Groups of Two #3

Could you possibly accept ilyad for the Homer poem?

My own pairs quiz.

Nice work having two different "OJs" in the quiz.

Maybe add some more spellings for Odessey... odysey... I mean....Odyssey?

My Latin teacher, Miss Rosebrook, would say "It is very odd to spell Odyssey with two 'd's and it makes me ill when I see the Iliad with two 'l's."

I read this comment a year ago and it apparently stuck in my head, because today I used this heuristic to type the names correctly. It's really helpful.

Madinah for Medina? I've seen it translated both ways.

This is the common spelling now. Makkah for Mecca.

For non-american people you should accept "his wife" for OJ Simpson ;)

I had no idea of her name, but lucky for me, just "Simpson" was accepted.

Yeah, I tried "his wife" as well.

@MrKenny I actually tried that :D

It's called the Wiphala. It's a flag that represents the original people of the former Inca Empire. It's also a secondary flag of Bolivia.

Would be enduring grateful if you could make carpel acceptable for pistil, or even accept gynoecium, since carpel is the basic unit and gynoecium is the overall apparatus, merci :-)

Yes, a flower can have one or more carpels, Pistil is just the collective term for the Carpel/s.

Laozi was lazy. Then Daoism.

I understand why they don’t accept it, but it would just be so pleasing to write Kongzi and Laozi.

Why is it Phobos much more known than Deimos? I mean, the percentages should be about equal, shouldn't they?

Maybe it is because of the spelling, I found myself trying Deymos to work

I tried about 10 moons but none of them belonged to mars... but I think phobos might be higher because it reminds of phobia. And deimos is not as easily relatable.

It was a little US-centric though to be honest. Still a good quiz.

I entered orange, then oranges, but no cigar - can you accept these please?

I'm not sure if I wouldn't include Sun Tzu as one of the most influential philosophers. Not a traditional philsopher, true, but his philosophy of war has been influential for thousands of years and has shaped the world in many ways and is taught and studied to this day.

You clearly forgot the Battle of Schrute Farms.

The Battle of Pepperidge Farms remembers.

There are three holly cities in Islam you forgot Jerusalem

If only this were a quiz of "groups of three!"

see comments above. Mecca and Medina are the two holiest cities in Islam. The 3rd holiest is not even agreed upon by all Muslims.

I had never heard of the tale of two cities..... BUT SOMEHOW, I read biblical cities as British cities, guessed London and thought the other must be near by so guessed Paris. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT.

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF A TALE OF TWO CITIES.Try reading the classics.

Amen to that, ander!! Read it. Watch the Ronald Colman B&W movie version. Something!

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.....It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."

I thought of barrista haha, knew it wasn't that but something like it. Couldn't get the right word. Same with Sucre, tried sucra even Sucry. Also stem and stam for seamen (stamper in dutch, so the word is close, but still different, not just anglicised like usual. (Like straat becomes street, huis becomes house etc)).

But the odyssey one bothers me. I wrote odyssee. I know it is an English quiz but it is like an international word. And most countries write it without an y (usually an -ee sound or -ea). And you pronounce it like -see right? Not -say (and it is odyssEUS not odyssEYUS ;) )

All I could think of for the Simpson answer was Ron Perlman. Sigh.

Pretty sure the Battle of Schrute Farms was fought on Union soil.

thought it might have to change because of trump but the highest height I found for him was 6'2.6" which is probably why he rounds it up to 6'3" and apparently his driver's license says 6'2".