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I do. And the Magna Carta in 1215, and all of Henry VIII's wives, Richard the Lion-hearted and Saladin, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, where the Beatles began - all the important stuff.

Ammo: pretty much all of them. Though some might forget after 9th grade history class.

I wouldn't say it's totally irrelevant, but yes, outside the USA, you don't learn that at school, so you have to be interested in the 18th century's history to know such things. I have heard about Valley Forge in some TV programs (and maybe in Age of Empires III ?) but that's all.

Not many very cold winters in Florida, right?

We know you had a civil war. We know who George Washington was. No, we don't know the battles of your civil war (well regularly), we might have heard of Gettysburg, that's it. - I don't expect you to know that we had a civil war too, but I do expect you to know we exist. And that we are independent. And perhaps if you feel very knowledgeable to know about the Winter War. But you will be excused if you don't.

@kdc4: And you do realize how long the US has been important compared to to the history of the world is pretty small right? The US hasn't been important for very long, just saying.

@sillie Where are you from? Finland?

Sillie, you are confusing the civil war and the independance war...

Arp: oh so I am! Thank you. See? - And yes, I am from Finland. I also regularly confuse the West Coast of the US with the East Coast of the US seeing it's all west from here.

I've never heard of it. But hey, Germans have enough other battles to know about.

Americans should be glad. Do you know anything about the founding of Russia? China? India? Japan? Indonesia? Nigeria? The U.K, France, Spain, Brazil, Canada, or Mexico? That's what I thought.

Aesthus please speak for yourself.

Well, given that the majority of Jetpunkers are from the US, it actually is pretty sad.

classic non-American inferiority complex.

QM does a great job with the type-ins and I think that, when possible, native language spellings should work, but there is some inconsistency here when Italian and German spellings for city names often work but... for example... except on my quizzes the Russian spellings of the names of tsars never work. I'm not saying we should move back from accepting Italian spellings as diva suggests, but cut QM some slack it's not necessarily favoritism he does what he can.

And 北京 should be accepted for capital of China.