Sep 6, 2022 6:23 PM
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Becker37
Hannibal lecter in the wild.
murderhobbit
"It's geography" shrugs like it's not remembering minute details
Haemaelaeinen
That guy answering looks just like andre wickström, a finnish swedish standup comedian. Even sounds like him. And jokes like him.
Sokonomi
Intelligence is attractive.
Imalwaysready
I like this guy's moxie. His snooty, smug, confident moxie. Good on him.
JustAnotherknarF
machmach
giddyupmusic
Right?
mrputter
F: Federated States of Micronesia? (Also "above" New Zealand, after a fashion...)
SirVG
I wonder if French Guiana would be an acceptable answer.
OlemGolem
That correction in the end, just bury him right there.
IHaveAGuyForEverything
I grew up in and went to school in Mississippi and I knew all those. That speaks loudly to post-school education. Keep learning ppl!!!
freckledkink
Hey! Mississippi public schools here as well. I would have answered them all! As an aside, my daughter went to public schools in Mississippi
And is going to MIT. So the schools aren't all horrible here.
textilelover
I wouldn't have gotten Netherlands/Holland off the top of my head. I don't really talk about them at all, correctly or not.
TBRichard
Especially if you are from Mississippi.
Merinther
I was hesitating whether Fiji was a country, but then I decided to go with the safe bet, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
bigslongnoodle
Could farro islands (sp?) actually don’t even know if that’s a country
Vesane
For single-word countries, those are actually the only 3, and of them only France starts with F in its native language (vs Suomi/Viti)
mobigz
Can this guy rap wiggle wiggle now?
notblubber
"Above New Zealand is sky." (decided against adding "you ignorant peasant").
Septcanmat
He realized he hadn’t gotten his money yet so held back.
captainswoopty
v
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Tis good to Bean king.
KiwiGameDev
Above New Zealand isn’t just the sky, but the long white cloud that consists of the souls of each and every slaughtered sheep, waiting for
the day they bring down righteous retribution upon us
Drimilidrimdrim
Lingualizer on Youtube. Fun guy and videos.
metalmorgan
Faroe Islands?
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
If you want to keep your money, quiz an American!
neamtu
Now do that to americans?
GoodGraces
Hahahaha!! SMARTASS!!
originalhuman
I like this guy
Grinch01
The first question is wrong it is right the opposit the netherlands are the country and holland is a state like texas in the us
LukeBeGod
Why they talk english?
spool32
English is currently the lingua franca for much of the world.
hadtodownvote1
Maybe because most people know english? So the content produced will reach a wider audience than if they spoke german or whatever
confirmsthings
This man won 200 bucks and immediately went for the dad joke to seal the deal. What a beast.
Lampmonster
Shows the strength of his memory that he referenced a joke from I'm guessing his early teens. Granted he doesn't look that old, but still!
NoobsStfu
That is what we Internet nerds refer to as "Gigachad energy"
AuntieCoddswaddle
Combined with that jawline, it's working for me
OmnipotentBeing
tentacularfleshscape
God I hate these fuckers
Why? They only look for things. Things to make them go.
Moguntia
Which dad joke did I miss?
DiscountMentat
"Above New Zealand? In the sky?"
WeekendWarriorMark
“Above New Zealand IS the sky”
This is correct in two ways.
Thanks. Didn't realise this would rank as a dad joke.
It is a bit low-tier/effort. From your spelling of realize, I'm assuming your humo(u)r is more sophisticated?
I'm not a native speaker. You could say I have no sense of humor at all due to my cultural background ;)
TheUnstoppableWampas
He sounds German. I don't think he was joking.
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
German humour is nothing to laugh about.
ArdentSlacker
He's grinning as he says something literal. This is an example of German humor. Another is Martina Hill's sketches. Several were viral.
madflenser
He is German. At the end, off-mike, you can hear "zweihundert Euro"
ClemFandangle
Could be Austrian… although he didn’t say G’day mate
He could've been Austrian, ask him if Mozart was a punker, superstar or classical composer, that usually gives it away.
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
I mean, I feel like I have to take your word for it.
4Astaroth
Answer: Yes.
