OMG Santa lives in North Pole! So America-centric! Nah, jk. It's just that Estonian parents tell their children that Santa lives near Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland in a house between two mountains shaped like ears.
The Irish are masters of understatement. A decades long conflict between Nationalists and Unionists in the North of Ireland (a civil war in reality), which got so vicious the British army had to be deployed, is officially known and taught in schools as The Troubles. Though I do think it should have a capital as it is a title.
For another example, the Irish refer to World War 2 as "the Emergency". It makes more sense than it appears to on first sight, as the ROI was in a state of emergency but neutral during the war. So it's less a term for the war, and more a term for the state of emergency. But it's a small distinction given how much they overlapped, and I've seen people call both things "the Emergency". And while a state of emergency is serious business, I think that also using that term for a global war is weird, because that is even more serious than the term would suggest.
Santa only lives at the North Pole at Christmas time, the rest of the time he is on holiday on a sunny beach of South Australia (I know that for I saw him taking part in a fun-run once)
I don't know if this only applies on mobile devices, but three questions are missing, some answers aren't appearing, and others are appearing in the wrong places.
I'm surprised more people don't get North Shore. Not because I'd expect they'd know it - I didn't - but because the answer is super easy to guess. Beach was gonna be my second attempt, and I never needed it.
Northumbria isn’t the ‘new name for Northumberland’. The county is still called Northumberland. Northumbria was the name of the ancient kingdom in the area and is still sometimes used to describe the general area of Northumberland/County Durham.
We seem to have slipped into an alternative reality: I definitely remember Northumberland (the county) being renamed "Northumbria" decades ago (probably at the same time that Cumberland got changed to Cumbria). But now it seems that this never happened!
Just wanted to let you know that according to the official North Face webpage, their name was based off of the north face of any mountain in the Northern hemisphere being the hardest to climb up. I realize that perhaps you used Mt. Everest as an example, but it seems some people have understood the aforementioned mountain's face as the origin of the company name, and I just wanted to clarify. Sorry if this just gave you no help but trouble instead, and thank you for the amazing quiz!
It's a good quiz anyway.
Maybe the Japanese economy but not their norms.
Japan is old fashioned, Japan has extremely high suicide rates among young adults and is arguably more racist than the USA.
As a Dutch person I would like to add that the Netherlands isn't as perfect as a lot of people see it as.
(And if there is any country we should aspire to be like is Iceland)
Like saying Grand Canyons.
fictional character. (Yes, I know that Saint Nicholas/Sint Nicolaas/Sinterklaas/Pere Noel/Father Christmas, or whatever else
you wish to call him probably existed, but he is dead and his many reincarnations are fictional)
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Santa Claus
North Pole
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Canada. You will get a response.
So the inclusion of Mt Everest is slightly confusing
Maybe use the north side of a mountain as a clue instead, or something along those lines