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Demonyms Quiz

A demonym is a term that refers to a person from a specific place. For example, a person from Mexico is a Mexican. Can you guess these other demonyms?
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First submittedJune 27, 2011
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a person from
is called ...
the United States
an American
the Netherlands
Dutch
Venice
a Venetian
Texas
a Texan
Philippines
a Filipino
Canada
a Canadian
Canada (slang)
a Canuck
Flanders
Flemish
Peru
a Peruvian
Indiana
a Hoosier
Paris
a Parisian
a person from
is called ...
Rome
a Roman
Moscow
a Muscovite
Troy
a Trojan
Iraq
an Iraqi
Spain
a Spaniard
Switzerland
Swiss
Berlin
a Berliner
Denmark
a Dane
Genoa
Genoese
Brittany
a Breton
Poland
a Pole
a person from
is called ...
London
a Londoner
New Zealand (slang)
a Kiwi
Liverpool
a Liverpudlian
Liverpool (slang)
a Scouser
Birmingham (slang)
a Brummie
Wales
Welsh
Los Angeles
an Angeleno
Cyprus
a Cypriot
Phoenix
a Phoenician
Naples
a Neapolitan
Michigan's UP
a Yooper
bingoseventeen
+9
Level 5
Jul 12, 2011
you don’t call a person from the netherlands a ‘dutch’ they speak dutch, but i speak english and i am an american not a ‘english’

they don’t really have anything they are called.

kalbahamut
+42
Level 83
Apr 24, 2014
You could call a person from the Netherlands a Dutchman.
Arp2600
+22
Level 85
Apr 24, 2014
or a Dutchwoman ^^.
thecoolestdude2
+37
Level 68
Jul 7, 2014
He would be the Flying Dutchman.
kalbahamut
+9
Level 83
May 7, 2016
And if he was a frycook?
halpie
+29
Level 77
Mar 13, 2018
the Frying Dutchman!
euphonial
+5
Level 44
Dec 11, 2020
That's gold, Jerry. Gold.
IsraelArthur
+3
Level 51
Dec 11, 2020
A Dutch Oven?
Eliaswalto
+3
Level 64
Aug 1, 2023
The answer doesn't have 'a' before it
GeographyGeek42
+15
Level 66
Apr 14, 2018
My 1st guess was Nederlander.
divantilya
+15
Level 37
May 29, 2018
Before political correctness set in, they were called "Dutchmen." - If there is no current designation, I guess it's because the politically correct police can't come up with an acceptable one. (Dutch man/ woman would engender the argument, "a dutch girl isn't a woman").

"Nederlander" is gender-neutral and, therefore, correct but is seldom used.

Olober
+36
Level 57
Feb 18, 2019
Gender neutrality is not the dilemmatic inconvenience that people who are fed up with "political correctness" perceive and make it out to be. We're intelligent enough to send people to space but not to avoid gendering everything? There's a very simple way to refer to a person from the netherlands in english and that's "dutch person"
idfx
+9
Level 26
Feb 18, 2019
These things have nothing to do with policing and everything with respect and consideration for others. Well, in fact that's what policing is about too for the most part, come to think of it.
Quizmaster
+23
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2019
To some extent, political correctness is about being polite. But the complicated rules for PC terms are also used to exert power over cultural outgroups. It's very difficult to keep up with the currently acceptable terms. People are ostracized and shamed for using "incorrect" terminology, even if it wasn't intended in a negative way.
FedericoGuzman
+4
Level 72
Dec 14, 2020
The rules are really not complicated. You just have to pay attention.
evilcheeser
+5
Level 72
Aug 1, 2023
Are you really just responding to that by claiming that anyone who uses incorrect terminology is just "not paying attention" to something which is "really not complicated" and therefore are shaming them...?

I mean way to prove QM right I guess??

