Saying "animal" with no qualifier (e.g. "imaginary") tends to indicate that it's a *real* animal, at least to me. Maybe "creature" would be a bit more ambiguous.
I did think that at first and wondered what animals even start with U, but then I remembered that I knew it was a unicorn. I don't think it's necessary to qualify that it's a fictional creature.
I doubt that there has been anyone that went: I know the animal on the scotland coat of arms is the unicorn, but ow, it doesnt specify it has to be an imaginary creature, so it probably isnt the answer.
That is like having a question, curved fruit starting with a b, ow I thought banana, but that can't be it, because they don;t say it has to be yellow..
If you know it, you know it. It even gives you the U. It is not name the creature, it shouldnt be made too easy. Like instead of national animal of australia, you would add marsupial/has a puch, a big strong tail they lean on and are known to "box". That really takes away from knowing the national animal and would be just about guessing the animal by description.
The problem with these analogies is that you have used adjectives, even in the first you use ‘curved,’ which doesn’t relate to the question or the original commenter’s point, which was that it simply says ‘animal,’ with no qualifier. ‘Curved’ does rather narrow down the range of possible answers far more than simply ‘animal.’ You know it, or you don’t. No dispute there, but with quizzes, you always have the option to guess.
I don't want to be "that" guy, but unicorns actually did existed. Not the Scotish type, though, but rather a wonderful beast called Elasmotherium sibiricum. It's a type of now exticnct rhinoceros, that was probably still alive during the ancient times. It was always deacibed as "an animalnthe size of a horse" and it was just some medieval idiot that fucked up and draw an actual horse with horn why we have the image of the unicorn we know today.
I don't know what you are talking about. Unicorns are real, just ask North Korea, they have a unicorn lair, just google it (even covered by the BBC/guardian).
Eh? Ireland and the United Kingdom are two different countries. You may be thinking of Northern Ireland, which is a constituent part of the UK, but not a part of Ireland the country, though it is on the land mass called Ireland. Either way, the UK is not another name for the northern part of Ireland.
Yea even if he mixed up the north of ireland and northern ireland, the UK is not a sub region of northern ireland, but northern ireland is a part of the UK
Ireland is also the name of the island itself though, and the UK does occupy the northern part of that island. I think the question is perfectly clear because it says "comprises," and I got it right without hesitation, but it's correct to say that the UK contains the northern part of Ireland, if you're talking about the island itself.
No it's not, Ulster contains the counties of Northern Ireland (part of the UK) but it also contains 3 counties (Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan) that are not part of the UK.
Upper Michigan aint right. I live in Wisconsin, right by Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois. It is Upper Peninsula. I have only heard "Upper Michigan" from foreigners..
"Yoopers" is a term for people from the U.P., as in "U.P.'ers". I have never heard "Yoop" used before. My in-laws live there and we go up from Chicago a few times a year. It's beautiful up there!
@mikeb if you you pronounce u it does start with yoo, but that is besides the point, he was merely enquiring and not asking it to be the accepted answer on the quiz
Of course UK is a country. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are NOT countries! They are just provinces/Sovereign states. But technically, the Government have stated that these places are actually countries by their own rights. Legomaster and tortosi are right.
Really, get your facts straight, they ARE countries, and they joined together in a kingdom. I think it is mainly americans that can't get their head around that fact, from the comments I read on this site. Maybe because they have big states, and their country is divided in states, so they somehow want the same thing to be applied to other places?
(like we arent called a country so neither should they? I am not trying to take a stab at anyone before I get the expected horrible replies, it is just an observation it IS manily people from america that do not seem to except it, and about why, that doesnt need to be the reason, but it is what I have gathered from several comments)
Many British commenters can't get their head around the fact that only because they call their regions "countries", that doesn't mean they are the same as sovereign countries such as France, the US, etc. Germans could do the same because we literally call our regions Länder = countries, some of which retained their independence longer than the UK countries.
Of course the UK countries are the same as US states in as they are semi-autonomous regions that, together, form an independent entity which is usually also called country, and which one could also call state. In fact, US states (as well as German Länder) have more extensive powers to govern themselves and are therefore even more sovereign than UK countries.
I'm all for adding Wales and Scotland to the countries of the world quiz, so long as you then also add all German Bundesländer ("Länder" means "countries"), and also some historical regions of France ("pays d'oc, pays d'oïl"), some vague geographical denominations in France ("pays poitevin", "pays bigouden"), as well as the country "Side" (as in countryside), the country "Kitchen Buffet", and every thing else that someone sometimes calls a country (Flavour Country?). Also, please add Planet Hollywood to the planets of the Solar System, as it clear is a planet (that's what it's called), and is located in the Solar System.
JackintheBox, it seems to be almost on every geographic quiz that talks about Scotland, England, Wales N.Ireland or the UK as a whole. It isn't as common however as Cyprus in Europe/Asia which seems to be almost everywhere on this site.
Congratulations! It's the first "Geography by Letter" quiz with real geographical questions! The others ask about historical facts or random stuff like names of stores...
They apparently also don't have a problem with the ukulele question. I'm just glad this is the first Geography by Letter Quiz where nobody had to post the link to the wikipedia article about human geography!
Good quiz! Two observations: 1. Usually, when part of the answer is in the clue, you don't need to retype it when answering. So the "stan" shouldn't be necessary in "Uzbekistan" (my finger are sooooo tired!). 2. I think this is the first time I've had to write all of "United Kingdom" instead of UK to get an answer right. I feel manipulated... ;)
I knew it was Upper P- something! Because I know they call them "Yoopers". I couldn't remember what the P stood for though. I tried "Upper Part" but no such luck XD
That is like having a question, curved fruit starting with a b, ow I thought banana, but that can't be it, because they don;t say it has to be yellow..
(like we arent called a country so neither should they? I am not trying to take a stab at anyone before I get the expected horrible replies, it is just an observation it IS manily people from america that do not seem to except it, and about why, that doesnt need to be the reason, but it is what I have gathered from several comments)
This is my favorite, thank you!