previous question was even Finland as the land of the thousand lakes so strangely they got this fire and ice wrong. I thought Mont Blanc is the highest in europe but then that might be old knowledge, it might have changed without my knowledge.
6:45 the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
Alfred Nobel wanted it like this because he thought his country wasn't peaceful enough. He made his fortune selling ammunition. He probably knew his customers. By the way: there is no Nobel Prize for Economics, because he didn't accept it as science. Instead the swedish Rijksbanken invented this prize.
The quiz is highly inconstistent in its accuracy. You can't simultaneously claim the Elbrus as European but then say that the mountain range it is in - the Caucasus - isn't European in the "highest mountain range" question. It's either Alps and Mont Blanc or Caucasians and Elbrus, not both.
When talking the whole mountain range, it would be logical to calculate an average elevation for the whole range, so they might be right. Though at the same time, you'd need to 3d scan the whole thing with such precision, that this nukber likely doesn't exist 🤭
@izpodpolja you're probably right, but this is not how averages work, we would need to measure every single surface on the mountain range, there could he 5000 places higher, but if there are 7000 places lower, and the average less, it's less, you don't seem to understand how math works 😂😂🥺
@@oestergaard141 Well, tbh you seem to be struggling here, because if you really wanted to average, the number of individual points is irrelevant (the definition of a mountain peak is arbitrary anyways), you'd have to take the surface area of the mountain range and integrate the height
it was an important historical landmark built by saxons, on the border of hungary and romania for several centuries and people only know the cringest thing, dracula, which was a fake story by a foreigner...
Brussels *is* considered the capital of the EU: be.brussels/nl/over-het-gewest/het-gewest-europa-en-internationaal/europese-en-internationale-instellingen-brussel
I think they don't care , they don t care about anything , except what prevent getting clicked on, from the start , mistakes occur naturaly, and very much most of what is free on the internet is questionable
It generates lots of comments, that trains the algorythm, that makes the video get popular, that generates money. So yes, there is a good chance, that this is done on purpose.
@@flitsertheo We have a version of hc andersen's mermaid in our fairy-tale forest Efteling. Famous for the 'strange' reactions by American and British tourists.
Land of Ice and Fire is definitely Iceland. Transylvania isn’t a city, it’s a historical region. Armenia isn’t even located in Europe, and neither is Mount Elbrus traditionally counted as Europe’s highest peak, as it is also in Asia, so it’s Mont Blanc in the Alps.
@@Ummba13actually, no. Turkey is debatably in Asia (but at that point I would be forced to ask "debated by who?"), but Istanbul is in Europe Europe.
5:31 that's Rovinj, Croatia in the picture (my hometown). Nothing to do with the mentioned countries, but it is located on the Istrian peninsula (Istra)
Same like the picture by the question of non existing city of Transylvania (as Transylvania is region), in the pic there is Mělník chateau in Mělník town in Central Bohemial in Czech Republic (my county town). That quiz is nonsence.
Also, every single city with canals has been named "the Venice of...". This includes St Petersbourg, Stockholm, Bruges... That quizz is very low quality.
Stockholm is called the Venice of the north, and I was going to object. Then I thought about it. It doesn't really have many canals to speak of compared to Amsterdam, it's just located on islands and surrounded by water.
If we talk about regularity and continuity, Stromboli is the most active volcano in the world. Stromboli has been erupting almost continuously for at least 2,000 years
Etna and Stromboli are both very active in different ways, so it depends on how you define "activity". I agree Etna is there only because it's more famous, but you can't really say it's too far off. Anyways, Stromboli can't be said to be "the most" in the world.
Don't feel too dumb, please! As European I got 7 wrong and had some lucky guesses too. And as pointed out by other comments, Iceland is the land of fire and ice, so you can grant yourself that point. Also the Venice of the North question is indeed ambiguous, even in the Netherlands more than one city has that nickname.
That does happen a lot around the world.. loads of mountain names means mountain in their own language.. like mount fuji literally means mount fire mountain :D and while loch can indeed be used as a generic term for lake if used more correctly its usually a specific type of lake (long and narrow for example)
To be fair, we southern Europeans don't really understand the difference between Scandinavia, Fennoscandia and Nordic countries, we just generally refer to all the countries up the in the north as Scandinavian, without distinction, just as with Mediterranean which refers to a plethora of countries.
@hi-vr8ix It definitely is, not saying it isn't. I'm just saying that the average person, at least where I live, can't tell the difference between these geographical concepts. I myself took quite some time, I think when I was already 20 years old, to figure out the difference. Never heard of Fennoscandia in school.
The highest mountain in Europe is Mont Blanc in the Alps. However, Elbrus in the Caucasus, which is located in Russia, is sometimes regarded as the highest mountain in Europe, if the Caucasus is geographically part of Europe. So the answer depends on the definition of Europe's geographical border.
The Volga actually seems to be in Europe (at least I was correct in the Danube being longer than the Rhine...), but spent too much time thinking about Istanbul vs European/Asian Istanbul vs, London/Paris Metro vs London/Paris themselves.^
The number that always baffles me is that there are 128 peaks above 4000 metres as part of the Alps. My home country Germany shares some part of the Alps, yet our highest mountain doesn't even exceed 3000 metres.
that mountain is actually referred to as the geographical border between Asia and Europe. So theoretically it can be counted as the peak height of Europe but it's not fully in Europe as such it's hard to gauge what the correct answer is, same with Istanbul, it's technically in Europe, but Turkey is an Asian country.
6:45 you were right, the nobel prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite (nitroglycerine) so every nobel prize except the Peace nobel prize is awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
The question was SPECIFICALLY about the Nobel Peace Prize, how was he right? Had they asked for Nobel Prizes it would at least have been ambiguous. As it was written is isn't, it has one clear answer.
@@kjellmesch8060I don't quite agree, the Peace Prize is a huge deal and has wide media coverage. Even its own concert. I've talked to quite a few that even didn't know of the other prizes awarded in Stockholm.
There were quite a few mistakes by the video maker. However, don’t sell yourself short, for a non-European, you did incredibly well, significantly better than 99% of your fellow countrymen. You should be proud of yourself. 🇬🇧
Just a fun fact, the picture of the tunnel entrance at 5:05 is NOT from the tunnel between france and england, it is the tunnel/bridge combination between Sweden and Denmark across Öresund. I recognized it because I live very close to it
Hi Ian, as a European I think you can be proud of yourself. I think many Europeans would be worse in a similar quiz about the US or north America. Well done, thumb up. You're really good.
Polish dude here - as others mentioned, this quiz has serious issues, but you knew many things I had no idea about. Europeans who pay attention to European matters and cultures are most likely going to know these things, that is true, but you also have to remember they, most likely, comprise the majority of your audience. So even if you feel like your viewers knew so much, that is not necessarily representative of an average European. I think you're doing exceptionally well, not even mentioning how you're doing relative to an average American.
It is really funny how "the Spanish steps" are said to be common knowledge. I am italian, and I lived in Rome, and of course I recognized the photo, but never once in my life I heard of that name. I can only guess in the rest of the world they call it that because it is next to "piazza di Spagna", but the true name is "Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti": scalinata(=stairway) di(=of) "Trinità dei Monti"(the church on the top of it). So, I find it really funny the steps are so famous that their name is unknown.
