American Reacts to Young Americans VS European Trivia & Geography...

[@IWrocker]

‼️ATTENTION!! - I messed up.. I must’ve accidentally deleted a section at the end of the video where he interviewed a Young Boy from the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and that kid was awesome.. he knew much more than any adult American in the video. I apologize for the mistake, check it out on that original video, it’s funny. Clearly the average European education is much better. 🎉

[@DaweSlayer]

reupload or riot! 😆

[@Ikkeligeglad]

We know that😉

[@avitalsheva]

He was just sarcastic when he agreed that yes - you can do anything you want in US. He was not serious at all. I can tell you as European for 100% . It was the same approach as he just told on any stupid answer that YES that is correct

[@Mykaeil]

Its funny how US school system makes americans dumb...😅

[@DalaiDrama-hp6oj]

Did you see the ones saying _Putin_ was our (German) Presi?

[@jogie63]

I forgot the germans presidents name also... because he has no politic function. Greeting from Germany 😂

[@shadyshyguy4058]

2:38 To be fair it is not like anyone other than German people would know the president of Germany. In Germany the Chancellor is the head of the goverment and he would be known in general as the leader of Germany.

[@Brazauskas123]

Yup, Olaf from Frozen is definitely more well known than Walter PPK

[@romanticniustasa9693]

@@Brazauskas123 Bunkerkanzler Olaf.

[@afiiik1]

I like Germans over all but Olaf Scholz rubs me the wrong way...

[@Ikkeligeglad]

@@Brazauskas123 That's a funny one, never heard that one before. Greetings from Denmark

[@BunjiKugashira42]

Ha, ask enough Germans on the street and you'll get a similar clip of no one knowing the current president. He isn't even well known in Germany.

[@Monique-iz8lp]

I'm Czech and I don't think I've ever even heard of there being a German president, yikes. All you ever really hear about are the chancellors.

[@jjosz9565]

The president of Germany is compareable to the British Monarch. Just without the fuzz and attention. Cause the German (Bundes)president, while officially being the head of state, is basicly just a representive position. He welcomes important state guests, represents the country at ceremonies, signs laws in the end (without his sign they won't be active) and can - but rarely does - refuse to sign a law if he feels like it's against base rights and stuff.

[@b_bobsch]

@@jjosz9565 He can dissolve parliament in special casese. He appoints and dismisses federal judges. He is the only one to declare war, because the Federal President represents the Federal Republic of Germany under international law. He has some powers.

[@seanrohan5829]

Same here...I can name all the West German & German Chancellors but no idea of Presidents, just like in Italy or here in Ireland it is the Prime Minister/Chancellor/Taoiseach who heads the government

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

@@jjosz9565 Entgegen den Aussagen vieler dummer ehemaliger Schüler, hat der deutsche Bundespräsident nicht nur repräsentative Aufgaben sondern konkret: - Ernennung des Bundeskanzlers und der Bundesminister (Kabinett) - Entlassung des Bundeskanzlers und der Bundesminister (Kabinett) - Ernennung des stellvertretenden Bundeskanzlers (Vize-Kanzler) - Entlassung des stellvertretenden Bundeskanzlers (Vize-Kanzler) - Prüfung aller Gesetze, formell und materiell - Unterzeichnung von Gesetzen - dann kommen sie zustande - Verweigerung der Unterzeichnung von Gesetzen - dann kommen sie NICHT zustande plus weitere überparteiliche Aufgaben

[@finnishculturalchannel]

@@jjosz9565 I get the comparison regarding the political power, but regarding fame, the members of British Royal Family are probably among the most widely known persons in the world. Their lives are being followed through the media around the world already from their birth.

[@colla555]

I'm amazed or shocked how a lot of people think Mr. H-itler was German when he in fact was Austrian.

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

Das ist so ... falsch. Er war gebürtiger Österreicher. Er bekam in Braunschweig die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft. Alle seine Verbrechen hat er als Deutscher begangen.

[@olgahein4384]

In Germany we have a saying: "Austria's greatest accomplishment was to convince the whole world that Mozart was austrian and H*-tler was german" Also ignoring the fact that even WW1 was started by Austrians - afterall it was the AUSTRIAN crown prince being shot in Serbia that started it - and they managed to blame everything on the germans, whose government was nearly completely off and gone on summer vacation at the time.