Froststar101
+1
Level 74
Aug 6, 2023
booo
Sifhraven
+8
Level 65
Mar 27, 2020
That is why there is no "a" in front of the answer line ... doesnt mean there is no demonym, just a different construction.
Baalhammon
+5
Level 65
Jun 19, 2020
Yes, you do. If someone were dutch and wanted to inform others of this fact, they would say "I'm dutch". A substantive demonym just doesn't exist for them but that's fine. You can also go for "dutch person" if that's your cup of tea.
hirsutebodkin
+7
Level 58
Dec 11, 2020
Someone from the Netherlands is Dutch and they speak dutch, in the same way that someone from England is English and they speak english. Not sure what your problem is?
bitterblue
+2
Level 57
Jan 8, 2023
Yes you do, just because the word is also the name of the language they speak does not mean does not mean it isn't a demonym. For example, French people are from France but may also speak French, and to use your own example people from England are English and often speak English. There are tons of crossovers like this, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish, Somali, etc.
Slim316
+5
Level 55
Jul 29, 2011
@bingoseventeen... They are called the Dutch... or Dutch people... just like people from Switzerland speak Swiss and are known as the Swiss or Swiss people... The French speak French... The Japanese speak Japanese... (Some of) The Irish speak Irish... I wonder what you would call the Dutch? A Netherlander? A Hollandaise perhaps??
CorkSpork
+5
Level 72
Feb 8, 2013
Well, it's Swiss German and Swiss Italian and Swiss French. Also, in case you ever see this, Slim316, your sauce joke was not los ton me.
bogomir
+3
Level 47
Apr 24, 2014
Actually, there is a Swiss French and a Swiss Italian. Although Swiss French is almost extinct and Swiss Italian is rarely used outside of family and friends.

And the Swiss German isn't that different from each other.

bostjan
+2
Level 72
Dec 17, 2020
I speak German, and I cannot understand Swiss German on even a rudimentary level. Luckily, almost all Swiss people can understand me, though.
jruland
+12
Level 38
Sep 3, 2014
Hollandaise... You're killing me!
tom88
+4
Level 71
Apr 7, 2016
For some reason I'm hungry now
Ampo
+6
Level 43
Mar 31, 2018
That logic doesnt always work... Indians dont speak "Indian" lol
leviOsa
+6
Level 37
May 15, 2018
SOMEONE FINALLY KNOWS
wiifly
+4
Level 59
Dec 11, 2020
His point is that people *can* have the same denonym as their language, not that they always will, I mean Americans don't speak American.
Neodymium
+3
Level 58
May 31, 2023
You're in America, speak American!
stone222
+2
Level 48
Oct 10, 2018
that's a bit saucy....
akela
+6
Level 35
Feb 18, 2019
Swissmen or Swisswomen speak Swiss? hahhahhahaha no, they speak German, Italian, or French
DenAm
+17
Level 64
Feb 22, 2020
Poor Romansh
NancyStStacy
+10
Level 50
Dec 11, 2020
#justiceforromansh
wiifly
+2
Level 59
Dec 11, 2020
Or Romansh
Ithabise
+4
Level 28
Aug 26, 2011
If it wasn't the obvious I missed, it was the weirdness that couldn't be gotten. Liverpudlian--really? Who knows this stuff but ultimate nerds?
scafellpike1
+34
Level 20
Aug 10, 2013
Nearly everyone in Britain knows a liverpudlian when they see one
Arron321
+9
Level 27
Apr 24, 2014
if someone is speaking, what you believe to be english and have no idea what they are saying they are from liverpool
beetboy12
+1
Level 37
Aug 7, 2014
So true!
IsleAuHaulte
+7
Level 88
Jun 24, 2018
A lot of Liverpudlians in the southern USA.
TwoWheels
+3
Level 58
Feb 18, 2019
Or they're Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Yorkshire or pretty much anywhere except London
ander217
+2
Level 75
Dec 11, 2020
Couldn't you also say Scot instead of Scottish? My grandmother told me her grandparents who came to the US from Ireland were Scots Irish. Or are we talking about two different things?
evilcheeser
+2
Level 72
Aug 1, 2023
Scots-Irish are not Scottish. Those are indeed two different things. (Although not *that* different..)

But yes you could call a Scottish person a Scot.

