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[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

5:25 - Belfast, not Belgrade!

[@McJibbin]

Damnit ur right

[@draculakickyourass]

It was funny when Spain played a football match with Romania and most of the spanish suporters bought plane ticket to Budapest instead of Bucharest....Also a lot of politicians and presidents claimed they were ,,happy to be here in Budapest'' being actually in Bucharest,or viceversa. Also the american soldiers ment to go to Bagdad,arrived at the Nato center in Babadag, wich is in South-East of Romania. They didn't complained much tho, hot beaches nearby,the Danube Delta.....

[@thatcanadianwhitetrashguy]

Flatitude is how you remember I'm the Flatitude King, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ@@McJibbin

[@firstsurname7099]

One thing to remember is for most of the people these questions are being asked of is that English is not their first language so they are not only having to translate the question but they are then having to think of the English answer, and for some of these the names of things are different in English, the native language of the places they are thinking of and potentially also their own languages so....

[@CostaWanti]

Most of europes population learns English in school. So most of us have a good grasp on the language. Being bilingual is actually quite normal.

[@firstsurname7099]

@@CostaWantiinnit, we white English-as-a-first-language-lot are so lazy and limited, sorry. I was pointing out the different names for countries and languages, however, as I think many people who are monoglotal (not even sure that's actually a proper English word) presume that when it comes to lands and tongues we use 'their' real names... like Albania is called Albania in Albania and they speak Albanian there, right, or at an even more basic level many Brits would not know who spoke español even whilst ordering an English Breakfast in Marbs

[@marjabeverwijk5630]

I Agree, for example the question:"Name 4 (Europeanen) countries that end with the same 4 letters... in Dutch this could be Duitsland (Germany), Finland (Finland), Engeland (England) Rusland (Russia sometimes partly included in Europe), Nederland (the Netherlands), but in English these are incorrect, still my first thought is the country namens Dutch.

[@Pidalin]

it's actually hard to tell some of these things in English when it's not your native language

[@McJibbin]

Very good point! That makes their answers even more impressive 👍

[@fixzeichner5592]

Some questions are not easy to answer because cities are spelled differently in different languages. Rome is written in German with only 3 letters, "Rom" in Italian but with 4 "Roma", Vienna is called "Wien" in the national language German, Prague is also written in Germany with 4 letters "Prag" in Czech "Praha".

[@turkoositerapsidi]

In Suomi (finnish) Praha is Praha. And Ríga is Riika, begause the I is long thats why Roma is Rooma in Suomi.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

Some European countries don't even use the Latin alphabet. In Greek the UK is called Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, Switzerland is called Ελβετία, Bern is called Βέρνη, etc. I'd love to see some Americans doing a geography quiz in Greek 😂

[@turkoositerapsidi]

@@helgaioannidis9365 Luckyly I know hellenistic alphabet quite well, so I can read that, but do not know if my pronounciation is exactly right anyways.

[@module79l28]

I agree. For example, for the question about the countries' names that start with an "A" but don't end with an "a", all the incorrect answers in English would be valid in French: Argentine, Australie, Austrie, Albanie, Arménie, etc. Even Germany (Allemagne) would be a valid answer!

[@turkoositerapsidi]

@@module79l28 True. Exactly this! In Suomi (finnish) however it would not be that easy to find correct answers, tho Alankomaat (Netherlands) would be correct, but only because its plural, those have "t" at end.

[@Charlouf_]

ask simple question : - EU : 4 capitals with 4 letters , 4 capitals in england -USA : name a country, name a continent, how many continent

[@AdrianUng13]

4 capitals in UK, but yeah ..

[@Charlouf_]

=) @@AdrianUng13

[@SayWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat]

FOR THOSE PEOPLE IN VIDEO IS BIT HARDER. BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO KNOW ANSWER IN ENGLISH. LETS SAY CAPITALS. WE IN EUROPE LEARN IN OUR LANGUAGE, NOT ENGLISH. SO PE0PLE HAVE TO KNOW CAPITAL NAME IN ENGLISH.

[@bloody_sais]

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING? IS YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON BROKEN?

[@vanesag.9863]

@@bloody_sais 🤣 perhaps he/she has hearing problems and thinks she/he is not shouting? 😜

[@ondrejvasak1054]

I feel that all the questions that ask for countries with some number of letters or specific spelling and so on are harder for anyone who is not native English speaker. Because English spelling be crazy, especially in country names and capitals. But most people do a pretty good job regardless.

[@nicoladc89]

Yeah, for example Seoul, in Italian is Seul and Mozambique is Mozambico.

