Yea, that surprised me too. Cars 95% and geopgraphy 46%. Ok the geograhy wasn't superobvious perhaps, but antipodal was a good clue here.
At least as suprising I found the Chemistry one. Osmium... surely that points you in the right direction. Even if you are bad at naming elements, it simply sounds like one. And it has the word period.. as in periodic table.
I ended up getting two wrong, the sport one, and the poetry, I was about to change it when time ran out.
Nice quiz. However, I do think Atmospheric Science is a valid answer for the last question. Both the Coriolis effect and Humboldt current are often associated with weather patterns and winds in the atmosphere as well as oceanography.
Thanks. While those words could refer to atmospheric science, gyres almost exclusively refer to the ocean and the Ring of Fire has nothing to do with the atmosphere.
Good quiz. Had to read some of those questions a few times to really think about the wording. Not to be that guy, but I've never heard of a sweeper position in football/ soccer. Played both football and rugby all my life, and none of those terms were consistent, so assumed it was basketball.
It's an outdated term. In the 70s teams would have one defender further back than everyone else, called the sweeper. The offside rule used to be different - you needed 2 defenders between you and the goal instead of 1 - and when they changed it the sweeper suddenly became outdated. But it's where the term "sweeper keeper" comes from.
You still do need two players between you and the goal Gokpor, don't forget the keeper.
I didn't know that it used to be three (usually two outfield and the goalkeeper but not necessarily) so I looked it up. I think it was changed to two fairly early in the 20th century, it was certainly two when I started going to matches in the 60s.
Anyone who played field hockey in the 60s/70s will remember there having to be three defenders between them and the ball...etc.
Definitely a word that was occasionally used on my soccer teams growing up in the US in the early 2000s to describe something similar to a Center Back.
I was a bit sceptical when I first saw the title but I enjoyed the quiz immensely! I even did much better than I expected. Some of the hints were really tricky and it wasn't easy to make the right decision but looking back now it all makes sense. The timing worked exactly right for me - just enough to get to everything but not too much to be able to ponder over the answer for too long. Thank you! :)
I liked this. I have a pretty broad knowledge of weird topics. Happy with 14/16 but the two I missed, I had it down to 50/50 and picked the wrong one on both. I would love to see more of these.
Good quiz. A couple there I had no clue on, and a few where I had it narrowed down to an ‘either or’ and had a 100% record in picking the wrong answer.
Pedantic point, Q11, can you replace “soccer” with ‘football’ or amend it to ‘soccer/football’ or ‘football/soccer’? The sport is known as football pretty much everywhere else in the world.
There most certainly is but teams very rarely play with one nowadays. Players such as Franz Beckenbauer and Franco Baresi were masters of it and I have even played the position myself but to a much poorer standard.
This is such a bizarre comment. Google Franz Beckenbauer, Matthias Sammer, Franco Baresi, Ruud Krol, Ronald Koeman... even Lothar Matthaus and Ruud Gullit.
If it has to be someone British try Mark Wright at Italia 90.
the Khayyam et al. one is misleading. The other clues all use technical terms pertaining to the respective subject area, while this just listed famous mathematicians, so I thought this would be epistemology, i.e. philosophy. Surely it couldn't be hard to come up with some technical babble in the style of the other clues that actually has to do with math.
As an alternative to the existing clue, I suggest: "Under Stephen Smale’s horseshoe map, the points in orbits that fall within the original square form a set whose horizontal and vertical components are homeomorphic to the Cantor Set." (Source: 2019 Chicago Open question set).
Sweeper really threw me off. I've never heard that term in football, since we don't use it. It is only used to describe a "Sweeper keeper", a goalkeeper playstyle where the goalkeeper goes farther up the pitch.
Sweepers are a real position in football, Franz Beckenbauer was one of the greatest sweepers to ever play. They are essentially players that stand behind the centre backs so that a defender or keeper that isn't great at passing can easily pass the ball to an attacker rather than hoofing it up field and hoping it finds a teammate. They've gone out of fashion these days because defenders and keepers tend to be good at passing now, so there's no need for a specialist at the back that knows how to attack.
About sweeper. When I learned English football positions as a non-native speaker, I saw also sweeper. I interpreted that the difference with centre back (CB) was sweeper's position and role as a last lock of defense before goal keeper, as a player who sweeps the ball from dangerous area. If sweeper has liberty to attack, the word is synonymous with libero.
Exactly right. They aren't that common any more because most teams only play with one central striker (so the second CB is often spare), and also there tend to be two defensive midfielders so the sweeper isn't needed so much.
I don't love including "sweeper" in the soccer one.
I'm aware of sweepers, but that position and that term have largely died out.
Using "sweeper" in the example for soccer is about as appropriate as mentioning the "W-M" formation. Technically correct, but purposefully deceitful and borderline absurd.
I love this whole series and the questions are really awesome. Very diverse very interesting. Btw, being a Geography Major, I found the last question confusing cuz Coriolis Force and Humdolt current are atmospheric phenomenon which is also an option but of course the Ring Of Fire is associated with Oceanography. Eitherway it could be both Atmospheric Sciences or Oceanography so maybe change of the options.
When I was a kid playing soccer in the 70s and 80s, it was common for coaches to arrange the defense in a diamond with a sweeper and stopper. Absolutely no one plays like this anymore, opting to use the CBs in more of a flat back line. Long story short, "sweeper" is very much a soccer term, albeit one that only historians are going to remember soon.
10/16. i'm honestly surprised more people didn't get the oceanography one. coriolis, ring of fire, currents??? i don't know what the coriolis effect is and i barely understand ocean currents but that one felt pretty heard of to me
FYI, "am" should be capitalized in the title, because it's a verb.
At least as suprising I found the Chemistry one. Osmium... surely that points you in the right direction. Even if you are bad at naming elements, it simply sounds like one. And it has the word period.. as in periodic table.
I ended up getting two wrong, the sport one, and the poetry, I was about to change it when time ran out.
Have not heard of gyres, initially it confused it with gales. (english is not my native tongue), but like I said ring of fire sealed the deal.
*falls of chair and faints*
I didn't know that it used to be three (usually two outfield and the goalkeeper but not necessarily) so I looked it up. I think it was changed to two fairly early in the 20th century, it was certainly two when I started going to matches in the 60s.
Anyone who played field hockey in the 60s/70s will remember there having to be three defenders between them and the ball...etc.
8-16: *perspiring heavily*
Pedantic point, Q11, can you replace “soccer” with ‘football’ or amend it to ‘soccer/football’ or ‘football/soccer’? The sport is known as football pretty much everywhere else in the world.
If it has to be someone British try Mark Wright at Italia 90.
Well at least nowadays.
Modding out a ring with a maximal ideal gives a field.
or
A Noetherian ring satisfies an ascending chain condition, while an Artinian ring satisfies a descending chain condition.
or
A graph is called a forest if it contains no cycles. A tree is a connected forest.
I'm aware of sweepers, but that position and that term have largely died out.
Using "sweeper" in the example for soccer is about as appropriate as mentioning the "W-M" formation. Technically correct, but purposefully deceitful and borderline absurd.
I like the idea that a government could be stuck in perpetual check, and that Brest-Litovsk was some great artist.
The sweeper one is perfectly fine - it's in the past tense anyway, so there should be no complaints there. Super quiz!