I don't understand why type ins for countries are accepted at all... Particularly when hiding behind 'regular misspellings' as an excuse. Why don't you grow up and become literate?
Also, spellings change over time in some places. For example in Britain it is labour, in the US it is labor - who's entitled to say one is correct and one is misspelled? Letters are dropped sometimes - when I was young the capital of Indonesia was Djakarta instead of Jakarta. At what point does one spelling become incorrect? Language evolves all the time, and with it the "correct spellings". Some things are obvious, but I like correct answers being the focus rather than correct spellings unless it is a spelling quiz.
English is not my first language either. However, when taking an English-language quiz, I assume that most, if not all, of the answers will carry the English spelling (with the notable exceptions of Cote D'Ivoire and Cabo Verde, for instance)! - If you can't manage to
memorize the English spellings, don't take the quiz... I would NEVER attempt a quiz in Russian!) - Though I suspect that many
of the complainers are native English speakers who are just too lazy
As for the matter of allowing misspellings for countries or not I am a bit on the fence or in two minds (I think that is the saying right, not a native english speaker, sometimes saying pop in my mind after only having heard them a few times so not always sure if I remembered it correctly) on the one hand I agree with Mufc and Ander and ♡ their comments. But on the other hand I think it is a missed opportunity to learn the correct spelling (in English)
Somehow I feel stronger about learning the correct spelling of (for?) countries than of cities, I guess countries are more known, and less of them and more important to know and, I don't know *shrug*
Besides misspellings, some acronyms are just QoL and And as mentioned, there are some variations like Turkiye, Cabo Verde, etc that are common and perhaps more apt than the JetPunk name.
It's on the equator and it's very close to being on the prime meridian - I don't know about its territorial waters but it looks like it doesn't quite stretch there.
Since there's no universal way to define the hemispheres of longitude, that makes Sao Tome very close indeed to being an island country spanning all 4 hemispheres.
Especially because "four" hemispheres is a contradiction in itself. There are only ever two hemispheres (hemi- meaning 'half'). This'd better be called four quarters of the Earth.
I cannot disagree more. There are 4 hemispheres--one for each of the compass points--divided by the Equator and Prime Meridian/180 longitude. In a 3D world, there really ought to be 6, using another dividing line of 90 E/90 W Longitude, but such a line adds little practical value (possibly a dividing line for where "East Asia" begins?).
'Four hemispheres' sounds wrong because hemi- means half: you can only have two halves of a whole. But the point is that the world is often divided into hemispheres in two different ways (the northern and southern hemispheres, and the western and eastern hemispheres), and in both cases Kiribati straddles the dividing line between the two hemispheres. So the question does make sense, though perhaps could be better worded.
@plattitude that is like diving a circle, or anything basicly. The money on your bank account into 4 halves. You cant... if you half something you have two parts..
That's kind of a ridiculous statement, of course I can. There's the half in my account that I earned, and the half my wife did. There's also the half that is available to spend, and the half that is emergency use only. There's the half that will go to my favorite child when I die, and the half that the rest will have to go through an elaborate series of riddles to claim a share of...
What you're trying to say is that you can't have four mutually exclusive halves, but no one is claiming the hemispheres are that.
Alexander was born in Pella. Pella is an ancient city located in Central Macedonia, Greece, best known as the historical capital of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon in the time of Alexander the Great. On the site of the ancient city is the Archaeological Museum of Pella. Wikipedia
Therefore this question probably needs replacing now (or the clue more fine-tuned to match North Macedonia - maybe "Birthplace of Mother Teresa"?). When the country was called "Macedonia" the clue would have made sense, but there would be no misconception that Alexander was born in North Macedonia.
Cheating yes, and screwing with the statistics for other people definitely! But self delusion, in this case i would have to disagree. In both cases you say ah there are two answers i dont know the answers to, let me look it up. In one case during and the other after. As long as you know for yourself how well,or not, you did on your own..
only if you claim/tell yourself that you knew them all it is delusion. Otherwise there isnt much difference in studying the things you áfter you took it the first time and thên retaking it. Or do you think if you retake a quiz you are delusional aswell?
still it screws with the statistics, so please people just retake quizzes if you want perfect scores.
(Btw it is a whole other scenario if you look everything up without trying and testing your knowledge to the limit first. There is absolutely no sense in that)
ow and i wonder,do you think (random) guesses are better. Is it cheating trying more than once per question? (Is a genuine question, not sarcastic or rhetorical). Most people dont look up stuff (unless you ask a cynic, they think 90 % of the people cheat, because they scored low themselves..) but i dont think there is a single person on jetpunk that didnt try an answer they werent 100% about on a quiz. So it is not knowledge then but guessing. (In some cases not even educated guesses, but like typing all the european countries for a european question)
I don't like cheating (even though I have a few times) and it messes with the stats, but it's up to each person to decide what is cheating and what isn't, or if one even cares. These are my personal rules.
