Multiple Choice General Knowledge #2

Shangri-La is a city in Yunnan province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_City

I stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel in Dubai. It was nice. But not as nice as the Atlantis and overpriced comparatively speaking.

I was not aware of the US/UK difference for judg(e)ment.

Judgment or judgement is used in UK, the former preferred in legal circles.

I've only seen it as Judgment in legal documents in the the U.S. It's considered a faux pas to spell it with an "e" in court filings in the U.S. Ditto what @plattitude said below.

Judgement is correct: poor choice for a spelling question.

I actually think it is a superb choice. Just because judgement is correct, doesn't mean that judgment is not, and vice versa.

I think that we should have more questions with words that have two accepted spellings just to torment people! Those that don’t know ax, gray, or travelling are acceptable will all be out for the count. Let’s rub it in their faces that the perseverance of the American and British empires has foisted this crazy language with arbitrary spellings upon the rest of the world!

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

Is the headscarf thing new in Iran?

Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has been unusual amongst Islamic countries in that it requires women of any religion to wear headscarves. Before that, the shah outlawed the headscarf. Sadly, there are many places in the world where people try to control other people's clothing choices. E.g. France outlaws burqinis (modest bathing attire); Quebec just prohibited public servants from wearing headscarves along with many other religious garments/symbols; last week security personnel at the British Columbia Legislature censured female politicians for having bare arms. However, this quiz question is not entirely correct -- in Iran a woman who shaves her head completely is not required to wear a headscarf.

We shouldn't conflate a government trying to control someone's clothing or body with a government trying to prevent others from controlling someone's clothing or body.

Good comment.

While not as bad as forcing all women to wear Hijabs, laws not allowing women to are violations of their freedom of religion. I think of women wearing Hijabs as being in an abusive relationship with them; it’s not the government’s job to intervene and break them up, rather it’s the job of her friends and (supportive) family members to convince her to let go of that loser.

Wan, do you feel the same way about laws against slavery? If someone is keeping a slave that they beat, mistreat, and force to do as they wish, is it just an abusive relationship and between the slave and his master to resolve? Because I've lived in countries where hijab was mandatory and women in some of those countries are essentially slaves. Transporting people from those countries to another place with different laws or traditions doesn't usually change the mentality or the nature of the relationship between owner (mahram) and property. If a slave is faced with a choice of obeying their master or being beaten or killed it's not a true choice. It's a complex and fraught issue but I feel like people from places that are little exposed to the culture that produces these things, like in the USA for instance, don't really understand it.

There is a big difference between forcing someone to wear something and not being allowed to wear certain things, more so when you are only not allowed to wear it at work.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/judgement-vs-judgment/

British English accepts both but judgment with no e is preferred.

I missed the Shangri-La one, too. I thought that I recalled it being a place recounted by Marco Polo that in reality was Chang'an (similar to Xanadu/Shangdu), but after finishing the quiz and looking it up I couldn't find anything to back this up. Seems it is entirely fictional. Did you find anything different?

https://www.alternatememories.com/historical-events/science/what-color-is-chartreuse

Chartreuse is a yellow/green but it would be very easy for people to put pink as some remember the crayola crayon that was chartreuse put a red/pink. Mandela effect...

I'm surprised only 36% knew how cemetery is spelled.

Are you the epitaph guy / gal too then?

Very surprised that so few people knew the correct spelling of 'cemetery'.

Yeah, cemetary just looks wrong.

That was my thought, English is not my language, but it immediately stood out and looked wrong. But reading the comments apparently the cause of the low score is mainly to be attributed to judgment/judgement, if there was another word instead of judgement the score might not be so extremely low. Still, having another word in there that apparently causes confusion is no excuse for not recognizing cemetery is spelled wrong.

but I guess people's eyes first saw the other one and didnt look any further to double check

Never in my life have I seen judgement written as judgment. In fact when I type in judgment to Google it corrects to judgement. Daft clue.