Dutch person here, we call it the Spanish steps ('Spaanse trappen') indeed! (i vividly remember, for our high school trip at 16yo we went to Rome and my bag got stolen there 😂)
They are famously called that. Your own ignorance doesn't discredit it from being common knowledge. And their name isn't unknown, their Italien name is and even then people generally know that is "real" name isn't the same as the translated name. Multiple language calls them the Spanish steps or something similar by the way. Lastly, it isn't that rare that something ends up being called something different in another language.
@@Bronzescorpion It's very easy. If a town, place, or God knows what, got in a language a personal name, so it's used by this personal name. That goes for examplewith Munich, which has in German, a different name...
Listen to some Toto. They have a song called "Spanish Steps" (of Rome) Also the other two cities were Spanish. They wouldn't call their steps "Spanish".
Well done after all 😃👍🏼. Surreal to see that at min. 04:55 it was the original video to be wrong - not in the answer, but in the picture shown. What you see is not at all the Channel Tunnel (whose entrances are very much inland, both at Calais and Folkestone) but the Øresund tunnel and bridge: a unique combination of (that is) a tunnel and a bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden
Was Mozart born in Austria? well... the place of his birth is _now_ in Austria.. but was it at the time of his birth? i don't know and i'm too lazy to look it up now.. .. but questions like that -- "In what country was some-famous-person born? [centuries ago]" -- are usually tricky
He himself thought he was teutsch. And Salzburg at the time was not lokated in Habsburg Region, but in the HRR Bavaria. At around 1980 he was called Austria for the first time.
As an Italian, I can just say that in Italy "Venice of the North" is usually considered Amsterdam but that's just what common people say. I like all of the alternatives, though I've never been to St Petersbourg.
Honestly im European and i think we got about the same amount of questions right. And im much more interested in the world and other countries than most. You did just fine!
14 wrong as an American is pretty good imo. 6 wrong here as a European, but at least 0 luck with the guesses. --1 because the Land of Fire and Ice IS Iceland.
5:25 the small city in the picture is Rovinj in Croatia. Far away from Spain and Portugal 5:55 Matterhorn was/is used on Toblerone chocolate bar as was used as inspiration for the bar shape 8:15 Sagrada Familia is expected to be finished in 2026. 144 years after construction began 11:01 vulcano in the picture is Mayon Volcano in Philippines. There are no tropical rainforests in Europe and naturally growing palm trees 11:33 Laktha Center is 462m tall. It doesn't look tall because there is no other tall building around it. It's 79m shorter then One WTC in NY and closest US skyscraper in height is Central Park Tower, NY (472m) 14:27 it was built in Belfast but was registered in Liverpool and that's why Liverpool was written on the stern of the ship. White Star Line HQ was in Liverpool
Most Palm trees are not native to Europe but they do grow in many European countries and are found in large numbers in countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and others. There are a few Palm trees native to Europe, one being the European fan palm (Chamaerops humilis) and the other one being the Cretan date palm (Phoenix theophrasti).
I personally visited the only one natural palm forest in Europe, on the Eastern most coast of Crete, in a place called Vai (Βαι). It's composed of a specific palm, only living there and native of the place.
I should have bought one of those pens when I visited the Mercedes museum last summer. My grandfather owned a Mercedes oldtimer when I was little, snow white with navy blue leather upholstery, and just opening and closing the doors gave that same kind of satisfaction. Quality and craftsmanship that you can feel, hear and see in every detail.
Some of the answers are wrong. The Iceland question, The noble prize question and there is no such thing as the city of Transylvania. Not to mention that it included mostly questions about Western Europe.
The answer to the Nobel Prize question was correct. The prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature are all awarded in Stockholm. But not the Peace prize, which is indeed awarded in Oslo.
Well, whats wrong with the Nobel Price now :D Norway is nice! 😂 But over 25% of the questions are related to none western European countries/cities/regions (stopped counting half way, sorry) (Google map European regions, Western Europe is relative tiny when you compare it with the rest)
Impressive! I knew most of these but I was taught these at school. You really shouldn't feel dumb, some of the questions were pretty specific. Congratulations!
Venice of the North is Brugge in Belgium. Brugge was first called Venice of the North in a letter of 1432 and refers to the fact that Venice and Brugge were economic rivals in the middle ages and not because of its network of canals.
As a Dalmatian myself, I was so glad that you knew we're Croatian! Also, you were right about Iceland (Land of Ice and Fire)... And a lot of the images on the questions were misleading or wrong. Even the questions were incorrect (Transylvania is not a city, but a region). You did much better than an average US American, especially given how bad the quiz was.
C'mon, you were good !! I can tell you that quite a few Europeans would do worse. And I doubt they would know as much about the States as you do about Europe ! Happy New Year from a German geography teacher.😊
As an Austrian, I agree that you were correct in referring to our language as Austrian. In fact, we often call it 'Österreichisch' (Austrian) and there's even an official dictionary called the 'Österreichisches Wörterbuch' (Austrian Dictionary).
Du weißt hoffentlich schon daß sich das "Österreichisch" auf das Land bezieht und nicht auf eine Sprache. Deutsch als Sprache gibt es in Österreich viel länger als es Deutschland gibt. Das sollte eigentlich jeder Österreicher wissen.
#35 Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, which was part of the Bavarian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of Mozart's birth. Sooo...Mozart was Bavarian.
2:40 this is wrong, Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community which would only later become EU. The actual establishment of EU itself was done by signing of the Maastricht Treaty
As an European im sure to fail many of these 😂 Ok, got most. A couple i had no idea, a couple took to long translating from English names. The Russia stuff throws most people off, like the river Volga being Europe longest. Most would think Danube. The "Land of Fire and Ice" refers to Iceland!
as a European I question some of these answers. Mt. Elbrus is not really part of Europe, Iceland has always been the land of fire and ice and there were a few other questionable things as well.
Elbrus is in the mountain range that separate Europe from Asia but it's generally considered to be on the European side. It's a matter of opinion though. The only objective continent is Eurasia.
Mt. Elbrus is indeed the highest mountain in Europe. It is on the Russian side of the Russian / Geroigan border in the Caucasus range ....which separate Europe and Asia. But there were a lot of other things in the quiz that were wrong.
Happy New Year from Latvia! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻❄️🌲🥳 So, Istanbul is not all European, most of it is in Asia. I would have said London. Also, Armenia is only conditionally European. Venice of the North can be St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Bruges. Elbrus is only conditionally in Europe, I'd say Mont Blanc. Transylvania is a region in Romania, not a city.
I was about to write the same corrections with regards to Istanbul and Armenia. Would have been funny if Armenia wasn't one of the three answers only to show it as option D afterwards, to drive home the point that the first country to adopt Christianity was not in Europe. In the case of Istanbul, that would mean the answer is also D: Moscow as the biggest city entirely in Europe. Although you mixed up the ratio wrt Istanbul: two thirds are in Europe. I also don't quite understand what you mean by conditionally because (ignoring political alignments) the European border is agreed on by most to be the Greater Caucasus watershed where some argued before that it ought to be *north* of it, not south, so Armenia was never included in Europe, only Georgia and Azerbaijan are contested.
