Since posting this comment, my oldest cities quiz has received an adequate amount of love. However, I've got this new abridged version that I think would be more accessible and enjoyable to the average person.
How about adding Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara and oldest being according to Jain principle. He was actually 592.704 x 10^18 years old. It would only be apt since Bible characters are presented in this quiz.
I still don't know how I got the stock market one. That's not a fact I know, but for some reason the correct answer was the first city I thought to try.
I read that one as 'country' and tried many variants on 'the Netherlands' before giving up. God knows how I knew that was the right country though, I must have dredged it up from some other quiz.
Fez, Morocco's university is oldest. Founded in 859, the link notes: The University of Al-Karaouine is considered by the Guinness World Records as well as UNESCO as the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world.
The modern university sprang from the Medieval university, not from madrassas. I believe there is a major distinction. That said, if you type "Fez", it will work now.
could you also accept it as Qarawiyyin, Qarawiyin, Karawiyin, Karaouine, etc? I haven't known it as "Fez University" and i tried several spellings before i gave up
Absolutely! He was number 1 in June 2018, a month and a half before his 37th birthday. Serena, who was born two months after Federer, has left the number 1 spot in May 2017.
Looks like Serena didn't break the record after all. It's still Federer, although Djokovic seems nearly certain to hold this record in a couple years provided he is allowed to compete.
This will indeed happen on April 8, 2024 (he is guaranteed to keep the No 1 spot at least until then), so this quiz could get an update when it happens (although maybe you should wait until the end of US presidential elections)...
What else would it be? Did you think that every citizen of Monaco was exactly the same age? The clue clearly says "oldest citizens" not "oldest citizen"- so it also could not be the age of the single oldest person in the country. It has to be an average.
It could conceivably be the country with the highest life expectancy, but if you look at the number you would know that that's not what it is, either.
It has to be. There are no children in Vatican City, and more than half the population is over 60 years old. I suspect that whatever source from which QM pulled that stat does not consider Vatican City a true country or excludes it from that metric because it has no children and no families. In any case, the average age there must be well over 53.
It's a commonly used qualifier since many times cities and settlements are built upon or near the ruins of previous cities and settlements. In this case, there were a few European settlements in the Americas before Santo Domingo, though not that many as the city was founded just 4 years after non-Norse European exploration of the continents began.
On other continents the same adjective is used and is in those cases more meaningful.
It could conceivably be the country with the highest life expectancy, but if you look at the number you would know that that's not what it is, either.
On other continents the same adjective is used and is in those cases more meaningful.