Yes, the definition for Prime Minister is incorrect, since having one has little to do with being a "Parlamentary Nation". The origin of the title comes from monarchies, where the king named his "prime minister" to rule the realm. I would recommend to change the definition to simply "The United Kingdom (or Greece, or Israel, or whatever).
That's incorrect. In Indonesia, to name an example, the President has much more power than the Prime Minister. And in some parliamentary governments such as Mexico, South Africa, Colombia or Spain, the position of Prime Minister does not even exist.
fyi, Colombia and Mexico are not parliamentary governments, and although the name in Spain is Presidente de Gobierno, that role is effectively a prime minister.
The term "Caesar" was used during the Roman Empire to denote the heir apparent to the emperor who would be the "Augustus." It was much more than simply Julius Caesar's last name.
Yes, I don't know why JetPunk insists on using "tsar" rather than "czar," esp. when the word in cyrillic "цар" transliterates as "car." Czar is ultimately derived from caesar, much as the German kaiser.
Technical entymology:
From Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from Proto-Germanic kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
Both Tsar and Czar are known in English, but Tsar is far more common. Czar looks sort of antiquated. I would presume that both are accepted as Jet Punk type-ins, but that Tsar would be standard unless the quiz writer chose something else.
A few answers to this quiz are discriminatory. While some titles are typically applied equally to both genders (like "governor" and "president"), some of them are only used for men (e.g. tsar and duke'). Women have held these posts too and it's unfortunate to see a quiz called "Words for Leaders" exclude women in this way. Thank you for using "chairperson." Please fix this quiz.
Well the female version of tsar is tsarina, which has the word "tsar" in it, and as soon as you type tsar, the answer is accepted. Same goes for sultan, the female version is sultana. You can't really do anything about it.
In Germanic languages, "man" is a pronoun meaning unspecified person. The pronoun one, as in oneself, is used as a standalone in such a sense in English although Americans overwhelmingly use the incorrect pronoun "you" to mean a person in general. The suffix -man still functions the same way. The word originally meant person in general with wereman meaning a male in English. Chairperson just sounds ridiculous.
someone2018 is right. "Wo" is the female prefix and "Were" is the male prefix. That means a male wolf is a werewolf, and a female wolf is a... wowolf! Wowolf comin' at you! Let's make this a thing! Wowolf 2021! Yeah!
'Chairperson' doesn't sound ridiculous if you accustom yourself to it; and if a word like 'you' is more often than not used with the same meaning as 'one', then in current usage it has that meaning. You need to catch up.
Can you also accept governor-general for Spanish colony? Post-1821, the Viceroyalty of New Spain ceased to exist and Guam and the Philippines were ruled directly by the Spanish Crown through the governor-general.
You've never heard of a "chairman of the board" or "chair of the board"? It's simply the gender neutral title. A CEO reports to the Board of Directors for most companies, and the chair is the head of that board.
Parliamentary nation PM thing, already addressed in comments (just do UK or something). Not all empires are ruled by an emperor, but that's a nitpick I guess. Mongolia is ruled by a president, and people get what is meant but more specific would be good. Accept kanzler and stuff for modern Germany, and caliph for Ottomans, and there's the whole consul (triumvir, co emperors, other positions?) thing.
They do, but they govern archdioceses, not dioceses. BTW, while this clue is correct, I'd like to point out that many Orthodox and Protestant denominations have bishops, but not all of them are over dioceses.There are various other names used.
It's actually quite funny- the people who call people in favour of equality "snowflakes" are the same people who spit their dummies out when they're asked to default to "chairperson" instead of "chairman"
It's a very simple and effortless thing to do, and it makes such a difference to use more inclusive language (it's amazing how the subconscious mind works), and yet they act like it's the most arduous task!
And they say the other group are the weak and easily offended ones!
Anybody that calls anybody else a snowflake, no matter how silly the thing was the other person said ( while a lot of times there is a genuinly good point in there, but yea there are also persons that make an issue of absolutely everything) is done in my book. It shows more about the character of the person that calls someone that, and often those personalities are rather ugly..
same with the you must be fun at parties, often the original comment is actually interesting and has a good point, but yea, sometimes quite boring or a bit too anal/nitpicking. But why the need to trash somebody just because you found their remark boring. That is soo childish, sadly often it is adults making these remarks...
There's no problem with the answers, but it would be more consistent with other quizzes to display "Duke/Duchess" and "Emperor/Empress". Both are already accepted, both are correct, it's as simple as that.
Well a woman can become chairperson as well, don't you think? What's the problem with making language less sexist? And most of the time it is abbreviated as chair anyway.
read the first part of Le Deuxieme Sexe by de Beauvoir, in which she examines the questionable state of language in which the masculine is always used for both the male and the neutral, hence suggesting that the masculine/male/man is the default and the woman is always the 'Other'
same haha, I thought man what was it called again, but I couldnt think of it. Then I thought, yea think of schwarzenegger and terminator then it might come to you and instantly I knew.
I don't think Bishop is especially a Catholic title so the clue is slightly misleading. it's also used in the Anglican Church as well as some Orthodox churches.
There are Christian denominations without bishops, so the clue can't be "a Christian diocese". Neither can you list all denominations that do have bishops. If the leader of a Catholic diocese is a bishop, this doesn't mean that bishops are not leaders of other groups.
