Why nichster? I don't understand that myself. Don't you just live with the points you get first time? Doesn't that feel like cheating? Oh well, each to their own I guess
I often repeat the quizzes until I feel I know the material well. It's my understanding that only the first score counts toward the stats, so why would it be cheating to take the quizzes again?
Same here in regards to taking the quiz more than once. Points are nice, but the real reason is that I want to impress my friends during Jeopardy! Lol, and I like to know this stuff too.
@luxint so if you failed your driving exam the first time, when you take it again you are cheating?
That would mean many/most people would have to have their driving licences revoked. (I think atleast half dont pass for the first time. Both the actual driving test and the theory exam are under 50 %. So truly getting it in 1 go (which requires you to pass both) is even lower (theoretically as low as zero if the ones that fail the road test pass the theory and vice versa ;) but that is not the case obviously)
@luxint We come here to learn things instead of pressure ourselves like an exam. We just wanna learn something new and revise it, so that's clearly no cheating here.
So, at the same time, you turn a year older, but also only a day older OR a day younger, or you only turn maybe a few minutes/hours older based on how long it took to get across the date line... or our perception of time is way off
Kosovo is recognized by more than 100 countries, although you're right Taiwan has much more limited recognition mostly because of China's size and power. Palestine's lack of recognition also probably related to Israel's power and influence
Kenya was the only one I remembered ;D. But I'm Finnish so most of the countries that I remembered are starting with c in English but in Finnish they are starting with k.
Kosovo is its own country, but JetPunk comment forums aren't the place to debate. Take your argument to a Reddit thread or Twitter please, and preserve the purity of this site
The average score was 5, eh? BS. So many of these quizzes have high averages. People, you're only cheating yourselves when you get the answer via google on another tab while the clock is running. By the way, I got four.
Interesting that there are pages full of debate about Palestine (which is an observer member to the UN), but hardly anyone even blinks for Kosovo (recognized by less countries, not even observer to the UN), Taiwan (only recognized by a handful, no member of the UN) or even the Vatican (also observer member of the UN, but recognized by many). I do understand the sentiment, but some of the argumentation is very inconsistent. Why can't the answer be "JetPunk simply accepts those countries recognized by the USA", which in practice is how this site functions. This would end any debate on whether or not an entity is a country according to anyone's own interpretation.
#1 and most importantly, Mufti Amin al-Husseini was very successful in transforming his own personal political and territorial ambitions into a pan-Arabic and pan-Islamic cause; the racial/religious turf war of a million people became the central focus uniting and defining over a billion people worldwide, and those billion+ people have done a good job of transforming their partisan support of their racial/religious brothers into a cause du jour popular with billions more who do not share their ethnic or religious affiliations.
Serbia has had no such figure and has found no such success in popularizing their own partisan narrative. The only people that care about Serbia or Kosovo are the 11 million people living in Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania.
#2- Kosovo actually is a fully sovereign entity in control of its own borders and contiguous territory with a unified centralized undisputed functioning government. Palestine is not.
As to your second point... the arguments people make in the comments section and the position that JetPunk takes are not necessarily related. (once in a while Quizmaster will adopt a certain stance simply to avoid angry comments- I've seen him do that a number of times before) But Dan tries his best to adhere to reality and leave politics aside. It's not only about who the United States recognizes. If it were, then Taiwan would not be included on the countries of the world quiz. The USA has not formally recognized Taiwan since 1979.
Thoroughly well-crafted, evidence-based, and formal arguments on both sides. I take no stance on the issue, but I must say it is refreshing to read arguments online that aren't just idiocy and insults being hurled at one another. This was truly informative and entertaining to read.
That should be obvious since one of them starts with "N" and the other starts with "S." And if you say that North Korea and South Korea aren't the official names, well "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and "Republic of Korea" don't start with "K" either.
Korea is either North Korea or South Korea those are in "N" country or "S" country quizzes. Kurdistan is a region not a country. Congo would be in the "C" country quizzes.
Finally got one of these! All done with 1:44 remaining at 6:44:30 PM on March 27, 2019. Just knowing the "-stan" countries gets you one third of these.
There's no perfect way to decide what are countries and what aren't. Full recognition is too high a bar and would remove places such as Israel, China and both Koreas.
As an American, who by the way loves everything relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I do see Kosovo as independent, my apologies Serbia. Please refrain from suing me.
That would mean many/most people would have to have their driving licences revoked. (I think atleast half dont pass for the first time. Both the actual driving test and the theory exam are under 50 %. So truly getting it in 1 go (which requires you to pass both) is even lower (theoretically as low as zero if the ones that fail the road test pass the theory and vice versa ;) but that is not the case obviously)
Only just remembered Kuwait though
i was stuck on kuwait..
i think its 53%
I'm not here to debate, but jetpunk considers it a country, so ya can't really change that.
I kicked myself when I saw!
#1 and most importantly, Mufti Amin al-Husseini was very successful in transforming his own personal political and territorial ambitions into a pan-Arabic and pan-Islamic cause; the racial/religious turf war of a million people became the central focus uniting and defining over a billion people worldwide, and those billion+ people have done a good job of transforming their partisan support of their racial/religious brothers into a cause du jour popular with billions more who do not share their ethnic or religious affiliations.
Serbia has had no such figure and has found no such success in popularizing their own partisan narrative. The only people that care about Serbia or Kosovo are the 11 million people living in Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania.
#2- Kosovo actually is a fully sovereign entity in control of its own borders and contiguous territory with a unified centralized undisputed functioning government. Palestine is not.
Kudos to you both!
I never heard of a country called "Kiribati" to be honest with you.
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haha brilliant