[@LawrenceMclean]

@@olgahein4384 The British Bankers were hostile to Germany from when it was unified in 1871. The Baghdad to Berlin Railway that started construction in 1903, was an immense concern for New York and London based bankers. I suspect the real cause of WW1 will never be admitted. Regarding the issue, British secrets from WW1 were destroyed in the 1980's, the purpose of which, seems obvious to me: to protect the historical narrative. It seems that the pack of lies that passes for historical narrative, which the likes of Wikipedia regurgitates has succeeded when even a German believes it!

[@retsu9658]

@@olgahein4384to be honest it is important to remember that ww1 wasn’t black and white crown prince being shot was the last straw, Germany agreed to war otherwise Austria wanted to start it even earlier, there are ton of reasons that I won’t list as I am too lazy, and also Austrians saw themselves as Germans until after ww2 after that being Austrian was preferable, also don’t put blame of ww2 on hitler and Austrians, Germans elected him and nsdap didn’t hide its view quite contrary they flaunted them, Germans served in military even in 1945, Hitler and nsdap were very popular, so no Hitler wasn’t single-handedly responsible for war and atrocities Germany and Germans were, it can be seen as Germans view on poles and “eastern Germany” didn’t really change the interviews and political rallies are quite chilling I am not gonna lie

[@17Blower]

As the German comedian Henning Wehn once said, He was Austrian, So nothing to do with us.

[@Zugzwang.19]

Question about german president is stupid. German president is powerless and is just prepresentative of state. But real power have chancellor. In czechia we say "if you think your job is pointless remember that somebody is german president."

[@DaweSlayer]

It's true, but we should know about presidents, they should be seen and known to some degree. It's their job, otherwise what they represent?

[@Hamsterdam91]

haha true. Also the election process is very dumb for a democratic country. Some famous people get invited randomly, or I guess who ever they like, to vote. So I guess as an average citizen you are not worthy to vote

[@didrikmesicek4825]

@@DaweSlayer Not really, you should know the German chanchellor (Scholz) and the Canadian PM (Trudeau) who actually have a say in global affairs. The presidents of both countries are basically cosmetic and meaningless and are just blokes being bored in an office who occassionaly go to some events

[@Zugzwang.19]

@@DaweSlayer well, you're right. But german president is really just "welcome in germany" person. It is like to know who is us vice-president. It is important of course but same time like "ewhm 🤷‍♂️". And to be fair i know it because germany is our the most important "next door state". And czech president has just a little bit more power than german one.

[@saladspinner3200]

It's not rediculous, in a true democracy, you cannot give the leader of the executive, also the power of being the head of state. You need a figurehead with limited power - preferably politically neutral - to embody the role as head of state. That's why European monarchies still work, the role of head of state is being filled in by the monarch and is mostly ceremonial. Countries who moved into a republic, kept that role and gave it to a president.

[@ROBOTRIX_eu]

we say one, ninty seven.. (1,97 mts ..1 meter 97centimeters)

[@rschroev]

And we practically never go beyond the decimal point when measuring human height.

[@ROBOTRIX_eu]

@@rschroev then, saying 197 cm solves the problem

[@garbage2882]

@@rschroev yeah, only americans can say something like "I'm 6'1 and 3/4 of an inch" like dude you're either 6'1 or 6'2, if you want to be more precise just use metric

[@la-go-xy]

​@@garbage2882...and using feet'n'inches is similar to metre'n'centimtres, just not in a decimal system...

[@garbage2882]

@@la-go-xy yeah, but you can say you are "one-nine-seven meters tall", how does saying "im six foot one and three quarters of an inch tall" not sound extermely stupid in comparison?

[@winterlinde5395]

You said Steinmeyer very well. For Frank Walter you need the Spanish a- pronunciation. Easy!

[@la-go-xy]

🇩🇪 🇬🇧 a as in bulk, mother

[@augure2589]

President in germany is not famous even in Europe, this is the chanceler who have power.

[@sandersson2813]

Chancellor

[@PHDarren]

04:20 I think the very large number of incarcerated in US prisons probably suggests you can't do whatever you want 🤣🤣

[@DaweSlayer]

Only 20% of Czech population, that's nothing.

