AMERICANS Answer DUTCH Trivia!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- As an American living in the Netherlands for the past two years; I was curious to see how much my fellow Americans know about the Dutch. So during my recent trip back to California, I went out and quizzed people to find out. I hope you enjoy!
#Netherlands #Dutch #DutchCulture
00:00 Intro
00:36 Quiz rules
01:23 What's the official language of the Netherlands?
02:13 What's the capital of the Netherlands?
03:13 Where's the Netherlands on the map?
04:16 Which US city was once a colony of the Dutch?
05:18 What's the approximate population of the Netherlands?
05:51 Who's the Prime Minister of the Netherlands?
07:13 Giving out the money
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Belgium is the capital of the Netherlands..... hilarious!!! This was a fun experiment, Sam, and you got some willing participants there. Nothing to do with the financial incentives of course. 😆🤓
Haha, glad you like that! And yeah, all of the participants were great, and a little money never hurt haha
trick question, every American knows that Denmark is the capital of the Netherlands....
as a Belgian I just knew the guy was going to say "Belgium" 😭😭... I've already seen so many of these interviews
What color is your Richard lol?
LOL a while ago I heard an american calling the Amsterdam the capital of Brussels
Fun fact for all the Americans out there: New York used to be called New Amsterdam, but after the English took over, they named it after the Duke of York (and York is also a city in the UK).
You can still see some remnants of the Dutch in New York: Harlem is named after the Dutch city of Haarlem, and Wall Street was originally "Waal straat", the name the Dutch gave it when they were there...
Brooklyn = breukelen
Wasn't it because the wall of fort amsterdam used to be there at wall street?
@@delphia85 Yes, you're right. It was the street adjacent to the stockade (wal).
Also Flushing = Vlissingen. Coney island = Konijnen eiland.
New Dorp
Haarlem
Stuyvesant
Fun fact for all the Americans out there: The Netherlands was the first nation to salute the the US flag and technically the first to recognize it in doing so (done by a captain without official government backing to do so) and the second the officially recognize the country.
Also the American constitution is based on the Dutch founding document (to the point of of looking like stolen and translated homework, just with a lot of preamble about the failings of the Spanish king removed)
No wonder we recognized the US, good way to stick it to the UK lmao
Correct but for one thing, Johannes the Graaff was not a Captain but the Governor of St Eustacius.
6 for 6! Thank goodness. I don’t have to be embarrassed. I had some serious second-hand embarrassment along the way, haha. I was yelling the prime minister’s name by the end. I was really hoping the woman on the bench would get that one right.
Ayyye, great job! Haha
And yeah! She was so close😂
Yeah I was rooting for her as well, she knew her facts!
@@exploringtheforeign its funny because she looks a tad bit dutch as well haha, wouldn't surprise me if her great grandparents were colonist
As a Dutch person this was easy
Ik was niet verbaasd over de uitslag, want dit is een bekend gegeven, de meeste mensen weten erg weinig over Nederland. Wel leuk dat je er een beloning aan hebt verbonden! ❤️ Hil
Haha ja! Ik vond het interssant om te zien :) En ja, een beetje geld kan nooit kwaad!
@@exploringtheforeign ook goed om te zien dat niemand Mark Rutte kent dus mooie tijd voor hem om het cabinet te verlaten.
@@freakgib Alsof wij de premiers of presidenten van andere landen kennen...
@@Linda-hs1lk Ik ken Joe!
Hallo en gegroet medeNederlander
Your own pronunciation of Dutch names is very good
Dankjewel!
Broer die man spreekt rutte uit als route
@@Kaindigo de Hollanders waar je je voor schaamt, ga weg dude
This was really fun testing Americans on their knowledge of the Netherlands! Just so it's clear, the video wasn't intended to embarrass anyone or make anyone look dumb, just truly curious how much Americans knew about the Netherlands, because I didn't know much before I moved there! :) Were you surprised with the results?
I was a bit surprised about the people saying Boris Johnson. I didn't expect them to know our PM, but I did expect they'd know who Boris Johnson is.
@@jbird4478 Even funnier considering Boris is a has-been anyway.
No, not in the least. We Americans are about the least informed when it comes to affairs outside our own country and even INSIDE the U.S. I'll be you that half the populations couldn't tell you how many States there are, let alone name them.🤦♀
@@LindaCasey I know there are 50 states in the US, but couldn't name them all. It would be like in the episode of Friends where they have to do that. I'm not even gonna try. Don't want no sleepless night.
