FINALLY learning o read the Greek/Cyrillic alphabets has come in handy. Apart from Montenegro, I just kept saying "Tsrna Gora, Tsrrrna Gora" in the hope it would eventually sound like something... nope
It's not just the flag of the EU, but also the flag of the Council of Europe, which has virtually every country on the continent of Europe as a member.
Don't know cyrillic alphabet but having got most of them by knowing the major european countries with a bit of help from German just tried to get as many through guessing as possible. Got 40 so not dissapointed
Nice idea. However, as an English speaker, it was ridiculously easy. If you made it the other way round - translating from the English word to the "real" name, it would be far more entertaining.
Could you please add "Czechia" as an alternative to "Czech Republic"? You do on all your other quizzes and it isn't looking for a word-for-word translation here.
happy to admit I only missed the last two. though i must admit it helps knowing all your countries, because the last four I just got by remembering which I had missed, and trying them out.
and yea weird how 7% didnt know what portugal, malta, monaco, or liechtenstein would be in english haha. 9% even for moldova.
I've got 44/45 and I "just" have 4 points, it's a bit of stupid because on others quizzes, even with a "low" score, we've got 5 points. Else, it's a good quizz
Oh man, some of the questions on this quiz were so hard! Like I had no clue what "United Kingdom" was, much less "Danmark," "France," "Portugal," "Moldova," "San Marino," and "Kosova"!
Real talk though: why do some Slavic countries not use the Cyrillic alphabet? Have a lot of the countries switched to distance themselves from Russia/cultivate closer ties to Western Europe? I know Kazakhstan switched alphabets recently for that reason exactly, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same for Croatia and Albania (among others).
Cyrillic alphabet was adopted only by countries that adopted orthodox christianity. Slavic coutries that adopted catholicism haven't used it. And Albania isn't slavic
Most Slavic countries that use the Latin alphabet use it because they were catholicised and under the rule of other Latin using countries (Germany, Hungary, Austria) for centuries
Please just make "Bosna i Hercegovina" (aka. Bosnia) from cyrillic alphabet to actual latin alphabet. Bosnian is almost always written in latinic except for the small minority in "Republika Srpska' (aka.Republic of Srpska')
45/45 i didnt know what shiqpëri was but i saw it had "Ë" which is pretty much only in albanian so i guessed it and montenegro was just russian and meant black mountain so that was easy cuz
I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we use both scripts to refer to our country, both "Bosna i Hercegovina" and "Босна и Херцеговина", however, Latin script has a wider use at national level than Cyrillic
I mean Shqipëri isn't incorrect, but I never heard someone saying that when I was in Albania. Shqipëria with an A at the end was way more frequent in use. Do whatever you want with this comment.
- Montenegro -> mont- = mountain + -negro (same root as noir in french) = black
- Црна Гора -> црна (same root as чёрная in russian) = black + гора = mountain
Drop that *whispers* hundo
and yea weird how 7% didnt know what portugal, malta, monaco, or liechtenstein would be in english haha. 9% even for moldova.
4 official languages! So to be correct: Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera and Svizra
Real talk though: why do some Slavic countries not use the Cyrillic alphabet? Have a lot of the countries switched to distance themselves from Russia/cultivate closer ties to Western Europe? I know Kazakhstan switched alphabets recently for that reason exactly, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same for Croatia and Albania (among others).
monte = mountain
negro = black
Albania : "hold my beer"