Unfortunately for people from outside the Anglosphere, many quizes on this website are anglophonocentric and the difficulty of some questions relating to the USA or UK is so high for people from outside these cultures, that if you gave an equally difficult question about a place that barely has any Jetpunk users, I bet less than 1% of Jetpunk users would know the answer to many of those.
Though I understand that this is the English language section of Jetpunk and the quizes can't be too easy for people from the USA or UK too.
Can you accept Humber, as Kingston-Upon-Hull sits on the point where the two rivers meet, so although it technically does sit on the river Hull, I believe Humber should also accept it as a lot of sources list it as being on the Humber. Otherwise, great quiz!
8/20 (40%) of all the questions are UK related. For UK you need to know every small detail, for the other countries just the name (Hrvatska, Holland, Hercegovina, Hungary). I guess the author is British, but this quiz is way too much UK-centered.
Why don't you give us some examples of what quetions to use instead? Something that at leas 1/3 of people would be able to answer, not that you would be zoomed in on a map, looking for some random village names or something.
Ok, here are the suggestions to make the quiz a little less UK-centric: Helsingør is a Danish city where Shakespeare's Hamlet takes place - that's why the castle is called Elsinore in the play (the actual name of the castle is Kronborg). I think that could make a very interesting question. Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, is Germany's oldest and one of Europe's most reputable universities. Huelva is a city in Spain, home to Recreativo de Huelva, the oldest football club in Spain, founded in 1889. Haarlem is a city in The Netherlands, quite important in the 16-17 century, which gave its name to a very well known neighborhood of New York. Halle is a German city with a well known tennis tournament, one of the rare tournaments to still be held on grass. Haliacmon is the longest river in Greece. Is that good enough?
P.S. I am not a psychopath, so I didn't suggest Hungarian city of Hódmezővásárhely, but that's also a nice place, I've even been there...
I doubt that a third of English JetPunk users would get any of those you suggested (with the possible exception of Haarlem, but probably only if 'Harlem' is accepted as a type-in).
Well that's too bad. I am not a huge geography nerd, and it was all from memory (not all the data of course, but I've googled the things that came to my mind). And if they can't answer these questions, than they just have to admit they aren't that good at a quiz appropriately named "European geography by letter - H", which they took of their own free will. I've missed 96 at a featured quiz named "100 largest cities of New Zealand", but I really don't intend to complain about that. It was what it said it was.
Because in most quizzes you don't have to. Usually, we only need to write "Bosnia", and auto-fill does it for us. So it's nice that for once, we are forced to write it out - and accept our spelling shortcomings!
The Hague definitely does NOT start with an H, in dutch it is Den Haag or 's Gravenhage (the article has become unrecognizable and fully integrated into the name). The Hague starts as much with an H as New York starts with an Y or Los Angeles start with an A (or even less so) or Buenos Aires with an A.
There's a difference between New York and Buenos Aires on one side, which very much start with a N and a B and then Los Angeles and The Hague where it can be argued that they start with an A and an H respectively when you ignore the articles.
And why should you ignore well established parts of a (English) name? It is "Los Angeles", even in Russian language where there are no articles at all!. (Though The Hague is called article-freely "Gaaga" in Russian... :-D )
Because it is normal to ignore articles when compiling an index or dictionary and also if you don't in quizzes, you end up with an awful lot of places starting with "T" for the, L for La etc.
In the US, there is a region called New England, but no state called New England. There is a region called the Carolinas, which is North and South Carolina together. Holland can be both North and South Holland.
The Scottish Highlands are such a beautiful abd serene place, where one finds an occasional pond, castle, or a herd of Highland cattle. I went there several years ago.
Highland cattle are cool.They've been importing them to the US for decades and there's an American Highland Cattle Association now. Thank you, Scotland.
Seems like the guy who did that is British, there's like 6 questions about the UK that are extremely specific but zero mention of countries even like Italy or Spain
Though I understand that this is the English language section of Jetpunk and the quizes can't be too easy for people from the USA or UK too.
For me, it is amazing that more people knew Scottish archipelago than Hermitage.
P.S. I am not a psychopath, so I didn't suggest Hungarian city of Hódmezővásárhely, but that's also a nice place, I've even been there...