[@Giggione85]

you vote for brexit I guess...

[@Karl-me4mh]

If you'd ask me about my height, I wouldn't say "I am 190 cm tall" I'd say I'd say the equivalent to "I am 1.9 m tall" BUT in Germany we literally say "I am one meter ninety tall"

[@Makabert.Abylon]

Same in Sweden. You would be 1 n’ 90

[@SophieMitchell-b24]

don't you use metre?

[@Karl-me4mh]

@@SophieMitchell-b24 In Germany we write it "Meter". For some reason the americans use our way of spelling it instead of the british/french one. And I think in germany it is written this way, because that is how it is pronounced aswell.

[@SophieMitchell-b24]

Thank you for the explanation. I didn't know that, and I do appreciate learning something new. God bless x

[@johankaewberg8162]

Unlike most videos of this kind, there were som actually tricky questions. Makes it better in my eyes. The guy that immediately nailed Manila made my day.

[@antonycharnock2993]

I love how he's reinforcing the dunning kruger effect as a troll😂

[@kallisto_ofzo]

12:10 We usually say something like "1.85" (1 meter and 85 centimeters). You rarely meet someone who says it in centimeters (eg. 185 cm). Some people do, but most people pronnounce it as 1 point 85 (1 meter, 85 centimeters).

[@Kofi_kf2731]

In Finland we usuallu use centimeters. like 173 cm. But I think it depends on how it is easiest to pronounce in the language of each country. Estimate to convert to feets to cm is keep it simple. 1 feet 30cm and 1 inch is 2.5 cm. 6 feet = 180cm so on.. That is close enough.

[@virtueofhate1778]

Actually, the one German was not German but Austrian.

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

He was born in Austria. He was granted German citizenship in Braunschweig. He committed all his crimes as a German.

[@virtueofhate1778]

@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Ink doesn't change the ethnicity.

[@Bioshyn]

he got the German citizenship later though, through a backdoor, in 1932 he was made a citizen of the free state of Brunswick which automatically made him also a Reichsbürger (citizen of the Reich)

[@aphextwin5712]

@@virtueofhate1778Sure, but these questions weren’t about ethnicity but nationality. And ‘Austrian ethnicity’ is likely closer to the Bavarian ethnicity than a Prussian ethnicity. And that is before considering that the borders of these political entities changed significantly over as little as a century.

[@JS-vj1il]

@@virtueofhate1778 Austrians and Germans have the same ethnicity.

[@Coooeee]

In Australia, even though we have the metric system, most people use feet and inches to express their height. However, in a medical setting, centimetres are used. Also, most people use pounds to express a newborn baby's weight, but grams are recorded on the medical file.

[@stewrmo]

Yep. Exactly the same in the UK. And, amazingly, it just works!

[@Coooeee]

@stewrmo Haha, yeah, it does.

[@davide.8758]

Sounds logic to me. Impérial is great for its convinience in everyday life. Metric is great for easy calculations and precision on science fields.

[@alexanderkupke920]

​@@davide.8758depends on what you are used too, most of the world would not agree that imperial units are convenient for anything, just because most people around the globe are not used to them. Also when it comes to things like height, usually everyone is familiar with its own height, and somewhat the local average height, which for example even across Europe varies a lot. Here in Germany y, og you tell someone yeah that guy is about 180 cm, about everyone has an idea. If you tell anyone 6 foot? PFF, no plan. Some may somewhat remember that a foot is about 30 cm and do the calculation, but otherwise it's meaningless. And this is also valid in both directions. Also around here, usually cm are used for height without any digits after the decimal point (which here happens to be a comma). Only for babies you really use cm and one digit after the decimal point. This is also due to every person shrinking during the day as fluid is pushed out of the joints and especially the discs between the vertebrae, which can already make more than a cm difference between in the morning and in the evening for an adult.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Well, "Hermes" is german! Founded 1972 as "Hermes Paket-Schnell-Dienst GmbH & Co. KG" (short: "Hermes") in Hamburg, Germany. The logo they put up was from "Hermès Paris" ... so I am not sure about who failed in this one! Or maybe I got it wrong...!? o_O

[@MrSuperTestis]

Hermès International S.A. is a French luxury design house and manufacturer established in 1837. It specializes in leather goods, silk goods,... I never heard of German one

[@vinniamsterdam700]

Amsterdam, truly an international city😅

[@HappyLoki585]

😂😂😂

[@piele1982]

Lol Amsterdam had at one point the most nationalities of any city in the world. So yeah, pretty international I'd say. En jij woont in Amsterdam? Maatje.....

