I tried it, but before that I tried Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman... I guess I could've tried Lebanon too?
Surprised so many missed Foxconn. They're one of the largest employers in the world. Bigger than any other company on this list, in fact. And they are certainly in the news more often than Baidu, ING, or Jumex.
I mean: I've certainly heard of Foxconn. I know a bit about what they do and what they make. I have owned (and been aware of owning) several Foxconn products.
But until today I hadn't the foggiest clue they were Taiwanese. If you'd asked me I would have guessed they were American. I got the answer on this quiz mostly through guessing / process-of-elimination (a.k.a.: "What countries with big software and electronics manufacturing sectors don't already appear as other answers on this quiz?").
Knowing about Foxconn and knowing where they're based are two rather different things.
Nokia Corp is still headquartered in Finland and listed in the Helsinki stock exchange. They make telecommunications equipment used by teleoperators worldwide. The mobile phones business is being sold to Microsoft along with the rights to use the Nokia brand, but Nokia remains a Finnish company (although not the huge enterprise & consumer brand it once was).
I got Foxconn, but I always thought it was (mainland) Chinese. I remember it was all over the news, when they had to install safety netting around their facilities, because their employees kept killing themselves by jumping off windows in protest of bad working conditions and low salaries.
Baidu is notorious in my country, though. Their products might be good in China or other countries, but they are either not working or harmful for most computers in Thailand.
I missed 4. I feel stupid after not guessing Canada for Tim Hortons. I guessed USA, UK, Australia...and some other random english speaking countries but blanked on my northern neighbor. Also missed Jumex, Billabong and ING.
Shouldn't the quiz be "Countries by Company", because we're trying to name the former thing given examples of the latter thing? That's the system followed in ones like "Countries by Flag" or "US State by Capitals"? There's a few on Jetpunk that are confusing like this
That is not even true. Only the HQ of its civil aircraft branch is in Toulouse, listing the whole Airbus company as French is plainly wrong unfortunately.
But until today I hadn't the foggiest clue they were Taiwanese. If you'd asked me I would have guessed they were American. I got the answer on this quiz mostly through guessing / process-of-elimination (a.k.a.: "What countries with big software and electronics manufacturing sectors don't already appear as other answers on this quiz?").
Knowing about Foxconn and knowing where they're based are two rather different things.
For political reasons and all the intense, militaristic sabre rattling, that put Taiwan as about the last place in the world I expected it to be headquartered. I didn't even consider it and I'm still quite surprised by it.
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