Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen). With the number of heirs Queen Elizabeth II has, I don't think we can easily accept the Virgin Queen as her nickname.
First I was like "why would anyone name a town after a nudist?", then it occurred to me that naturalist means someone who studies the natural sciences.
Surprisingly, Texas doesn't need to be included in everything. I think this quiz is too US-centric even as is, and you're advocating for making it worse... I'm guessing because you're Texan and you never want to shut up about Texas.
I think there is plenty of material to makes this series go on for quite a while (though ofcouse it will get increasingly obscure, because people wont know the towns with a few thouand people or less.)
Never heard of the city in New Zealand named for a British Admiral. Fortunately, I only know one British Admiral and it happened to be the right one! ;)
I've definitely heard of Wellington, which was named for Arthur Wellesley (The Duke of Wellington). I think there used to be a question about Nelson, New Zealand, which was named for Admiral Horatio Nelson.
imo this should accept both the person and the thing. in all of these cases they're close enough that to get one you can be sure someone's got the other. first few i was thrown off when e.g. amerigo vespucci wasn't working
I think "America" should at least be a type-in if not the correct answer for #3. It's commonly known as one continent in many places and, y'know, it's the part that's the name of the chap.
The concept of continent has multiple definitions in many different areas, and it's usually an arbitrary concept that relies on usages that vary from place to place.
The six continents model is studied in many parts of the world. All countries that speaks Italian, French, Portuguese or Spanish as first language use this model.
There is no correct answer, as the criteria used to define a continent has more to do with a convention than actual geography.
I thought the Vespucci idea had long been blown out of the water. America was named after Richard Ameryk, the Bristol merchant who paid for Cabot's 1498 voyage (pre-dating Vespucci). You would be living in Vespuccia otherwise - think of Bolivia, Colomba, Marshall Islands etc.
I had never heard this theory before. The Wikipedia page on the subject says simply that "there is no strong evidence to substantiate [the] theory that Cabot named America after Richard Ameryk," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas#Richard_Amerike, while the page on Ameryk notes that there is no evidence that Ameryk or any other Bristol merchant funded Cabot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Amerike#Richard_Amerike_and_John_Cabot. As for naming it after Vespucci's first name, he was apparently known as "Americus," a Latinization of his first name; the book that accompanied the first attested use of "America" in 1507 stated "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas#Earliest_use_of_name. The Ameryk theory has nothing similar to support it.
He did famously say "I am only Irish insofar as anyone born in a stables is a horse" or something along those lines (can't remember the exact quote), so he'd probably not take too kindly to you referring to him as Irish.
There is no correct answer, as the criteria used to define a continent has more to do with a convention than actual geography.