Types of Things #1

Ergh, I kept putting server for browser!

For real, I put search engine

Can you allow permit for visa? Thank you :)

thought of that as well

what's a tourist permit?

What is Nickel...thought there was nickel coins(usa) and the element? Others were good clues though.

It's the former. Those are three types of American nickel coins over the years.

I put ache though! =,( can't that acceptable?! PLEASE! I be ur freind!

it's exactly what it sounds like

I have not heard of a "wooden nickel", but I figured it out based on the other clues. This is the case for many of the clues.

It's from an old US saying: "Don't take any wooden nickels." Since a nickel is a US coin (made of metal, of course), it basically means "Don't let yourself be cheated."

I kept try "booze, alcohol, cocktail..." whoops.

man i was on a roll with this one...100% with 3:00 left

Bebop, free, and swing are all types of dances, too.

I tried that too, but I feel like bebop in particular is more well known as a form of jazz than as a dance style.

Tried that too!

Quizmaster, please accept search engine for the Chrome, Safari, Opera question!

Or Utah.

Got em all. Great quiz. Don't need to change a thing.

Anyone else thought 'I've never heard of a tennis player called Panama or Fez'? :)

Please Accept Search Engine for Safari, Chrome, and Opera

Please accept Web Browser for Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Oh wait...

they aren't search engines

it amazes me how little people know about the tools they use every day.

google or bing are search engines

I agree a 100% but you may get used to it on here. Far far too many quizzes have a question that you would only get if you lived/grew up in North America. It doesn't get frustrating at all.

Just because you don't know something doesn't automatically make it ridiculous. And if you want more diverse questions, them make some yourself. This is a fun quiz, not something to get so worked up over.

I'm not from that country and wasn't around during that time period and I knew the answer. Maybe just accept that you don't know some things, try to learn from it and move on.

Imagine being expected to know trivial information on a trivia website! The NERVE of some people!

Knowing information gives you an advantage. And there's no reason why it's impossible for you to know this information if you weren't born in the United States. You could be a numismatist, you could have read something at some point in your life, or you could have acquired the information somewhere else. In spite of this, you get people (mostly Brits, it seems, occasionally an Australian or some other European) constantly complaining about how it's *impossible* to know virtually anything that pertains to the United States. This is 1) wrong 2) obnoxious and 3) obviously the product of bias. I've seen many, many, many questions on this site that you would be more likely to know the answer to if you were British, or European, or Chinese, or Brazilian... never or very rarely seen anyone complain about those questions. So, no, he doesn't have a point. He's just whining, inaccurately, and getting backed up by Algernon who does the same thing on almost every quiz he ever takes.

I guarantee that if Germany ruled the world, you'd have to answer questions about Mettigel, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Daniela Katzenberger and German Ratespielmeister would not care about your complaints.

I guarantee you if this was the case far fewer of those complaints would be made by Americans. I dunno. Maybe if this rule had gone on for 50 or 60 years and people around the world had had time to build up some irrational hatred toward all things German. Meet me back here in 2150 and we'll check to see who's complaining about questions on Chinese currency.

I understand where the sentiment comes from. People take little stuff pretty seriously if it has a social meaning, and that's the case with trivial knowledge. Large parts of the internet feel like an inside joke between Americans and as a foreigner that makes you a bit of a misfit. You have nowhere to go where you are in on the joke. Being an outsider is one of the worst feelings for humans. Here it mixes with already established anti-Americanism, which has less to do with trivia knowledge but also roots in a sense of inferiority. Hence the strong reactions. I doubt Americans will be much different when their time comes.

Was proud of myself for getting jazz

I was not.

That's a really strange wish considering they are two completely different things. A browser can interpret HTML, javascript, and CSS and render a webpage. A search engine is a web page that can be visited by using a browser, in order to find other web pages.

But most people call it a search engine so why the jargon?

A SEARCH engine does searching, a browser allows you to BROWSE the internet. The names are not backwards at all.

The "jargon" was simply part of the explanation. You say that "most people call it a search engine" I completely disagree with that, this comments section is the only place I have ever seen anyone make this mistake, and just because a lot of people are wrong doesn't make it correct. The difference between the two isn't even subtle, it's a fundamental difference. A search engine is a website you can visit that searches for other websites. a browser is a piece of software that displays websites.

NO!!!!! that is just plain wrong

Accept search engine for browser

Accept search engine for browser

Could you accept dance for jazz?

I don't consider swing or bebop a jazz form. Certainly not swing, which was ushered in by Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, et al. Its a big band genre.

Search engine = web browser? What do you think?

Clearly, a lot of people do not know what browsers and search engines really are. That's fine; I just think it's interesting that people assume the quiz is wrong without knowing what they're talking about when it's quite easy to find out (using a search engine...)

I find that people also don't know the difference between a screen saver and desktop wallpaper.

I thought it was common sense until i read this xD

I got number 6 wrong because "sun" wasn't excepted. Not to be rude, but I find this ridiculous considering that "star" would be a more Earth-centered, arrogant term for it in the first place. So, please accept it.

The sun is what we call the star we orbit around.

(Earth)