NancyStStacy
+3
Level 50
Dec 11, 2020
Right. A lot of Brummie's live in Alabama.
kalbahamut
+7
Level 83
May 7, 2016
Sounds like some strange type of person encountered by Gulliver in his travels.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 65
Apr 22, 2019
Guess Im a nerd. I have not learned it ( in an active matter, obvously I have retained it) nor looked it up. It is something you hear at one point in your life and is kind of out of the ordinary that it sticks (better than other things, though ofcourse the more likely things are often remembered aswell like canadian. But in those cases more often than not, through exposure/ repetition)
catie09
+4
Level 82
Dec 11, 2020
Ultimate nerds, the Jetpunk demographic.
fitheach
+5
Level 59
Dec 12, 2020
Ever heard of the Beatles?
Kahikatea
+4
Level 76
Jan 8, 2023
surely it's more well-known than 'hoosier' or 'yooper'
oscarsmom
+9
Level 23
Sep 15, 2011
Ithabise - Every Beatles fan knows that they're called Liverpudlians! :-)
Yeeee123
+1
Level 41
May 27, 2019
Ikr
theLAYTshow
+6
Level 37
Nov 7, 2011
We have a Newcastle in Australia as well, and those dudes are called Novocastrians, though I'm not entirely certain that's the correct spelling
Malbaby
+5
Level 71
Nov 24, 2014
Someone from Newcastle England are called geordies' (why'I man)
OfficerDibble
+1
Level 80
Sep 14, 2021
That's 'why aye, man'
Nobody
+2
Level 16
May 11, 2012
Only got flemish 'cause my aunt's family is from Flanders
Antoniomartin
+2
Level 46
Jan 2, 2021
Thanks to Jean Pierre Coopman, I tried to answer "Lions" in Flanders..lol
paula05
+1
Level 35
Jan 5, 2013
28/33. not bad
kalbahamut
+15
Level 83
Jan 15, 2013
Isn't "Genovese" the adjective and "Genoan" is the noun? I tried "Liverpooligan" because I had no idea what the real answer was. I think I like Liverpooligan better than Scouser.
Newroadgirl
+9
Level 68
Oct 26, 2020
Do you realise how witty that suggestion is?
Skymatone
+1
Level 59
Apr 1, 2013
Essentially, these are Demonyms, both recognized & unofficial
thecoolestdude2
+17
Level 68
Sep 25, 2013
It would be cool if someone from Naples was a "Napoleon".
brandybuck96
+8
Level 82
Jun 18, 2015
I genuinely put that by accident because my brain was all stuffy.
Malbaby
+12
Level 71
Feb 21, 2016
Stay off the brandy Buck.
ponnuki
+1
Level 58
Jan 12, 2014
Could I have "Troian" added as an alternative for "Trojan"?
Uncle2fire
+2
Level 56
Apr 20, 2014
The adjective for Genoa is Genoese, not Genovese. I think you're confusing it with Genevese, the adjective for Geneva.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Apr 21, 2014
Fixed!
JohnK
+1
Level 69
Dec 24, 2021
Glad to see that you also still accept Genovese, as it's also correct.
mikeb
+2
Level 66
Apr 24, 2014
Or Vito, the old Mafia Don.
travelfan
+3
Level 68
Apr 24, 2014
Got "Breton" thanks to remembering what the name was in French - Bretagne and Bretons. Stroke of luck that it was the same.
RabidPony
+2
Level 39
Nov 4, 2016
I grew up there but somehow I read that as Great Britain and didn't even get it right :(
BobSaget
+10
Level 79
Apr 24, 2014
Two small points: A Filipino refers to a male from the Philippines; a woman is called a Filipina.

Second, I always thought people from Paris were called Parisites.

