City Where It Happened #1

Had to guess on cholera but everything else was pretty easy.

well you are just a superstar

I'm not bragging. I'm offering feedback to the quiz maker as a way of showing appreciation for the quiz, while at the same time hoping to provoke conversation with other less oversensitive quiz takers about which questions they found difficult or easy.

Only if you read it incorrectly. I've noticed some people seem to react to all such comments the same way. Those left by me and others. Some kid will remark "hey I did well on this quiz! yay!" and then someone else will swoop in with "nobody CARES! GOD! Why do you have to be such a jerk!??" going on for 20 lines like this.

I have some theories as to why this is. Maybe insecurity. Maybe high levels of distrust or suspicion of other people's intentions, and an overeagerness to attribute to malice or something else unpleasant actions that are neutral or benevolent. A lack of empathy? Or.. could be projection in a Freudian sense. People who are braggarts, whiners, or attention-seekers themselves will see other people commenting who are none of those things and make assumptions.

Online comments are usually made with no tone, no cadence, no mannerisms, no non-verbal cues. Keep in mind the way a comment sounds to you when you read it has a LOT to do WITH YOU.

Another odd phenomenon I've observed: people reading and commenting in the comments section who seem to be annoyed by all comments, almost regardless of content. Since the large majority of people choose to never comment at all, I'm guessing these people are a vocal and particularly judgmental subset of the normal silent spectator type of person, who view making any comment as needlessly showy, or somehow disturbing the peace, like the kid in class who can't stop interrupting the teacher.

I find this confusing, though. As... if you don't like reading comments and are here only for the quizzes... why are you reading the comments??? It's not required.

There's an interesting bit about John Snow and cholera generally in Bryson's book At Home.

I missed the Ali fight location. I remember very well the Thrilla in Manila, but I don't think there was as much hype for the Rumble in the Jungle. Or maybe it only seems that way now because Manila was in the title, which made it easier to remember. With all the coverage surrounding his death you'd think I'd know every single fact about him by now.

Rumble in Jungle was a spectacle! One of biggest fights in history. Watch the documentary When We Were Kings, it's great!

Cholera was a fairly obvious one for me, but probably only because I was educated in Britain, where we barely even talk about anyone else's History until college, unless we were involved. Yay us...

As much as Britain "got involved" in other people's history over the years, that would be fairly comprehensive, at least from the 18th-19th centuries onward.

In my school system I remember getting very cursory introductions to history at lower grade levels. Probably we were studying US history in 4th grade because I think that year we took a field trip to Gunston Hall. 5th grade I believe was Virginia history. 6th grade world history (with a heavy bias toward Western Civ including Egypt and the Middle East which is a part of Western Civ). My 6th grade teacher made us memorize every country and capital in the world but that was unusual. 7th was either U.S. or Virginia again. 8th was Civics. 9th was World Civilization (again heavily biased toward Western Civ especially Europe). 10th was US history. 11th was Government. In 12th I opted to take AP European History (college level course, not required).

At university I studied Art History, US and Western Civ history again, Japanese history, and Israeli/Palestinian history. Plus a variety of historical literature classes (English major). Foundations of education (Masters in Education). But most of that was at my discretion.

Anyway I don't think Mr. Snow came up in any of those classes.

It was easy for me too, but only because I got muddled up between the Iranian Embassy Siege and Hostage Crisis!

I studied in India, and it was mentioned in a class on GIS and Spatial Informatics.

yorks: interesting! :) and this is the sort of comment I'm hoping to inspire.

He was my Uber driver last weekend.

I tried Winterfell and The Wall for the John Snow clue. Alas...

You know *nothing*, Bob Saget.

That's funny.

*like*

lol made me think of GOT too haha

I'm the opposite. Whenever the Jon Snow of GoT fame is mentioned, I think of the cholera one.

Well, what a fine educated gentleman you are...completely immune to all that Westeros nonsense. I admire your uniqeness, sire.

Miss, if you wouldn't mind.

Well I think of the News Reporter

Never heard of Kitty Hawk. I just knew that it was in North Carolina.

i put in kill devil hills, lol

14/20 - surprisingly good for me. Btw, you misspelled "speech" in the MLK question. :)

I had no idea where the Rumble in the Jungle took place. I doubt I will forget it now.

I thought it was Manila. I was surprised to see it was in the Congo.

lol me too I had 2 mins left so I googled it. I wanted to find out I had everythign else done :)

I had no idea where the thriller in Manila took place

This is a really good idea for a quiz. If you like this one you may like one of mine: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/66970/world-corruption-index

Is not.

part of the marshall plan ... it is famous..

Berlin Airlift and Marshal Plan were two entirely separate things.

'When We Were Kings'? I'm not a boxing fan, but that's a riveting documentary.

Thanks for accepting Stalingrad as an alternate for Volgograd!

mummahed was born in timbuktu

What? Just.... just no..... Wrong continent

wallah have some respect

And too northern-hemisphere-centric also. Is the "Rumble in the Jungle" the only significant event to happen below the equator?

I didn't even consider that "Rumble in the Jungle" could have actually been in anything remotely like jungle, I just automatically assumed it was some strange stage name thingo and guessed all the US cities I could think of

Kitty Hawk is a town of about 3000. Hardly a city.

i agree, especially being an nc native and visiting haha. im sure the QM could come up with a different clue incoporating a much larger city

A lot of depressing events there... any chance of doing a quiz full of positive happenings?

I think bad things also tend to stick out more in people's minds.

but anywhere here you go

This was harder to make than I thought it would be so I got bored and stopped at 15 answers. Sorry.

anyway*

"John Snow traces a cholera outbreak to a contaminated well" SPOILERS! I haven't seen that one yet.

I'm surprised so little got Kinshasa.

yeah, especially compared to Kitty Hawk. Wright brothers are famous, but it must be American thing to know the place

7 cities in USA, while there's also 9 European cities. Quit complaining.

"Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square, was fashion the reason why they were there?"

More people know the location where some of the worst people in the world did one of the worst things in the world with planes than where planes were invented.

I had to read that twice!

Can you accept 'Kinsasha' for Kinshasa, I know my bad spelling shouldn't be accomodated, but I genuinley thought it was spelled that way