ZiomalZParafii
"Mozart is a great composer." - from amazing The Barber of Siberia (my number 2 movie of all times)
Er war ein superstar. Er war so pupularrrrrr......
dyedman101
Punker.
poserphd
Punker
BobMaster1982
Ask those questions in America and we get a comedy, this is common knowledge for most people in EU, so weird.
Ask them questions about America and watch them choke, though. :)
TheeKeelhaul
I'm American and the only one I didn't know was the third F country. >.> Would depend on where and who you asked.
I'm from Mississippi (and educated in the public schools) and knew all those. Different people retain different information.
Taluien
I'd have gone with Faroe Islands for the third country, instead of Fiji, but well, Fiji is fine, too.
Youhavinagiraffe
Aren't those Islands part of Norway or Denmark and not a independent nation?
YourCakeAndEatItToo
He didn't ask for independent countries; he asked for countries, and the Faroe Islands are a country.
BorkBorkasson
For the record, part of Denmark, but yes, also a country, like England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Basically, they have a national football team, they are a country.
NicolasKevinMac
Same. Faroe Islands was tip-of-the-tongue; not sure I would have gotten Fiji if they had asked for four...
jbob3
You'd be wrong
Or not. I'd have a strong argument. They are self-governing, they have a national football team, they have their own national identity.
TheOneTrueZippy8
I quibble the Cape of Good Hope as being the "tip" of Africa.
schizznatt
Yep, came here to say this.
EmperorShaddam
Not a sailor then.
Indeed not. Alongside that marker is Cape Agulhas Lighthouse, FYI. And the question was.....
totallyrealname
It's still widely known for it though because of old-timey sailors and like, the ports and stuff.
Just the tip.
HappySeahorse40s
Tell that to the Aniston!
*Arniston.
MiloBloomm
All capes in Africa are tips of Africa. Africa has some great tips.
Always tip your waitress.
Ermitesrubiht
the biggliest tippy tips, assuredly.
shuttlecockinakumquat
No hesitation thanks to the editing.
This guy answers the question before it's even asked!
Cape of Good Hope is also wrong. The southernmost tip of Africa is Cape Agulhas.
filton2018
2 cameras, filming in a weird vertical crop. Why are they speaking English when neither of them are? Hmm.
Besamel
English speakers are a bigger audience
rouzuki
It's like the opposite of what talk shows do when they "interview people on the street" and everyone you see gives dumb answers.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Probably it's for an English-speaking audience and/or they speak other languages. Interviewer sounds more Dutch/Belgian, dude's more German.
JacktheKind
Because theydon't share a common mother's tongue. Most people who don't natively speak the same language, will speak english witheach other>
you would be surprised to know how many imgur users don't speak english natively.
Superchief86
I spent a few weeks going around Europe back in 2018. While I made an effort to use a few local words, I really didn't need to.
Filming for an English audience? Also, English is a very common second language.
RoninOni
Exactly, the contestant is German, the other guy… Norwegian maybe? English is the common second language throughout Europe
LePurjo
Definitely not Norwegian. Leaning more to the south of Europe.
Oh yeah, my memory of his accent was slipping, but I really can’t place that.
ProbablyISIS
People with American public schooling find this to be amazing. Pretty easy stuff really.
KleptoKea
Was gonna say, this would stump the shit out of too many Americans
tappersparty3
stupidity does not discriminate toward American public school educated
TehGuard
American education here. I could've answered all but only because i play a shit ton of strategy map games
FlaminkoFactor
I am this people you speak of. Not amazed, Seems more to me like you wanted to disparage people over a video of mostly trivial questions?
I am an American war vet and patriot. I also read and study, so I found this easy. If you found them hard, then look inward and read more
I didnt find them hard. Both my parents are teachers so I thought it was a bit of a cheap shot, & who cares what leaf is on the Canada flag?
WazigeWiebe
Look at mister bigbrain over here
DancingDoggo
Her buddy, what's the capital of Denver? Yeah, ppl from American schools don't know either... It's not so easy as it looks...
ThoughtfulTortuga
Isn't Denver a city?
aloharamada
Denver's the capital of Colorado...German here, but I learned it through South Park, not school.