[@vinniamsterdam700]

@@piele1982 gozer👍

[@Maria-js9ou]

And yes, a person from Amsterdam can be canadian, so the answer is CORRECT

[@snicpon]

If You want to do a public poll like this, PLEAS!!! PLEAS!!! Give us info about: How many people participated, what was the percentage of good to bad answers, etc. Best to start with the stats and after that go straight to the most goofy answers.

[@margaretbamford7176]

"we know our sports" Reminds me of comedian Sarah Millican saying she has a theory that men retain useless information. To test it she asks "who was the manager of Aston Villa [soccer team] in [a particular year]? Quick as a flash a man in the audience calls out the answer. Theory proven.

[@TheLatokuivaaja]

If people don't want to be precise, they could say "I'm a bit over metre 70" which falls roughly in the 171-175 cmc(5"6 to 5"7 I think with some rounding down because I can't make sense of these) range

[@DaweSlayer]

This is the video where only a kid from Czech republic knows the answers later in the video, including German president i think.

[@nitefact]

For hight 197cm is common, but 1,97m is also common... only pushing the comma in metrics makes it so easy to convert fast. Try that with foot and eaglespans in one second ;)

[@la-go-xy]

Metric prefixes are factors with base 10, that is not even conversion

[@sandersson2813]

197cn isn't common😂, that's 6'5

[@la-go-xy]

@@nitefact ...they are both common in writing. We'd say "I'm one ninetyseven." or "That are one metre ninetyseven."

[@joseppedaia3673]

@@sandersson2813 reading comprehension apparently isn't too

[@sandersson2813]

@@joseppedaia3673 I was JOKING. Don't have a go at reading comprehension when your grammar isn't up to scratch.

[@R3RS2024]

We also sometimes use meters for our height like Im 1.86 meters instead of 186cm.

[@101steel4]

We can do what we want. Can't even cross the road 😂

[@automation7295]

Yeah I find it funny when Americans say "we can do whatever they want" as if they're forgetting that US have laws. Most states doesn't even allow jaywalking, yet in Europe it's legal to cross any street unless there's a pedestrian crossing nearby.

[@Phiyedough]

Or have a beer if you are under 21.

[@JoriDiculous]

@@automation7295 Its still not illegal to cross the road next to the pedestrian crossing. Also its is not illegal to cross on red :) Americans getting fined for crossing the road, even on the pedestrian crossing is so funny.

[@automation7295]

@@JoriDiculous *"its in not illegal to cross on red"* Yes technically it's not illegal, but if it's a busy road or police car nearby, then it's safer to wait on red. I'd hate crossing the road in the US.

[@JoriDiculous]

@@automation7295 It not even technically not illegal, its not in any law, besides common sense lol. Here we are thought, from smal children, to look left and right before crossing the road, wait for the "green man", wait for the (school)buss to drive away. And no, you want be fined driving past a stopped school bus. We also know if we hit a kid with a vehicle, its the drivers fault, because kids will be kids. Its not like the driver will be charged with "manslaughter" unless speeding or otherwise breaking the law. Now what *is* the law(in more and more European countries) is a vehicle Must stop for pedestrians crossing the road. (there is this thing that they are supposed to make a clear sing they are to cross the road. but most dont care). If you fail to stop you will be fined, and also risk losing the right to drive for "a while". In case you wonder about bikes(bicycles): They are considered a "vehicle" when rode. If you jump off the bike and walk it you are a pedestrian. Very important to keep in mind when crossing roads, intersections etc.

[@jalbertseabra2283]

Jay Leno used to do this type of videos. Not in the streets, but in different Colleges -- and the results were as bad or even worse.

[@linadurello7261]

Jay Leno used to do this streets interviews I don’t remember the towns or the cities!

