I wonder if the Greeks were conscious of birthing European Civilization. Did they stand on the coast of Rhodes and contemplate the great civilizational schism between themselves and those folks in Asia Minor? (while also relishing their brother/sisterhood with the Gauls?)
This is totally different than French Guyana which is French overseas territory. There is no "Greek" part in Cyprus. Cyprus is a totally independent country, a member of the EU. It just happens that its northern part is de facto under Turkish occupation.
"Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul not Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople, now it's Turkish Delight on a moonlit night, every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople, so if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be living in Istanbul.."
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Australia is right between Europe and Asia - just like Cyprus. Easy to get confused here. But seriously. The ESC is even less of an indicator what's European than the EU.
Israel also appear in Eurovision, and Morocco is a member of the EBU (the organization that runs Eurovision), yet they aren't European nations. Eurovision is a really bad way of defining what constitutes Europe.
I've looked at the map... Although there are more on the European side, there are literally millions of people who live in Istanbul and Asia. (edit for spelling)
Are you sure Constantinople crossed into Asia too when it was still called Constantinople? Modern Istanbul does but I wouldn't be so sure about its predecessor.
Yeah, about that... It accepted it just after "Caucas". I know a lot of names are accepted after the penultimate letter - which I don't really agree with - but leaving the last two out, and then having to delete those from your next entry? OK, why don't we just have to write Constantinop then, or Calcut, or Chittago, etc?
I think the reasoning was because some people who aren't too formally familiar with geography might call them the "Caucasian Mountains" or something. I think making fun geography trivia more accessible is worth the annoyance of having to backspace a few times.
…On the other hand, maybe it'd be better to throw them in the deep end so they don't learn something technically incorrect. Oh well! Regardless I'm sure the decision wasn't arbitrary.
You should specify urban or metro area for the second city of the Philippines question. By city proper, Manila is the second largest city after Quezon City. The answer you have is correct for the second largest urban are and metro area, but you should specify.
Yo QM, ur asking for trouble with the Philippines question. "Second city" I see as the second most populous city, which is Manila since Quezon city is first. If you mean second most economically important it is Davao since it is the largest on the second largest island of the Philippines. Of course, none of these starts with a c, so you can eventually guess Cebu. Fix this chief.
Aside from all the Cyprus talks. Isn't the Philippine town called Cebu City, while Cebu being the island it's on? It's just a technicality, since it would follow the "Vatican/Panama/Djibouti/etc." precedent of accepting just "Cebu", but you know how we jetpunkers are. ;-)
Okay, for the Cyprus issue: Cypriots and Greeks are very very close and similar to each other. Same language (although Cyprus has it's own dialect and distinctive pronunciation), same religion, same culture more or less. They are different countries, but Cyprus' culture shares more traits with the broad European culture that the ones of Africa or Asia. Politics don't make sense, here you have Israel in the Eurovision and Turkey in UEFA competitions. That doesn't have any impact on a place's history. Back in the 70's Cyprus was invaded by Turkish forces that took control of the northern part of the island, but that's not to say that Cyprus is a Asian nation or whatever. That would be like saying that India was a European state when it was under British control! And I do know what I'm saying, I'm Greek...
I'd go one further: Cypriots are not just similar to Greeks, they actually *are* Greeks. The fact that they are now in different countries is a historical accident: if Greece had handled things better, Enosis would have happened long ago. Both Greeks and Cypriots were in favour of it!
It amazes me how many obscure Chinese cities we are expected to know, yet there are so few answers that ever deal with France or Germany, among many others Western countries.
If you want French or German cities in this quiz, look at the title. If you are complaining generally, then well... yeah, who cares about the obscure 10 million people city where paper money was invented, home to several historical kingdoms, a world heritage site, and one of the busiest airports in the world. Or the other one: who is expected to know a city that, depending on your count, is merely the largest in the world with the size of Austria, has not one but two UNESCO world heritage sites and served as China's capital during World War II. You can also go through lists of quizzes that exclusively deal with French or German answers. The only countries that are more represented on Jetpunk are the US and perhaps the UK.
You could have looked it up and found out that Chongqing municipality has 82,403 square kilometers. Granted that stretches the meaning of "city" but that's why I added "depending on your count".
Judging by the number of people who got it right, I might be a minority but I didn't put two and two together and realize that you were asking for the term of a person from the country in the previous question. Can you include in brackets or something that you are referring to the term of a person from the country in the previous question? I kept typing "citizen" thinking you meant the term used to refer to a person from any country.
When you say "second" for the cities, do you mean second-largest? There are two questions asking for the second city of a country. Also, a lot of these are historical geography.
…On the other hand, maybe it'd be better to throw them in the deep end so they don't learn something technically incorrect. Oh well! Regardless I'm sure the decision wasn't arbitrary.
But yeah there were a lot of "formerly called" questions on here…
"Term for a person from that country"
Judging by the number of people who got it right, I might be a minority but I didn't put two and two together and realize that you were asking for the term of a person from the country in the previous question. Can you include in brackets or something that you are referring to the term of a person from the country in the previous question? I kept typing "citizen" thinking you meant the term used to refer to a person from any country.
Then I misread it as "Former name of Sri Lanka," typed Ceylon, and got another answer.
Finally, I read it correctly, and incorrectly guessed Chennai, giving me another answer.