I couldn't think of any cities in Kenya that started with C.
Also, my Egyptian co-workers would like me to point out that technically all people native to Egypt are Copts, not just Christians. Even though the term is rarely applied to Muslims or other non-Christians, it could be, at least according to them. Christians in Egypt are called Coptic Christians to differentiate them from Christians outside of Egypt.
I spent most of my time trying to figure out how I was mispelling "Creole". Turns out I wasn't. It should totally have been accepted; it is the name of a French ethnic group in Louisiana.
I think of hometown more as the place where you grew up. I was born in Merrifield but that's definitely not my hometown. I would say Centreville is, because that's where I was during my "formative years," from age 7-19, and then again from 22-25. I spent the first seven years of my life mostly in Manassas, but that doesn't really feel like home to me. and now my family all lives out in Haymarket.. there's nothing left (of my home) in Centreville. But I myself live in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Sometimes home can be hard to define. It means different things to different people.
I agree, and I live in Chicago. I don't think he even lived here until after college. He was in Hawaii, then Columbia University in NY for college, then I think he was a community organizer in Chicago for a few years before he went off to Harvard, and came back to Chicago after law school. In any case, "hometown" doesn't feel accurate. If you're looking for "Chicago" as an answer, there are about a million clearer clues from which to choose.
It's where he made his home. I'm sure if you ask him he does not consider Kansas, New York, Indonesia, or Washington his home. Maybe Hawaii, but I doubt it. Chicago is probably the best answer. and of course... if anyone says Kenya and is serious... ::groan::
Having lived here for another six years since making this comment, I suppose I am starting to come around. Chicago is where Obama has the deepest roots, even if he came here in his 20's. Also I'm super into Chicago and super into Obama, so I'm all too happy for the city to claim him as its own.
Well you are definitely making a mistake considering the definition of "Hometown" according to the Oxford Dictionary is "the town of one's birth or early life or of one's present fixed residence." The Obama's currently own a home in Washington DC and in Massachusetts. This clue does not make sense at all, sorry Quizmaster.
I mean, how do you want the question worded? The quiz is about geography beginning with the letter C, so it obviously isn’t Washington, Honolulu etc. I’m not from the US but answered the question with barely a thought. I’m fairly certain that everyone commenting about the definition of ‘hometown’ knows this, but just desperately need strangers to know how very clever they are. Besides which, they’d have to add about 10 mins to each quiz to give everyone enough time to read the questions if they applied such stringent exactitude to the formulation of each question.
I wonder if quizmaster would consider making a general knowledge/vocabulary quiz on the letter ‘P’ with the first question as follows: “Give a word for a person who has the the quality of being too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important?” And a second: “Name a word with the the following definition: “ the quality of being too serious and showing that you think you are very important:””
What's your source for the Cherokee being the largest tribe? Everywhere I look lists the Navajo as 9-10% larger. Most numbers have Cherokee around 285k, but Navajo around 310k.
Creole only applies to the language, not the people. Creole just meaning a language which has formed from two other languages merging for one reason or another, if you're interested.
A creole is more of a developed pidgin language - one which has developed into a systematically logical language - one which is generally inherited or acquired by children as their own native language. I've read the works of the linguistics and Ebonics professor John McWhorter extensively, and listened to his lectures. They are very enlightening on the subjects of pidgins and creoles; how they come into being, and how they develop into complex languages.
As for the world's biggest inland sea, I would say that's the Mediterranean. It used to be a vast desert until the strait of Gibraltar finally wore down enough to let the ocean in. Did you know it filled in less than a year?
I believe the erosion of the Gibraltar strait started with just a trickle of a stream which lasted for thousand or more years before a major breakthrough formed the Gibraltar Falls which then filled the remaining 90% to form the Med. as we know it in a year or so.
Definitions & meaning are key to this. The 2010 U.S. Census shows 286,700 Navajo & 284,200 Cherokee reported as single-tribe, American Indian only. However, broadening out to include people of two or more tribes, there were 300,500 Cherokee & 295,000 Navajo. And if you include people of mixed Native American & other race heritage, Cherokee total 819,100 whilst Navajo are just 332,100. To confuse the answer even further, 693,700 full-blooded Native Americans failed to specify their tribe! Bottom line - too confusing to call between Cherokee & Navajo - insert new question!
Cantonese is not a dialect of Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese are two different languages, although both languages could be referred to as Chinese it would be more correct to say the southern (or Guangdong) Chinese language or similar
Agree. Many European languages have far more in common with each other than Cantonese and Mandarin. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are vastly more similar than Cantonese and Mandarin.
