Keeping You Company | Ep 12 | British Culture Quiz (aka Daffodils and Dragons)

Just a video of some landscapes of Prague and the Czech Republic.
In this episode I am joined by fellow KZbinr Arukimania ( / @arukimania ) to partake in a culture quiz all about the UK!
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Correction: I stated that the "West Indies" is a country - I completely misspoke at this point. The West Indies is a sub-region of the North Atlantic, and some of the countries and territories in this region have formed a sports team in a sport which is an answer of one of the quiz questions!

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Some additional comments/clarifications: 1. It's nice to see all this video footage! The scenery from the train is nice and Prague is beautiful. 2. Around 18:24, I mention not being able to think of a third non-president featured on current US currency. According to a quick Google search, there isn't one. The two answers are Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin. Clearly I misremembered the specifics, but the general principle I was talking about in terms of trivia question design should stand regardless of my mistake. 3. We have a brief discussion about the 100 Famous Mountains of Japan at about 40:46, and earlier I mentioned that mountains over 3,000 meters fall into their own category among enthusiasts in Japan. According to Wikipedia, these latter peaks are straightforwardly called three-thousanders. There are 21 of them, but only 13 are included in the list of 100 Famous Mountains. 4. According to a quick Google search, a "grand slam" is indeed a baseball term for a home run with the bases loaded, but apparently it's also used to refer to a set of major championships or matches in a sport in the same year, including in tennis. 5. Around 1:29:32 Scotsword and I go back and forth about a misunderstanding related to the term "period drama". According to the Collins online dictionary, a period drama is "a drama set in a particular historical period". My interpretation of this is pretty in-line with what I said in the video, which is that I would not consider Jane Austen's works to be period dramas. The weird thing about this definition, though, is that most modern adaptations of Jane Austen novels would by definition be period dramas, because while the texts were written to depict contemporary life, the films/shows are meant to depict a historical era. 6. At about 1:55:03 I mention hearing a "fun fact" that Winston Churchill was voted out at the end of World War II. This is technically accurate. Clement Attlee became prime minister after a major shift in political support from the Conservative party led by Winston Churchill to the Labour Party headed by Attlee. The election results were made public on July 26th 1945, and for reference, Japan's surrender was announced by Emperor Hirohito on August 15th 1945. I don't know if from the British perspective Japan's surrender is a common date considered for the end of the war or not, but it certainly is in the US, meaning technically, from a US perspective, Churchill was voted out at the last minute. 7. We sort of go over this afterwards, but as I mention starting at around 2:20:56, 67% would be considered a failing grade by the standards I was graded by when I was growing up. In my school system, anything in the 90s was an A, the 80s represented Bs, the 70s represented Cs, and anything below that was considered a failing grade. Scores anywhere in the 60s were given Ds and 1-59% was a straight F. Various pluses and minuses existed for everything except Fs, though there were sometimes discrepancies between where the cutoff for, say, a B+ would lie. Sometimes it was 88-89% and sometimes it was 87-89%.