Sorry, I don't get it. I created the original on Jan 11 and it was submitted on Jan 13. Not sure why the date on the quiz says Jan 14, but it's clearly not a coincidence that this one has the same title and literally 8 of the same exact hints/answers.
It looks like a coincidence. I personally added some of the answers (Søren Kierkegaard, Sappho, and Archimedes) and I can promise I never saw your quiz @jafe. In any case, I am now subscribed to your account so I won't miss any of your new quizzes.
Pretty unbelievable :S Oh well, I'll remove the duplicate answers from my quiz and change them to something else. That way we'll at least have two distinct quizzes.
Ha that's a very entertaining quiz. I hope you do one every year for April Fools. Very lively comments too since not everybody realized the answers weren't factual
I don't know who that is but I heard his name and thought it sounded like a Southern/Texas country singer so I was racking my brain trying to think of where a person from those Southern states could be born. I thought V I perhaps? Close but no cigar. I knew the fugees they are from my generation but I wasn't into them.
Same issue, weirdly enough, it was the only one where I had that trouble and couldn't figure it out (ended up typing all the carribean countries). I had no issue for the other ones where I typed the islands and not the countries.
With the recent popularity of the musical, I expected Alexander Hamilton to be on the list. But then again, I guess the musical never mentions Nevis by name.
Jackie Chan is now more famous to several generations than Bruce Lee. I'm not even Gen Z and he's more well known to my generation. Lee died I believe in the 1970s. His son was known for a while for a great film he did but Bruce Lee is waning in popularity among those who are not die hard martial arts fans .
Fun fact: The French conquered Corsica only mere months before Napoleon was born, so he was just barely a natural born French citizen. Hell, his mother even fought French forces while pregnant with him. If he was born slightly earlier, or the French conquered it later, he might have been Genoese. Genoa sold Corsica to the French after they realised they wouldn't be able to hold onto it anymore. During his early life, he was a Corsican Nationalist until he turned his loyalties towards France.
Freaking North Island. I spent 2 minutes typing every island I could think of in the Empire/Commonwealth even though I knew he was a kiwi. After minutes I realized my errors even though I had no problem with the other "tricky" ones.
It is both the name of the prefecture and the name of the largest island within said prefecture (as well as the name of a city on the island, just to complicate things further haha) so the island is real, but only the person is fictional
For Rowling, I spent a full minute randomly guessing anything that I thought could be the name of an island surrounding Great Britain, and then I finally remembered that Great Britain is, itself, an island. Facepalm.
I never got to that point, I was typing all the Scottish Islands I could remember, got as far out as St kilda, never thought to type Great Britain in...grrr, I feel like Dominic Raab, forgetting that I live on an island
Pretty impressive to have got as far as St Kilda - I don't think that anyone has been born there since 1930, so unless JK Rowling is now 93............
So I just feel a need to point this out that Jay-Z is born in Brooklyn. While yes, this is technically on Long Island in practical terms people from Brooklyn and Queens say they are from Brooklyn or Queens or NYC. Typically if you say to someone that you're from "Long Island" it means you're from Nassau or Suffolk Counties. So maybe a choice like Mariah Carey or someone should be used instead.
"While yes, this is technically on Long Island".....I always find it hilarious when people refuse to believe that Brooklyn and Queens are a part of Long Island. Sure, there may be (extremely) minor cultural differences, but an island is an island.
Yes this is true. But Brooklyn and Queens are technically on Long Island, regardless of how we think of them. So I guess it works. But when I saw Long Island as a native New Yorker, I thought he was born in Roslyn or Longbeach not in my city. I consider the two islands of NYC, Manhattan and the weird borough, Staten island.lol. And I also agree that Mariah Carey or the Gottis are more stereotypically Long Giland lol!
This was nice. If you ever update this or make part two you could add Cristiano Ronaldo (Madeira), Barnabas (Cyprus), Ingmar Bergman (Gotland), Knud Rasmussen (Greenland) and Freddie Mercury (Sanzibar).
The Hudson River is on the west, the East River is on the east, and the Harlem River is on the northeast. The ways to get to the rest of NYC is to swim (not recommended), take a ferry, or cross a bridge.
I came here to suggest the same thing, only to find that while Freddy Mercury was born in Zanzibar, Zanzibar is an archipelago, not an island, and he was actually born on the island of Unguja, which I would have never guessed.
First two columns were quite straight forward, the last one well and truly sunk me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Island