kalbahamut
+7
Level 83
Apr 24, 2014
Filipino can be men or women. Filipinas are just women. Standard gender bias in the Spanish language.
Arp2600
+2
Level 85
Apr 24, 2014
It is Parisian. Anything else would be stupid since we all say "parisien" in French...
Malbaby
+14
Level 71
Aug 16, 2015
Collect the bag marked (Sense of Humour) on your way out.
Supertramp
+2
Level 48
Nov 4, 2016
hahaha +2 Mal
dasubergeek
+1
Level 73
Nov 4, 2016
So not "Parigot" then?
smartcookie17
+1
Level 45
Jul 20, 2014
You do realize what Parisites sounds like, right?
DeusCaritasEst
+14
Level 55
Nov 4, 2016
I think that was the joke.
Yeeee123
+1
Level 41
May 27, 2019
You : Oh look there's a PARASITE!
postwaste
+3
Level 84
Apr 25, 2014
So not Jelly Doughnut?
HectorVortac
+10
Level 48
Nov 4, 2016
Ich bin eine Jelly Doughnut!
fitheach
+6
Level 59
Jun 7, 2017
Urban myth
LarryLovage
+2
Level 55
Aug 6, 2014
What a great quiz! As a British person I knew the funny little British city ones, as a half Italian I knew Genovese (and thanks for accepting that) and as a lifelong student of the USA I got the rest. (I did have to look up the Michigan UP answer, but having already read about that place I did know it was something like Yoo-Pee-er..
Ssssss
+3
Level 70
Feb 18, 2019
I know certain people in the US love to say 'British' as shorthand for anything/anyone from anywhere in Great Britain or the UK, but these are all English cities so 'British city' sounds a bit odd.
QuizWol
+4
Level 59
May 5, 2019
England is British therefore it is not odd, at all.
wiifly
+2
Level 59
Dec 11, 2020
Well England isn't neccesarily Britain, England is *part* of Britain, Britain is the Island, England is the Constituent Country of the UK, the UK is Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man (which is part of the British Isles along with Ireland(i) and Britain), Guernsey, and Jersey.

I think This Venn Diagram explains it best

beetboy12
+1
Level 37
Aug 7, 2014
If you go to Purdue, Notre Dame or Butler you're not still a Hoosier, are you?
beams
+1
Level 28
Aug 1, 2023
You are!
Miqueas
+3
Level 69
Sep 21, 2014
aren't people from Spain called Spanish?? In Spanish we have the same word! (Español)
HectorVortac
+4
Level 48
Nov 4, 2016
The clue includes "a" before the answer. If you are 'Spanish' you are 'a Spaniard'.
Supertramp
+4
Level 48
Nov 4, 2016
A Spanish guy or a Spaniard, a Polish guy or a Pole, a Danish guy or a Dane, a British guy or a Brit.
Roger77024
+5
Level 57
Jun 5, 2017
Supertramp - it's really Briton - Brit is shorthand.
pitzikat
+5
Level 74
Oct 20, 2014
I kind of knew it was a yooper, but couldn't get the spelling right, kept trying combinations with a U.

No clue for those English nicknames.

Kestrana
+7
Level 60
Nov 4, 2016
Yeah more spellings would be appreciated. I tried Yoper, Yuper, Yewper, Yupper, Eweper, Youper, Uper...
SRckt98
+3
Level 64
Feb 24, 2020
Yeah, tried everything except double o as well.
MLR824
+1
Level 72
Mar 29, 2022
For sure need more spellings
Sifhraven
+1
Level 65
Dec 12, 2019
I tried muppet... (first upper, then m-upper then muppet.. sounded plausible)
SpeedyCar
+1
Level 12
Nov 23, 2014
Only got Trojan cause i red a story about troy recently
DeusCaritasEst
+3
Level 55
Nov 4, 2016
Was it about the Trojan horse, by any chance?
DrIlluminati123
+1
Level 33
Feb 20, 2018
Trojan isn't a good name for someone from troy because it means the same as a computer virus.
DapperAlpaca
+10
Level 43
Apr 13, 2018
You do realize that the virus name comes from the city, right? It's called a Trojan virus because of the Trojan Horse story.
eaglesfan6
+5
Level 55
Feb 18, 2019
OHHHH!!! I always figured the actual Trojan Horse was named after the computer virus...
Sifhraven
+5
Level 65
Dec 11, 2020
No the horse was named after the condoms
QuizPUNK130
+2
Level 17
Dec 6, 2014
You had yooper for UP why not troll for LP? lol
QuizPUNK130
+2
Level 17
Dec 6, 2014
under the bridge (mackinaw) a troll lives under the bridge.
DooBeat21
+1
Level 20
Jan 16, 2015
anybody else got every one right? cause i did...not bragging or anything. Just saying! :)
cariad
+2
Level 42
May 31, 2015
I did.
jones30000
+3
Level 15
Feb 1, 2015
O live in MI, but I've never heard the term "yooper"
annoyingsquirrel
+1
Level 29
Mar 7, 2015
Can you accept spouse for liverpool(slang)
cariad
+1
Level 42
May 31, 2015
Lol!!
ianb23ss
+5
Level 24
Mar 12, 2015
Scouse is a stew type dish, originally 'Labskause' brought to liverpool by sailors, renamed Lobscouse and subsequently shortened to Scouse.

