Definitely needs more time, but great quiz. For "The Land Of The Aryans" I was trying just about every Nordic/northern European country, going on the lines of the Nazi 'Aryan Race' ideology... was a liiittle far off
Great quiz. I missed six, and when I saw the answers for five of those it seemed so obvious I wanted to smack myself. I would have never gotten Singapore, though.
If you like this one, try these by joez. http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/170770/capital-city-etymologies and http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/170770/capital-cities-name-etymologies-2
Peasy. There's always someone to brag how easy it was for himself as everyone else struggled. I am he. Let the pretenders utter their false time stamps and ages in reply, but I found this the peasiest of the easy.
Missed the same two again... I am amazed though at how extremely low the scores were for everything below 40% ( besides the two I mentioned) T o me they all seem quite self explanatory.
Doubled up on many of the same answers but included a few others missing from this one.
Maybe add it as an alternative spelling?
I dont think no matter how much more time I would ve gotten i would have gotten israel or singapore.
Thus they have high pride, but 2 shameful historical events, invasion by non-europeans, the arabs and the mongols.
Especially the Arab one was huge, as they had to adopt their language to a huge extent, and more importantly their religion.
When I worked in Tehran, my colleagues, and mansion owner, doctor used to say these things. Most common people like america as well.