In my mind, Sheffield is indeed mostly associated with cutlery. I even have a set. My parents gave it to me believing, as many do, that Sheffield cutlery is among the best in the world (though I don't think much is made there any more).
The theater is called the Crucible and it only hosts one tournanment: The World Snooker Championship. Of course it's the oldest and most prestiguous snooker championship, and so some people would call the Crucible the Church of Snooker and the world trophy the Holy Grail of trophies that every snooker player dreams of getting. I know it doesnt mean much for non-snooker fans but for non-britons who happen to enjoy snooker and have never used a knife and fork forged in Sheffield's steel furnaces this is mostly what Sheffield means to them, especially since the steel industry declined there of late. For those wo'd like to know the final of the 2017 world championship was held just a few days ago and Mark Selby came victorious after beating four-time champion John Higgins.
Stat I heard from someone still involved in the trade is that Sheffield produces more blades now than ever, but a much smaller proportion is for general use. Lots of industrial cutting edges and the like
Possums, whereas I entirely agree with your point 1, point 2 is plain daft. As Ruudsje points out, Sardegena and Sevilla - which are the correct names after all - are perfectly acceptable. I would argue that anglicisation of other peoples' geographical entities is a pointless and ultimately ignorant thing to do.
Dude, it's five letters, not that hard. I get that people have trouble spelling complicates words like Reykjavik or Ljubljana, but that's like wanting to accept Loas for Laos. All four are unusual, but not all are difficult.
Oh dear! There isn't any references to America here! How sad you must feel. Wait, this is Europe, so there isn't supposed to be any American questions. Although my country isn't in Europe, it probably has more lasting ties, being part of the Commonwealth.
QM's job isn't to make people NOT get the answer. Switch Sheffield with some random town in Montenegro and literally less than 5% of people are going to get it. This quiz isn't about being "diverse" or "worldwide", it's about having answers that everyone knows. So if the majority of the answers are about Great Britain, so be it. Go make your own quiz called "European Geography by Letter EXCLUDING Answers that everyone should know and replacing them with things that nobody cares nor wants to learn about - S.
Why do you suggest that non British related questions must be obscure?
It has nothing to do with "diversity" (not that there's anything wrong with that) but all to do with making the quizzes less boring. Telling people to compile their own quiz instead is a lazy cop out.
Anyone familiar enough with European geography to get the Sheffield answer should also know the name of the longest river in Ireland, just to give an example of how it could be more wide-ranging.
Obviously it's not the quiz setters job to discourage people from playing by posing deliberately difficult questions, but basing nearly a quarter of all questions in a European quiz around one country is equally off putting.
As much as I love Britain and British related quizzes, the over representation of questions on the place in this series about Europe is tedious.
This particular category could well be renamed "European Geography by Alphabet, (with a chunk of questions straight out of a British tourist guidebook".
Ah yes, Switzerland has a long proud history of standing up for what's right ... oh wait, that's basically every other country in the world except for Switzerland. I always get those two confused!
You speaking of the neutrality which has literally nothing to do with isolationism. About 25% of the inhabitants are foreigners - not counting the ones who acquired the Swiss citizenship. In addition are the Swiss not in the EU, but has an agreement for the freedom of movement and Switzerland is in the European Single Market.
Switzerland does not stand up for "what's right" because it's a strategy to survive in the middle of European superpowers. According to the fact that Switzerland wasn't the speed bump of the Germans in both WW it's a successful strategy. And before someone want it to mention: Yes, Switzerland traded with the Nazis, which is a cause for the peace in WWII too.
However: Isolationist is a strong word. I'd use it for North Korea for example, but not for a Country like Switzerland.
Isolationists are not necessarily countries that do not allow immigration nor information to leak out of its borders. The US was considered an isolationist country prior to World War One. It was not very much like North Korea at all. Calling Switzerland an isolationist country is accurate; they did not want to get entangled in the affairs of the other countries of Europe.
I kept getting stuck on Sagrada Familia for the Spanish Catholic destination, but it is more of a tourist spot than a pilgrimage. Plus I don't even think it is even a Catholic property anymore.
Yes, it is, both geographically and politically, undoubtedly French - but having lived there for two years, I can confirm that it feels culturally extremely German!
Just to reopen the Snowdon debate. As of last November they have officially changed the name of the mountain to the Welsh name. So the question needs to be changed to either ‘former name’ or ditched. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63649930 alternatively the highest mountain in England still starts with an S
Great Britain is an island.
Here are some ideas : Schleswig-Holstein, Stuttgart, Silesia, 's Hertogenbosch, Skopje, Split
It has nothing to do with "diversity" (not that there's anything wrong with that) but all to do with making the quizzes less boring. Telling people to compile their own quiz instead is a lazy cop out.
Anyone familiar enough with European geography to get the Sheffield answer should also know the name of the longest river in Ireland, just to give an example of how it could be more wide-ranging.
Obviously it's not the quiz setters job to discourage people from playing by posing deliberately difficult questions, but basing nearly a quarter of all questions in a European quiz around one country is equally off putting.
As much as I love Britain and British related quizzes, the over representation of questions on the place in this series about Europe is tedious.
This particular category could well be renamed "European Geography by Alphabet, (with a chunk of questions straight out of a British tourist guidebook".
Switzerland does not stand up for "what's right" because it's a strategy to survive in the middle of European superpowers. According to the fact that Switzerland wasn't the speed bump of the Germans in both WW it's a successful strategy. And before someone want it to mention: Yes, Switzerland traded with the Nazis, which is a cause for the peace in WWII too.
However: Isolationist is a strong word. I'd use it for North Korea for example, but not for a Country like Switzerland.
plus Norway and Denark"
Denark? Should Denmark, right?
Great quiz though!
B.t.w., it's more of a "German city in France" than a "French city with a German name", even though it's changing rapidly to the latter...
Serbia: What am I, a potato?