But I do know the capital of New York State is Albany and Tallahassee is the Floridian one. Not NYC or Miami. San Diego in California, right? Wrong, it was Sacramento. (Just looked that up.) At least I knew it's not LA :)
@@somedutchguy2062 👏👏
I'm actually pleasantly surprised, sure a few lucky guesses left and right but quite a few genuinely answered questions with correct answers.
I'll be honest, i expected a near complete fail, but it wasn't anywhere near that and especially that lady with the soccer ball knew her stuff.
Great video, i like your interaction with people :)
She knew the ICC was in the Netherlands. Many Americans think The Hauge is another country.
@@dennisd9875 exactly, when she mentioned that, i knew she knew quite a bit about our little country.
Yeah, the one with the soccer ball was really good! Nice to see the results surprised you in a positive way :) Thank you for watching and for your nice feedback!
@@exploringtheforeign I sometimes see videos with street interviews in the USA and find that the people answering questions are kinda.. well, not very smart.
Then I think: maybe they were nervous, because of the microphone under their nose, the camera, the questions they have to answer, all of a sudden. Who knows. Could be. I'd be, maybe.
But sometimes I also, cynically, think those videos are rigged, like as if they only show the wrong answers, because that generates more buzz and thus more view(er)s.
Question: Name a country that starts with the letter 'U'. Answer: U.. rope? That kind of things. Cutting out all the people who know how to say USA.
Refreshing to see for once smart(er) Americans. Fun to see that woman joyfully playing with her ball every time she gets one right and even if she gets one wrong.
Oh yes, and the gentlemen from the galaxy far far away. Darth Vader as prime minister of the Netherlands? Haha, they joke in character, but in the end they at least chose a (ex) prime minister, if only from the wrong country :)
Would I have given the right answers? Hmm.. I'd earn the ten dollars. But not all Dutch people would!!
There once was a program on Dutch TV called 'De Vakantieman'. In it Dutch people on holiday in Spain were asked to show on a map where they were. And where they came from. But I think it also was rigged in favor of the wrong answers.
Great video. Not rigged, I believe sincerely. Enjoyed it very much.
Maybe a bit of a long comment. But sometimes, when I get going, it's hard to stop. This here could have been waaaay longer :) Stop.
@Some Dutch Guy Thank you! :) Yes, everyone you see in the video is everyone I filmed, there's only one couple I left out and it's because they were from Spain and we did the interview in Spanish, but I didn't feel it fit in with the rest of the video haha
Wasn't as painful as I thought it was going to be, except for NYC. That's part of _your_ history. Good job 'Murica! 💪
Our history is yours mate
Gotta remember, the distance from where he's asking the questions to NYC is more than half the distance from here to China. Probably more people would have known had he asked on the East Coast.
This was so much fun to watch as a born and raised Dutchie! Very proud of all that participated, cause I know we're a small country and I probably don't know too much about the USA either, lol. The older lady on the bench did especially well; she seemed so sweet! :)
Glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, she did great!
“its right between Paris and Belgium” I love how he thought Paris is a country
And then veered toward the center...made no sense!
Nice idea for a fun video! Nice to see people who were happy to participate!
I love your videos, this was a really fun one! Thanks for the entertainment
Really appreciate that. Thank you for watching! :)
Where did Christmas come from? The Dutch are credited with transporting the legend of St. Nicholas to New Amsterdam (now New York City), along with the custom of giving gifts and sweets to children on his feast day,
The traditional Christmas narrative recounted in the New Testament, known as the Nativity of Jesus.
Filling in the Hague as a possible option is misleading as some people define the capital of a nation where the parliament meets which is the Hague. This means that under some definitions the Netherlands has two capitals and south Africa 3
your production quality is really going up, its awesome to see you get better at presenting and making videos everytime I put you on, keep going man awesome content
Really means a lot, thank you!
I find it extra funny because when you did the reverse of this (how much do Dutch people know about USA) you gave them 2 euro for every good question. Muwahaha, we made more xD
BTW there is a song even who mentioned New York once was called New Amsterdam
(th-cam.com/video/0XlO39kCQ-8/w-d-xo.html)
Other fun fact, the word dollar comes from an old Dutch currency: de daalder. It was worth 1.50 guilders
As a fellow Californian who grew up in LA, I have also recently fallen in love with the small country of The Netherlands. Ever since I took a solo trip in 2019 I have dreamed of moving there. Great job on this video.
Aye! Nice to virtually meet you! What part of California? And glad you enjoyed the video :)
@@exploringtheforeign Originally from Ventura, but moved to the SFV when I was about 17. Maybe I'll get to run into you when I come out in Feb for my birthday trip :).
