The question makes it sound like the name Madagascar is derived from the name Marco Polo instead of Mogadishu. Might I suggested changing the words "comes from" to something like "been named by"
(like you can say elephant comes from olifant. Or a better example "Mauritius" comes from Maurice/Maurits (of Nassau). Or "Kiribati" comes from (Thomas) Gilbert.
I find it a far-fetched etymology story and wonder how much truth there is in it, but that is besides the point :) (because it is not something the makers of this quiz made up)
I think there are too many questions not pertaining to Madagascar at all or concerning the surroundings rather than the country itself (islands bigger than Madagascar, Mozambique, Comoros...). There again, giving away the first letter for some words (baobab, lemur) takes away the whole challenge...!
I think the issue is that with countries like Madagascar, there's not a whole lot of common knowledge about them. Asking for Madagascar's president will yield like a 2% response rate. It's tough to find a sufficient number of gettable (to use a technical term) questions, so they probably need to add some geographic ones just to make the quiz a little more fun.
The gemstone question says that they are blue (which lots are, fantastic quality too) but they can be absolutely any colour. I've got lots of them stashed in a box, white, green, yellow, pink, purple...all from Madagascar. https://www.ajsgem.com/articles/madagascar-sapphire.html
I was there last summer when they reached the quarterfinals of the African Nations Cup. The party they had after losing 3-0 to Tunisia was truly incredible. I never heard anybody talk about rugby, but there was a match on television one night, so I guess that explains that.
I was thinking the same thing. I guess the quiz would classify it here as a "continent" instead of an islands. I don't know why, I feel like Australia should be on there too.
You can have your own interpretations, but Jetpunk counts Australia to be a continent, not an island. That should be consistent across all quizzes on this site.
Nice quiz! Though I don't think you really need to give the first letter in some of those clues (except maybe the elephant one). The other three are pretty much common knowledge.
there may be a technical difference but i’d say to most people ‘indigenous’ means the same as ‘endemic’ - maybe accept that? and i know it doesn’t fit the letter clue but those clues are needless
(like you can say elephant comes from olifant. Or a better example "Mauritius" comes from Maurice/Maurits (of Nassau). Or "Kiribati" comes from (Thomas) Gilbert.
I find it a far-fetched etymology story and wonder how much truth there is in it, but that is besides the point :) (because it is not something the makers of this quiz made up)