Szechuan is the right spelling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan_cuisine). Actually more variations should be acceptable (e.g. shezuan, shixuan etc.) since it is a Chinese word.
Gentle reminder that a lot of people on this site are not American and to us it's barely a footnote in the history book of the world - if we've even heard of it before.
travelfan. He was joking. You may or may not have heard of this, but a common thing in the US is 'Remember the Alamo!' or as I saw in a comic strip once, 'Remember... remember.... Remember that place in Texas!'
I speak some spanish and I think he actually said: I SPEAK SPANISH AND I MESSED UP THE "NATIVE(LANGUAGE)" QUESTION, IT CONFUSED ME, I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS ABOUT TRIBES OR SOMETHING, F*CK!
Shinto is NOT an indigenous religion of Japan. The Ainu and Nivkh were there before the Yamato and Wajin. So you should either 1) amend your question to say "an ethnic religion of Japan" or 2) change the answer to "animism, shamanism, Ryukyuan religion."
Fair point, but might I suggest that it would still be more strictly correct to say 'A religion indigenous to Japan' -- this prevents conflation with religions of the Indigenous peoples of Japan.
It wasn’t clear for the South Africa question whether it was asking for a city or a country. I don’t pay much attention to sports and I couldn’t instantly tell the difference.
Singapore is NOT a micronation. Micronations are unrecognized political entities. They often don't have the required conditions to even be a state (territory, people, political power). For instance, Sealand is a micronation. Singapore is a microstate. A little state.
I think South Africa could have been the horn of Africa country though as well.
Horn of Africa = Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia
Cape of Good Hope = South Africa
Cape Horn = Chile