The small Tescos are OK if you're a tourist, which I was, but I wouldn't want to regularly use the larger stores. Waitrose is much is nicer, you get treated with respect there.
Ouch. I finally know what it feels like to be on the other side of the "this quiz is too America-centric" argument. I had absolutely no chance of getting (or even taking a guess at) the UK grocery store. Oh well, 19/20 ain't bad.
I remembered it was a short "t" word with an 'o' from just being in London for a couple days. Couldn't get Tesoro out of my mind, though. So close. Agree that it's not "general knowledge." Great trivia, though!
Tesco is present in a bunch of countries, not only in the UK.
What's funny is that I'm so used to the site being US-centric that I typed "walmart" twice before reading the question again. I wouldn't even know Walmart if it wasn't for this site :D
I've shopped at Tesco locations in Saudi Arabia and Romania before, I'm sure, probably among other places. Both Tesco and Wal*Mart are entirely valid questions on a general knowledge quiz.
As a non-Brit, Tesco was definitely my first guess. I don't even remember seeing Morrisons or Asda while in the UK. If Tesco hadn't worked, I'd have tried Sainsbury's then would be out of guesses.
I looked it up, out of interest, and 2018 market share of the top 5 was:
1. Tesco - 27.4
2. Sainsbury's - 15.4
3. ASDA - 15.3
4. Morrison's - 10.3
5. Aldi - 7.6
Frankly I am surprised ASDA is so close to Sainsbury's, as I'm fairly sure I've never seen or heard of them, but perhaps I have and am just forgetting.
I guessed Sainsbury first. Realized it had to be Tesco when that wasn't right. Not a Brit but I used to spend a lot of time in London. Sure miss those days.
You might not have noticed Asda as much because Sainsburys and Tesco do "local" shops which are smaller shops on the high street selling their products. Asda don't do those as far as I know so unless you live near one of their big supermarkets you probably won't see them most of the time (same for Morrisons and Aldi).
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Same. I tried almost those exact same terms, as well as others. Also, Bermuda borders the western part of the Sargasso, and Bermuda is almost nothing but shoreline; so, I'm not certain the question or the answer are quite accurate.
Beach will work now. I also added land boundary as a type-in. However, land and edge aren't correct. The Sargasso Sea does have an edge, and no seas have land.
The currently accepted type-ins are shore, coast, beach, land border, land boundary, and land boundaries.
How was the extinction of the dodo "observed as it happened"? No one realized that it was going extinct. No one noticed that it had gone extinct. Some people thought it was a myth that it had ever existed! The dodo was discovered while Mauritius was uninhabited, and disappeared unnoticed, probably finished off by invasive species while there were no humans on the island.
I thought you were referring to the well-known story of the passenger pigeon, which went extinct before the world's eyes. There were 3 to 5 billion of them, and they were rapidly hunted to extinction between 1870 and 1890. The last wild pigeon was shot in 1900, and the last captive died in 1914. That extinction was observed as it happened. The extinction of the dodo was not.
Definitely nothing to write home about.
What's funny is that I'm so used to the site being US-centric that I typed "walmart" twice before reading the question again. I wouldn't even know Walmart if it wasn't for this site :D
Other than that not to bad.
I looked it up, out of interest, and 2018 market share of the top 5 was:
1. Tesco - 27.4
2. Sainsbury's - 15.4
3. ASDA - 15.3
4. Morrison's - 10.3
5. Aldi - 7.6
Frankly I am surprised ASDA is so close to Sainsbury's, as I'm fairly sure I've never seen or heard of them, but perhaps I have and am just forgetting.
Also, what about "oldest alive" or "old age" or something? I tried things like that too.
Thanks
The currently accepted type-ins are shore, coast, beach, land border, land boundary, and land boundaries.
I thought you were referring to the well-known story of the passenger pigeon, which went extinct before the world's eyes. There were 3 to 5 billion of them, and they were rapidly hunted to extinction between 1870 and 1890. The last wild pigeon was shot in 1900, and the last captive died in 1914. That extinction was observed as it happened. The extinction of the dodo was not.
Since shorelines is just defined as: "the line along which a large body of water meets the land", so shorelines with islands should also count?
Maybe the answer should be more specifically "a land boundary'?
What do you think QM?