11:08 about Volcanoes, in Star Wars revenge of the Sith during the final duel on Mustafar you can see a lot of real footage of the Etna erupting, they put it on the background during a whole sequence. Lava spilling and exploding everywhere! It's spectacular! They went filming it during the nights of most activity and then added it in the movie! Genious move!
Yep , there are about 40 cities that gave thelselves the title, including Amstardam ( the dutch know how to sell thelselves 😂) but Brugges is the original as it was at the peak of its power together with Venice the 2 areas were the richest in Europe rivalling eachother. At that time brugge had 35 000 inhabitants, amstardam had less than 1000. Brugge is the only one that has gotten/earned the name in an organic way, and not to lure for tourists
These invented comparisons are amusing. Edinburgh is sometimes called the Athens of the North. Oddly, you never hear Athens called the Edinburgh of the South.
@@digidol52 They tried to build a copy of the Acropolis in Edinburgh on Calton Hill but because they never finished it (lack of funds) it somehow bears more resemblance to the Athens Acropolis than if it had been finished. (that's an Edinburgh joke). Meanwhile they never tried to build a copy of Edinburgh Castle in Athens.
I absolutely love quizzes! I am not surprised that you did well, like me you have a logical, active and curious mind! Some of those questions were tricky and made you doubt yourself, but the key is that you actually know the answer when you mind is more relaxed! I missed some rivers and the unusual capital names, because they are not as exciting as other attractions! Great job Ian! 🌟🙋
Venice of the North may refer to several cities, e.g. St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Bruges, Wroclaw, Hamburg... So I would say that's misleading question since in Czechia most people would (probably) choose St. Petersburg.
As Italian for me the only Venice of the North is Amsterdam, never heard about the others cities been called like this. In fact I think Amsterdam is the only one built like Venice (multiple islands)
I can give you that you guessed Stockholm Sweden on the Nobel Peace prize question. But it's the only one that is managed by Norway because when Alfred Nobel wrote his will, Sweden was in union with Norway. That could be an explanation for why he wanted the peace prize to be awarded in Oslo.
@@TheAquarius1978 While I didn't keep score, I guess I got something like 43-45 points. Some questions were tricky, especially if you factor in eastern Europe.
Same here, although some of the questions could be challenged based on fact, others on tradition. Mont Blanc is traditionally named as the tallest peak in Europe, for example, even though technically the Caucasus mountains are in Europe.
Russia is large, but only the part to to Ural Mountains is part of Europe. And the city Istanbul is partially Europe and Asia, the rest of Tukey is primarily Asian.
6:52 Fun fact: Even tho Alfred Nobel is from Sweden, and all the other Nobel prices are handed out in Stockholm, the peace price is handed out in Oslo. This is because Sweden and Norway were in a union at the time, functioning much as one country.
Turkey as a whole sure, Istanbul is located in Europe however and the European part of Russia is literally the size of Portugal, Spain and France combined. Lake Ladoga is next to the border with Finland. Armenia is entirely located in Asia however.
Your uneducated idea of what is Europe is irrelevant. Both Russia and Turkey has land in Europe.
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Reporting from Galicia (Spain), I was playing along and got 38/50. It's sad that some of these questions were wrong, as other commentors pointed out, otherwise both our scores would have been a bit better. Regardless, I loved this format of video, keep on truckin' and happy new year! :)
in the time when Mozart was born Salzburg was a part of Germany only after his time it became Austrian, so Germany would technically have been the correct anwer. Also Bach, Schubert, Wagner etc where Germans I don't know if Germany had more componists then Austria but Germany was home to many great commponists and well Mozart in his time was German as the city of his birth was still German at his time.
At question 20: The Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm, but the Nobel Peace Prize is an exemption. Alfred Nobel decreed in his testament that the selection for this prize should be done by a committee of the Storting, the parliament of Norway. In his time Norway and Sweden were a union under the Swedish king, and the parliament of Norway had nothing to do with foreign policy; in 1905 Norway voted for independence and elected a younger son of the Crown Prince of Denmark (of House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of the German House of Oldenburg) as king. At question 35: Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was at the time its own state within the German Kingdom and not part of Austria. Napoleon gave it later to Bavaria, but the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decided it had to become Austrian - about 25 years after Mozart's death. He lived however for much of his career in Vienna. At question 41: Chopin was one of many Polish artists living in Paris; his father was French, but he grew up in Poland, which he left in 1830 shortly before the November revolt against Russia (the Tsar had become King of Poland as decided by the Congress of Vienna - the Poland of the time however consisted only of the Duchy of Warsaw founded by Napoleon, while the coastal lands as well as the western part were ruled by Prussia and southern Poland by Habsburg as Kingdom of Galicia). At 49: in school I learned that the Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in Europe. But since then the definition of Europe and its geographical borders got a bit blurred. Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Russia and located in the Great Caucasus mountains 11 km north from the border with Georgia. It is a volcano (last eruption about 2,000 years ago). If you take the main ridge of the Great Caucasus as geographical border, it is (barely) in Europe. The older view used the rivers Don and Volga as border (preferring "wet" borders for continents instead of mountain ridges), which put the whole Caucasus into Asia. At 50: Officially the European Union has no capital, only different seats. Brussels has the seat of the Commission (Executive) and the Council (of the governments of the member states), Strasbourg the parliament (with a second, but more often used seat in Brussels), Luxembourg the judiciary (EU Court of Justice, EU Court of Auditors), Frankfurt the Central Bank. By the way: As a European I was only slightly better than you. Maybe half as much wrong answers. And I never heard Finland called "Land of Fire and Ice" - that is the title of Iceland, so the quiz was wrong here - like in some other disputable cases.
I'm an emmotional type of guy. Seriously man, you nailed it. We are often making fun of americans general knowledge - for good reasons tbh - but you really did your fellow countrymen a favor. Most of your viewers probably consider themselves as "american friends", yet, at least for me, I would not have been able to answer a likewise quizz about the USA.
I've been following your channel for a long time and I have to congratulate you today! You are definitely one of the 5% of Americans who know something about other countries. I don't think many Europeans could keep up with "American questions". (German here: left-wing thinker, green voter, anti-car person, and I still watch your channel every vid and always like it^^)
Ian, By now you are a specialist in European affairs. I think a lot of Europeans wouldn't do so well with questions about the US (although many will pretend they do) It's great you take such an interest in Europe and other countries and cultures. I always enjoy to be in the US, there are differences, but nature is great, and always enjoy visiting NFL and MLB!
I am from EU and had 8 of them wrong... there are things that often we don't know about, like "The tallest building" or "Capital city of Malta" think last time i heard of it was long ago and i forgot about it.
11:44 "Transylvania" (Erdély in Hungarian) is not a city but a part of a country (maybe region). Yes, it is in Romania today, but in times of Dracula it was still part of Hungary.
in fairness the largest producer of wine depends on the yeald of the year, France and Italy are very close competitors, also in the last 10 years Spain got from zero to hero, getting close to the other 2
Highest mountain range could also be the Caucasus. That "borders" Asia and is also home of what could also be the highest mountain in Europe - Mount Elbrus. But the "border" between Europe and Asia is more a political/social question than actually one of geology etc. So it depends on at where you draw that border line...