Wanna switch? I live in amsterdam north and i realllly wanna move to the US because of the good skateparks over there.
I really enjoyed watching this, thanks. Great topic!
Thank you!
I really love seeing how much fun you always seem to be having ^^
Really appreciate that!
Enjoyed this one Sam; result didn’t surprise me as we are a little unknown gem. The Hague is the governmental capital so that was a confusing one for outsiders. Keep doing what you’re doing! 👏👏❤️
Thank you for watching, Ingrid! Glad you enjoyed🙌🏾 and yeah that's true, that crossed my mind when making the question haha
And thank you for the support! I'll keep going🙌🏾🙌🏾
Enjoyed this one too. That bonus question was just SO hard.
When you would do this in the Netherlands, the people would find it much fun and would find it really weird if you paid them. Participating is the win already. A fun trinket might be appreciated though, but really not necessary at all.
Just subscribed. Keep up the fun work!
I'll be sure to do the reverse here but without cash😁🙌🏾 thank you for the subscription!
Am i the only Dutch person in here
I like how Participant 6 was actually struggling a lil bit with The Hague and Amsterdam, since people tend to confuse those two for that question.
Yeah! She was so close to getting it all right
She knew best of all, as the hague is the de facto capital of the Netherlands.
I saw Dutch features in her face, she could have Dutch ancestors.
You need more views man! That transition from the netherlands to america was so good1
I appreciate you calling that out! I really hoped people would like that part haha. Hopefully in due time, the TH-cam algorithm will pick the video up more :) In the meantime, feel free to share with anyone else you think will enjoy!
These are hard questions. Especially the bonus one. Good job participants!
Yeah! Overall they did great🙌🏾
Lovely video! i like the energy here. People online are always so harsh on americans but these guys put in a good effort and did pretty well!
Thank you! And I agree, the results aren't bad!
Haha, that was fun. Loving the energy of the people in the video!
Happy to see you enjoyed it! And yeah, the people were great!
That was really cool to watch, interesting how few knew that New York was called New amsterdam..
Thank you for watching! :) To be honest, I didn't learn about that until a few years ago haha
As a Dutch New Yorker you cannot miss the Dutch influence if you look around long enough. There are so many streets, roads and places with Dutch names. For example, Van Wyck (Wijk) expressway, New Utrecht and Spuiten Duyvil (Duivel) neighborhoods and of course Brooklyn and Harlem itself. I would say even the culture that remains today has traces of Dutch influence left. As far as actual artifacts, I live in walking distance of the only remaining one I know of which is an actual Dutch farmhouse which is located in Manhattan.
Plus all those famous old New Yorkers with last names like Stuyvesant or Vanderbilt
Dat ging zo goed als te verwachten was. 😅
Leuke video, dank je!
Dankjewel!!😁
That was sooo funny!!! Love the questions 😂
Glad you liked it! :)
Another Fun Fact: There is a town called Holland in the US, East of Lake Michigan, just below the Grand Rapids. There is even some dutch culture there. Also towns like Zeeland, Drenthe and Overisel. Then across the lake, to the west and to the north above Milwaukee is a town called Belgium.
Leuk!
Don't forget the wonderful town called Nederland!
Love your vibe man. Keep up the enthousiasm :)
Thank you!!😃
I loved that you asked the storm troopers that was the most amazing thing ever!
Super leuk!!
I've been learning dutch for like a year and everytime I see the netherlands mentioned I get so excited because its such a neat place
Leuk!! Waarom leer je nederlands?
@@exploringtheforeign I'm planning on living there one day, or at least visiting
Good video!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :)
Loved it
Really fun video! Maybe try next how much the dutch know about USA... ^^ Hope to see you guys in the next soccer world cup, Aloha from the Netherlands! ✌️
Thank you! And a few people have requested that now, so I think I have to do it! haha
Just earned a new sub, really fun video to watch and I love your vibe
Wow, thank you!! I appreciate the support and I hope you enjoy all of the content to come!
Haha leuke video weer Sam! 😁
Dankjewel, Babs!!
Although you asked mostly basic questions, i was still positively surprised 😊
Pleasently surprised you know that much, thought it would be way worsr from all those geography question videos in the usa
Nice video. Compliments about the way you scripted it beforehand, so that you could use footage from both places - very clever.
About the results: it was a lot better than I had anticipated, but it seems that Mark Rutte didn't make a deep impression on the international stage, and is in need of some additional marketing.
