My son's college roommate was Muslim - they were football players, and he was getting sick while fasting during two-a-days. He was allowed to break his fast if he became ill, but there were things he had to do instead to make up for it. He also said old people, sick people, and pregnant women were allowed to break the fast if it put their health at risk, as long as they made up for it in other ways.
Wikipedia - While fasting from dawn until sunset, Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations. Muslims are also instructed to refrain from sinful behavior that may negate the reward of fasting, such as false speech (insulting, backbiting, cursing, lying, etc.) and fighting except in self-defense
Yeah I think the Ramadan question should accept type-ins. How about "drink", "smoke", and "sex"? (Those are my suggestions for type-ins, not an attempt to flirt.)
Because nobody ever calls it that? Accused traitors in Tudor times were taken to the Tower. They didn't go for a wee paddle along the Thames River to London Tower, passing under the Bridge of London. It's the River Thames, Tower of London, and London Bridge
2 most well known gulfs??? What kind of question is that? To Americans Gulf od Mexico and Persian gulf may be the only one they know but there are so many other to me more known than those two. Bengal gulf - the biggest gulf, Gulf of Guinea, etc. You just can't make a quiz with a question based solely on your personal knowledge.
The Gulf of Bengal is known to the vast majority of the English speaking world as the Bay of Bengal. Not that it's the end all of human knowledge but it's never referred to as a gulf in its Wikipedia article. I agree that it's not the best question but you lose a lot of credibility when you pull out the dumb 'mericans can't think of any other ones justification. Neither one is anywhere close to being in the bottom quarter of correctly guessed answers.
Not only Asians and Europeans, but those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, too - we count, damnit. :) And, tbh, Perisan Gulf is pretty well known, but most of us in Australia don't hear much at all about the Gulf of Mexico. My first guess was Persian, but then I tried Thailand (right next to us), Bothnia and then Guinea before I tried Mexico. It is all relative to perspective - for example, many here hear the word Gulf and think of the Gulf States, so immediately our minds go to the Middle East. Perhaps just change the wording of the question from 'well-known' to 'largest' or 'most guessed on Jetpunk'.
This site suffers from that problem too often. There are a lot of questions in quizzes that don't have factual answers? "What's the best-known/most famous/most popular" whatever. Seems an odd thing to do when questions can so easily be rephrased to have factual answers.
Exactly. It's not a matter of debating how extended the knowledge is or wether this or that gulf is more well known. It's that the question is highly subjective.
I also tried Bengal and Aden first. In analogy to just "Mexico", which worked for the Gulf of Mexico, I then tried "Persia", which did not work. Maybe make this an accepted answer?
No one seems to have mentioned the changes to the comments section so I guess I'll start the dialogue. Repeat after me...change is bad...change is bad...change is bad. But seriously, it makes it harder to read when every other entry is shaded. Perhaps if an original comment is shaded and then the replies are not? Everything just seems to run together and it's harder to tell where one topic ends and another begins. And what is up with all the hearts? I feel like I'm reading a ten year old girl's diary. Anyone else?
Yeah, I agree the shading is a little weird. Probably takes some getting used to.
And it looks like the hearts represent liking a comment. Turns out you can like your own comment by default and the only way to unlike it is if you delete the comment...
It's the +(whatever) next to your name. When you add a comment, it gets liked by default, so you should see a +1 at first, and if people like your comment, that number increases.
At the moment, I have no idea if you get notified whenever someone likes one of your comments, probably because no one's liked one of my comments...
p.s. We are working on JetPunk Pro, which will be a paid, ad-free version of the site. Besides no ads, the one feature we will likely include in version 1 is comment notifications.
Thank you for getting rid of the shading, that just hurt my eyes. And now that I know that the hearts serve a purpose, and not just the Quizmaster trying to be adorable, they look just fine. It will be nice to be able to like a comment. Will users get a prize for the most-liked comment? For instance, 100 likes gets the user an automatic upgrade to the next level! I'd also like to see a dislike button where 20 dislikes gets the commenter kicked off the site. That would really help to eliminate the creeps and the trolls. By the way, I love how Quizmaster is level infinity! Now I have a real goal....
