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.
There's a theory that once AI becomes superintelligent, there will be so much surplus intelligence, that historians will write books about every single person alive today.
They will find all your photos, videos, social media posts and write entire theses about your life and what it meant.
So you won't in fact, be forgotten, in the same way as people from the past.
That actually sounds dystopian to me. Maybe you won't technically be forgotten, but you won't be more known either - at least not by humans. Nobody will be able to take in all that information. Honestly, how many books would you read about the drudgery of your ancestors lives? After you've read eight books about your great-grandparents, do you think you'd be full of enthusiasm for the sixteen that cover the next generation? What would they even say? Planting dates? Harvest yields? How long an illness lasted? Do you really think your life will be more interesting than that to your great-great-grandchildren?
It will mostly serve no purpose except to be exploited by those who have the power to do so. (Don't ask me how - I have no idea - but I'm confident that human nature will not improve sufficiently to avoid that outcome.)
And if your idea is that you won't have to read because AI will download it into your brain ... there's your dystopia. You're a machine now.
The reason we don't remember more than two generations back is that there's nothing there worth remembering. And that's fine. It's not sad, or bad. People's lives are mostly pretty boring as viewed from the outside. Our realms of influence in life are generally quite small. Two generations hence not much of what you have done with your life will matter to anyone in particular. But it matters very much to those who are with you now, in your family and community.
You seem to interpret Quizmaster's comment as positive. It isn't (wether he actually thinks it is or not), he just mentioned that theory without qualifications. Just like Cyclonus' original comment didn't have any negative connotations.
Fair enough, though I do think one can infer a certain fascination and sympathetic viewpoint when someone takes the time to point out such a thing. Anyway, my thoughts above apply, regardless of any prior value judgement.
Cemeteries are probably just as much about remembering dead relatives as they are about giving yourself some measure of comfort about your own mortality. When we keep graves of people long forgotten, we're not thinking about them - we're thinking about our own graves, and hoping they won't be torn down when we're forgotten. Maybe!
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
Paris mostly has a silent S but not always. When the following word starts with a vowel the S is pronounced as per French liaison. If the choice is True or False, the times when it is not silent means False must be correct. To say it is always silent is wrong.
While you might be correct in theory, I can't think of a single instance where the liaison with the S in Paris is made. De Gaulle didn't say "Paris zoutragé" !
Napoleon participated to build the Louvre. He finished the "Cour Carrée. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_du_Louvre#Napol%C3%A9on_Ier_et_le_palais_du_Louvre_:_continuation_du_Grand_Dessein
I got them all right, but the cars in the centre of Paris one is now starting to have a few asterisks since 1st January - you can only drive in Paris if you have a special type of car (Crit'Air 1 or 2), and you can only drive in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th arrondissements if you're a resident or have a special permit, eg you're a taxi or you're a registered delivery van. So they're kind of banned! Just not entirely!
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.
They will find all your photos, videos, social media posts and write entire theses about your life and what it meant.
So you won't in fact, be forgotten, in the same way as people from the past.
It will mostly serve no purpose except to be exploited by those who have the power to do so. (Don't ask me how - I have no idea - but I'm confident that human nature will not improve sufficiently to avoid that outcome.)
And if your idea is that you won't have to read because AI will download it into your brain ... there's your dystopia. You're a machine now.