There are some "stupid questions" in there, including some stupid and/or wrong answers. Many have mentioned Iceland, Transylvania, etc. If you consider Russia as part of Europe, than the highest peak is correct, but I think 90% of europeans would have answered the Mont Blanc. Also the 'Venice of the North' expression is used for many cities, including Amsterdam, Stockholm, St.Petersburg, etc. I think your 35/50 (even with some lucky guesses) is close to what an average european would score on this, so I think you did a great job 🙂 I scored 47, but I do travel a lot, and I'm interested in a lot of these things, so I'm well above average I think. Good to see you being so fascinated with Europe, I hope you get to travel here sometime. Cheers all the way from Hungary 😉
Dude, there's absolutely no reason to feel dumb - you knew A LOT! More than me btw (I'm German). Many Americans don't even know that Europe is a continent consisting of many countries, or which countries boarder the U.S. So, congratulations!
Well, the "Land of Fire and Ice" is Iceland, so the quiz-makers made a mistake...
And a good few of the images were completely wrong, e.g. the Channel Tunnel.
And they called Transylvania a city
A Finn here, I agree.
The land of ice and fire is Game of Thrones...🤓🤣
previous question was even Finland as the land of the thousand lakes so strangely they got this fire and ice wrong.
I thought Mont Blanc is the highest in europe but then that might be old knowledge, it might have changed without my knowledge.
Land of Fire and ice... is Iceland!
Yeah the quiz was definitely wrong on this one. Iceland totally is the right answer here!
Finland is definitely wrong. 100% Iceland
It is iceland
agreed. you got that answer right
and Transylvania is not a city. It's region.
6:45 the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
Alfred Nobel wanted it like this because he thought his country wasn't peaceful enough. He made his fortune selling ammunition. He probably knew his customers.
By the way: there is no Nobel Prize for Economics, because he didn't accept it as science. Instead the swedish Rijksbanken invented this prize.
Because it's a mockery
So I was just partly wrong 😂
Infact!
Its a Swedish prize It doesn’t matter if the peace prize is held in Oslo
The quiz is highly inconstistent in its accuracy. You can't simultaneously claim the Elbrus as European but then say that the mountain range it is in - the Caucasus - isn't European in the "highest mountain range" question. It's either Alps and Mont Blanc or Caucasians and Elbrus, not both.
Good point.
When talking the whole mountain range, it would be logical to calculate an average elevation for the whole range, so they might be right. Though at the same time, you'd need to 3d scan the whole thing with such precision, that this nukber likely doesn't exist 🤭
@@oestergaard141 Caucasus is still going to be higher, it has 13 peaks higher than Mount Blanc and 8 above 5000m
@izpodpolja you're probably right, but this is not how averages work, we would need to measure every single surface on the mountain range, there could he 5000 places higher, but if there are 7000 places lower, and the average less, it's less, you don't seem to understand how math works 😂😂🥺
@@oestergaard141 Well, tbh you seem to be struggling here, because if you really wanted to average, the number of individual points is irrelevant (the definition of a mountain peak is arbitrary anyways), you'd have to take the surface area of the mountain range and integrate the height
As a Romanian, seeing how the quiz labeled Transylvania as a city instead of a region made me laugh and cry at the same time 😂
Also they used an image of a castle in Czechia for that question 🤦 (as a Czech I recognized Mělník instantly - popular school trip location)
Same here and I am Hungarian. 😀
it was an important historical landmark built by saxons, on the border of hungary and romania for several centuries and people only know the cringest thing, dracula, which was a fake story by a foreigner...
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well... Dracula did exist - he just was not a vampire....
well, the quiz also says Geneva is a lake
The EU doesn’t have a Capital, Brussels is just the seat of the Commission and Parliament ( together with Strasbourg )
Brussels *is* considered the capital of the EU: be.brussels/nl/over-het-gewest/het-gewest-europa-en-internationaal/europese-en-internationale-instellingen-brussel
Agree
Correct. The EU is not a country.
and Luxembourg
@@MercedesAkira-gf6sz, according to the Brussels website, it is the EU capital.
The land of fire and ice is for sure Iceland. You've got it right.
I wonder if the makers of such quizzes incorporate mistakes on purpose to generate reactions.
You did great, btw.
I think they don't care , they don t care about anything , except what prevent getting clicked on, from the start , mistakes occur naturaly, and very much most of what is free on the internet is questionable
It generates lots of comments, that trains the algorythm, that makes the video get popular, that generates money. So yes, there is a good chance, that this is done on purpose.
click the link in the description and just give him a thumb down ...no comment no nothing
Even a dislike is generating interaction, therefore helping the channel.
Ian, you're damn good! I, as and European didn't know all the answers, though, to be fair, there are mistakes in this quiz.
Oh yes, there are. but even without those, as a European I did not get all answers correct.
5:04 is not the Channel Tunnel, that is Peberholm, part of the Øresund bridge.😅
Yes, they often get confused. There are no pix of the Channel Tunnel, just of both its entrances since, as its name indicates, it is ... a tunnel! :o)
Correct. The Öresund connection is both tunnel and bridge. I don't know why they took the wrong picture for this quiz.
that's why I got it wrong !!!!! I knew the tunnel didn't have such an entrance and doesn't have a road, but train tracks !
Öresund
LEGO, is put together from the two danish words "Leg Godt" (Play Well).
So many mistakes in the video you are watching
Well i have to say u did much better than the Quizmaker himself...ahahah
Yeah, he hit the wrong blunt before he double checked the answers 😂
What a joke 🤣
The writer of the fairytale "The little mermaid" was Danish...(Hans Christian Andersen) He died in Copenhagen. That is why the statue is there.
The statue is surprisingly small, when I went there I almost missed it. Think of a small girl in size.
He was confusing the " the little mermaid " with the " Manneken pis " i did the same crap for a second or two.
A "nekkid" woman statue. Don't see that happening much in the USA.
@@flitsertheo We have a version of hc andersen's mermaid in our fairy-tale forest Efteling.
Famous for the 'strange' reactions by American and British tourists.
@@dutchman7623Hans Christian Andersen was strange.
Land of Ice and Fire is definitely Iceland.
Transylvania isn’t a city, it’s a historical region.
Armenia isn’t even located in Europe, and neither is Mount Elbrus traditionally counted as Europe’s highest peak, as it is also in Asia, so it’s Mont Blanc in the Alps.
Istanbul is also debatably not in europe since half of it is in asia minor
The Caucasus mountains are considered the dividing point between Asia and Europe, I just looked it up. Thus, Mount Elbrus is in fact in Europe.
@@Ummba13actually, no. Turkey is debatably in Asia (but at that point I would be forced to ask "debated by who?"), but Istanbul is in Europe Europe.
@@Ummba13 Istanbul is on the European side. Turkey is half asia, Istanbul is to the west of the country, so, its European.,
There are many cities called Venice of North.
Question #13: the photo is from the tunnel/bridge connection between Denmark and Sweden, not the tunnel between the UK and France,
Did notice Pepparholmen as well. Many faults in this quiz according the pictures.
The supposed transylvanian castle is also in Czechia.
5:31 that's Rovinj, Croatia in the picture (my hometown). Nothing to do with the mentioned countries, but it is located on the Istrian peninsula (Istra)
Thanks ! I thought it was neither Spain nor Portugal as I have been there.
Same like the picture by the question of non existing city of Transylvania (as Transylvania is region), in the pic there is Mělník chateau in Mělník town in Central Bohemial in Czech Republic (my county town). That quiz is nonsence.
