Or even, "What is the British name for the American name for the Sumerian board game known in England as draughts?" (How is that pronounced, BTW? As "drafts" or "drawts"?)
Is it possible to rephrase the Wooster question? In the UK, we call them butlers, not valets. I didn't have a clue what a valet was until the answer appeared afterwards. And it is a British series after all... :)
I don't think Jeeves was a 'butler' as such. I think 'valet' is more what his position was..... as in "'Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's gentleman's personal gentleman,' said Richard at his most pompous, straying dangerously where angels might fear to tread. 'A valet, not a butler.'
'But Bertie said Jeeves could buttle with the best of them.:.
Not according to "Downton Abbey". They are two different positions - although Mr. Carson, the butler, did sometimes graciously fill in as a valet. And it is a VERY British series... :)
A brit who thinks valets are the same as butlers? Who says "it's a British series after all" without knowing that they use the word valet IN the series?
It turns out that this kind of knowledge ISN'T because of a quiz being "too US-centric" or "too UK-centric" or any of that nonsense. Sometimes, it just so happens that people don't know certain things.
Incidentally, Jeeves was without any question whatsoever a valet, not a butler.
why is the answer that comes up to opposite to acid is "a base" when the answer is alkali? I typed alkali and it said yes but gives "a base".
Is this something USAmericans do in chemistry but not UK Britons? I shall have to go ask my incredibly talented nephew headed to do chemistry at Cambridge next academic year.
in modern haiku that is no longer the case. the japanese wrote vertically in a single line, and apart from that, some of the "syllables" are actually verbal puncuation as they were no commas, fullstops etc
it was just the early translators like Blyth that decided to put them in a form that readers recognised, ie a "verse", but many modern haijin
Quinine's efficacy in treating malarial fever led to its use in treating fevers of all kinds (although it wasn't generally effective against them). So the question might be improved by qualifying with "initially" or "primarily".
Quinine's history is actually pretty interesting, since it's really the first effective medicine in the treatment of any infectious disease
Just for accuracy, the key element to a haiku is not that it has 17 syllables, but that it has a "cutting word" at the end of one of the first two phrases. The "cutting word" (kireji) serves as a break or separation between (the) two thoughts/images/concepts in the haiku.
Simply arranging 17 syllables into 3 lines of 5/7/5 does not a (traditional) haiku make.
Also, there are poems that are considered to be haiku that are not 17 syllables... because they meet the criteria of separating two ideas with a kireji.
I recently attended a play, and while waiting to be joined by my wife and a guest of hers, I quietly took this quiz. Not being at all superstitious, I answered "Macbeth". Then my wife showed up, accompanied by my mother-in-law. I may have to rethink my position.
I don't know why i can remember Wallis Simpson, but not Edward VIII. I knew whoever it was had a high ordinal number, but i couldn't remember the name.
Although the public attribute the Lockerbie bombing to Libya, I read a book that says that it turns out that Syria militants were actually responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, not Libya.
'But Bertie said Jeeves could buttle with the best of them.:.
It turns out that this kind of knowledge ISN'T because of a quiz being "too US-centric" or "too UK-centric" or any of that nonsense. Sometimes, it just so happens that people don't know certain things.
Incidentally, Jeeves was without any question whatsoever a valet, not a butler.
Is this something USAmericans do in chemistry but not UK Britons? I shall have to go ask my incredibly talented nephew headed to do chemistry at Cambridge next academic year.
Oh, that wasn't a trick question. Moving on.
it was just the early translators like Blyth that decided to put them in a form that readers recognised, ie a "verse", but many modern haijin
maybe reword it to include" Traditionally"
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/rules-for-writing-haiku.html
Quinine's history is actually pretty interesting, since it's really the first effective medicine in the treatment of any infectious disease
Simply arranging 17 syllables into 3 lines of 5/7/5 does not a (traditional) haiku make.
Also, there are poems that are considered to be haiku that are not 17 syllables... because they meet the criteria of separating two ideas with a kireji.
English Monarchy ended in 1707 when the English and Scottish crowns joined to make the British crown