[@tubekulose]

When measuring a person's height and this person is for instance 182 cm tall, in German we would say "einszweiundachzig (one eighty-two)", which is short for "one metre and eighty-two centimetres". Going below cm (namely mm) would make no sense as the human body lenght varies during the day between a half cm and over one cm (in some extreme cases even two). 🙂

[@top40researcher31]

Yes that's true there was a similar question when a person asked australians what is the greatest country in the world they also said not America because America cant face reality.

[@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele]

For the height we say "one and 91", for 191cm, since almost every person is below 2 meters, basically the height of people is said this way. We don't say "meters" and "centimeters" because it's obvious what you mean for "one" and "91".

[@p.informatico1320]

We use meters for every distance and height measure and also for area and volume. You can say than a person is 190 cm, and also say than a football field is 100 meters long (10.000 centimeters), or than the area of that same football field is 6000 square meters (60x100 meters).

[@glennheuts407]

Imo UK is not 1 country... Its 4 countries: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

[@Merecir]

It is a country, with 4 countries in it.

[@glennheuts407]

@@Merecir 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@UtamagUta]

Don't make it complicated. We say our height "one ninety". Literally nobody says decimals as it's as much as 1/4 your finger nail

[@la-go-xy]

say "one ninetyseven" write "1.97 m" or "197 cm" but no decimals beyond that

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

At least beyond the age of seven. Up to that, even decimals are important.

[@51bikerboy]

You must have big finger nails😅😅😅 if you say one ninety instead one ninety four you missing out 4 cm which is more than 1.5 inch!

[@UtamagUta]

@@51bikerboy he said in a video 190,5 cm, did he not?

[@jack.mchale6906]

Well.... The Americans are "definitely not the smartest Cookies" and fun fact: All of Europe knows it 😂

[@rebbojar2475]

...but you would ask the question from which country is Tatra, the third oldest car manufacturer in the world? And no one in the USA would give that 😁

[@magpie_girl3741]

I'm almost 40 y.o. Pole and I wouldn't name even one president of Germany (as from international point of view they are highly insignificant). But I know who Olaf Scholz and Ursula von der Leyen are :)

[@AngelArnal]

We measure height in meters and centimeters. I'm one-seventy seven. I've calculated how much that is in imperial, but I forget it in less than 15 minutes. As a Spanish, I know the Bundeskanzler, but not the Präsident. And that long word means "high speed limit", in case you were curious

[@SK-nw4ig]

As a european i didnt know the president of germany. Their chancelor is much more visible and has more power in general, and is thus more known. You have beautifully blue eyes! :)

[@N4iiiis]

We actually just say meter and cm for our high, like "I'm one meter ninety two"

[@Bennime_Once]

I dont know where you are from but we usually leave the meter out and just say "one ninety-two "

[@jurchiks]

@@Bennime_Once in my country we say "meter ninety-two", unless, of course, the person is 2m+.

[@tomasruzic6917]

You usually refer to your height in centimeters or meters. Either you are 192cm or 1.92m, the passport states it in cm without any decimals(milimeters). Increments are in full centimeters and never milimeters.

[@WookieWarriorz]

ive never seen height on a passport before lol. I have both irish and british passports.

[@tomasruzic6917]

@@WookieWarriorz Swedish passports states you height. I guess that goes for all EU, so in that case it should be in your Irish one.

[@matejjanak.]

@@tomasruzic6917 i don´t have it too in my czech passport

[@aphextwin5712]

@@WookieWarriorzGerman passports also state the height (alongside gender, age, and eye colour as descriptive elements).

[@Budai976]

@@tomasruzic6917 No, in Hungarian passport there's no such data.

[@cyrielwollring4622]

Did you see the end of the video? He asks a student from Czechia and he nearly got everything right. BTW Charles II is the head of state of Canada.

[@IWrocker]

Yes, I just pinned a statement about that, it was the best end to this video.. sadly I must’ve accidentally edited it out and didn’t catch my mistake before uploading. I did see that part.. that kid was awesome and definitely did the best 🎉

[@keithkearns93]

Third

[@alfredfrischholz6916]

Yeeaahhhh. 200000 Abonnenten/Subscribers. Gute Arbeit/Good Job.