Scouser was originally the name given to people who ate the dish which later expanded to all Liverpudlians.

I've also heard it called Lobby as well, but the may just be a regional variation

Southie
+2
Level 66
Apr 10, 2015
Is it bad that I live in Michigan and have never heard anyone referred to as a Yooper?
kiwiquizzer
+3
Level 68
Aug 7, 2016
Well, I'd never heard of Yooper. But then, I live in New Zealand.
Soulmancer08
+4
Level 65
Nov 4, 2016
Yeah, it's kind of bad.
ponnuki
+2
Level 58
Aug 25, 2015
Can I have 'Moscovite' and/or 'Moscovian' for 'Muscovite'?
WanderingWalrus
+1
Level 78
Feb 28, 2016
Can you add 'Belgian' for Flanders?
samiamco
+6
Level 69
May 30, 2016
Aren't there non-Flemish Belgians? (Sorry; I'm American and do not know these things automagically.)
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
May 21, 2017
There are.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 83
Feb 18, 2019
Also, was "automagically" a typo?
ander217
+7
Level 75
Dec 11, 2020
Whether it was or not, I like the word and I am adding it to my vocab.
Kestrana
+3
Level 60
Nov 4, 2016
That would defeat the point of asking about the people who live in the specific region, now wouldn't it?
Elan
+5
Level 65
May 16, 2016
For Los Angeles, it didn't accept: an "incredibly stuck-up, narcissistic, materialistic, soulless bitch." I'm from San Francisco. I feel strongly.
dasubergeek
+3
Level 73
Nov 4, 2016
Los Angeles is not located in Marin County. Try again.
ruudsje
+4
Level 70
Nov 6, 2016
I tried that one for the Paris question. No luck either.
samiamco
+1
Level 69
May 30, 2016
If you ever want to add more wacky ones (like Haligonian), don't forget that people from Cambridge are Cantabrigians!
QuizWol
+4
Level 59
May 5, 2019
That sounds like they come from Canterbury. How confusing.
mariposita
+7
Level 68
Sep 6, 2016
Just Scouse should be accepted... never heard anyone called a "scouser" but I have heard people from Liverpool describe themselves as a just plain "scouse"
comjag
+2
Level 89
Nov 4, 2016
Absolutely +1.
Corrode
+3
Level 60
Nov 4, 2016
Completely wrong. They are Scouse but the adjective is "Scouser."
Rozzi
+3
Level 60
Nov 4, 2016
Scouser is the noun used for people, scouse might get used as an adjective or as the accent - or as some weird kind of food (and I'm from Liverpool).
greeksoccer8
+2
Level 33
Nov 4, 2016
I've never heard someone from Poland being called a Pole. I've only heard them being called a Polock/Polack.
Soulmancer08
+8
Level 65
Nov 4, 2016
Then apparently your education derives entirely from jokes.
bakainu
+1
Level 68
Nov 4, 2016
I've always seen it as Bromley for those from Birmingham.
Corrode
+6
Level 60
Nov 4, 2016
Bromley is an entirely different place.
Yossarian
+2
Level 64
Nov 4, 2016
Darn, stopped at Scouse and forgot the R
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 84
Dec 11, 2020
That's the last time I take demonym advice from the Monkees.
cyanidecarrot
+1
Level 32
Nov 4, 2016
You should accept canook or canoock as spelling
HectorVortac
+3
Level 48
Nov 4, 2016
I vote against. Please accept the correct spelling.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
May 21, 2017
What are you on aboot?
Soph1
+2
Level 48
Nov 4, 2016
Interesting. Can the answer for liverpool-slang please be accepted without an r on the end? Although I know this quiz is quite old.
Rozzi
+1
Level 60
Nov 4, 2016
No - because that's the accent, not the people. Liverpudlians are scousers.
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Oct 5, 2017
I tend to disagree. The first time I heard this usage I was in Ireland on holiday when an Irishman said "So your a scouse", I had not heard the expression before, I was 6 years old, and I took umbrage at being called something that I didn't know what it was. I was from Blackpool a whole 30 miles away from Liverpool. In my many years since I have heard 'Scouse' used this way more times than I've had hot dinners........ and I've had a few.
Skymatone
+1
Level 59
Nov 4, 2016
Go Skyrim for helping me with the Breton answer!
JohnOfili
+1
Level 41
Nov 5, 2016
more people knew Liverpudlian than Scouser? surprising to me
rawe
+1
Level 66
Nov 5, 2016
I did a quiz with all the nationalities of the world, you can check it at my profile.
Chargly
+3
Level 69
Jul 20, 2017
Canadians don't say canuck; I don't, no one I know does. It's something Americans like to think is cute, but it's just annoying.
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Oct 5, 2017
I have heard the use of 'Canuck' as a derogatory term here in Australia. In fact in the Northern Territory I witnessed a fight between a Canadian guy and a Queenslander over the snarled usage of the term.
mushroomsteve
+5
Level 52
Oct 5, 2017
Who won?
Jiaozira
+2
Level 70
Dec 11, 2020
It used to be a derogatory term directed towards French Canadians (particularly in America, where there was immigration from Quebec). I am not sure when it came to refer to English Canadians too, but today I really don't see how it is any different from other nicknames (Kiwis, Brits, Yankees, Aussies, etc.) The people who make a fuss about that sort of thing are usually overreacting just a tad.
Dontforget
+1
Level 57
Dec 11, 2020
Yeah i agree. It's not really that derogatory anymore. And I'm personally kinda fond of it because its the hockey team i grew up watching lol
Dimby
+1
Level 76
Aug 1, 2023
This is an incorrect history of the term “Canuck”. It originated on the coast of British Columbia because many Hawaiian Kanakas worked in the shipping industry. Kanakas corrupted into Canucks, and many people assumed that the Hawaiian Kanakas people were indigenous British Columbians because they were very common on ships hailing from Canada. A significant population of Kanakas grew in Vancouver, too. Anyway, this is why the hockey team is called the very non-derogatory Vancouver Canucks.
jchesney
+6
Level 68
Oct 5, 2017
Does that mean you're not familiar with that hockey team from Vancouver, BC?
likeitmatters
+2
Level 77
Aug 19, 2017
I thought Filipinos were called Pinoy. Or is that slang?
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Jun 3, 2018
Slang with positive connotations. If they see a beautiful Filipino woman they might refer to her as "Pinay."
MathPerson
+1
Level 33
Aug 19, 2017
Got quite a lot but disappointed that it took me so long to get trojan.
AVB
+3
Level 69
Jan 19, 2018
Someone who is Flemish is a Fleming.