[@ondrejvasak1054]

@@nicoladc89Yeah, Seoul is also Soul in Czech. I have no idea where that extre e came from. 😀

[@helgaioannidis9365]

​@@nicoladc89in Greek it's Σεούλ and Μοζαμβίκη. I'd love to see random English native speakers answer these questions in Greek. Like "name 3 countries that start with "η"...

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

Cairo isn't on the coast, so the only capitals on the north coast of Africa are Rabat, Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

I was going to say the same thing about Cairo not being on the coast. Equally, although Rabat is a coastal city, it is not on the north (Mediterranean) coast but the west (Atlantic) coast.

[@romelnegut2005]

What he meant it was to name the capitals of the countries on the North coast of Africa.

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

​@@Ben-xe8ps Yes, Rabat is on the west coast of North Africa.

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

@@romelnegut2005 Yes, that's what the question should've been.

[@XiOjala]

Hell, McJibbin man, you know your geography. I'm good but you are a star.

[@billyhills9933]

I always remember it as a line of Longitude is always the same distance long, unlike a line of Latitude that get shorter as you approach a pole.

[@lkajiess]

Latitude - Flatitude, longitude looooongitude.

[@ornatus9616]

We were taught by using the lat muscles.

[@QueeferSutherland1]

"what's your name" "where you from" 40 euros right out the gate....nice

[@kieranhenno12]

he was wrong about the FLAG italy flag green white red, ivory coast flag orange white green, Ireland flag green white orange so a answer is Ireland and ivory coast

[@JohnSmall314]

You're pretty good on these questions. Years of watching YT videos and learning about the world

[@AgentLynch616]

Iceland Finland Switzerland England Scotland Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland Poland Thailand New Zealand

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

14 capital cities have only 4 letters.

[@dougbanks3906]

Brag away I love your shows

[@SayWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat]

tHOSE ARE NOT SIMPLE QUESTIONS. AMERICANS CANT EVEN ASWER ANALOG CLOCK QUESTIONS, OR HOW OLD YOU ARE IF YOU BORN 10 YEARS AGO...AND SO ON :D

[@juliehillman8743]

Bloemfontein, South Africa. It is a Dutch word meaning Fountain of flowers in English. Completely describing how pretty the city is.

[@z0n0ph0ne]

Hot bed of apertheid.

[@kucnimajstor2901]

To be fair those are really tough questions unlike ones asked to americans like, who is the Pope?

[@letheas6175]

Also yah Bloemfontein is dutch, and it's a lovely name. Like for real, it just sounds lovely.

[@HyPnOsS1933]

This is like ultra instinct level stuff 😂😂 capital 4letters thought about Sofia wrong then brain shut of

[@dufflepod]

Caps off to you sir - you knocked that one out the park.

[@James-wp3jq]

Yeah , that was funny Belgrade, the Bel bit was right though.

[@papalaz4444244]

These are not simple questions. These are tricky and in English. You cannot compare this to the US ones.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

I agree. Naughty and deliberate.

[@Dan-B]

People who claim someone is cheating because they have knowledge, are the same people who report people’s accounts after losing an argument on a topic because they don’t do any actual research.

[@eddisstreet]

I can't think of any capitals that don't have four letters. It's the ones with only four letters are hard to remember.

[@Katahhor1]

I would like to see Americans answer these "simple" questions 😂

[@lukespooky]

bro said Belgrade

[@catbevis1644]

A teacher said to me to remember longitude/latitude, remember that the "g" hangs down vertically in longitude and the "t" in latitude has a horizontal line on it. Stupid considering you could pick other letters in the words and come to the opposite conclusion, but I've always remembered it so I guess it works!

[@Dangel98]

Do you put the videos in your composition at the exact height to have the KZbin progress bar at the same height as the viewers of your videos? If yes, that's dedication. Great attention to detail.

[@MantisEnergy]

You know it's a good question when your guesses are: "Vatican city? ...Mongolia?"

[@miniveedub]

If I was as knowledgeable about geography as you are I’d want to put it on display too. We all want to show off our strengths and talents and earn a few kudos, it’s human nature.

[@letheas6175]

When you recognise people from Wageningen because the Netherlands is just so small and awesome. Cool stuff.

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

Groningen

[@letheas6175]

Nice self like, but yeah, if you're from Groningen, I bet you will recognize people from KZbin videos too!@@DavidZ4-gg3dm

[@ldewproductions7271]

Easy, England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland. I am in my 70's and at school I was taught 5 only continents.