[@littleDutchie92]

@2:09 his confidence though😂

[@EliasBac]

In France we wouldn’t say “I measure 190cm, although everyone will understand exactly how tall that is, people say 1.9metre or more like 1m 90cm

[@olgahein4384]

no no, in France you say "One meter four twenty ten"

[@EliasBac]

@@olgahein4384 right 🤣

[@micade2518]

Admittedly, the President of Germany is pretty discreet. I'm European and I couldn't have answered either as it's the Chancellor that's on the forefront and in the news. I didn't even know there was a President in Germany! Live and learn ...

[@clivewilliams3661]

Now if they referred to him as the Kaiser, more people would be aware of his name, its all in the title. We all know of Kaiser Wilhelm but how many know that his Chancellor was Theobald von Bethmann=Hollweg?

[@SiimSaare]

We use more meters for hight then centimeters. Greetings from Estonia

[@danielberger1378]

2:57 you'll get a free pass, because your attempt sounded way cooler than the actual German pronunciation

[@agricolaurbanus6209]

You are 6ft3? You are a catch, bro!😄

[@Ahto42]

The long word at 10:10 is speed limit.

[@la-go-xy]

Actually, I'd use (Zulässige) Höchstgeschwindigkeit or Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

[@TimR-s6z]

I'm from Germany and even I didn't knew the name of our chancellor. Our politicians are so far away from the public that almost noone takes them serious anymore. Love your channel und liebe Grüße aus Thüringen!

[@doposud]

I have never let schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain You are great man , you already know so much about Europe that you could put some Europeans to shame :D

[@Flobyby]

That guy saying America is best because he can do whatever he wants probably isn't allowed to cross the street that's behind him

[@jalbertseabra2283]

Regarding height, 6 feet as about 1, 80 meters. Or 180 centimeters

[@janvandenhurk3251]

Ian .... try 'Grolsch' (Dutch beer) Kanon (11,5 %) 🍻

[@astranger448]

Or stay away from Dutch beer altogether. Drink what the Dutch drink themselves (Belgian ;-)

[@agricolaurbanus6209]

Norway was actually Swedish for a long time.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

And Danish for much longer times, in Norway they still write in Danish! (bokmål)

[@JoriDiculous]

Norway have newer been Swedish. Norway had Swedish king after the union with Denmark. and that's it.

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

@@JoriDiculous Wiki: The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for 1,151-1,152 years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway was part of Denmark-Norway, and, from 1814 to 1905, it was in a personal union with Sweden.

[@JoriDiculous]

@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Yes, UNION. OP claimed Norway was Swedish.

[@juwen7908]

Oh no, you skipped the best part 😱 Little kid at the end kills them all with his answers. Soo cute ❤

[@IWrocker]

I saw it 🎉 he was awesome. I made a mistake in editing.. my apologies

[@godunclenick]

To your note about not drinking US beer, that is not even beer, that’s watered alcohol. Anyway European beer is highest quality

[@Phiyedough]

After drinking British beer for 30 odd years I find I can't drink German beer, much too gassy.

[@godunclenick]

@@Phiyedough actually even that one is a rip-off. Yes while German is “gassy” that’s the point…

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

American beer is like making love in a canoe - Fuckin’ close to water 😂

[@grahvis]

@@godunclenick . Good draught beer is not a rip-off, I drink it all the time. Having said that, however, sitting in the sun outside a German café with a beer is a great way of spending your time.

[@godunclenick]

@@grahvis it was just my opinion mate

[@erraldstyler]

"Steinmeier" pronounciation was literally perfect

[@fliplefrog8843]

wow! You pronounced Steinmeier right!!! American ppl seems to mess up 'ei' and 'ie' in german!!! 100 of 100 points :]

[@bullspre]

Hi from Greece. Friend you use metric system everywhere in the us except 3 things, Distance, cooking, and temperature. so no worries

[@sefribu4159]

About your "close enough".... Close enough only counts for dancing, horseshoethrowing and handgrenades. In all other cases "close" means "close, but no cigar"! ;)

[@GazilionPT]

10:53 I think those are the first chords of the Portuguese national anthem...

[@todesfuss]

7:13 how does he know Dennis Schröder - as a basketball enthusiast - and forgot about Dirk Nowitzki 😉 maybe he was nervous.

[@Frienea]

5:02 this girl is playing a dangerous game saying Sweden there.