Rovinj is one of my fav cities, I'm a Czech but I visit Vrsar and Rovinj every year (usually twice a year). Istria is so underrated. 😊
yes, when i saw the picture, i thought where in Spain or Portugal are these islands, that look like Croatia... LOL !
I knew! Thanks bro!
Also, every single city with canals has been named "the Venice of...". This includes St Petersbourg, Stockholm, Bruges... That quizz is very low quality.
Don't forget Hamburg, Germany, which has more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined. You're right about the quiz, though.
@@atheismo Aveiro is the Venice of Portugal, too.
And Birmingham, England, a greater mileage of Canals than Venice.
@@tonys1636 Nah but Birmingham's a shithole though
Stockholm is called the Venice of the north, and I was going to object. Then I thought about it. It doesn't really have many canals to speak of compared to Amsterdam, it's just located on islands and surrounded by water.
For Europeans 90% of these questions are also about foreign countries (there were 2 questions about my own country, so that's 4%).
As a Finn I didn't know that we are called the land of fire and ice
Yh, lol! Iceland...
You're not, it's Iceland. That answer was wrong.
The land of the thousand frozen lakes and sauna fires.
@@DenUitvreter 😁
As a European I was also astonished. 😜
If we talk about regularity and continuity, Stromboli is the most active volcano in the world. Stromboli has been erupting almost continuously for at least 2,000 years
etna too.
I also thought it was Stromboli. I guess it depends how you define continuous.
Etna and Stromboli are both very active in different ways, so it depends on how you define "activity". I agree Etna is there only because it's more famous, but you can't really say it's too far off. Anyways, Stromboli can't be said to be "the most" in the world.
@@Searover749 No, Etna is not in continuous eruption.
@@MorningNapalm I think they define "the most active" as the one that releases the most lava.
Don't feel too dumb, please! As European I got 7 wrong and had some lucky guesses too. And as pointed out by other comments, Iceland is the land of fire and ice, so you can grant yourself that point. Also the Venice of the North question is indeed ambiguous, even in the Netherlands more than one city has that nickname.
Yeah, I also thought there's a lot of 'Venices of the North', I think I heard the nickname used on Hamburg as well.
Venice of North, I was so sure it was St Petersburg. But as said, i think many cities are called Venice of North lol
There is only one "real" Venice of the North, Brugge (Bruges).
What i have heard Stockholm is called Venice of the North, but as you say more than one has that nickname.
My guidebooks for St.Petersbook, Brügge as well as Amsterdam all called them "Venice of the North", so that question was unanswerable.
Loch Ness Lake ???
Every Scottish viewer is rolling on the floor ... look it up 😅
Loch means lake afaik... so redundant, right?
@@njordholm yup 👍
Even as an Australian, I know that loch in Scottish means lake.
That does happen a lot around the world.. loads of mountain names means mountain in their own language.. like mount fuji literally means mount fire mountain :D and while loch can indeed be used as a generic term for lake if used more correctly its usually a specific type of lake (long and narrow for example)
I knew something was wrong with the "Land of FIre and Ice" one, i've lived in FInland my entire 34 years and NEVER heard of Finland being called that!
Because everyone knows it's Iceland.
4:19 Funny how the video creator doesn't know about Europe himself. Finland is not in Scandinavia, but Denmark is
To be fair, we southern Europeans don't really understand the difference between Scandinavia, Fennoscandia and Nordic countries, we just generally refer to all the countries up the in the north as Scandinavian, without distinction, just as with Mediterranean which refers to a plethora of countries.
@@qwertylello We do not, lol, that is ignorant.
@hi-vr8ix
It definitely is, not saying it isn't.
I'm just saying that the average person, at least where I live, can't tell the difference between these geographical concepts.
I myself took quite some time, I think when I was already 20 years old, to figure out the difference. Never heard of Fennoscandia in school.
@@qwertylello I was today years old (33), and this is the first time I heard of Fennoscandia - So I completely agree with your take :P
I have heard both definitions used, and apparently there is some disagreement, so I am going to give him this one.
The highest mountain in Europe is Mont Blanc in the Alps. However, Elbrus in the Caucasus, which is located in Russia, is sometimes regarded as the highest mountain in Europe, if the Caucasus is geographically part of Europe. So the answer depends on the definition of Europe's geographical border.
The Volga actually seems to be in Europe (at least I was correct in the Danube being longer than the Rhine...), but spent too much time thinking about Istanbul vs European/Asian Istanbul vs, London/Paris Metro vs London/Paris themselves.^
The number that always baffles me is that there are 128 peaks above 4000 metres as part of the Alps. My home country Germany shares some part of the Alps, yet our highest mountain doesn't even exceed 3000 metres.
A part of Russia belongs to the continent Europe. The mountain Elbrus is in that part.
@@AdvdW the caucasus is not part of europe
that mountain is actually referred to as the geographical border between Asia and Europe. So theoretically it can be counted as the peak height of Europe but it's not fully in Europe as such it's hard to gauge what the correct answer is, same with Istanbul, it's technically in Europe, but Turkey is an Asian country.
The EU was established with the Maastricht Trreaty. The quiz is wrong.
The Treaty of Rome gave birth to the EEC (European Economic Community). It was the Treaty of Maastricht that founded the European Union.
And its predecessor the EEC was established with the treaty of Rome (1957).
I remember Maastrich ... and I did not exist in the the 50s.
🤔🤔🤔...you probably did not exist in the 90s to say Maastrich, right?
@@andreavalentina3685 Relevance? The Rome Treaty didn't establish the EU, it established the EEC.
6:45 you were right, the nobel prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite (nitroglycerine) so every nobel prize except the Peace nobel prize is awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
Peace prize is in Oslo Norge, the rest is in Stockholm
@@olasoderberg192 And the peace price is the one most talked about, so yeah this mix up in the answer I kinda understand
The question was SPECIFICALLY about the Nobel Peace Prize, how was he right?
Had they asked for Nobel Prizes it would at least have been ambiguous. As it was written is isn't, it has one clear answer.
@@Kraakesolvyou are absolutely right, I misread it. My Bad
@@MichaelCoIIinsthe nobel peace price has no meaning, after Obama got it 😂
All the other Nobel prizes - *except the Nobel Peace Price* - are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
The peace price, however, is awarded in Norway.
Yeah, got that one wrong, I did not know that.
@@MorningNapalm That would count as a trick question in my book.
@@kjellmesch8060I don't quite agree, the Peace Prize is a huge deal and has wide media coverage. Even its own concert. I've talked to quite a few that even didn't know of the other prizes awarded in Stockholm.
@@Kraakesolv Were those people specifically from Oslo and had never travelled outside?
@@Kraakesolv The Nobel Peace Prize is pretty much irrelevant, because war monger like Kissinger and Obama got one
There were quite a few mistakes by the video maker. However, don’t sell yourself short, for a non-European, you did incredibly well, significantly better than 99% of your fellow countrymen.
You should be proud of yourself. 🇬🇧
Just a fun fact, the picture of the tunnel entrance at 5:05 is NOT from the tunnel between france and england, it is the tunnel/bridge combination between Sweden and Denmark across Öresund. I recognized it because I live very close to it
Also, the city shown at 5:30 is Rovinj in croatia, not on in spain or portugal. I have been there, nice coincidence haha
9:40 is wrong, should be iceland.