Phoenicians came from Phoenicia (unless you are referring to the town in Arizona?)

DapperAlpaca
+2
Level 43
Apr 13, 2018
The Arizonian(?) city is being referred to, yes.
Gassu
+4
Level 70
Sep 8, 2018
Have you seriously called Phoenix (1.5 m) a TOWN?
Ourania
+1
Level 49
Jan 30, 2018
well can't believe I remembered Hoosier and Genoese
undeadwarrior
+2
Level 63
Feb 16, 2018
You should add "Aussie" for Australians
GeoDude
+4
Level 48
Jan 29, 2019
Stupid Flanders
tshalla
+2
Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
I, for one, tried Flanderseses.
CaoMaru
+1
Level 50
Feb 18, 2019
Most of the ones I missed were the American ones, so it was interesting to learn what people from those places were called. Phoenicians for Phoenix. I would never have guessed.
Ssssss
+1
Level 70
Feb 18, 2019
I'd be happy never to be called a Brit by anyone ever again so glad that wasn't a question.
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 74
Feb 8, 2021
I have a feeling there's a harrowing best-selling novel leading up to this comment...
idfx
+2
Level 26
Feb 18, 2019
Excellent quiz! More, please ! I think this type of quiz would be a great addition to any geography badge, btw.
NathanIQMaster
+1
Level 20
Feb 18, 2019
I missed Canadian *facepalm*
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
It would make me happy if people from Flanders were called philanderers
zzzsdfnlkdslkfj
+1
Level 54
Aug 1, 2023
Thats the demonym for Paris actually
Shade9099
+1
Level 67
Feb 18, 2019
Should make an "Escanaba in da Moonlight" quiz
jsmay311
+1
Level 63
Feb 18, 2019
Maybe accept slight misspellings of "Venetian" in which an "i" is used for the 4th letter instead of an "e"?