[@aqsw57]

For height is either cm or mt. So for example either 190 cm or 1.90 mt. Maybe cm is more used for ids and other certificates, mt is more used in everyday life

[@edjevanginneke4944]

You should do a "street intervieuw" topic. Your questions will be way better.

[@mucxlx]

Franziskaner is the top wheat beer in Munich. But if you buy it dont buy the one that says "Naturtrüb", buy the normal one

[@wunderprächtig]

I'm in favor of telling them when they are not right, maybe that will inspire one or two of them to take a look and learn more about other Countries.

[@Roggen45]

Lol not from Amsterdam, but I'm glad we are at least neutral! 😂😂🤦 And my 3 favorite German brands are Adidas, Audi and Haribo ❤🔥

[@AndorFazekas]

In Metric System: If you are 190 CM means....1900mm (milimeter).....1.9M (meter) or 0.019 KM (kilometer). Of Course, this is not matter, we use the 190cm or 1.9m.

[@guillaumesalmon7270]

Regarding height in metric, we use meter as our base unit. So I am 1m75. And we round as well, generally people round to the nearest 5cm (so 0.05m). Regarding the German president, as many people pointed out it's a trick question, no one cares about Germany's president. As a french guy I know Germany's lead by Olaf Schultz. But he's chancellor (that's german for prime minister) not president, and I had no clue about the president before watching this video and will forget his name within the next 30 minutes (IDK what that is in imperial). (Edit: I'd love to see European people being quizzed on US geography. Being a big nerd I'm able to place all 50 states and am pretty good at world geography outside of the Caribbeans and Oceania's islands, but I'm the odd one there, most people can't even place all euro states on a map)

[@clivewilliams3661]

Its Olaf Scholz

[@guillaumesalmon7270]

@@clivewilliams3661 Indeed. In my defense I'm used to hearing it pronounced by other french people, not reading it.

[@clivewilliams3661]

@@guillaumesalmon7270 I can understand that as I originally assumed that spelling but for me Schultz conjures up the bumbling German PoW camp guard in 'Hogan's Heroes' an American sitcom, such that I force myself to pronounce Scholz correctly out of respect.

[@huskytail]

Who rounds their height to the closest 5cm? 😆 I'm 169, not 170 or 165.

[@guillaumesalmon7270]

@@huskytail I'm 174, so 175.

[@vogel2280]

Actually, in the morning people are a whole cm taller, then at night. So there is no point in being more precise then 1 cm. (This is because the gel filled disks in between your vertebrae get squished during the day and spring back when you lay down at night)

[@andr386]

For height we use meters 1.76 m usually said 1 meter 76. The British still usees feet and inches but when they speak metric they also say it like that, as well as the French, Spanish, German, Dutch, ...

[@mikaelhellqvist]

Could you do a video of what Americans think of people from each state? Got to think about that when you mentioned californians

[@martinschalken7583]

We use a mixture for height. I’d say about 70% of the time we use metric, but it’s not uncommon to hear “I’m 6’1” etc.

[@johnnyrosenberg9522]

We usually use whole centimetres for our height. It's hard to measure it with much more precision than that anyway. Nobody days they are 189.1 cm.

[@Wineblood]

When it comes to height in metric, we don't really care about half a centimetre and round to the nearest one.

[@tihomirrasperic]

1:20 Amsterdam is a multinational city and the Dutch themselves say that it is no longer Dutch So someone from Amsterdam can be anyone from American to Australian (including all Europeans)

[@danytalloen]

höchstgeschwindigkeitsbegrenzung simply means "maximum speed limit" btw

[@jenyadimitrova1446]

In all honesty I didn't know the name of the German president either - I am quite ashamed.

[@JeroenBteE]

Name a German, Jochen Zeitz the CEO of Harley Davidson!! 🙂

[@svenpedersen9140]

11:59 in. To be precise when talking about someone height we use the meter (cemtimeters diveided by 10 as you know). So you would say "I am 1.90" (1","90 hehe... and yes you would say the ninety and not just 1.9)

[@ellenripley4640]

To be fair, if you meet someone from Amsterdam there is an only about 50% chance they are Dutch.