Hi Ian, as a European I think you can be proud of yourself. I think many Europeans would be worse in a similar quiz about the US or north America. Well done, thumb up. You're really good.
I think a lot of Europeans would be worse than you on the same quiz about Europe. I'm impressed..
Polish dude here - as others mentioned, this quiz has serious issues, but you knew many things I had no idea about. Europeans who pay attention to European matters and cultures are most likely going to know these things, that is true, but you also have to remember they, most likely, comprise the majority of your audience. So even if you feel like your viewers knew so much, that is not necessarily representative of an average European. I think you're doing exceptionally well, not even mentioning how you're doing relative to an average American.
It is really funny how "the Spanish steps" are said to be common knowledge. I am italian, and I lived in Rome, and of course I recognized the photo, but never once in my life I heard of that name. I can only guess in the rest of the world they call it that because it is next to "piazza di Spagna", but the true name is "Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti": scalinata(=stairway) di(=of) "Trinità dei Monti"(the church on the top of it). So, I find it really funny the steps are so famous that their name is unknown.
Dutch person here, we call it the Spanish steps ('Spaanse trappen') indeed! (i vividly remember, for our high school trip at 16yo we went to Rome and my bag got stolen there 😂)
They are famously called that. Your own ignorance doesn't discredit it from being common knowledge. And their name isn't unknown, their Italien name is and even then people generally know that is "real" name isn't the same as the translated name.
Multiple language calls them the Spanish steps or something similar by the way.
Lastly, it isn't that rare that something ends up being called something different in another language.
@@Bronzescorpion It's very easy. If a town, place, or God knows what, got in a language a personal name, so it's used by this personal name. That goes for examplewith Munich, which has in German, a different name...
Listen to some Toto. They have a song called "Spanish Steps" (of Rome)
Also the other two cities were Spanish. They wouldn't call their steps "Spanish".
Like the Spanish Riding School located in Vienna, Austria 🤣
Well done after all 😃👍🏼. Surreal to see that at min. 04:55 it was the original video to be wrong - not in the answer, but in the picture shown. What you see is not at all the Channel Tunnel (whose entrances are very much inland, both at Calais and Folkestone) but the Øresund tunnel and bridge: a unique combination of (that is) a tunnel and a bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden
Was Mozart born in Austria?
well... the place of his birth is _now_ in Austria.. but was it at the time of his birth?
i don't know and i'm too lazy to look it up now..
.. but questions like that -- "In what country was some-famous-person born? [centuries ago]" -- are usually tricky
He himself thought he was teutsch. And Salzburg at the time was not lokated in Habsburg Region, but in the HRR Bavaria.
At around 1980 he was called Austria for the first time.
Salzburg was annexed by Austria in 1805, 14 years after Mozart died.
he was german of course
Austria has 2 very famous PR scams. One is to say that Mozart was Austrian and the other is that Hitler was a German.
6:57 that's General Knowledge for a reason. Don't worry, I wouldn't answer everything right about North America
There are at least a dozen cities that claim to be the "Venice of the north" and none of them resemble Venice even a little.😂😂😂
A dozen? I know of two, Amsterdam and Stockholm.
even St Petersbourg could be called like this...
In France there is also a "Venice of the Alps" it's called Annecy and the resemblance is hard to see
Bruges in Belgium also claims that title!
As an Italian, I can just say that in Italy "Venice of the North" is usually considered Amsterdam but that's just what common people say. I like all of the alternatives, though I've never been to St Petersbourg.
Honestly im European and i think we got about the same amount of questions right. And im much more interested in the world and other countries than most. You did just fine!
14 wrong as an American is pretty good imo. 6 wrong here as a European, but at least 0 luck with the guesses.
--1 because the Land of Fire and Ice IS Iceland.
Aussie here who lived and travelled in Europe / Turkey for 4.5 years. 48/50. Your 35 is way above the US average so you're doing well.
5:25 the small city in the picture is Rovinj in Croatia. Far away from Spain and Portugal
5:55 Matterhorn was/is used on Toblerone chocolate bar as was used as inspiration for the bar shape
8:15 Sagrada Familia is expected to be finished in 2026. 144 years after construction began
11:01 vulcano in the picture is Mayon Volcano in Philippines. There are no tropical rainforests in Europe and naturally growing palm trees
11:33 Laktha Center is 462m tall. It doesn't look tall because there is no other tall building around it. It's 79m shorter then One WTC in NY and closest US skyscraper in height is Central Park Tower, NY (472m)
14:27 it was built in Belfast but was registered in Liverpool and that's why Liverpool was written on the stern of the ship. White Star Line HQ was in Liverpool
Most Palm trees are not native to Europe but they do grow in many European countries and are found in large numbers in countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and others. There are a few Palm trees native to Europe, one being the European fan palm (Chamaerops humilis) and the other one being the Cretan date palm (Phoenix theophrasti).
I personally visited the only one natural palm forest in Europe, on the Eastern most coast of Crete, in a place called Vai (Βαι). It's composed of a specific palm, only living there and native of the place.
I should have bought one of those pens when I visited the Mercedes museum last summer.
My grandfather owned a Mercedes oldtimer when I was little, snow white with navy blue leather upholstery, and just opening and closing the doors gave that same kind of satisfaction. Quality and craftsmanship that you can feel, hear and see in every detail.
Probably made by Biro, the inventor of the retractable ball point pen and the company he formed still make quality pens today.
Some of the answers are wrong. The Iceland question, The noble prize question and there is no such thing as the city of Transylvania. Not to mention that it included mostly questions about Western Europe.
The noble peace prize is Norway - all others Stockholm.
@@geneviere199 yes, agree on that.
The answer to the Nobel Prize question was correct. The prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature are all awarded in Stockholm. But not the Peace prize, which is indeed awarded in Oslo.
You are right
Well, whats wrong with the Nobel Price now :D Norway is nice! 😂
But over 25% of the questions are related to none western European countries/cities/regions (stopped counting half way, sorry) (Google map European regions, Western Europe is relative tiny when you compare it with the rest)
Impressive! I knew most of these but I was taught these at school. You really shouldn't feel dumb, some of the questions were pretty specific. Congratulations!
Venice of the North is Brugge in Belgium. Brugge was first called Venice of the North in a letter of 1432 and refers to the fact that Venice and Brugge were economic rivals in the middle ages and not because of its network of canals.
I thought if Bruges straight away as well.
It feels like half the major cities claim to be or are sometimes called that, so...
@@blechtic Yep, Hamburg also sometimes claims that.
St Petersburg also claims that name
@@nupagadi84Yes, the modern saying refers St Petes.
The iberian peninsula picture was Croatia!
As a Dalmatian myself, I was so glad that you knew we're Croatian!
Also, you were right about Iceland (Land of Ice and Fire)... And a lot of the images on the questions were misleading or wrong. Even the questions were incorrect (Transylvania is not a city, but a region). You did much better than an average US American, especially given how bad the quiz was.
C'mon, you were good !! I can tell you that quite a few Europeans would do worse.
And I doubt they would know as much about the States as you do about Europe !
Happy New Year from a German geography teacher.😊
Right on spot, Mr. Teacher.
I agree. Ian did very solid.
@@ab-te8kv Mrs and thanks anyways.😁
11:45 "city of Transylvania"? Good Lord!
