was around 19 million. Around 10,000 worked at Bletchley Park during WWII, and the UK's population was about 48 million. During the Battle of Britain, around 2,950 pilots and other aircraft crew were involved. Which gives us 0.163% of the population at Waterloo, 0.021% at Bletchley Park, and 0.006% in the Battle of Britain. I'd say, of these examples, Churchill's words should indeed apply to the Battle of Brtain - as they in fact did.
Especially since, arguably, the RAF during the Battle of Britain had a more consequential impact than the codebreakers at Bletchley Park did. Obviously this is debatable but anyway
Churchill would never have made a speech about the codebreakers of Bletchley Park because it was a tightly-kept state secret. It wasn't until the last 1970s (i.e. a decade after Churchill's death) that it became public knowledge.
Minor point: I would change the question to "The Black Death had a major effect ....". True/false questions can be confusing when the statement is a negation.
Easy one for me. The oil lamp is a symbol of the nursing profession. When my husband was in nursing school, during their pinning ceremony at graduation each classmate was given a ceramic replica of Nightingale's oil lamp. Someone had the good sense at some point to replace them with penlights - much less chance of dripping oil on sleeping patients. :)
First attempt, only had the forsooth question wrong. It ended up the one I thought i might mean, but i guessed the one i felt a bit more sure about. pretty pleased for a first attempt. :) (i'm not British by the way, just for context).
I never knew Nightingale was British. I assumed she was American because we learned about her in primary school. Not that she isn't worthy of repute, but it's odd to me that American history books (or at least mine) plucked her among so many other British people whom we never learn about. Usually it's just kings, government leaders, and military leaders.
Just a little point, although it wouldn’t make any difference to how you’d answer the question, but might be of interest to someone: The poppy’s origins as a symbol of remembrance certainly are in the First World War. It’s said that the fields of Flanders bloomed with millions of poppies after the war was over - sounds daft, but the finale of Blackadder represents this in a surprisingly heartfelt and poignant way. However, it is now taken as a symbol of remembrance for ALL wars including and since the First World War, whether that’s WWII, the Falklands, Gulf, Afghanistan etc. and we are very, very serious about how we honour and remember our war dead. I happen to think that it’s one of our remaining uniting qualities: we can be very vocal and demonstrative in opposition to war, or other overseas actions, but nonetheless uphold our traditions of remembrance and respect to the fallen, recognising the line between politics and duty -something you’ll find very little disagreement on here.
Poppies are worn throughout the british commonwealth. In Australia and New Zealand on ANZAC Day (25 April) which serves as their remembrance day being the anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli. In both those countries that date was very formative in their sense of nationhood. the day is a national holiday and is widely observed even over 100 years later with people turning out to observance ceremonies in their tens of thousands.
Other countries to adopt the poppy include USA and Ukraine.
You could put 1+2 in a quiz and then say yes well they was a mathematician born in this country.
Just because words exists and a person that was born in that country used words is not a reason to put it on a quiz. Not even if that someone had a way with words and invented many himself. (And to be clear forsooth is not one of those words)
That said I don't mínd it being there, but if there was a question which of these might not belong on this quiz, the vocabulary one would be the answer ;)
the codebreakers were definitely deserving as well, I don't know anything about the battle of waterloo so I can't say whether they were also deserving.
Other countries to adopt the poppy include USA and Ukraine.