Nothing wrong with the question, it's just funny how misguided people can be. I like how some questions force people to second-guess themselves and evaluate their biases.
I miss it too for some reason, perhaps because 70 is just a boring number.
If you don't take any featured quizzes for a while your score will eventually drop back down to a nice number I suppose. You have to really want it though...
Wow, 8% think Arabic is the most common language in Paris. I suspect that particular misapprehension is only the tip of an iceberg that is a profoundly misinformed worldview.
Or sometimes, you see something and you’re like "that’s very very unlikely, but could be a trap question and actually be true". I suspect those 8% are like that. Even with extreme right political point of view, I doubt anyone would say Arabic is more spoken than French ..
I’m more concerned about the question about cars, it just depends what you call central Paris, because Hidalgo is trying to remove cars more and more from central Paris.
I suspect plenty of those are people who either thought the question was about second languages, or just gave up or timed out before getting to the end.
Or they didn't read/think properly. I nearly clicked true. The most common is obviously French, so I just assumed subconsciously that the question was asking about foreign languages/that it said 2nd most common, before my conscious part kicked in and warned me to reread the question, slowly.
It's fascinating. Paris has been around in some form or another for around 2300 years. But, aside from an absolutely minuscule number of historically famous people, almost everyone who ever lived is completely forgotten by 3 generations after their death. But cemeteries and burial sites exist primarily for the peace of mind of people's children and grandchildren... and basically no one after that. I mean, consider... do you remember your great-grandparents? If so, certainly not your great-great-grandparents. And no one remembers their 10x great grandparents. So, when people were trying to bury their recently deceased relatives in the 1700s, they wanted to honor those people who they actually knew. They had little concern for people buried 8 or 10 or 12 centuries earlier, who no one even remotely remembered... and as a result the cemeteries were full, and quite literally overflowing, thus the removal of millions of centuries-old corpses from those overflowing centuries to the catacombs.
Only missed the tallest structure question - I thought some of the skyscrapers over in La Défense were taller. Apparently they're not, and they're also apparently not even in Paris.
Tour Montparnasse is the tallest building in Paris, Tour First in La Défense is the tallest in France/Paris metropolitan area, but both are way shorter than Eiffel Tower.
Tour Montparnasse is about two-thirds the height of the Eiffel Tower, but is on higher ground which makes it seem higher. The view from the top looks down at the Eiffel Tower.
That's an illusion due to distance. The tip of the Eiffel tower is the highest spot in Paris - higher than the top of the tour Montparnasse, and higher than the dome of the Sacré Coeur.
This was the only one I missed because I thought Montparnasse was higher than Eiffel Tower. Maybe it's just the perspective of the photos that make it seem bigger - after all, it is just a tall concrete thing in the middle of low buildings, while Eiffel Tower is more connected to the landscape
14/15 on my first go, and I recently found out I am part French so of course I absolutely loved this quiz (for regular readers, that is alongside the part Luxembourger that I also found out recently)
TIL that the fancy old building around the glass pyramid is the Louvre. I thought the Louvre was underground and you went down into it through the pyramid
My thought was that the glass pyramid definitely had to be more recent than Napoleon times, forgetting that the pyramid is surrounded by a much older structure lol
I am kinda happy and sad at the same time. Thanks to the quiz I went up a level, but sadly I am no longer on lever 69.
If you don't take any featured quizzes for a while your score will eventually drop back down to a nice number I suppose. You have to really want it though...
I’m more concerned about the question about cars, it just depends what you call central Paris, because Hidalgo is trying to remove cars more and more from central Paris.