Thank you for calling out that part! :) And nice to see you and a few others are pleasantly surprised. I was as well!
Robert Ten Brink would probably be a better Prime-Minister anyways
Excellent video :)
Thank you so much!
Dear Samuel,
Dat was een erg leuke video! De antwoorden kwamen vrij goed overeen met de verwachtingen.
Ik was drie maanden geleden met mijn familie op de Santa Monica Pier. Een heel gezellig sfeertje. Tien keer beter dan Venice Beach.
Next episode: "Quizing the Dutch about the USA".
Ik denk dat je hetzelfde scoringspercentage krijgt.
Dankjewel, Rene! En ja, dat is een leuke idee voor een komende video!
This is so funny 😂😂
Great vid! Groetjes uit Groningen :)
Dankjewel!
Awesome video👍👍🇳🇱
Dankjewel! :)
As a Dutch person, this was very easy, you guys have a clear skill issue, didnt need help.
Nice video! The only thing that surprised me was that people didn't automatically exclude Boris Johnson. I expected he was someone that people recognised internationally.
Thank you! And yeah, I was curious to see how people would respond to that option haha
Gotta say kinda supriced about the amounts off good guesses 🤣😂🤣👍
I was pleasantly surprised. Some of them knew more then I thought. Now ask random Dutch people the same sort of questions about America. What is the capital, who's the president, how many people live in America etc. Really curious about the answers.
This will be a future video!🙌🏾
Subbed!
Thanks!!
I’m quite impressed! Quite a few of them didn’t fare all that bad.
Beautiful photo of u at the end. Very professional
Thank you!
Fantastic 😂👍I'm actually amazed they have heard of The Netherlands at all. Most Americans call it Holland. I did cross country USA and when someone asked where I was from in the US and I said no I'm from The Netherlands he just said ugh what is that. I told him Holland. Ok he said Holland Michigan 😂 I guess my American accent confused him.
haha, Holland, Michigan. That's funny!
Geweldige video! Rene Froger as prime minister hahahahahahah
haha, dankjewel!!
It was fun watching this video 😅
Glad you enjoyed!
You are just the cutest! Crap, I didn't know the population of The Netherlands either and I live here.
Nooooo, come on, Linda! haha (joking)
@@exploringtheforeign Yup, and what's worse is, I don't even know the total amount of people living in the STATES except by how many voted for Biden or Trump in the last election and how many registered voters there were who DIDN'T vote .. I only just recently found out that the entire world population has reached 8 billion.😁
The word "vader" in Darth Vader is actually the Dutch word for "father".
As in: "Luuk, ik ben je vader!"
dat klopt! lol
You immediately got louder in CA, lol!
😂😂😂 you think so?! Haha
@@exploringtheforeign We're taught as Americans to ensure we're heard. When we speak too loudly in EU, it's like we're trying to draw extra attention, something you *have* to do here to just to be heard.
"Okay, where is the Netherlands?" (shows a map with an arrow pointing to the Netherlands.)
That's Dutch humor, my friend. Whether you like it or not. Welcome!
Trooper 1 actually wins it all! Prime minister Mark Rutte is in fact Darth Fader.
Big compliment to the participants.
Fun video! That woman did very well! Had everything right just chose the wrong answer on the last two, she thought of the right answer though!
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed! :) And yeah, she did amazing!
Better than i thought, but you made it 'fairly' easy by using multiple choices.
Yeah, I thought if I left it open-ended then that would be too difficult :)
@4:15 The guy saying "I know my geography" said 20 seconds before that that the Netherlands is located between Paris and Belgium 😂😂😂
Ha! I would have said The Hague! And the bonus question was definitely a stumper 🤔
Yeah that one is a tricky one! Haha
That was awesome! Now let's reverse the questions and do one in The Netherlands?
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :) That could definitely be a future video.
Bedankt
Wow! Dankjewel, Gerben!!! Deze steun betekent veel!
I think if you did not offer them a multiple choice question none of the would've guessed a single answer correctly but i could be wrong. Good video though!
you have big youtuber energy my guy
Haha, dankjewel!
its fun when you the answers and hear theirs
Glad you enjoyed it!
Meuahahah this was funny big up Amsterdam
Hey Sam, so you're exploring the foreign and you're exploring The Dutch, right..? Well we, The Dutch, like to explore some as well. You really should go see Itchy Boots and my advice would be; start at season 2 and after that season 6 and see the other seasons later. This Dutch woman; Noraly Schoenmaker; this hero, she's astonishing in what she does all over the freakin' world...she's immensely popular. Wanna see some typical Dutch woman concurring the world per off-road motorcycle..? And see how she interacts with all of the different nationalities...? This woman is an Über Dutchy... Meet Basanti, Dhanno, Alaska and later on Savannah and Ronin
I've seen her channel before! Very impressive. I'll definitely have to check out more videos.
