"Besides India, what other country is predominately Hindu?"
Mauritius is also a candidate as around half its population profess to be hindus. Not as high as India and Nepal, but still a potential answer to this question.
I'm not really sure what you meant when you said that Hinduism is the largest religion in Guyana, but according to statistics there Christianity makes up 66% of population, and Hinduism makes up 24,9%. And I think Mauritius should be taken as an answer.
I think they were splitting up all the sects of Christianity. No one church in Guyana has more membership than Hinduism, although according to Wikipedia Pentecostalism comes very close. But yeah, Christianity as a whole is definitely more popular than Hinduism.
I read this too quickly, and thought it said "No church has more membership than Hinduism, although Wikipedia Pentacostalism comes close." I know some pub trivia members who more or less treat Wikipedia as a religious text.
Damnation, I could not remember Rastafari....I was using a Jamaican accent, pretending to smoke a spliff, trying to sing reggae and nothing made me remember. My dog is through with me. Scared him to death--he could not figure out what I wanted. I am going to have to study Vikings--I never know any of that stuff ever. They never taught any religions back when I was in school unless you went out of your way in college..not even much mythology. I have learned Zoroastrianism, Janism and Hinduism (and Catholocism for that matter) from TV, then looking them up. And have known Buddhists and Jewish people. But never met a Viking or an ancient Greek.
I've noticed that on these quizzes, they treat Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism as religions. I learned them as belief systems, as none of them worshipped a god.
Just for accuracy's sake, you should change the clue to "What are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints better known as?" since that is their official name not the "church of Latter-Day Saints".
I had to down-rate it for the same reason. Okay, that and the fact that out of the "Big Five", there were no questions about Buddhism! (Yep, a salty Buddhist, ha ha!)
I notice that this seems to be a thing. So I looked it up.
From Wikipedia:
In August 2018, church president Russell M. Nelson asked members of the church and others to cease using the terms "LDS", "Mormon", and "Mormonism" to refer to the church, its membership, or its belief system, and instead to call the church by its full and official name.
I'm not really big on countries or organizations throwing their weight around in this way. It's a power move.
But if you insist, I have my own demand. You must hereby always refer to our site by its full and proper name: "The Glorious and Perfectly-Accurate Trivia Website JetPunk".
The Glorious and Perfectly-Accurate Trivia Website JetPunk is always having dumb debates about the Republic of Cyprus and whether or not the Republic of India borders the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
The Glorious and Perfectly-Accurate Trivia Website JetPunk, led by the All-Righteous Quizmaster under the Guidance of our Heaven-Appointed Sovereign Nursultan Nazarbayev, hereby mandates that Cyprus, Adam's Bridge, Kosovo, Kashmir, the Falkland Islands, Israel/Palestine, and all other disputed or controversial territories officially belong to the Republic of Kazakhstan. Hail Nur-Sultan!
@Quizmaster, I think you're missing the point. It's not that I object to being called a Latter-Day Saint, though as you mentioned there is an initiative to discourage that term. The objection is that the phrase "Church of Latter-Day Saints" is just... unwieldy. And not a thing, but mostly just awkward to say and read. I'd say either list the name of the church, or rephrase it to "What are Latter-Day Saints better known as?"
1) You label it as a "demand," suggesting by inference that the movement by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to refer to it by that name is also demanding. Instead, it was termed a request.
2) Your ‘demand’ is to refer to this website by a name that is neither the formal nor the official name of the site, emphasizing the absurdity of the demand. This seems meant to imply that the Church’s request is similarly absurd, when that request instead refers to use of an official and formal name that has been in use for 184 years and the name under which the entity has been legally incorporated for 171 years.
If you actually re-registered the website under the domain name "The Glorious and Perfectly-Accurate Trivia Website JetPunk" or at least put it on the masthead, and if people then refused to use it, then I suppose you could make your analogizing demand. But that's not the case.
It also seems strange to hold that countries or organizations throw weight around through self-identification. Eswatini, North Macedonia, and Czechia have recently done that. Meta and Alphabet Inc. have done that too. And to far less indignation from professional media or quiz-writers, even though they were even CHANGING names.
To the direct point, the issue here is that the name used here in the quiz purports to be the actual name in contrast to a nickname and is in that sense objectively wrong.
It would be like a quiz saying "The film 'Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to Love the Bomb' is better known by what short-form?" Or, "The Lao Democratic Republic is better known by what name?"
People can probably guess that the question refers to Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb., or the Lao People's Democratic Republic. But if the question is going to purport to give the actual name of something, why be willfully and objectively inaccurate?
A papal conclave is a *meeting* of the College of Cardinals, but the group of people themselves is the College of Cardinals. Therefore, the answer should not be changed or expanded.
Ironically enough the word Hinduism/Hindus comes from Indus I believe, but it might just be sindhu which is Sanskrit for river and is therefore not referring to a particular river, I'm not totally sure
Mauritius is also a candidate as around half its population profess to be hindus. Not as high as India and Nepal, but still a potential answer to this question.
Nepal is obviously the answer though.
From Wikipedia:
I'm not really big on countries or organizations throwing their weight around in this way. It's a power move.
But if you insist, I have my own demand. You must hereby always refer to our site by its full and proper name: "The Glorious and Perfectly-Accurate Trivia Website JetPunk".
Your analogy appears disingenuous on two counts.
1) You label it as a "demand," suggesting by inference that the movement by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to refer to it by that name is also demanding. Instead, it was termed a request.
2) Your ‘demand’ is to refer to this website by a name that is neither the formal nor the official name of the site, emphasizing the absurdity of the demand. This seems meant to imply that the Church’s request is similarly absurd, when that request instead refers to use of an official and formal name that has been in use for 184 years and the name under which the entity has been legally incorporated for 171 years.
If you actually re-registered the website under the domain name "The Glorious and Perfectly-Accurate Trivia Website JetPunk" or at least put it on the masthead, and if people then refused to use it, then I suppose you could make your analogizing demand. But that's not the case.
It also seems strange to hold that countries or organizations throw weight around through self-identification. Eswatini, North Macedonia, and Czechia have recently done that. Meta and Alphabet Inc. have done that too. And to far less indignation from professional media or quiz-writers, even though they were even CHANGING names.
To the direct point, the issue here is that the name used here in the quiz purports to be the actual name in contrast to a nickname and is in that sense objectively wrong.
It would be like a quiz saying "The film 'Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to Love the Bomb' is better known by what short-form?" Or, "The Lao Democratic Republic is better known by what name?"
People can probably guess that the question refers to Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb., or the Lao People's Democratic Republic. But if the question is going to purport to give the actual name of something, why be willfully and objectively inaccurate?