[@MrOpacor]

"Höchstgeschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" is an uncommen word for speed limit. Usually just "Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" is used. And it is not a word for love. In fact, it will stir up a lot of controversy...

[@Margot4454]

In Poland we say "How tall are you ? (one) meter sixty, meaning 1.60 m. If it's 1 meter we omit "one".

[@Arnaud58]

@02:31 I'll join in the truth. Though being Dutch, I had no idea. 👴🤭 The Bundeskanzler is the main function in political power. The Bundespräsident has a mainly ceremonial function, so wrong, or no answers are not surprising.👴🤷‍♂

[@margaretbamford7176]

Hello from Australia. About height measures. British Empire, hence Australia, measured height of horses to the withers (top of shoulders) in hands, width of hand. One hand = 4 inches. Except Shetland ponies measured in inches. Bigger ponies for example (written) 13.2 hands, said as thirteen two hands, means thirteen and a half hands not thirteen point two hands (although I have heard an American say " .. point two") European horses measured in centimetres and this is catching on here. Are American engines still measured in horsepower? Isn't history interesting?.

[@SailorYuki]

We use even numbers for convinience. 6'3" would just be 191, which is the hight of my ex. Technically I'd be 163,5 (5'4ish) but I only go by 163 if anyone one asks. The .5 is more important for children. There's no .4, .76 or any other random number, it's .5 or not at all.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Almost nobody in Europe knows the president of Germany, presindent of Italy, president of Portugal... those are not presidentialist republics and only Prime Ministers are well known.

[@petragrevstad2714]

I’m Swedish, 5’8 feet tall. In Sweden I’d say I’m 173 or 1.73. I wouldn’t specify centimetre or meter, it goes without saying which is what (the same with feet I guess).

[@Ad0rak]

Don't know if you care but fyi ... you can pause and resume YT videos with the letter "K" (on your keyboard) that would allow you to get your cursor out of the video :)

[@winterlinde5395]

„One ninetyseven“

[@8tonystark8]

It's so random....I'm currently in Amsterdam and the most asked question is: "what nationality do people from amsterdam have?"

[@sabineausmg9543]

In Germany we use cm (centimeters) as long as something or someone is smaller than 1 m (meter), e.g. 0.89 m (2' 11") = 89 cm = 89 centimeters. If something or someone is taller than 1 meter we use meter and centimeter, e.g. 1.73 m (5' 8") = 1 meter 73, but then we don't say "centimeter" afterwards.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

Depends on the country

[@sabineausmg9543]

You're right. I added that this is the way we Germans do it. ;-)

[@jarimustonen5579]

Funny, i live in Finland. And i would instantly say sweden, When he asked about Oslo. Dont know why... But =D

[@da_flore3746]

for height we usually use Meter... so I'm a lot smaller than you, I'm 1.73m "tall" the cool thing about the metric system is you can change the units without calculating. 1.73m = 173 cm because centi is a hundreth of something so one centimeter is a hundreth of a meter. So even if I compare the height in meters, me 1.73m and you 1.90m I can see instant, that you are 17cm taller than me..... As a german engineer I can tell you, it's sooooooooooooooo much easier to do physical calculations, if you can switch between units without calculating. I don't understand why americans keep the imperial system. Even the british, who invented the imperial system, switched to metric decades ago.....

[@nieksalomons]

With saying your height, nobody talks about half centimeters. We round it up too, only in cm not foot and inches. Also we don't really use the measurement of decimeters (which is 10cm), we talk about meters (100cm) and centimeters or centimeters alone. So in America, you do use the foot, but if were to talk about your height only in inches, it would resemble how we measure. My height is 207cm, so I say I am twohunderdseven cm, or I am 2 meter 7. That's 207 centimeters = 2.07 meters 81.496063 inches 6.791339 feet 6 feet and 9.496063 inches I got this from this nifty converting website I use for all of the American measurement translations, I use it a lot.

[@martyjones1413]

1.83 baby the magic number

[@micade2518]

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[@allnightrunner.6515]

I don’t get why he goes ‘correct’ for every wrong answer. That’s just re-enforcing ignorance.

[@markeisley299]

Because its funny^^.

[@anthonyduffy6953]

Im english, and everyone i know uses feet and iches to tell their height. At work we use centimetres and millimetres for measurements though.