Groups of Eight Quiz

University of Pennsylvania is also part of the Ivy League.

Prepositions? What about postpositions or circumpositions?

Penn is in there... "Pennsylvania" is the University of Pennsylvania, though it should be corrected. People always used to ask me how the Nittany Lions were doing, and I always felt like a jerk correcting them.

Great quiz! I have one minor issue - on every other quiz on this site, "England" was never a permitted answer... I get is, since Scotland fields a team, but I kept typing in "United Kingdom" and "Great Britain" until time ran out! Still 82/88 ain't bad.

In football (or soccer, how ever you want to call it) England, Wales, Scotland and Northen Ireland, have each own football team, thus the world cup winner is England, and not the uk

There are only 4 IV league schools... hence the name IV league

Are you serious?

Yeah it's definitely Ivy. It has nothing to do with the roman numeral IV.

Rats! Couldn't spell Brezhnev!

Why isn't "West Germany" an acceptable answer?

I really need to learn the states/territories of Australia!

zero in the australia section. rabbit is the biggest idiot ive ever seen if he is serious and even if not, that's a terrible joke.

Got all the planets, all the world cup winners, all the Brady Bunch and all the Aus states/territories. But I got no Hawaiian islands and no parts of speech. No Hawaiian islands cause I just had no clue and no parts of speech because I had no idea what that meant. Now I do know I'm annoyed because I took linguistics for two years.

I had no idea what 'parts of speech' meant, I was trying things like tone, pitch etc. Had I known it was in regards to syntax I would have probably got most if not all of them! I think that category could be worded better.

I said united kingdom instead of england, that messed me up. And i typed "krushkev" instead of however it is really spelled and didn't get points for that. But i guess a 76 isn't bad.

Yay for Australia! NSW should be accepted for New South Wales if ACT is accepted for Australian Capital Territory. That parts of speech thing threw me too, I randomly put in 'verb' cos I was running out of ideas and then i figured that that's what it was on about...

Got all the Australian states, great lake states, planets and 6 world cup teams but failed on everything else. I had no idea what it meant by parts of speech.

Over a century ago, an interscholastic athletic league was formed by Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton. It was officially known as the “Four League.” The Roman numeral “IV” was often used instead of the word four and the term “IV League” came into use. When spoken, the IV was spelled out and sounded like “Ivy League.” Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and Pennsylvania were the major opponents of the IV league, but became in the early 1900′s members of the league. SOURCE: Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Just because it is written in a book does not make it true; there is no contemporary evidence of these four schools being called the ivies, to the exclusion of others, much less that there was a league called the IV League. The term came along later and was commonly applied to older schools, including the Naval Academy and West Point, that had long histories and (in some cases) ivied walls. You should always be suspicious of etymologies based on anagrams (outside of very recent ones, such as LOL and other leet phrases, and military ones, such as AWOL and SNAFU) and back formations, such as IV = ivy.

Suggestion: Please specify that it is "Football" World Cup Winners.

Thank you, ruudsje.

Kept on putting in U.K. I thought that was how they liked it called.

I did UK.

I think "UK" and "Britain" should work

Well stop thinking! ENGLAND won the World Cup, NOT Northern Ireland, NOT Wales BUT England!

Easy there batman

54/88, not bad for an 11-yr old English person. Good qiz - although I agree that 'Football' World Cup should be specified.

Got them all with 1 second remaining!!!

Here we go again. UK and Britain are just plain wrong! The team that won the World Cup in 1966 was England - Scotland didn't win it, Wales didn't win it, Northern Ireland didn't win it, UK didn't win it, Britain didn't win it, Great Britain didn't win it - England won it. Read up on your football - sorry soccer.

63/88... Hey not bad for me. I nailed the parts of speech by the way!

only 93% of people got "Earth" as a planet?? That's pretty sad.

Gregory Malenkov?????