That was the joke... I meant it as a line like when ppl in US try to overcompensate with their us trivia. Clearly backfired lol
Yeah, sorry, not always easy to catch the sarcasm, Poe's law or whatever. Maybe try putting it in quotation marks? Not a fan of /s myself.
skizzit
Only one I didn't know was the Spanish Steps. They were not trick questions or anything.
Zorrodidnothingwrong
I would have failed that too. For us that's the scalinata di Trinità dei Monti, the square is Piazza di Spagna.
SirBagels
As an uncultured American I heard it as "The Spanish Steppes" and was very confused, I probably would have responded "Spain?"
spookyactionatadistance
It's trivia. Not rocket science
SithShodan
Well the former president thought he was going to conquer and claim Greenland, so :|
And that's who the American People elected to lead them (almost twice). Says a lot doesn't it.
Syxcfaq
It does, but then again he did lose the popular vote by millions both times so there is that. Boris Johnson wasn't great either.
ruferto
eh. everyone learns different things. most of this is like trivia questions. you know it or you don't
Nope, sorry. Common knowledge after 8 years of school, you allow to get at least 50% of them. Spanish steps was trivia, rest was geography
common knowledge isn't common. can garuantee you several common teaching topics in my area won't be in yours
Try me. I don't wanna come across as smug. I genuinly want to know
well it's impossible to give specific examples w/o knowing exactly where you're from but - here's a general thing you can do: 1/2
quzar
The origin of a symbol on a nation's flag is geography? Knowing the most popular incorrect name for a nation is geography?
It wasn't the origin. It was just what was on it. National flags is part of geography. Knowing that Holland isn't the Netherlands; also geo
Knowing that people apparently call the Netherlands, holland, is definitely trivia.
Becker37
Hannibal lecter in the wild.
murderhobbit
"It's geography" shrugs like it's not remembering minute details
Haemaelaeinen
That guy answering looks just like andre wickström, a finnish swedish standup comedian. Even sounds like him. And jokes like him.
Sokonomi
Intelligence is attractive.
Imalwaysready
I like this guy's moxie. His snooty, smug, confident moxie. Good on him.
JustAnotherknarF
machmach
giddyupmusic
Right?
mrputter
F: Federated States of Micronesia? (Also "above" New Zealand, after a fashion...)
SirVG
I wonder if French Guiana would be an acceptable answer.
OlemGolem
That correction in the end, just bury him right there.
IHaveAGuyForEverything
I grew up in and went to school in Mississippi and I knew all those. That speaks loudly to post-school education. Keep learning ppl!!!
freckledkink
Hey! Mississippi public schools here as well. I would have answered them all! As an aside, my daughter went to public schools in Mississippi
freckledkink
And is going to MIT. So the schools aren't all horrible here.
textilelover
I wouldn't have gotten Netherlands/Holland off the top of my head. I don't really talk about them at all, correctly or not.
TBRichard
Especially if you are from Mississippi.
Merinther
I was hesitating whether Fiji was a country, but then I decided to go with the safe bet, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
bigslongnoodle
Could farro islands (sp?) actually don’t even know if that’s a country
Vesane
For single-word countries, those are actually the only 3, and of them only France starts with F in its native language (vs Suomi/Viti)
mobigz
Can this guy rap wiggle wiggle now?
notblubber
"Above New Zealand is sky." (decided against adding "you ignorant peasant").
Septcanmat
He realized he hadn’t gotten his money yet so held back.
captainswoopty
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Tis good to Bean king.
KiwiGameDev
Above New Zealand isn’t just the sky, but the long white cloud that consists of the souls of each and every slaughtered sheep, waiting for
KiwiGameDev
the day they bring down righteous retribution upon us
Drimilidrimdrim
Lingualizer on Youtube. Fun guy and videos.
metalmorgan
Faroe Islands?
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
If you want to keep your money, quiz an American!
neamtu
Now do that to americans?
