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Country Quiz on a Map - United Kingdom
Hello mate! Let's test your knowledge about the UK (no Overseas Territories)! In this unique quiz, all the answers to geographical, historical, and cultural questions will be somewhere on the map. Have a good one!
Hmm. Mostly good. Bit random. I don't see why Sergio Aguero shouldn't be accepted as top scorer for one of Manchester's football teams, or why "Morning Glory" or a couple of other songs shouldn't be accepted as Oasis singles released in 1995. It's a bit more, "guess the answer I'm thinking of" than "enter a correct answer".
I love these 'country quiz on a map' quizzes. I have just done the UK one, the USA one and the France one. Excellent use of history, the arts, people and geography all in one! Thank you :)
Also can I suggest not using "this historical county" as for a while I thought you meant I had to guess maybe an old name for Yorkshire or a county that used to be part of Yorkshire. Maybe just change it to "here"?
I hear what you folks are saying, and actually I think the word "historical" should just be changed to "historic."
"Historical" to me implies that the thing no longer exists, which Ok sure: technically the county of Yorkshire no longer exists as it's been split up into four, but I don't think that's the most relevant aspect of this clue.
The fact that Yorkshire has a long and notable history is - I think? - the important bit. Which the adjective "historic" does a better job of communicating.
Enigma was cracked by Polish mathematicians. This fact is described even at English version of Wikipedia. There are British lies about this issue and many false propaganda, e.g. some well-known movies - exciting by completely false.
British lies? I think you're mixing Britain up with Hollywood. Bletchley park to this day has a memorial to the Polish codebreakers you mentioned and the machine the Brits used to crack the code was named in honour of their original work (which was used as the groundwork for what Bletchley Park did).
You're also ignoring that there were multiple versions of the Enigma code, it's correct to say that the Polish cracked the Engima code but it's ALSO correct to say the British cracked it. This is because the Germans updated the Enigma code in May 1940 to fix a security flaw that the Polish codebreakers had exploited, once that flaw was fixed the Polish solution no longer worked, so it had be cracked again by the British.
Just a couple of minor things - in the Alan Turing one, you want an extra W in WWII, and Bletchley is a (small) town, not a city.
Otherwise, amazing quiz!
Also can I suggest not using "this historical county" as for a while I thought you meant I had to guess maybe an old name for Yorkshire or a county that used to be part of Yorkshire. Maybe just change it to "here"?
"Historical" to me implies that the thing no longer exists, which Ok sure: technically the county of Yorkshire no longer exists as it's been split up into four, but I don't think that's the most relevant aspect of this clue.
The fact that Yorkshire has a long and notable history is - I think? - the important bit. Which the adjective "historic" does a better job of communicating.
You're also ignoring that there were multiple versions of the Enigma code, it's correct to say that the Polish cracked the Engima code but it's ALSO correct to say the British cracked it. This is because the Germans updated the Enigma code in May 1940 to fix a security flaw that the Polish codebreakers had exploited, once that flaw was fixed the Polish solution no longer worked, so it had be cracked again by the British.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester
"The consensus among historians of Anglo-Saxon England is that the court was mobile in this period and there was no fixed capital."
Colchester is the first recorded capital of England.
Windsor Castle is the longest occupied castle - not palace.