Languages: Find the Odd One Out #1

This quiz is extremely unclear. For example, all of the languages of Switzerland options are languages of Switzerland.

Good premise for a quiz, just poorly executed unfortunately.

Yes. This is extremely unclear and inaccurate.

1: Mandarin is the most spoken language by all metrics. It was never specified that it had to be an Indo-European language.

2: It says Germanic languages, not West-Germanic.

3: They are all Romance languages.

4: Basque is on the Iberian peninsula, even though it is not Indo-European.

5: The British Isles is a region, not a language base such as Romance or Germanic.

6: Should have specified in the question for Finnish.

7: Same as above

8: Depends on your definition of Central Europe and AGAIN, you should have specified

9: Question should be "Romance Languages of Switzerland"

10: Should have specified

I'll stop because all the questions are wrong and, unless all of the questions are changed, this is a horrible and inaccurate quiz that shouldn't have been spotlighted. Like chelsea97 said, good premise, badly executed.

I feel like someone is salty over getting a bad score, it's very easy to tell the quiz is asking you for the furthest genetic outlier in the 4 offered languages, ie the most distant relative. I didn't need any specifications and I got 22/23 (Got swedish wrong somehow!??)

I don't think so. As I said in my comment, the point is that the "which one does not belong" format is intended to use as a question the category to which all of the possible answers belong except the correct one.

Let's take question 1 as an example: usually you would read it as: "which of the following is not one of the four most spoken languages". But all of the 4 answers actually are. So, while it is clear which answer does not belong (at least to anyone with a minimal knowledge of linguistics) the "title" is actually misleading.

It's a bit confusing if you don't read the quiz description accurately but once you do, it's very clear what you're supposed to chose- if you have enough knowledge about linguistics- that is.

honestly I feel that the previous commenter were right, the quiz is confusing. In my opinion the problem lies in the "doesn't belong" scheme: you should not use as a question the category to which ALL of the answers belong because this way one does not have any hint about the exclusion criterium.

The "explanations", instead are perfect: you just have to switch them as question: for instance I would rephrase Question 1 as: 1. Indo-european languages, question 2 as: West Germanic languages and so on...

Anyway, great idea, it is clear that you know a lot about this topic, may I suggest also to divide it into separate quizzes? 23 questions are quite a lot, maybe you could divide it geographically like: European languages, African languages etc...

Very interesting quiz, I learned a lot, thanks. 52%

I agree. 61% and learnt loads. Nominated.

Bengali is an Indian languages

Surely, it is! The question asks for the odd one out from Bengali, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi. All of them are Indian languages: three are Indo-Aryan languages while one is Dravidian.

A bit confusing in the start but after reading the description properly, I nailed the quiz. Maybe you should rephrase the title to "Odd One Out" or something like that. Great quiz, anyway!

Agree with the comments, the questions could be clarified e.g. "Which of these Germanic languages is the odd one out?"

Brilliant concept though.

Agree with everyone else. Great concept, it should just be made a bit more explicit that you're looking for the one that is least closely related.

Just want to say that, many of other comments notwithstanding, this was a good and interesting quiz. I mean, if it looks as all the languages in a question have something in common, then, yes, the quizmaster probably meant some other criterion by which one of them doesn't belong.