Any chance of a feature where I can go back and find all my old comments? I forget where I've commented half the time. It would be nice if they were all listed under my profile or something.
This quiz was somewhat lackluster, in my opinion, and this is coming from someone who got 20/20.
The Ramadan question is missing a number of correct answer options.
The gulfs question is completely subjective and non-factual. The Kyoto question could also be strengthened by having the clue be a little more factual.
I think that there should be more type-ins for mahjong including majiang which is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin name.
In an otherwise excellent quiz, I must respectfully opine that asking what the most well-known/most famous/most popular Xs are is extremely subjective. The most well-known gulfs in the ocean? Here in Australia, it's probably Carpentaria. For me, Aden came up next.
May I suggest that next time these questions are qualified. For example: Based purely on album sales, who was the most popular solo artist of the 1980s?...According to , who is the most famous movie star from the silent era?
There's no way the Gulf of Carpentaria is more well-known, internationally, than the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Mexico. In Australia it might be better-known than the latter, but even there I doubt it's better known than the former. The Persian Gulf is so well-known it is often called just "the Gulf"... though part of that has to do with a political dispute between Arabs and Persians over what to call it.
Lengthy qualifications in clues make the clues wordy, long, and cumbersome, making the quiz uglier and harder to take as there is more reading. In this case I'm sure it's safe to assume that "most well-known" can be interpreted to mean something like "gets the most hits on Google when searching in Incognito mode"... or "is guessed the most by users of JetPunk on the quiz about Gulfs and Seas"... either qualification is fine; doesn't need to be spelled out. I'm sure the criteria isn't "most well-known to Australians"
Similarly, I think if I saw a question "most popular solo artist of the 80s?", it would be a safe inference to make that this was based on album sales. The most famous movie star thing is more subjective, but in that case the clarification would probably go better in the quiz's caveats or directions rather than in the clue itself.
Coming from a fishing town in the UK, I have never heard of a woman who sells fish being called anything but a fishmonger. The only reference I have heard regarding fishwife is of a loud and course woman
"What are the two most well-known gulfs in the ocean?" is an extremely poor question. It's essentially asking people to guess what the quizmaster is thinking.
I've fasted on water and alfalfa tablets for seven days.l After the first three days, you get used to it.
Of course in the north it can also mean very short days in winter and then that is much easier.
You also have to remember it is for a whole month.
It really does mean NO WATER so in hot countries that is something to watch and pace your daily work to.
For those who practise fasting that is 'easy' but it isn't always even for the fit.
b) sorry if it's not impressive enough! But go through hot days without any fluids and then let's see.
c) at far northern latitudes, people are generally able to follow a more manageable schedule.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/134157/gulfs-and-bays-on-the-world-map
And it looks like the hearts represent liking a comment. Turns out you can like your own comment by default and the only way to unlike it is if you delete the comment...
At the moment, I have no idea if you get notified whenever someone likes one of your comments, probably because no one's liked one of my comments...
The Ramadan question is missing a number of correct answer options.
The gulfs question is completely subjective and non-factual. The Kyoto question could also be strengthened by having the clue be a little more factual.
I think that there should be more type-ins for mahjong including majiang which is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin name.
The question selection was hardly balanced.
May I suggest that next time these questions are qualified. For example: Based purely on album sales, who was the most popular solo artist of the 1980s?...According to , who is the most famous movie star from the silent era?
Lengthy qualifications in clues make the clues wordy, long, and cumbersome, making the quiz uglier and harder to take as there is more reading. In this case I'm sure it's safe to assume that "most well-known" can be interpreted to mean something like "gets the most hits on Google when searching in Incognito mode"... or "is guessed the most by users of JetPunk on the quiz about Gulfs and Seas"... either qualification is fine; doesn't need to be spelled out. I'm sure the criteria isn't "most well-known to Australians"