70% is fine. Particularly for anybody outside of Europe.
As an Austrian, I agree that you were correct in referring to our language as Austrian. In fact, we often call it 'Österreichisch' (Austrian) and there's even an official dictionary called the 'Österreichisches Wörterbuch' (Austrian Dictionary).
Du weißt hoffentlich schon daß sich das "Österreichisch" auf das Land bezieht und nicht auf eine Sprache. Deutsch als Sprache gibt es in Österreich viel länger als es Deutschland gibt. Das sollte eigentlich jeder Österreicher wissen.
Armenia is not a European country.
#35 Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, which was part of the Bavarian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of Mozart's birth. Sooo...Mozart was Bavarian.
2:40 this is wrong, Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community which would only later become EU. The actual establishment of EU itself was done by signing of the Maastricht Treaty
As an European im sure to fail many of these 😂
Ok, got most. A couple i had no idea, a couple took to long translating from English names. The Russia stuff throws most people off, like the river Volga being Europe longest. Most would think Danube. The "Land of Fire and Ice" refers to Iceland!
I was quit puzzled by some questions and answers in the vid you watched… there’s some mistakes, lol.
And you had very good guesses imo!
as a European I question some of these answers. Mt. Elbrus is not really part of Europe, Iceland has always been the land of fire and ice and there were a few other questionable things as well.
Elbrus is in the mountain range that separate Europe from Asia but it's generally considered to be on the European side. It's a matter of opinion though. The only objective continent is Eurasia.
Mt. Elbrus is indeed the highest mountain in Europe. It is on the Russian side of the Russian / Geroigan border in the Caucasus range ....which separate Europe and Asia.
But there were a lot of other things in the quiz that were wrong.
Well done Ian - you obviously did so well because you were wearing your Mighty Queensland Maroons cap!
Happy New Year from Latvia! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻❄️🌲🥳
So, Istanbul is not all European, most of it is in Asia. I would have said London. Also, Armenia is only conditionally European. Venice of the North can be St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Bruges. Elbrus is only conditionally in Europe, I'd say Mont Blanc. Transylvania is a region in Romania, not a city.
Bhahaha venice of the north is not st petersburg 😂
@@thienpondtt It is for any Russian speaker. I googled it, and there are options, including Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Bruges.
@@GuentherSass The Bruge people are the loudest about it, but I only ever heard Amsterdam :D
Number of bridges:
Venice: 400
Berlin: 960
Amsterdam: 1281
Vienna: 1716
Hamburg: 2500
Gent: 192
Stockholm: 53
Source: Statista
I was about to write the same corrections with regards to Istanbul and Armenia. Would have been funny if Armenia wasn't one of the three answers only to show it as option D afterwards, to drive home the point that the first country to adopt Christianity was not in Europe. In the case of Istanbul, that would mean the answer is also D: Moscow as the biggest city entirely in Europe.
Although you mixed up the ratio wrt Istanbul: two thirds are in Europe. I also don't quite understand what you mean by conditionally because (ignoring political alignments) the European border is agreed on by most to be the Greater Caucasus watershed where some argued before that it ought to be *north* of it, not south, so Armenia was never included in Europe, only Georgia and Azerbaijan are contested.
I think #28 is wrong!!! Finland is not the Land of Fire & Ice, and Iceland 100% is!!
Venice of the North could be umpteen places - the oldest recorded references though are Bruges, Amsterdam and St Petersburg i think.
Number of bridges:
Venice: 400
Berlin: 960
Amsterdam: 1281
Vienna: 1716
Hamburg: 2500
Gent: 192
Stockholm: 53
Source: Statista
11:08 about Volcanoes, in Star Wars revenge of the Sith during the final duel on Mustafar you can see a lot of real footage of the Etna erupting, they put it on the background during a whole sequence. Lava spilling and exploding everywhere!
It's spectacular! They went filming it during the nights of most activity and then added it in the movie! Genious move!
Venice of the North was in the middle ages Bruges, Belgium. Still now known for that.
Yep , there are about 40 cities that gave thelselves the title, including Amstardam ( the dutch know how to sell thelselves 😂) but Brugges is the original as it was at the peak of its power together with Venice the 2 areas were the richest in Europe rivalling eachother. At that time brugge had 35 000 inhabitants, amstardam had less than 1000. Brugge is the only one that has gotten/earned the name in an organic way, and not to lure for tourists
There must be a hundred different cities that are compared to Venice in the world.
These invented comparisons are amusing. Edinburgh is sometimes called the Athens of the North. Oddly, you never hear Athens called the Edinburgh of the South.
@@digidol52 They tried to build a copy of the Acropolis in Edinburgh on Calton Hill but because they never finished it (lack of funds) it somehow bears more resemblance to the Athens Acropolis than if it had been finished. (that's an Edinburgh joke).
Meanwhile they never tried to build a copy of Edinburgh Castle in Athens.
Number of bridges:
Venice: 400
Berlin: 960
Amsterdam: 1281
Vienna: 1716
Hamburg: 2500
Gent: 192
Stockholm: 53
Source: Statista
I absolutely love quizzes! I am not surprised that you did well, like me you have a logical, active and curious mind! Some of those questions were tricky and made you doubt yourself, but the key is that you actually know the answer when you mind is more relaxed! I missed some rivers and the unusual capital names, because they are not as exciting as other attractions! Great job Ian! 🌟🙋
The land of fire and ice is 100% Iceland
More like 1000000000%
I think you did fairly well for a non European. For an American, excellent. I had two less wrongs than you.
Venice of the North may refer to several cities, e.g. St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Bruges, Wroclaw, Hamburg... So I would say that's misleading question since in Czechia most people would (probably) choose St. Petersburg.
As Italian for me the only Venice of the North is Amsterdam, never heard about the others cities been called like this. In fact I think Amsterdam is the only one built like Venice (multiple islands)
We dont see Russia as part of the European family. We always refer to European countries and cities.
@@bexyr The original is Bruges, already a world city when Amsterdam was still a village.
@@bexyr Brugge (Bruges) was already been called "Venice of the North" in 1432.
Number of bridges:
Venice: 400
Berlin: 960
Amsterdam: 1281
Vienna: 1716
Hamburg: 2500
I can give you that you guessed Stockholm Sweden on the Nobel Peace prize question. But it's the only one that is managed by Norway because when Alfred Nobel wrote his will, Sweden was in union with Norway. That could be an explanation for why he wanted the peace prize to be awarded in Oslo.
You did better than at least 90 % of Americans, and also a fair percentage of Europeans.
Lol, he got some right that i ( european ) failed miserably, and vice versa of course.
@@TheAquarius1978 While I didn't keep score, I guess I got something like 43-45 points. Some questions were tricky, especially if you factor in eastern Europe.
10:10: actually, la Venise du Nord is a surname given to several cities in Europe. Bruges / Brugge is another one, for example
YOU DID VERY WELL, I AM 60 YEARS DANISH VIKING, HAD ALMOST SAME ERROR AS YOU AND ALMOST IN THE SAME PLACES SO BRAVO LOVE FROM DENMARK
35/50 as an American is pretty good! I myself got 39/50 and as an European I consider it really bad.
Same here, although some of the questions could be challenged based on fact, others on tradition. Mont Blanc is traditionally named as the tallest peak in Europe, for example, even though technically the Caucasus mountains are in Europe.