[@ClassicRiki]

6:40 it’s nothing to do with it not being water. Ice is the (without being picky about the physics too much) solid state of Water. So there’s various ways of interpreting that metric. As for the 180° flag question…which axis is he turning the flag on?

[@papalaz4444244]

Americans: We have thousands of guns, shanty towns, mass shootings, mass poverty, slave prisons... Also Americans: We don't like bad language!

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Or prostitution unless you’re being filmed doing it!

[@micade2518]

Slightly off-topic, Connor, but I think you should enjoy this: "How the Enlightenment Revolutionized Europe" - History Unboxed

[@nicoladc89]

I'm pretty sure the oldest country in the world is Denmark that was founded in the 8th century. There are plenty of country with thousands years of history, but for example the today Iran is only 45 years old. Vatican City was born in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy. San Marino has it's traditional independency in 301 AD, but it's formal independency was in 1291, San Marino became a "libero comune" only in 1351, I think is pure bullshit thinking that the Roman Empire could ever allow the birth of an independent country inside of Italy. Especially considering that for Rome, the whole world was Rome.

[@alessandromancuso7242]

Not true, San Marino was a christian community that never paid tribute to Rome, so it was independet from it's birth.

[@kalinxristov1654]

don't be so sure, if it's not San Marino, then Bulgaria remains, which is the oldest country in Europe with a name that has never been changed. 635 year.

[@nicoladc89]

@@kalinxristov1654 the birth of the Republic of Bulgaria is dated 22 September 1908. The birth of the Kingdom of Denmark is dated somewhen during the 8th century.

[@kalinxristov1654]

@@nicoladc89 Ha ha, checked it on wikipedia, why do you consider the Republic of Bulgaria, as something different from the Kingdom of Bulgaria? Please check a map of Bulgaria from the 8th century to see what we looked like while you were based :)

[@nicoladc89]

@@kalinxristov1654 why do you consider Republic of Bulgaria different from Kingdom of Bulgaria? Because they are.

[@robinhooduk8255]

i couldnt answer the 4 letter capitals, genuinely thought for 10mins and only came up with rome. i can name 20 or 30 foreign cities with 4 letters but not capitals.

[@hordegaming4771]

4 capitals with 4 letters Oslo, Norway Lima, Peru Riga, Latvia and Kiev, Ukraine

[@serz1885]

he sad name capitals with 4 letters, so basically its 99%of capitals got 4 letters in capital name for example London its got 4 letters :) Rome if you need countries only with 4 letters

[@annalieff-saxby568]

Rome!

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Wien, Austria

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

Hungary also has a navy, not sure if there's others.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Don't worry about Belgrade/Belfast - we knew it was a brain fart :) I do the same with Budapest/Bucharest. BTW - Rome, Riga, Oslo, Lima, Doha, Male, Lome, Suva, Apia, Juba... and yes, Rabat is right. For the flags, Ireland and Cote d'Ivoire - not Italy and Cote d'Ivoire. And Bolivia also has two capitals. And you're right - the Italian guy may have spent some time in the UK by his accent. PS - Kiribati is pronounced "kiri-bass".

[@lovisalindstrom7920]

Ask a person from Greece about the olympic rings.... eh??? How many stars in the New Zealand flag, that's not a simple question.

[@firstsurname7099]

Its the southern cross so totes get-able

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

Bloemfontein means flower fountain and is the capital of the Orange Free State.

[@anacasanova7350]

Roma, riga, Oslo , Kiev.😊

[@manuelvo1798]

To be honest I could answer the question about the 4 last letters of countries in my mother tongue (german - its pretty easy there since many countries end with -land :D), but I would not have been able to do the same in english. Since I usually think about other countries in my mother tongue and not in english.

[@margaretnicol3423]

There's a village on the Scottish island of Orkney that is older than the pyramids or Stonehenge. Take a look at Skara Brae. It's fascinating.

[@madsmller4030]

Ask our Scandinavian Nations, I`m a Dane and therefore a 6.000 mill. large country, who infact are the owners os Greenland, The Faroe Island and Island. Biggest coaster indusry, Maersk pr. ex. LEGO invented in a garage in Billund, Jutland , Denmark. Etc.

[@galaxspace1]

Plenty of landlocked countries have a navy. Switzerland is amongst them

[@eddisstreet]

Isn't Cairo a few miles inland?

[@ThePixel1983]

My brain: Capitals with four letters? IKEA! 😂

[@francoisevassy6614]

Easy for a Turkish to name three countries having the same four last letters because « istan » is a Turkish suffix : they even have Magyaristan for Hungary !

