It's up to 5% now, but I'm still astounded by how low that figure is. I guess it probably helps that I've been there, but I had thought that it was a well known site.
Still rididculously low (especially looking at the other stats, it is not like people did bad on this quiz overal) was really surprised. And I wonder how much of that rise all the way up to 15 was due to this comment thread
Isnt it like one of the first mayor landmarks/ building you learn about? you got the pyramids+sphinx, the colosseum and this.. (plus the confusingly similar looking and written parthenon) (and later on the eiffel tower and maybe a brief mention of some other of the 7 wonders of the world)
I missed Forbidden City. I said Forbidden Temple, that was just a total guess - I didn't think I was actually close with that. Kicking myself for missing Notre Dame. I've been there, but obviously I was at the front, so the angle threw me off.
C'mon all you "That ain't 'Big Ben'" complainers! You know that it is the preferred answer even if technically not accurate. I'm sure you regularly relish in correcting everyone who makes this world changing mistake just so you can prove how superior you are.
It's not about being superior, it's about being correct. Many of the people who visit this site I'd imagine are sticklers for being precise, and it really is a big deal. Call it incurable pedantry or a form of autism; if you don't have it, you probably wouldn't understand
Rhubarb!...... the people who pick on any thing they can find to pick on are the 'Unbeatable Jetpunk Nitpickers'...... found over and over again nitpicking over Holland, Burma, Big Ben, Greenland, Pluto, UK (England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland), Oceania/Australia and many other little nit that they can pick.
Not to mention those that think the status of Palestine, Cyprus, Taiwan and Crimea on these quizzes is part of the Quizmaster’s dastardly treaties he makes with sinister world leaders, funded by George Soros, while he cackles inside his hollowed out volcano. Only the latter part of which is remotely true.
Sigh. There were a lot where I knew the city but not the name of the monument. "That square in the middle of the Vatican" and "The cathedral adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow" didn't quite cut it.
Why do I keep thinking it's called the CNN tower? Sorry everybody in Canada/Toronto. Thought I had the wrong tower when that wasn't accepted. Accept just "CN" ? No word really starts with that and if you get it right that far you already know it's a tower and which one it is.
Well, that reminds me of the time that the Atlanta Braves (owned by CNN's Ted Turner) played the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. When they played in Atlanta, the guy bringing out the Canadian flag carried it upside down. Possibly a diss reflecting Toronto's failure to name their tower properly.
Please accept Red Square for the last one, even though I got it. We associate the onion topped dome more with Red Square than St Basils Cathedral (even though they're less than 0.1 miles away from each other.)
I've now been to 13 of these. I'll visit the Vatican in the Spring making 14. I would like to visit mainland China sometime and I love SE Asia so I'll probably get to Cambodia sooner or later... not sure if I'll ever be in the middle of the Australian Outback, though.
Pantheon shows 0% / me 100% but at least two people have it right, if I read the comments right. Not sure how it is calculated but it does feel impressive
The Pantheon shows up as being guessed right 10% of the time for me. Maybe it somehow glitched and was reset to 0 at some point. And I'm also happy to not be ignorant of Washington, which is a city worth visiting and knowing about.
Different thing. Though many people often confused about this. The raised platform is known as the Temple Mount. To Muslims it is the Haram Al-Sharif. But the Dome of the Rock is near the North end of it, while the Al Aqsa Mosque is all the way over on the South end. If you know the place you shouldn't get the two mixed up. If they would accept an alternate it should be Haram Al Sharif/Haram esh Sharif. Not AlAqsa... that's incorrect.
Was the Pantheon just recently added in lieu of another landmark? JetPunk is rife with geography and history nerds. I don't believe that 96% of quiz takers on this site would get that one wrong.
I know there is a building in Paris called the Pantheon, but it looks nothing like the building in the picture. It's square not round like the one pictured here. The round one in the picture which is also called the Pantheon is in Rome and is about 1800 years older than the one in Paris. I'm not sure how the Parthenon fits into the discussion about the Pantheon, but it is actually one of the buildings shown in the photo for the Acropolis in this quiz and you're right about it being in Athens.
What on earth has paris got to do with it? We have a restaurant here called Sphinx, but I wouldnt put that as the answer, since that is not shown in the picture.
And I still really dont get it, what does something by the same name in paris have to do with the picture. You see the picture you remember the name. And then go no that cant be the answer cause something else excists by that name? It is not like the countries are given either..
I am really confused about where the confusion would be according to your argument.
There definitely is *a* Pantheon in Paris - I should know, I live right by it - but in almost every way, if we were to speak about *the* Pantheon, it would be hard to deny that the one in Rome, being 1800 years older and more architecturally significant, takes precedence. Anyway, none of this is relevant to this quiz, but I did enjoy writing it, so there's that.
More than I know important buildings with authentic columns like this ... which is ... 2 .. parthenon and pantheon.. (wrote authentic columns, and important buildings, cause I am sure there are plenty of villas/mansion or something that have pillars on their porch)
Ow and that carving into a rockface at petra (but isnt really a building and obviously different)
While I agree that it should be allowed for a type-in, Big Ben is not the official name of the building. It is called "Elizabeth Tower", with the bell inside being called the "Great Bell" with Big Ben being a nickname for a bell.
Huh? Do you have a source for that? I'm pretty sure the biggest ruin on the Acropolis is the Parthenon, the name of which is derived from "παρθένος" (parthenos) in ancient Greek, which means young girl of virgin, a nickname of the goddess Athena. You can find the same root in "parthenogenesis", which is a form of asexual ("virgin") reproduction.
It took me a while on Notre Dame, simply because apparently I have only seen it either in cartoon form or at night. In the daylight it looks like many Central American churches that I have seen!
Can you add Elizabeth Clocktower as a type-in for 'Big Ben'? Technically it's the right name, everyone just knows it as Big Ben. That's like accepting LA but not Los Angeles
Isnt it like one of the first mayor landmarks/ building you learn about? you got the pyramids+sphinx, the colosseum and this.. (plus the confusingly similar looking and written parthenon) (and later on the eiffel tower and maybe a brief mention of some other of the 7 wonders of the world)
have seen the eiffel tower, tower of pisa and sagrada familia though.
Is this the back according to you ?!?
Angkor Watt, Forbidden City, Lourve, Acropolis, St Peters square, Sears/Willis Tower, and the space needle.
And I still really dont get it, what does something by the same name in paris have to do with the picture. You see the picture you remember the name. And then go no that cant be the answer cause something else excists by that name? It is not like the countries are given either..
I am really confused about where the confusion would be according to your argument.
Ow and that carving into a rockface at petra (but isnt really a building and obviously different)
Also, Notre Dame picture needs to be updated.
I'm guessing the other half gave London Bridge as answer!