I studied in Madrid for a semester in college. I have never even heard of that river and had to look it up...turns out I lived like three blocks from it in Arguelles, sat in the very park it runs through, and attended class about four blocks from it at Complutense. I have no memory of this river at all. Shows how much my priorities have changed in the 14 years since I lived there.
So glad you could live there. Im from Madrid as well but I live in Pozuelo. I hope you had a great time here. Once you live abroad (from a spaniard point of view), you realise that there are not too many places as good as Spain in terms of quality of life (weather, cuisine, people...)
I am pretty sure I did write baghdad for tigris and spelled it correctly... not that it matters much, my score sucked anyway :P (I do not know all the capital... still havent gotten around to it.)
I did get dublin on a total guess. I felt it sounded celtic :)
Why would you think that any large amount of people would know of a random burrough called Sumida city? I would bet that not even most Japanese living outside of Tokyo would know that.
Exactly. I remember one quiz that asked for river flowing through Cambridge. You know... CAM-bridge. When pressing the give-up button, I was thinking "why on Earth would anyone reasonably expect people to know some random small river?"
Needless to say, I felt rather silly when I saw the answer. :-D
It is all about long rivers vs smaller rivers in this case. The smaller rivers probably wouldn't really be known if these were located in other parts of the world. But I get what you mean, it is a funny fact.
I did get dublin on a total guess. I felt it sounded celtic :)
Needless to say, I felt rather silly when I saw the answer. :-D
- Svisloch (Minsk)
- Sava (Zagreb/Belgrade)
- Kura (Tbilisi)
- Río Uruguay (Buenos Aires)