Yes, this is the case, thought its status was somewhat disputed depending on the context (the true situation is sometimes complicated, as it is for some states today). In my opinion Jetpunk would probably consider Tibet an independent country until the invasion and occupation by the PRC in 1951.
In our modern world, we have a pretty solid taxonomy of what a country is, with a healthy smattering of edge cases and ambiguities to resolve. This taxonomy really breaks down the more historical you get, and in a quiz like this I wouldn't expect to be very strict about it. William Wallace's home country is Scotland, and the Dalai Lama's home country is Tibet, even if these are only countries in some non-sovereign sense today.
Only missed hijab. Great quiz, but in the future will you please refrain from adding any words which I do not know so I can get a perfect score? ( I'd hate to think I learned something new today.) ;-)
Strictly speaking, the Magic Flute is not a classic opera (although by general public it is widely regarded as such), but a singspiel, which means that the narrative passages between arias, ensembles and choruses, which in an opera proper would be sung in recitativo, are spoken. Maybe it would be better to chose another well known example?
Dang, missed udder. Just drew a complete blank. I guess I didn't ever think of a cow's udder as being an organ, per se. Now if you had said "cow boobs".... :-P
I'm not familiar with "The Magic Flute." Is that a notable opera? I'm far from an expert, but I've never heard of it. Thankfully I was able to figure it out after I had filled in everything else by just thinking of 5 letter words that started and ended with the right letters.
It took me forever to think of "tilde". Even though I know the word, I needed the first and last letters, plus 2 minutes to think of it. If it were above an ñ, I would have gotten it right away... but by itself it spurs thoughts of "about" or "approximately".
Strictly speaking, modern haikus are not real haiku, but real haikus don't need to have 17 syllables. They need to have 17 "on" or morae. "On" can be loosely translated to "syllable", but traditional Japanese, as far as I know, doesn't have diphthongs like English. Meaning a word like "cowboy", which has two diphthongs, would actually count as four "on". So what I'm saying, long story short, is all the haikus you've written in English are probably wrong and therefore awful. Just awful.
Well, when english's not your first language, you may never have heard of "zilch" (that's my case), but still know about haikus, which have the original name in every language.
Plus, I knew "Joaquin" stood for Joaquin Phoenix, but I had absolutely no idea he had a famous brother.
In our modern world, we have a pretty solid taxonomy of what a country is, with a healthy smattering of edge cases and ambiguities to resolve. This taxonomy really breaks down the more historical you get, and in a quiz like this I wouldn't expect to be very strict about it. William Wallace's home country is Scotland, and the Dalai Lama's home country is Tibet, even if these are only countries in some non-sovereign sense today.
... that's just what popped into my head.
at "APPLE"!!!
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2011/09/24/what-is-the-essence-of-modern-american-haiku/
It's snowing on Mount Fuji.
Plus, I knew "Joaquin" stood for Joaquin Phoenix, but I had absolutely no idea he had a famous brother.