Also, with the way it's common convention to just accept modern day nation-state names for all previous countries in the same area that people conceptualize as being the same thing whether they are or not (like calling the Tang or Song dynasties "China", or the Old Kingdom of the Nile civilization "Egypt," and using the same placeholder names to refer to the modern states)... maybe you could accept Saudi Arabia or Arabia or just Saudi for Nejd and Hassa? It is also called the Third Saudi State, and was an Arabian monarchy ruled over by the House of Saud centered around Riyadh.
Also known as Jabal Shammar, it was an emirate ruled by the House of Rashid that existed between 1836 and 1921.
It controlled quite a bit of Saudi territory at one point, however I believe around this year it was just controlling a bit in the north of what is now Saudi Arabia.
I would like it added to the caveat that we are talking independent countries here. These days Scotland is still a country, Wales is a country, they are just not independent. Likewise in 1910 there were many more areas that considered themselves a country, they just didn't have independence. (Ideally add it to the quiz name too, but I concede that makes it just too long, so caveat at least, please?)
No, they're just regions that are called countries. There's little doubt what a country usually means on such quizzes, apart from the level of recognition. Similarly in other languages, "pays" in French can mean many things, but "pays du monde" is clear.
That would be wrong. Rhodesia was modern day Zambia and Zimbabwe under the British South Africa Company while the Union of South Africa was a dominion of the British Empire.
Sorry, but Bodhitrad is correct. Rhodesia (actually 2 countries, Northern and Southern) were both north of the Limpopo river. This flag was never used by either, but it was used by the Union of South Africa, replacing it with the Orange, White and Blue at a later stage (I think when the Nationalist Party came to power and made the country a republic). Southern Rhodesia did have a plebiscite about joining the Union of South Africa, but it was thoroughly defeated, as they wanted to go it alone.
First off, I want to congradulate you on your first featured quiz, I hope that more of your quizes will be featured. About this one, there were several that I know, several that I guessed and several that I knew the country existed (Persia) and just kept on putting it in until it came up. Thanks for a great quiz, and I hope that we get to see more of your quizes featured.
The Cretan State was just autonomous within the Ottoman Empire and had been de facto annexed by Greece in 1908. The Korean Empire was a Japanese protectorate in its last five years from 1905 to 1910. The Wadai Sultanate didn't seem to have a flag.
As for Newfoundland and South Africa, they are included due to their dominion status.
If both Johor and Afghanistan were included even though they were protected states, shouldn’t Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, Perlis, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo be there too? All of them were British protected states, a status shared by nearby Johor. Whether they were protected states in 1910 or not I am not that sure.
Not much is known about Najran as an (de facto) independent state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Najran.
Although information on the principality is hard to find, it's known that conflicts were fought for the territory between the Yemenis and the Saudis in 1931-1932 and 1933-1934, when the principality's independence finally ended and its territory was officially ceded to Saudi Arabia.
On mobile, the Bulgarian flag doesn’t display. The only way of knowing it is the Bulgarian flag is by clicking on the unloaded image, or by guessing. Maybe you should fix this, since it would be easier to see the flag immediately rather than click. Since this is a minor error, it doesn’t need to be fixed.
If you want a transparent list of things that were changed:
- The flag of Honduras before the update was actually erroneous and originally used a variant flag (yellow stars instead of blue) instead of the proper one.
- Chile's flag before the update used an older version of the current flag that had long become obsolete by 1910.
- Addition of Mbunda.
- Added clarity to the Austro-Hungarian flag that said flag is a civil ensign.
- Replaced Portugal's flag with a new updated version.
Uncertain, but my guess would be probably not (despite it having existed since the early 16th century). This was near the very end of the Scramble for Africa, when most of Africa was already colonized by the European powers. Only a handful of smaller uncolonized polities still existed by 1910.
I just want to say kudos to Dekkie and Quizmaster for the UI feature here that on the mobile version (on iOS, at least) autoscrolls to the next flag and centers it on the screen after typing in the previous answer. Minor detail but a useful one.
Luxembourg should be a type-in for the fourth flag - the lighter blue stripe wasn't required till 1993. Hence the rather confusing-looking scoreboard at the 1990 Eurovision
The modern Dutch flag's colours were adopted around 1806 also weren't fully standardized until 1958 and even then different shade variations of the flag are still common today. The Luxembourgish flag was de facto adopted in circa 1845.
As for the Eurovision scoreboard argument, I looked up the 1990 performances for both the Netherlands and Luxembourg to see if the flag would be shown on screen. Seems like that Luxembourgish flag is indeed still shown in a lighter shade than the Dutch one there.
So they are! The Eurovision scoreboard is totally not meant to be an argument - I don't think the choices of Yugoslav visual effects technicians really prove anything. Maybe evidence of a sort is on the Lëtzebuergesch Wikipedia page, where Grand-Duke Henri's monogrammed flag has what looks to me more like the Dutch shade of blue than the sky-blue we're used to. (According to the description this does just seem to be a monogrammed national flag rather than a royal standard as such.)
My point isn't that in 1900 the sky-blue stripe wasn't the conventional choice - just that the dark blue was another possible correct choice.
It controlled quite a bit of Saudi territory at one point, however I believe around this year it was just controlling a bit in the north of what is now Saudi Arabia.
Maybe add a box with no flag?
Also, I'm not sure about the status of New Foundland or South Africa...
As for Newfoundland and South Africa, they are included due to their dominion status.
Although information on the principality is hard to find, it's known that conflicts were fought for the territory between the Yemenis and the Saudis in 1931-1932 and 1933-1934, when the principality's independence finally ended and its territory was officially ceded to Saudi Arabia.
The more they stay the same.
- The flag of Honduras before the update was actually erroneous and originally used a variant flag (yellow stars instead of blue) instead of the proper one.
- Chile's flag before the update used an older version of the current flag that had long become obsolete by 1910.
- Addition of Mbunda.
- Added clarity to the Austro-Hungarian flag that said flag is a civil ensign.
- Replaced Portugal's flag with a new updated version.
Well done!
As for the Eurovision scoreboard argument, I looked up the 1990 performances for both the Netherlands and Luxembourg to see if the flag would be shown on screen. Seems like that Luxembourgish flag is indeed still shown in a lighter shade than the Dutch one there.
My point isn't that in 1900 the sky-blue stripe wasn't the conventional choice - just that the dark blue was another possible correct choice.