Actually, it shouldn't. The title, "Kalifah" was only used for the four people after the major leader in the religion of islam (the religion they practiced). They gave the title, "Khan" and used it throughout the muslim and asian countries. For example, Ghengis Khan was the ruler of the empire that destroyed the Ottomans, taking the title from the people before them.
"Ghengis Khan was the ruler of the empire that destroyed the Ottomans." Um, what? Genghis Khan died in 1227, and the Ottoman Empire (not really an empire at that point, but the Ottoman polity) was founded in 1299. Perhaps you're thinking of the Timurid invasion of Anatolia and the defeat of the Ottomans at Ankara in 1402? Timur claimed descent from Genghis Khan, but his empire was a new one, and his defeat of the Ottomans was a setback for them, but didn't stop them from capturing Constantinople just half a century later and going on to form one of the world's largest empires, so they certainly weren't destroyed by Timur. The Ottoman Empire didn't fall until 1922. Incidentally, the Ottoman rulers used many titles including Caliph (Khalifa), Sultan, Padishah, Hakan (Khagan, or Khan of Khans) and Caesar.
No and no. There are federal Republics where the leader is not called the President, like Germany (there's a president but he/she only has a ceremonial role, the actual political leader is the Chancellor) and "state" is too vague a term. It usually is a synonym of "country" and most countries don't have a governor as their leader. Some countries use the word "state" to name their subdivisions, like the US, but that's not its general meaning, so I think it's better not to change the quiz.
US state needs to be specified to get the answer 'governor'. If it said Australian state, the answer would be 'premier'. The word state by itself just means polity, which could lead to most answers in the quiz.
they should accept fuehrer which is the actual german way of not using the ä,ö or ü. but fuhrer is just wrong. did you know that schwül means humid and schwul means gay? now you know.
Viceroy is not very common used in Spanish colonies.... just saying i come from one and i've never heard that term for our history. More used by the British empire.
Mongolia has not used the name KHAN for its ruler since at least 1924 (with the death of the Bogd Khaan and the founding of the Mongolian People's Republic). The current ruler is a President (in English) - in Mongol, (transliterated), Mongol Ulsyn Yerönkhiilögch. If the word Khan is the answer, the question should specify mediaevel Mongolia, or Mongol Empire.
No. The archbishop is head of an archdiocese. Only an auxiliar bishop needs a titular see. To be totally correct, the head of a diocese would be the diocesane bishop (Episcopus dioecesanus), but normally you only speak about the bishop of ...
There are also some bishops who are made into archbishops in a personal sense. That does not mean they are in a region that normally would have an archbishop. There are then regions that are automatically headed by an archbishop. Cincinnati is an archdiocese and is automatically headed by an archbishop while Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Youngstown, and Steubenville are just regular diocese and headed by a regular bishop. Cleveland and Columbus have both had people who were made into archbishops in their own right.
Russia didn't have tsars after 1721, when Peter the Great renamed it into "Emperor of All Russia". Tsars were only the leader 1547-1721, after which it was "emperor". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar.
Your answer for Mongolia stopped being current in the early 17th century - you might want to acknowledge that it's a historic question, as you do for e.g. Iran, Japan.
Is there a better suggestion? It's true that lots of countries have Presidents, many of them you could describe as the "leader" (and some of them, not); is there a wording that can concisely describe what these countries necessarily have in common that excludes other countries? Or do you just mean, you wish a different country had been chosen for the answer "President"?
Wow. 3 months ago, i took this, i got SEVEN, missed PHARAOH, today got all of them, you are lying if you say that Jetpunk doesn't make you smarter. THANK YOU JETPUNK
Strange that for one category, the answer is Kaiser (German for emperor) while emperor isn't accepted, while for another, the desired answer is chancellor and the German translation Kanzler isn't even accepted. Personally, I think Kaiser shouldn't even be the answer at all - on English Wikipedia, Kaiser Wilhelm is referred to as "Wilhelm II, German Emperor".
If naming a country is so bad why are you ok with the US being named?
If you’re not American then oopsies I’m so sorry
So Venice.
Much Leader.
Wow.
Very doge.
Yay.
Technical entymology:
From Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from Proto-Germanic kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
But it still wont make much of a difference.
what is a she wolf, i heard the term when i was liek 8 or smn.
Is it a female wolf, or a female anthropomorphic wolf.
The she-wolf is saw was an anthropomorph.
Help i need answers.
lololol
The last tsardom was the tsardom of Bulgaria (until 1946).
Also stuff like Chieftian or something
That's just how they were called there
of fresh air to many). The differences between the gender-neutral and
traditional appellations don't amount to a hill of beans!
It's a very simple and effortless thing to do, and it makes such a difference to use more inclusive language (it's amazing how the subconscious mind works), and yet they act like it's the most arduous task!
And they say the other group are the weak and easily offended ones!
same with the you must be fun at parties, often the original comment is actually interesting and has a good point, but yea, sometimes quite boring or a bit too anal/nitpicking. But why the need to trash somebody just because you found their remark boring. That is soo childish, sadly often it is adults making these remarks...
really venice
It was an unecessary change that create more sexism than it ever solved. The same applies to sportsman.
It would be life everyone demanding we change woman because it has the word man in it.
this got too long QvQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Germany
I don't think it should be shortened
Chancellor in germany was used between ww1 and ww2 as well as afterwards. It would make more sense to say german republic rather than modern germany