If I didn't already know all the names of the European countries in their own languages, crna would definitely have given it away. As a central European knowing the colours in Serbo-Croation or Slovenian or any other South Slavic language shouldn't be asking too much.
Црна Гора = Crna Gora, similar to Polish Czarna Góra = Black Mountain = Monte Negro some romance language (Medieval Latin? Early Italian?). That's how I got there from being able to read some Cyrillic and speaking some Polish.
No, it's from Venetian. The Most Serene Republic had a colony at Kotor (which they called Cattaro), and there is a mountain just south of Kotor which is unusually heavily covered in trees, thus appearing darker than other mountains that had their rock exposed to the sun. That's where the name comes from.
Finally that 4 years of Russian in high school came in handy. Helped with the Cyrillic, but i was totally lost on the Greek. Did the Cyrillic and English right away and just kind of process of elimination after that.
In which language is Monaco called Manaco? I checked using both Wikipedia and Google Translate, neither showed Manaco in Spanish, French, Italian or Catalan. Furthermore, all the articles about Monaco in Wikipedia show the Monegasque versions being Munegu, Munegascu or similar.
The flag is not just the flag of the EU, but also of the Council of Europe, of which the vast majority of European countries are a member (including inter alia, the UK, Russia, Iceland, Ukraine, and plenty of other non-EU member states).
Actually this is not entirely true. Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia are Asian with a (small) part in Europe. Cyprus and Armenia are geographically Asian, but are culturally considered closer to Europe.
well Switzerland has 4 languages. Why isn't UK in Welsh or scot's Gaelic? come to think of it most of Ireland speaks English. Cant have them all in there. good quiz.
And Finland is as official as Suomi. Btw, the UK doesn't have an official language, however it has official minority languages, all being celtic languages, one of them even without any native speakers.
Good point. When I first started doing Jetpunk quizzes I couldn't understand why "Eire" didn't work, that is what it's called in English. or "The Republic" if you already have context.
Eire is not what the Republic of Ireland is called in English. The Irish government and Irish people are clear on this, the country's short name in English is quite simply Ireland.
I thought the same thing at first, then I realised it was a quiz that included ALL european countries, and not just a sample of countries. So I was ok with it again :) It is good to be thorough haha (but have indeed in other quizes seen a selection where the chosen ones were to easy, a few easy ones are fine, but it is nice if you have to think and it is not just a typing exercise for all the answers)
FINALLY learning o read the Greek/Cyrillic alphabets has come in handy. Apart from Montenegro, I just kept saying "Tsrna Gora, Tsrrrna Gora" in the hope it would eventually sound like something... nope
It's not just the flag of the EU, but also the flag of the Council of Europe, which has virtually every country on the continent of Europe as a member.
Don't know cyrillic alphabet but having got most of them by knowing the major european countries with a bit of help from German just tried to get as many through guessing as possible. Got 40 so not dissapointed
Nice idea. However, as an English speaker, it was ridiculously easy. If you made it the other way round - translating from the English word to the "real" name, it would be far more entertaining.
Could you please add "Czechia" as an alternative to "Czech Republic"? You do on all your other quizzes and it isn't looking for a word-for-word translation here.
happy to admit I only missed the last two. though i must admit it helps knowing all your countries, because the last four I just got by remembering which I had missed, and trying them out.
and yea weird how 7% didnt know what portugal, malta, monaco, or liechtenstein would be in english haha. 9% even for moldova.
I've got 44/45 and I "just" have 4 points, it's a bit of stupid because on others quizzes, even with a "low" score, we've got 5 points. Else, it's a good quizz
Oh man, some of the questions on this quiz were so hard! Like I had no clue what "United Kingdom" was, much less "Danmark," "France," "Portugal," "Moldova," "San Marino," and "Kosova"!
Real talk though: why do some Slavic countries not use the Cyrillic alphabet? Have a lot of the countries switched to distance themselves from Russia/cultivate closer ties to Western Europe? I know Kazakhstan switched alphabets recently for that reason exactly, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same for Croatia and Albania (among others).
Cyrillic alphabet was adopted only by countries that adopted orthodox christianity. Slavic coutries that adopted catholicism haven't used it. And Albania isn't slavic
Most Slavic countries that use the Latin alphabet use it because they were catholicised and under the rule of other Latin using countries (Germany, Hungary, Austria) for centuries
Please just make "Bosna i Hercegovina" (aka. Bosnia) from cyrillic alphabet to actual latin alphabet. Bosnian is almost always written in latinic except for the small minority in "Republika Srpska' (aka.Republic of Srpska')
45/45 i didnt know what shiqpëri was but i saw it had "Ë" which is pretty much only in albanian so i guessed it and montenegro was just russian and meant black mountain so that was easy cuz
I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we use both scripts to refer to our country, both "Bosna i Hercegovina" and "Босна и Херцеговина", however, Latin script has a wider use at national level than Cyrillic
Like Spain is not spanish word etc...
Mostly because of the negro
Apart from that detail, good quiz.
Ukraine is North of Turkey: Europe,
Armenia and Georgia are East of Turkey: Europe,
Bulgaria is West of Turkey: Europe,
Cyprus is South of Turkey: Europe,
so wtf
Check my quizzes for EU Official languages. It has resemblances to this one.
Drop that *whispers* hundo
and yea weird how 7% didnt know what portugal, malta, monaco, or liechtenstein would be in english haha. 9% even for moldova.
4 official languages! So to be correct: Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera and Svizra
Real talk though: why do some Slavic countries not use the Cyrillic alphabet? Have a lot of the countries switched to distance themselves from Russia/cultivate closer ties to Western Europe? I know Kazakhstan switched alphabets recently for that reason exactly, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same for Croatia and Albania (among others).
monte = mountain
negro = black
Albania : "hold my beer"