The 21st Century Quiz

Poor Germany and Iraq...

I'd still say that Germany is rather well off if so many people want to go there...

Most people migrating to Germany aren't refugees. They have no right to be there.

the name lmao

hirsutebodkin, the same applies to many parliamentary and presidential elections around the world (US presidential elections have turnouts of around 50-60%). Should those results be ignored, too?

And even in this 2019 Election, Anti-Brexit Parties got a higher percentage of the vote. Our FPTP system is what is going to allow Brexit to be forced through again the nations will...

Fresco3, you are absolutely right. Big Bad Boris is back in power because we have FPTP. But why have we got that? Because the people voted 4 to 1 against AV in the referendum. Why? Because the people are stupid. So now they have got what they deserve (and I have left the country!)

The people voted to leave, get over it already.

The reason that the people voted to keep FPTP might also be because the two major parties both campaigned heavily for them to do so. Both Labour and the Conservatives need FPTP to stay in power and so they won't allow it to go away

The idea that the UK is a tyranny because Brexit hasn't yet happened is flawed. When the people voted for it, they knew that Brexit was going to take a while. The process is fundamentally different to an election because before Brexit happens a lot of plans have had to be made about how to change the way agreements will work once we are no longer in the EU. The infrastructure already exists to put new MPs into parliament so what the people voted for in an election can be delivered in (for this election) less than 5 days. Some MPs have been trying to stop Brexit from happening at all but there has never been a majority for this in parliament. What has happened has arisen from the fact that MPs cannot agree on how to do Brexit, though if Boris Johnson is to be believed (he isn't usually) this will now have changed. Boris Johnson can't save anybody from "the political class" because he is part of it and his attempts to pretend he isn't shouldn't be very convincing.

The Brexit referendum was democratic, though given the timescales involved in implementing its result it should probably have been set up differently, if at all. The fact that there was a low turnout is irrelevant (the turnout wasn't actually that low compared to other votes) but what is relevant is the number of people who were disqualified from voting because they were considered not to have been alive for long enough. Even if you think that 18 is a suitable voting age (it isn't) there are now 21-year-olds who have never had a direct say on a process that hasn't even properly started. This isn't to say that Brexit should now be cancelled, but rather that it should have been set up differently in the first place. If you count Labour as an anti-Brexit party then yes anti-Brexit parties did get a higher percentage of the vote. But Labour isn't an anti-Brexit party, they just wanted a new deal and another referendum, and some Brexiteers will have voted for them.

The Brexit referendum wasn't legally binding but also wasn't just an opinion poll. Different people voting for it did want different things, but they only voted to leave the European Union. The referendum therefore justified leaving, but it did not justify any specific deal or method of leaving. A solution that might have been in the interests of the country would have been a "soft Brexit" - leaving the EU but staying in the Customs Union and possibly the Single Market. Unfortunately the Conservative Party had only called the referendum in the first place to settle their internal disagreement with the European Research Group and other Eurosceptics who wanted a hard Brexit, so they decided to pursue a hard Brexit instead of working with other parties to pursue a soft one, which would have come at the expense of the ERG's support. As it stands nobody has found a way to solve the problem of the border with Ireland if we have a hard Brexit, but they are doing it anyway.

I kept putting antifa, couldn't understand why I wasn't getting it. face palm

The terrorist organization question.

Right-wing terrorism is terrorism motivated by a variety of far right ideologies and beliefs, including anti-communism, neo-fascism, neo-Nazism, racism, xenophobia and opposition to immigration. This type of terrorism has been sporadic, with little or no international cooperation.

I thought Antifa killed 10,000 people in West Africa.

Also... the Earth is flat, Elvis lives in Jacksonville, and Epstein killed himself.

No, Epstein didn't kill himself.

(I'm joking, please don't label me a conspiracy theorist)

You're insinuating that believing Epstein committed suicide is as ridiculous as believing in a flat Earth or that the Mossad planned 9/11? More than a bit of a stretch.

Please accept "DNA", "humangenom" etc....

chromosomes and genes are parts of DNA, but the human genome is the entire set of all genes expressed in human DNA, this number is in the billions and that's why it was a scientific achievement to sequence it. So gene and chromosome are not really correct answers.

Funniest part of the disease was that a known football/soccer player Dele Adebola had to actually release a brief statement that he did not 'ave it. ;)

why is that funny?

Because "Dele Adebola" sounds like "Dele (h)ad Ebola."

Never heard the Global Financial Crisis referred to as the Great Recession before.

In the US, it's always called that.

Everyone else in the world call it the GFC

9/11 and the development of Facebook are two tragedies the scale and impact of which will not be readily comprehensible for decades.

4y

One or two lighter questions don't hurt.

why? His achievements at the Olympics were unprecedented and historic.

and, of course, nobody is complaining about the inclusion of Usain Bolt because he's not American.

tahkuegyt - Question: What word do you use to specifically refer to someone from the United States of America?

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston. Let's give tah the benefit of the doubt and assume he thought Bolt was from Massachusetts.

I already know the question for 2020.

It's smaller by volume but larger by mass. You could argue the question needs rephrasing but it's still pretty clear.

The description says 21th.

very weird to think about how I'm the same age as same-sex marriage

How did I know the Eris answer idk

How did I know the Eris answer idk