GoodGraces
Hahahaha!! SMARTASS!!
originalhuman
I like this guy
Grinch01
The first question is wrong it is right the opposit the netherlands are the country and holland is a state like texas in the us
LukeBeGod
Why they talk english?
spool32
English is currently the lingua franca for much of the world.
hadtodownvote1
Maybe because most people know english? So the content produced will reach a wider audience than if they spoke german or whatever
confirmsthings
This man won 200 bucks and immediately went for the dad joke to seal the deal. What a beast.
Lampmonster
Shows the strength of his memory that he referenced a joke from I'm guessing his early teens. Granted he doesn't look that old, but still!
NoobsStfu
That is what we Internet nerds refer to as "Gigachad energy"
AuntieCoddswaddle
Combined with that jawline, it's working for me
OmnipotentBeing
tentacularfleshscape
God I hate these fuckers
OmnipotentBeing
Why? They only look for things. Things to make them go.
tentacularfleshscape
Moguntia
Which dad joke did I miss?
DiscountMentat
"Above New Zealand? In the sky?"
WeekendWarriorMark
“Above New Zealand IS the sky”
DiscountMentat
This is correct in two ways.
Moguntia
Thanks. Didn't realise this would rank as a dad joke.
DiscountMentat
It is a bit low-tier/effort. From your spelling of realize, I'm assuming your humo(u)r is more sophisticated?
Moguntia
I'm not a native speaker. You could say I have no sense of humor at all due to my cultural background ;)
TheUnstoppableWampas
He sounds German. I don't think he was joking.
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
German humour is nothing to laugh about.
ArdentSlacker
He's grinning as he says something literal. This is an example of German humor. Another is Martina Hill's sketches. Several were viral.
madflenser
He is German. At the end, off-mike, you can hear "zweihundert Euro"
ClemFandangle
Could be Austrian… although he didn’t say G’day mate
confirmsthings
He could've been Austrian, ask him if Mozart was a punker, superstar or classical composer, that usually gives it away.
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
I mean, I feel like I have to take your word for it.
4Astaroth
Answer: Yes.
ZiomalZParafii
"Mozart is a great composer." - from amazing The Barber of Siberia (my number 2 movie of all times)
OmnipotentBeing
Er war ein superstar. Er war so pupularrrrrr......
dyedman101
Punker.
poserphd
Punker
BobMaster1982
Ask those questions in America and we get a comedy, this is common knowledge for most people in EU, so weird.
spool32
Ask them questions about America and watch them choke, though. :)
TheeKeelhaul
I'm American and the only one I didn't know was the third F country. >.> Would depend on where and who you asked.
freckledkink
I'm from Mississippi (and educated in the public schools) and knew all those. Different people retain different information.
Taluien
I'd have gone with Faroe Islands for the third country, instead of Fiji, but well, Fiji is fine, too.
Youhavinagiraffe
Aren't those Islands part of Norway or Denmark and not a independent nation?
YourCakeAndEatItToo
He didn't ask for independent countries; he asked for countries, and the Faroe Islands are a country.
BorkBorkasson
For the record, part of Denmark, but yes, also a country, like England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Taluien
Basically, they have a national football team, they are a country.
NicolasKevinMac
Same. Faroe Islands was tip-of-the-tongue; not sure I would have gotten Fiji if they had asked for four...
jbob3
You'd be wrong
Taluien
Or not. I'd have a strong argument. They are self-governing, they have a national football team, they have their own national identity.
TheOneTrueZippy8
I quibble the Cape of Good Hope as being the "tip" of Africa.
schizznatt
Yep, came here to say this.
EmperorShaddam
Not a sailor then.
TheOneTrueZippy8
Indeed not. Alongside that marker is Cape Agulhas Lighthouse, FYI. And the question was.....
totallyrealname
It's still widely known for it though because of old-timey sailors and like, the ports and stuff.
ArdentSlacker
Just the tip.
HappySeahorse40s
Tell that to the Aniston!
HappySeahorse40s
*Arniston.
MiloBloomm
All capes in Africa are tips of Africa. Africa has some great tips.
TheOneTrueZippy8
Always tip your waitress.
Ermitesrubiht
the biggliest tippy tips, assuredly.
shuttlecockinakumquat
No hesitation thanks to the editing.