I was super confused why my (misspelled) answer wasn't being accepted and couldn't figure out where the misspelling was (particularly since the letter "i" is pronounced with an "eeee" sound in Italian).

RealDad12
+1
Level 67
Feb 18, 2019
28/33. I stunned by how poorly most folks seemed to go with this quiz
ander217
+2
Level 75
Feb 19, 2019
Knew Liverpudlian but in all the spelling variations I tried I always stuck in an extra d. Still doesn't look right with only one. I was probably thinking of Lilliputian and mixing the two.
Walacama
+1
Level 80
Feb 20, 2019
When you update, you should add Porteño for Buenos Aires.
SeaNomad
+4
Level 75
Feb 22, 2019
Somehow it is illogical to call only people from USA American, since USA is just a part of Americas, geographically. In principle for example people from Canada, Mexico, Chile or Brazil are also American.

And then, I was once told by a Filipina that if I (a Finn) went to Philippines, they would most certainly call me there "Americano".

kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Feb 24, 2019
It's not illogical at all it is common, broadly understood convention. Do you feel it is illogical to call people from the United States of Mexico "Mexican?" How about referring to people from the US state of Georgia as "Georgian?" This is just stupid. Besides, things from North America are North American, things from South America are South American, things from either can be unambiguously described as "from the Americas," but American for centuries has been commonly understood to mean from the USA. It's about conveying meaning in a way that you will be understood and there's nothing wrong or illogical about it.
QuizWol
+4
Level 59
May 5, 2019
Not all that many centuries. Not yet reached 3.
roleybob
+1
Level 75
May 15, 2019
I've no problem with calling things from the US "American" but it is also acceptable to use American meaning "from the Americas"

Maybe you weren't denying that, maybe you were just suggesting "from the Americas" for clarity

kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Nov 13, 2019
Yes, for the sake of clarity, since "American" is SO much more commonly used to refer to things from the country so commonly called "America" for short, it would be vastly superior to refer to things from North and South America as "from the Americas." To do otherwise you would almost have to wish to be deliberately confusing or antagonistic, and I don't see what the point of that is.

QuizWol, cut & paste from Wikipedia for your convenience: English use of the term American for people of European descent dates to the 17th century, with the earliest recorded appearance being in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survey of the West Indies in 1648. In English, American came to be applied especially to people in British America and thus its use as a demonym for the United States derives by extension.

2019 - 1648 = 371 years, or nearly 4 centuries.

boracay99
+1
Level 68
Dec 11, 2020
I typed in Murcan; didn't accept it.
QuizWol
+5
Level 59
May 5, 2019
I have started to refer to USAmericans as USAmericans, in writing anyway.

Technically Canadians are also American but are too nice and/or fed up to care any more about making that clear. They gave up. Hasn't done them any harm really.

kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
Nov 13, 2019
I sure hope you are also referring to Germans as FRGermans, to Mexicans as USMexicans, to most Koreans as ROKoreans, and to the Chinese as PRChinese. Otherwise you'd probably look like a bit of a hypocritical muggins.
Bdubz
+1
Level 43
May 26, 2019
I only got yooper because my 5th grade teacher was one and taught us that demonym. 5th grade me was amused.
Kaz60
+1
Level 49
Jul 23, 2019
Only missed 4 so proud of that. I never knew Angeleno, not heard of it at all. And knew the word hoosier, just not what it was!
NauruPalau
+2
Level 50
Dec 23, 2019
Lived in LA for 10 years and never knew Angeleno lmao.
Relox84
+4
Level 69
Apr 30, 2020
Got all of them except for the American and British local ones and the slang words. I guess it's what I deserve for having committed the crime of not being an American.
boopuffyboo
+3
Level 44
Jun 17, 2020
Yooper is really oddly specific, feel like that one was thrown in specifically to bring down the average score lol
EvanAviator
+1
Level 58
Dec 11, 2020
I know that one and Ive never been to Michigan
ander217
+1
Level 75
Dec 11, 2020
I have cousins who live there and refer to themselves in that way, but since I had only heard them and never seen it in writing I assumed since it referred to the Upper Peninsula it was spelled "UPer".
Baalhammon
+6
Level 65
Jun 19, 2020
Phoenician for Phoenix seems really funny to me, since the city has nothing to do with ancient phoenicia. You learn something new every day.
BerryCJ
+2
Level 63
Dec 11, 2020
This needs a No. 2, there's loads of interesting curveball ones out there like Monegasque or Sammarinese
Meklin
+1
Level 32
Dec 11, 2020
As a Brit I didn't know what UP meant for Michigan.
jennraven
+1
Level 68
Dec 11, 2020
Upper Peninsula
Canuckquizzer1981
+3
Level 61
Dec 11, 2020
Had to look up Michigan's UP, never heard of that before. I have a hard time believing anyone outside of USA would have.
RealDad12
+1
Level 67
Dec 11, 2020
I went with Genovite. My bad. Still, 30/33 ain't bad.
Shadywyvern
+1
Level 75
Dec 11, 2020
Can you accept "yoopie" for "yooper", as that's how I've always heard it living pretty close to the area
Nathaniel
+1
Level 72
Dec 11, 2020
I made a quiz on a similar topic a few months ago: Demonyms of British Cities.
cockybra
+3
Level 47
Dec 11, 2020
Spelled Moscuvite in every possible way except the right one.
lemmons
+2
Level 85
Dec 11, 2020
People from LA are called actors
stylus
+2
Level 75
Dec 11, 2020
can ‘scouse’ be accepted without the R? that’s the adjective
Marvel072506
+2
Level 43
Dec 11, 2020
I tried Iraqian because I had no idea and it took Iraqi. :)
Whuskey
+1
Level 59
Jan 19, 2021
I am from the Phoenix area and the locals here seem pretty even split between people who call themselves Phonecians and those who hate that. I am the latter
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 87
Aug 7, 2023
What demonym do you prefer instead?
Hampus
+2
Level 57
Apr 22, 2021
Phoenician is already taken..
iRDM
+1
Level 75
Aug 11, 2022
that's what the indians said. Look where that got us
gavagai
+2
Level 72
Nov 4, 2021
I know Hoosier is the official demonym as per the US Government Printing Office, but I still kinda feel like it should get a slang marker. Maybe not, I don't know.
beorming
+1
Level 74
Jan 5, 2022
Brummie here. A big thank you to Joe Pera for helping me get 100% on this quiz
Isabeledwards
+2
Level 36
May 7, 2022
Surprised how little people got ‘Brummie’, I thought it was quite commonly known
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2023
Me too, not so much in America I reckon
iRDM
+2
Level 75
Aug 11, 2022
yoopers rise up!!!!!!!!!!!!
JoshLegoat
+5
Level 49
Jan 25, 2023
Moscovite

Moskovite

Moscowite

Moscavite

Moscuvite

Moscovian

Moscauvite

dumBunny
+1
Level 45
Aug 1, 2023
Ditto, homie. I thought i tried every variation of the spelling. Eventually I gave up.
southpaw
+2
Level 44
Jul 27, 2023
Why doeesn't the quiz take napolitano -a?
evilcheeser
+1
Level 72
Aug 2, 2023
Because that isn't English..?

Same reason it doesn't take Veneziano or Peruano or Polski or Schweizerisch (Suisse? Svizzero? Helvetii?). All of those are correct demonyms for this quiz, but being on the English part of the site, they're kind of looking for answers in English unless otherwise specified.

Although actually, I guess Napolitano is like Galician/Spanish for Neapolitan so it's more like why it doesn't take Venezianisch or Perufo kasa or Huitene or Liverpoolczycy.

FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2023
Tried Brittish for Brittany for fun
dumBunny
+1
Level 45
Aug 1, 2023
My fav is people from of Charlotte, NC: Charlottean, not Charlatans.

They take great offense when that one is messed up!

jennraven
+1
Level 68
Aug 2, 2023
Man. Moscovite, Briton, Youper. Spellings were killing me.
zakatan
+1
Level 65
Aug 4, 2023
I know it's not commonly used (if ever), but please consider accepting "Unitedstatian".
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