[@jrc58526]

Switzerland has a navy

[@E_Clip]

Dutchies: we need to have a word in private.

[@bakersmileyface]

4:38 lol you wouldn't last a second in England.

[@apmoy70]

17:14 Kiribati is pronounced Ki-ri-bas

[@georgetaylor3978]

I know geography pretty well but not as well as you. However, as someone with a degree in science, I knew at 6:00 it would be Antarctica but perked up when the questioner said the low humidity was because the water has become ice on the ground. That is not true. It is the air temperature that matters. The air molecules get closer as the temperature drops and it squeezes out the water. A zone of super cold air is too dense to contain significant moisture. It is perfectly reasonable to expect a northern area of the U.S. without snow where the temperature is -20 degrees Fahrenheit to have drier air than an area south of there that is 30 degrees Fahrenheit with snow on the ground. If Antarctica had the same temperatures and no ice at the surface then it would be just as dry.

[@matttiaz7576]

question for muricans : "name 3 country " .... question for european :" name 3 capitals with 4 letters" . Sounds pretty similar question to me

[@margaretnicol3423]

The other South African capital is Bloemfontein. You're really good at this. Could you do it in another language?

[@Carole.P]

Brag away, it was a fun quiz

[@apmoy70]

True, 35-40% of the entire Greek population live in Athens

[@zanegravenall9522]

The rest are in Melbourne 😂

[@papalaz4444244]

I am laughing because the Erasmus lot all look very high on the scale LOL

[@ThePriceIsNeverRight]

14:22 that gotta be wrong San Marino is not the oldest, it's Damascus

[@darthwiizius]

I would have guessed at somewhere like Japan as being the oldest country because unlike the ancient World it still exists. That said it can be argued that Japan today is currently only 78 years old, which for context makes it 879 years younger than England and 238 years younger than the UK, let alone being the oldest country. If we're going to go back to pre-history then Orcadian Britain is older than Egypt and Iraq has had farming civilisation from earlier than anywhere. Of course, go back further and you have even older civilisations dating back to the last ice age that grew up in central Europe that pre-date agriculture, the oldest form of writing was discovered in Bohemia and the oldest known non-hunter gatherer site was discovered in the north of central Europe.

[@lauradivittorio1014]

Roma has four letters. Greatings from Italy.

[@gremezahk1]

Mongolia also has a navy.

[@avaggdu1]

So does Switzerland.

[@petersimard3538]

These are easy questions!

[@legend9335]

Nice.

[@markdermody9698]

No, you said Belgrade, not Belfast!

[@romelnegut2005]

I don't think the Italy and Ivory Coast one is correct. I believe is Ireland and Ivory Coast.

[@z0n0ph0ne]

Ill bet you 50 bucks that the average European knows more about US geography than the other way round. Americans are INCREDIBLY insular!

[@robertyoung4523]

Gotten is not a word.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Nah, mate, Latitude is the North - South line, not the equator - zero degrees runs the Greenwich, England, because we put it there. If the questioner can't even get his questions/answers right, not interested.

[@robertedwards3551]

Can't help feeling that the Russell Group is becoming quite sinister.

[@jorgeamarales5962]

Sorry but they are not "simple geography questions". I have lived in person the ignorance of USA citizens in very simple geography and general culture questions, your post seems a little pretentious from your part. Finally I'm from Chile and I' m an american too so It would more correct to say "Unite states cityzen reacts to". Keep on going and lets all try to be better each day, a big huge from Patagonia, also America

[@ARBAS2000]

W 21 krajach mówi się po hiszpańsku, a nie w 20.

[@cbjmurer]

Nuuk....

[@francescoruggiero7140]

Turkye is not Europe. Why they interviewed a turkish guy?

[@makoado6010]

but kid. they r not europeans.

[@nedludd7622]

These are mostly trivia questions about nothing important.

[@alansmith4748]

So you were crap at answering the questions then?

[@julieb737]

You did exceptionally well . Either Americans know more world geography than Europeans thought they did or you’re the exception to the rule .

[@YK-dx4ux]

The Netherlands flag wouldve worked for 180degrees actually? It becomes the french flag..

[@DBCooper00x]

The UK isn't a country.

[@firstsurname7099]

Yes it is, its full name is the UK of GB and Northern Ireland.

[@cloudstrife206]

😂😂😂

[@DBCooper00x]

Yes you're right, I was wrong 🙂

[@DBCooper00x]

Isn't it amazing what you can learn when you check the facts 😁