Imalwaysready
This guy answers the question before it's even asked!
schizznatt
Cape of Good Hope is also wrong. The southernmost tip of Africa is Cape Agulhas.
filton2018
2 cameras, filming in a weird vertical crop. Why are they speaking English when neither of them are? Hmm.
Besamel
English speakers are a bigger audience
rouzuki
It's like the opposite of what talk shows do when they "interview people on the street" and everyone you see gives dumb answers.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Probably it's for an English-speaking audience and/or they speak other languages. Interviewer sounds more Dutch/Belgian, dude's more German.
JacktheKind
Because theydon't share a common mother's tongue. Most people who don't natively speak the same language, will speak english witheach other>
JacktheKind
you would be surprised to know how many imgur users don't speak english natively.
Superchief86
I spent a few weeks going around Europe back in 2018. While I made an effort to use a few local words, I really didn't need to.
ArdentSlacker
Filming for an English audience? Also, English is a very common second language.
RoninOni
Exactly, the contestant is German, the other guy… Norwegian maybe? English is the common second language throughout Europe
LePurjo
Definitely not Norwegian. Leaning more to the south of Europe.
RoninOni
Oh yeah, my memory of his accent was slipping, but I really can’t place that.
ProbablyISIS
People with American public schooling find this to be amazing. Pretty easy stuff really.
KleptoKea
Was gonna say, this would stump the shit out of too many Americans
tappersparty3
stupidity does not discriminate toward American public school educated
TehGuard
American education here. I could've answered all but only because i play a shit ton of strategy map games
FlaminkoFactor
I am this people you speak of. Not amazed, Seems more to me like you wanted to disparage people over a video of mostly trivial questions?
ProbablyISIS
I am an American war vet and patriot. I also read and study, so I found this easy. If you found them hard, then look inward and read more
FlaminkoFactor
I didnt find them hard. Both my parents are teachers so I thought it was a bit of a cheap shot, & who cares what leaf is on the Canada flag?
WazigeWiebe
Look at mister bigbrain over here
DancingDoggo
Her buddy, what's the capital of Denver? Yeah, ppl from American schools don't know either... It's not so easy as it looks...
ThoughtfulTortuga
Isn't Denver a city?
aloharamada
Denver's the capital of Colorado...German here, but I learned it through South Park, not school.
DancingDoggo
That was the joke... I meant it as a line like when ppl in US try to overcompensate with their us trivia. Clearly backfired lol
aloharamada
Yeah, sorry, not always easy to catch the sarcasm, Poe's law or whatever. Maybe try putting it in quotation marks? Not a fan of /s myself.
skizzit
Only one I didn't know was the Spanish Steps. They were not trick questions or anything.
Zorrodidnothingwrong
I would have failed that too. For us that's the scalinata di Trinità dei Monti, the square is Piazza di Spagna.
SirBagels
As an uncultured American I heard it as "The Spanish Steppes" and was very confused, I probably would have responded "Spain?"
spookyactionatadistance
It's trivia. Not rocket science
SithShodan
Well the former president thought he was going to conquer and claim Greenland, so :|
KleptoKea
And that's who the American People elected to lead them (almost twice). Says a lot doesn't it.
Syxcfaq
It does, but then again he did lose the popular vote by millions both times so there is that. Boris Johnson wasn't great either.
ruferto
eh. everyone learns different things. most of this is like trivia questions. you know it or you don't
JacktheKind
Nope, sorry. Common knowledge after 8 years of school, you allow to get at least 50% of them. Spanish steps was trivia, rest was geography
ruferto
common knowledge isn't common. can garuantee you several common teaching topics in my area won't be in yours
JacktheKind
Try me. I don't wanna come across as smug. I genuinly want to know
ruferto
well it's impossible to give specific examples w/o knowing exactly where you're from but - here's a general thing you can do: 1/2
quzar
The origin of a symbol on a nation's flag is geography? Knowing the most popular incorrect name for a nation is geography?
JacktheKind
It wasn't the origin. It was just what was on it. National flags is part of geography. Knowing that Holland isn't the Netherlands; also geo
RoninOni
Knowing that people apparently call the Netherlands, holland, is definitely trivia.