Pedantic, really?? It is the most obvious answer. I guess it is an ego thing for people. So many blaming the quiz(master) because they missed an answer they really should have gotten.
It is a bit nitpicky, but the directions say "in which the Sweden controlled any land." It should say either "in which the Swedes controlled," or "in which Sweden controlled."
having found a hole between Germany and Latvia that I couldn't fill in, I decided to type them all in alphabetical order and got it on the first attempt...
DARN IT! I literally just thought about making a quiz about former Swedish Possessions and I saw this quiz 5 minutes later when I logged on. Well back to the drawing board.
Got them all with 0:42 remaining at 2:36:12 PM on March 20, 2019. I happened to look up the Wikipedia article on the Swedish Empire today, and that made me decide to try this quiz again.
99% got norway but 53% got sweden. Intelligence is quite good actually. Countries once held by sweden. Sweden still owns sweden. You could change it to exclude sweden.
The wording of the caveat is not the best. I'm pretty sure they "controlled" parts of Belarus and Ukraine when they marched through them towards Poltava, for example. Maybe add some limitation on how long the land must have been held?
I'm pretty sure Sweden is the current occupant of Sweden, so it should be one of those quizzes where Sweden is already filled.
and guadalupe in mexico?
I get Ghana, USA etc and forget Sweden
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