I had 14 wrong, so I got 36/50, so 72%. I'm Dutch. You did damn decent.
Question 28 land of fire and ice is Iceland. The answer was given is wrong.
The Matterhorn or Monte Cervino is an Italian mountain tho
Russia is large, but only the part to to Ural Mountains is part of Europe. And the city Istanbul is partially Europe and Asia, the rest of Tukey is primarily Asian.
russia is the largest country in europe even if you only count its european part. it is stupidly large in every sense.
The European part is several times larger than any other European country.
At 14:00 the sound just cuts out.
"Andorra is not on the Alps, cause that's too far west"
Chooses the Pyrenees, which is even further west.
Tbf, that was the correct answer, tho
Were you thinking of Liechtenstein?
@MorningNapalm Why are you asking me?
Maybe "it" refers to Andorra not the Alps?
6:52 Fun fact: Even tho Alfred Nobel is from Sweden, and all the other Nobel prices are handed out in Stockholm, the peace price is handed out in Oslo. This is because Sweden and Norway were in a union at the time, functioning much as one country.
I made 4 errors but I find this quiz sketchy... I would not consider Russia nor Turkey European
Turkey as a whole sure, Istanbul is located in Europe however and the European part of Russia is literally the size of Portugal, Spain and France combined. Lake Ladoga is next to the border with Finland.
Armenia is entirely located in Asia however.
Your uneducated idea of what is Europe is irrelevant. Both Russia and Turkey has land in Europe.
Reporting from Galicia (Spain), I was playing along and got 38/50. It's sad that some of these questions were wrong, as other commentors pointed out, otherwise both our scores would have been a bit better. Regardless, I loved this format of video, keep on truckin' and happy new year! :)
Most Europeans would have done worse.
in the time when Mozart was born Salzburg was a part of Germany only after his time it became Austrian, so Germany would technically have been the correct anwer. Also Bach, Schubert, Wagner etc where Germans I don't know if Germany had more componists then Austria but Germany was home to many great commponists and well Mozart in his time was German as the city of his birth was still German at his time.
the greatest pr success of austria is what it is for a reason.
At question 20: The Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm, but the Nobel Peace Prize is an exemption. Alfred Nobel decreed in his testament that the selection for this prize should be done by a committee of the Storting, the parliament of Norway. In his time Norway and Sweden were a union under the Swedish king, and the parliament of Norway had nothing to do with foreign policy; in 1905 Norway voted for independence and elected a younger son of the Crown Prince of Denmark (of House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of the German House of Oldenburg) as king.
At question 35: Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was at the time its own state within the German Kingdom and not part of Austria. Napoleon gave it later to Bavaria, but the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decided it had to become Austrian - about 25 years after Mozart's death. He lived however for much of his career in Vienna.
At question 41: Chopin was one of many Polish artists living in Paris; his father was French, but he grew up in Poland, which he left in 1830 shortly before the November revolt against Russia (the Tsar had become King of Poland as decided by the Congress of Vienna - the Poland of the time however consisted only of the Duchy of Warsaw founded by Napoleon, while the coastal lands as well as the western part were ruled by Prussia and southern Poland by Habsburg as Kingdom of Galicia).
At 49: in school I learned that the Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in Europe. But since then the definition of Europe and its geographical borders got a bit blurred. Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Russia and located in the Great Caucasus mountains 11 km north from the border with Georgia. It is a volcano (last eruption about 2,000 years ago). If you take the main ridge of the Great Caucasus as geographical border, it is (barely) in Europe. The older view used the rivers Don and Volga as border (preferring "wet" borders for continents instead of mountain ridges), which put the whole Caucasus into Asia.
At 50: Officially the European Union has no capital, only different seats. Brussels has the seat of the Commission (Executive) and the Council (of the governments of the member states), Strasbourg the parliament (with a second, but more often used seat in Brussels), Luxembourg the judiciary (EU Court of Justice, EU Court of Auditors), Frankfurt the Central Bank.
By the way: As a European I was only slightly better than you. Maybe half as much wrong answers.
And I never heard Finland called "Land of Fire and Ice" - that is the title of Iceland, so the quiz was wrong here - like in some other disputable cases.
I'm an emmotional type of guy. Seriously man, you nailed it.
We are often making fun of americans general knowledge - for good reasons tbh - but you really did your fellow countrymen a favor.
Most of your viewers probably consider themselves as "american friends", yet, at least for me, I would not have been able to answer a likewise quizz about the USA.
I just think it's cool that you are so interested in learning about other countries. You will only get wiser
Hi from Sweden. You done it very well.
I've been following your channel for a long time and I have to congratulate you today!
You are definitely one of the 5% of Americans who know something about other countries.
I don't think many Europeans could keep up with "American questions".
(German here: left-wing thinker, green voter, anti-car person, and I still watch your channel every vid and always like it^^)
Ian, By now you are a specialist in European affairs. I think a lot of Europeans wouldn't do so well with questions about the US (although many will pretend they do) It's great you take such an interest in Europe and other countries and cultures.
I always enjoy to be in the US, there are differences, but nature is great, and always enjoy visiting NFL and MLB!
The picture of Q15 is Rovinj in Croatia, that‘s about 1000km away from the Iberian peninsula.
You did very well IWrocker. There were a few trick questions. I prolly wouldn't have so many questions correct about the US. Well done 👍👍
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I am from EU and had 8 of them wrong... there are things that often we don't know about, like "The tallest building" or "Capital city of Malta" think last time i heard of it was long ago and i forgot about it.
I knew Malta but really thought London had the tallest building.
11:44 "Transylvania" (Erdély in Hungarian) is not a city but a part of a country (maybe region). Yes, it is in Romania today, but in times of Dracula it was still part of Hungary.
in fairness the largest producer of wine depends on the yeald of the year, France and Italy are very close competitors, also in the last 10 years Spain got from zero to hero, getting close to the other 2
Highest mountain range could also be the Caucasus. That "borders" Asia and is also home of what could also be the highest mountain in Europe - Mount Elbrus.
But the "border" between Europe and Asia is more a political/social question than actually one of geology etc. So it depends on at where you draw that border line...
There are some "stupid questions" in there, including some stupid and/or wrong answers. Many have mentioned Iceland, Transylvania, etc. If you consider Russia as part of Europe, than the highest peak is correct, but I think 90% of europeans would have answered the Mont Blanc. Also the 'Venice of the North' expression is used for many cities, including Amsterdam, Stockholm, St.Petersburg, etc.
I think your 35/50 (even with some lucky guesses) is close to what an average european would score on this, so I think you did a great job 🙂 I scored 47, but I do travel a lot, and I'm interested in a lot of these things, so I'm well above average I think.
Good to see you being so fascinated with Europe, I hope you get to travel here sometime.
Cheers all the way from Hungary 😉
Number of bridges:
Venice: 400
Berlin: 960
Amsterdam: 1281
Vienna: 1716
Hamburg: 2500
Gent: 192
Stockholm: 53
Source: Statista
Wel done sir. I’m European and we got the same right and wrong answers😂
Dude, there's absolutely no reason to feel dumb - you knew A LOT! More than me btw (I'm German). Many Americans don't even know that Europe is a continent consisting of many countries, or which countries boarder the U.S. So, congratulations!