I’m from the Netherlands and these were the easiest questions ever
This is a fun one and there really shouldn't be any shame by any of the participants here. Many of these are things you wouldn't know unless you know and the Netherlands isn't exactly a place that deals a lot with the US so there is no shame in not knowing what they speak or where it is, would be nice to at least know most of your capitols but again, Netherlands is such a small place that I don't think it's bad if you don't know. That's without even going into the oddities of some of those cities in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam may be the capitol of the country, but the seat of government is in The Hague and many of the Dutch and international places of government are also in the Hague, then Rotterdam is the largest city in the country and is also where the largest port in the country is, in fact it's so large it's the largest port in Europe AND the largest port outside of East Asia and many large multinational companies have headquarters in the city. So in reality all three cities are very important and could easily be confused for being the capitol of the country if you didn't know the answer.
00:27 appreciate the transition
Glad you liked that!
According to the law, A'dam (A'dam is Amsterdam, R'dam is Rotterdam btw) is the capital, but all of the government instutions are in the Hague (Den Haag), making it the de facto capital.
3:49 “its right between paris and belgium” 😭😭
It's fun to look at thanks for the positifitie
Thank you! :)
That guy very confident saying "its actually between Paris (which is a city, in france) and Belgium". France and Belgium are connected and are south of the Netherlands, and then pick a country not even close as the answer. And then his him reveals he's been to Netherlands 😂
Not as good as I hoped, not as bad as I feared. I was actually going "Noooo" when the bench lady made her first mistake.
I understand the population numbers not being correct, especially after them seeing the map and noticing the little speck called A... uh... Netherlands. If I hadn't been Dutch, I might have guessed 7m as well.
Those results were a lot better than I expected! Those questions were hard! Well done, America!
🤣🤣 I couldn't stop laughing when my boy got a dollar!!
hahaha
Ja nu moet je ook andersom doen he! Mijn verwachting is dat nederlanders meer over de VS weten, maar we gaan het zien 😅
haha ik zal het doen
Are you planning on coming back to Zwolle for something like this? I’d love to test my knowledge 🤓
I suspect participant 5 just thought you were trying to be smooth on that first question...
The woman on the bench did great!
“It’s right between Paris and Belgium, soo”
Robert ten Brink for president!!😂
Only 4 states of the US have more inhabitants than The Netherlands. California, Texas, Florida and NewYork (the last has only slightly more inhabitants )
All other 46 states have approx only one third of the inhabitants compared to The Netherlands
The Netherlands export yearly for 840 billion US$ , Texas only exported 315 Billion US$ , All the US 50 states together exported only twice as much as The Netherlands alone .
The area of The Netherlands is indeed small, but regarded population/area, productivity and economy Its larger than any state of the US.
Amazing that most big states of the US have only a few million inhabitants, and the US acts as if it has no place for immigrants. LOL compare that to The Netherlands
As of April 2023 we have 17.8 million in population
lel I think the "Darth Vader" answer is i guess unintentionally funny because vader means father in dutch.
Yooo that trooper was like “aye come on man.. we not married..” lol
😭😭😭 that killed me lol
Going to be Americanist here and say the avarage people are going to guess is 2 bucks.
Lol I guessed right.
Supprised that people did not know the one about new york.
I wonder how us Eurofolk would test on similar questions about specific US states..
That can be another video!
@@exploringtheforeign Wordt plezant ;-)
English is actually also a official language, so technically that isn't a wrong answer.
Boston is actually a tricky one, it was actually part of the Dutch territory at the time but settled by people Aligned to the British.
Participant 6 was on the money, I was rooting for her. But over all, even with a lot of guessing call me impressed. Not many Americans would even get a single one of those questions. This is the first time in a very long time I have been pleasantly surprised by Americans, happy to see that these people were so well informed!
I don't think I'd say English is an official language haha. Many people speak it decently here, but i don't think that makes it official.
And interesting about Boston, I need to look into that.
Yeah number 6 did great! I'm glad you enjoyed the video🙌🏾
I'm surprised by the results actually; I guessed that the people knew even less.. The Darth Vader answer made me chuckle though :-)
Yeah, they did good overall! And yeah, the Darth Vader was hilarious haha