As a speaker of both, I'll assure you that you are wrong. Cantonese and Mandarin share the same syntax and grammar, a shared lexicon, and a very similar morphology and phonology. Yes, the same word often is pronounced differently, but the similarities are obvious, and in most cases knowing a few general trends makes it easy to guess what the word will be in one if you know the other. They, along with Wu, Min, etc. are properly dialects of the same language.
As a Chicagoan I find it insulting to call Chicago hometown to people like Obama and Kanye west they were not born or raised in Chicago so therefore not from chicago
I would call the town in which I live at present my home town, even though I spent the first three years of my life elsewhere, and wasn't born here. It's more a question of what the individual would call his hometown, not what others from that place might think.
Would appreciate it if Carthago is acceptable to Carthage as well. (It even works on wikipedia, which seems to be our reference for everything) Thanks!
Former President Obama could have been born on the Moon; the fact that his mother was a native of the United States makes him an AMERICAN... punto final.
But even if you weren’t born in the US, if one of your parents were and you denounce your birth country’s citizenship, you can still run. That’s what Ted Cruz did.
You can be born outside of USA to American citizen parents and be classified native-born American, as is the case with all foreign service, Peace Corps, military, etc. In most countries such a newborn would not be considered a citizen of that country and therefore no citizenship would have to be renounced.
Depending on how you want to classify the Chippewas, Cree could also be the answer for the largest North American tribe. Roughly 110k Cree/Chippawas in the US and 200k in Canada. Nonetheless considering the category one of the two is correct and anyone with a basic knowledge would get it.
That being said, the question probably should either be rewritten or better replaced. Since it's all of North America the answer is either Aztec or Maya. Even if you limit to the US, there are probably enough "mixed" Hispanics in the the US that Aztec or Maya still would be the correct answer.
Creole is a language derivative of French (like Patois in Haiti and some other Caribbean countries). The ethnicities are: Cajun (specifically French ethnic group) and more specifically: Mulattos, Octoroons, Quadroons, etc. (depending on the percentage of African Blood you inherited). Of course, none of this is really applicable to the United States where even a smidgen of African
Nope, this is wrong on a number of levels. There are Creole Peoples and Creole languages, which are defined here: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Creole
And Creole languages are not necessarily French based, they can be based on the language of any coloniser, such as Berbice Dutch Creole (Guyana), Leeward Caribbean English Creole (Antigua and Barbuda), or Cafundo Creole (Brazil, Portuguese based).
And ‘mulatto’ is not an ethnicity. At best it can be described as a racial classification, but a very offensive and pejorative one describing people of mixed ethnicity, usually referring to a person with one parent of the colonising power’s ethnicity, and the other being of any ethnicity in the colonised country. Therefore two ‘mulattos’ living in the same country could have two completely different ethnic heritages but are grouped under the same term, for no other purpose than labelling them as “not properly one of us.”
Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and yet, is identified with Illinois. Why is it so difficult to accept that Barack Obama (born in Hawaii) chooses to be identified with Illinois?
Also, my Egyptian co-workers would like me to point out that technically all people native to Egypt are Copts, not just Christians. Even though the term is rarely applied to Muslims or other non-Christians, it could be, at least according to them. Christians in Egypt are called Coptic Christians to differentiate them from Christians outside of Egypt.
btw Obama was born in Honolulu.
I wonder if quizmaster would consider making a general knowledge/vocabulary quiz on the letter ‘P’ with the first question as follows: “Give a word for a person who has the the quality of being too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important?” And a second: “Name a word with the the following definition: “ the quality of being too serious and showing that you think you are very important:””
That being said, the question probably should either be rewritten or better replaced. Since it's all of North America the answer is either Aztec or Maya. Even if you limit to the US, there are probably enough "mixed" Hispanics in the the US that Aztec or Maya still would be the correct answer.
blood make you Black (that is, if you tell them).
And Creole languages are not necessarily French based, they can be based on the language of any coloniser, such as Berbice Dutch Creole (Guyana), Leeward Caribbean English Creole (Antigua and Barbuda), or Cafundo Creole (Brazil, Portuguese based).
And ‘mulatto’ is not an ethnicity. At best it can be described as a racial classification, but a very offensive and pejorative one describing people of mixed ethnicity, usually referring to a person with one parent of the colonising power’s ethnicity, and the other being of any ethnicity in the colonised country. Therefore two ‘mulattos’ living in the same country could have two completely different ethnic heritages but are grouped under the same term, for no other purpose than labelling them as “not properly one of us.”
At least I got the flat plain one...
Answer: Quite a few