Cheating:
Looking up any answer I don't know while taking the quiz (or asking my husband.) I admit to having done the latter a few times on sports quizzes.
Mining the comments for answers.
Reading over the clues and thinking of answers before clicking Start. (I've done it. I'm not proud of it.)
Writing down answers before retaking a quiz.
Not cheating:
Looking up a spelling as long as I know the word but just can't get the right spelling - Schwarzenegger, for example.
Typing random answers or guessing.
Retaking a quiz immediately after taking one. It helps me imprint answers on my brain and it has nothing to do with boosting my points. Okay, okay, I like getting the full five points, but it also helps me remember so this one is both.
Depends on my mood. Sometimes I'll do none of the things ander described even if I don't know all the answers. Sometimes I'll do some. Most common for me are looking up spellings when I'm sure I know the answer just to check if I'm typing it in wrong, scrolling through the comments if there's still time left on the timer and it's a quiz with a bunch of answers to type in, or if it's a quiz I've taken multiple times and am trying to master I might look at the answers or ones I've missed in the past and try to memorize them and then take the quiz again (which does not affect the stats). I've never written answers down except when I was trying to memorize all the country capitals. I sometimes ask my mom if she's in the room. I don't care what anyone else does. Whatever is fun for you.
and to respond directly to stone - for some people looking up things you don't know is an effective way to learn something. It's not like we're competing for prizes here or anything.
I agree with ander mostly, except that I only look up spellings when I know a correct alternative/foreign language spelling, and usually let a day pass before taking a quiz aga in. But yeah, it's up to each person.
Why would you look things up? OK, if you want to learn and remember the answers, do the quiz for a second time after having a true test first time. This is what I do. If you want the points you can collect them, AND learn by doing the quiz over and over again. The only tough one on this quiz (for me) was the religion-based one, but I got it eventually after several guesses in the Middle East.
So any thing that starts with the following:
E
Any amount of Rs
A, E, or I
TR
E or I
A
Therefore, both ERETRIA and ERRRRRRRRRATRIA work.
English is not my first language either. However, when taking an English-language quiz, I assume that most, if not all, of the answers will carry the English spelling (with the notable exceptions of Cote D'Ivoire and Cabo Verde, for instance)! - If you can't manage to
memorize the English spellings, don't take the quiz... I would NEVER attempt a quiz in Russian!) - Though I suspect that many
of the complainers are native English speakers who are just too lazy
or feel to entitled to have to conform.
Somehow I feel stronger about learning the correct spelling of (for?) countries than of cities, I guess countries are more known, and less of them and more important to know and, I don't know *shrug*
It's on the equator and it's very close to being on the prime meridian - I don't know about its territorial waters but it looks like it doesn't quite stretch there.
Since there's no universal way to define the hemispheres of longitude, that makes Sao Tome very close indeed to being an island country spanning all 4 hemispheres.
What you're trying to say is that you can't have four mutually exclusive halves, but no one is claiming the hemispheres are that.
only if you claim/tell yourself that you knew them all it is delusion. Otherwise there isnt much difference in studying the things you áfter you took it the first time and thên retaking it. Or do you think if you retake a quiz you are delusional aswell?
still it screws with the statistics, so please people just retake quizzes if you want perfect scores.
(Btw it is a whole other scenario if you look everything up without trying and testing your knowledge to the limit first. There is absolutely no sense in that)
ow and i wonder,do you think (random) guesses are better. Is it cheating trying more than once per question? (Is a genuine question, not sarcastic or rhetorical). Most people dont look up stuff (unless you ask a cynic, they think 90 % of the people cheat, because they scored low themselves..) but i dont think there is a single person on jetpunk that didnt try an answer they werent 100% about on a quiz. So it is not knowledge then but guessing. (In some cases not even educated guesses, but like typing all the european countries for a european question)
Cheating:
Looking up any answer I don't know while taking the quiz (or asking my husband.) I admit to having done the latter a few times on sports quizzes.
Mining the comments for answers.
Reading over the clues and thinking of answers before clicking Start. (I've done it. I'm not proud of it.)
Writing down answers before retaking a quiz.
Not cheating:
Looking up a spelling as long as I know the word but just can't get the right spelling - Schwarzenegger, for example.
Typing random answers or guessing.
Retaking a quiz immediately after taking one. It helps me imprint answers on my brain and it has nothing to do with boosting my points. Okay, okay, I like getting the full five points, but it also helps me remember so this one is both.
Agree/disagree? Do you care?