General Knowledge Quiz #184

Please accept also "ran a/one mile"

I lived in Wellington for five years without ever knowing it was named after Napoleon's nemesis. It took a guy in Seattle, decades later, to let me know.

I grew up in Wellington till I was 16, and was never taught at school about Napoleon. I only know this because I visited UK and read history books.

I live in New Zealand and didn't get the Wellington one... Not gonna lie, little bit disappointed with myself, I had no idea XD

pita is TURKISH

Nobody knows where any of the foods popular across the Ottoman Empire came from originally. Though that doesn't stop every formerly constituent country from claiming all of them- kebab, doner/gyro/shawarma, falafel, moussaka, and pita, apparently, as well. Hadn't heard that one before.

The fact that the word "pita" definitely comes from at least Byzantine Greek, and perhaps even ancient Greek, long before there were any Turks in Anatolia, doesn't do much for your particular argument in this case, though. I am, however, very impressed by your use of CAPSLOCK. (interesting aside for those who claim "pizza" was invented in Italy: pizza is just a Neapolitan degeneration of the word pita- a word describing a similar food already consumed in Greece for a long time before Naples existed; Naples having been originally settled by Greeks; but real modern pizza was invented by Italian immigrants in New York City)

Should I admit to having laughed out loud at "I am, however, very impressed by your use of CAPSLOCK"?

I figured that someone with Munchausen Syndrome would pretend to be the guy in the painting "The Scream"

Did Facebook really not pass MySpace until 2008? It felt like MySpace was dying by about mid-2006.