Zaire is still a country. Only its name changed, nothing else. That answer would belong in a quiz about countries which had changed their names at some point (e.g., Burma, Burkina Faso, etc.).
amazed that Vermont was the lowest percentage answer as there are only so many candidates for the 14th state and "this website is soooo American oriented" :)
Amazed that Vermont is included as a valid independent country. NO other country recognised it as independent - not even the new United States! You might as well include Hutt River Principality, or Somaliland (though it still exists), also not recognised by any other country.Suggest replacing it with another more valid and recognizable independent country.
Or even just the Roman Empire, technically that's correct. It only started being called the Byzantine Empire by historians many centuries after the fact.
Indeed. I tried Roman Empire and also Byzantium before scratching my head and having a rethink and typing Byzantine (which was accepted on its own) Empire.
'In 2014, they voted against independence', hmmm, who could that be I wonder to myself (ignoring the 1707 clue) ... facepalm when I realised I actually voted in the election...
Wow quite a coincidence, just yesterday (evening and I have just woken up) I read about Dahomey, no idea how I ended up there, was clicking through wikipedia pages. I had actually strangely not heard of it before (while I do know Zanzibar, Rhodesia, Zaire etc)
The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist monk and the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. A llama is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
Very good quiz I also like how you included Manchuria however you could have included more countries such as: South Yemen, Malaya, Tanganyika, Austria hungry, Saar, United Arab republic, South Vietnam, Triest and Orange free state.
Before it was Zimbabwe it was known as Southern Rhodesia to distinguish it from Northern Rhodesia, which became Zambia. The story is a little more complicated than that, but you should at least allow for Southern Rhodesia (currently it does not recognize it) and use the full name in the answer.
Rhodesia does not fit the criteria - the state still exists, with exactly the same borders, just a change of name and government. Same issue as would be if Dahomey, Upper Volta, Zaire or Burma were to be included. Suggest replacing it with any one of a number of other former countries which are no longer sovereign. Like Biafra, South Yemen, or Gran Colombia.Or even Hawaii.
No, technically, it split into 5; Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The country that must not be named (FYROM), and The Union State of Serbia and Montenegro. Then later in 2006, a Montenegrin independence referendum split S&M into, well, Serbia and Montenegro. Then Kosovo became a self declared state two years later, with limited recognition.
In Scotland sovereignty has always been with the people, not in a government or a crown. Which is why the Queen/King would be 'Queen/King of Scots' rather than 'Queen/King of Scotland.' So as long as there are Scottish people (most in Scotland would describe themselve as 'Scottish' rather then 'British' according to census information), it is very much 'sovereign'. Perhaps the word used to describe whether a country is internationally recognised or not needs to be changed?
The description says sovereign. They were countries, sure, but they were part of the German Empire. It's similar to Scotland, England, Wales, and the United Kingdom.
I am interested in Karnag's opinion above. However the fact of the matter is that the by the act of union in 1707, England and Scotland were united as one Kingdom under the name Great Britain. It seems rather romantic and anachronistic to view the monarch as Queen or King of Scots or of English, or even of Irish for that matter. It is true that sovereignty by our modern lights indeed lies with the people, but for the UK that sovereignty is expressed through the UK parliament.
As a strict legal definition the UK legislature is described as "the Queen in Parliament". UK monarchs must give their assent to all Acts of Parliament for them to become law. Assent hasn't been withheld for more than 300 years, but it's still a requirement.
I got confused between the dates and clues. Sometimes I forgot was the date meant and thought it was the date of the event in the clue... Maybe I should go sleep.
Only before independence. When Zambia acheived independence, the name Southern Rhodesia became Rhodesia. The problem with using it in this quiz, is that if as Rhodesia it was not independent, it does not fulfil the criteria of the quiz. If it was independent, then it should still be excluded, because it still exists, with a change of government and name. In any case, it is not a former independent country.
It is ironic all the debate about Macedonia and the Greeks passionately claiming it and Alexander when the Ancient Greeks definitely didn't consider Macedonia part of Greece and described its people (Philip and Alexander included) as barbarians.
Right up until they were conquered by the 'barbarians' who suddenly became Greek
I just think it's bizarre that a man, however impressive, that lived 2300 years ago could inspire genuine hostility between countries. I think it's childish when I see grown men fight over sports teams, but the notion that these countries are still actively disputing where someone was born 23 centuries ago is both amazing and very sad.
Prussia still existed as kingdom during the German Empire. The Kaiser was both the Emperor of the Germans and King of Prussia. Considering that other countries like Zanzinbar which was under British soverenty are included on this list, Prussia's end date should be changed to 1933 when the Nazi's took power and rid of the country.
Never in the quiz did it say that Zanzibar was an independent nation. It only said that the territories that were considered Zanzibar and Tanganyika controlled by the British combined to form Tanzania.
According to Wikipedia: 'The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces..'.
Byzantium refers not just to the city but the empire as a whole.
If you're going by the de facto loss of independence from Wales (i.e., its conquest), surely the case should be the same for Scotland (i.e., when the crown was joined with England under James I/IV)? Or go by both their official, de jure, political unions (Wales was in the 1530s, under Henry VIII).
In school we learned that Vermont was not one of the original 13 colonies but I don't remember if they ever specified that it was its own country at one point.
correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Prussia's end date be 1867, when it joined the North German Confederation? 1871 was when it joined the German Empire
This is just me being pedantic, but the state of Mengjiang (sometimes known as Mengkukuo) was also a Japanese puppet in northern China during WW2, lasting until 1945, and should be an acceptable answer. Sorry to bother you in 2023, QM.
I'm Welsh, and I didn't get that one.
A two 'l' llama, he's a beast.
A three 'l' lllama is a big fire.
With apologies to Ogden Nash
Did you read the description?
"That's just where he lives."
I add my two pence worth to get it going again.
It is ironic all the debate about Macedonia and the Greeks passionately claiming it and Alexander when the Ancient Greeks definitely didn't consider Macedonia part of Greece and described its people (Philip and Alexander included) as barbarians.
Right up until they were conquered by the 'barbarians' who suddenly became Greek
I think this is right, correct me if I'm wrong.
According to Wikipedia: 'The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces..'.
Byzantium refers not just to the city but the empire as a whole.
I'd like another couple of minutes
Of some sort that combines them