As such, I'm in trivia mania, and I've composed a quiz based almost exclusively on things I learned while traveling abroad. Here are ten questions that someone who's really followed my blog, and has a lot of useless knowledge, may do pretty well on.
1. Though Chinese is the most spoken first language in the world, the Chinese Wikipedia only has over 200,000 articles, compared to nearly 600,000 for Polish and 473,000 for Portuguese.Although the number of articles does not always correlate too highly with number of speakers, what is arguably the main reason why there are so few Chinese-language Wikipedia pages?
2. What European city did Ronald Reagan, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson and Usain Bolt all famously step foot in?
3. I passed by a covered kayak recently. On its covering, someone wrote
4. What is the least spoken official language of the European Union?
5. What are the four written scripts on a plaque in the entrance to the
6. Where is Victoria Coach Station?
7. What novel written by an American author about a Polish city won the 1929 Newberry Medal?
8. What city’s main bridge was allegedly started on 1357 / 9 /
9. What letter is strongly associated with a line in the
10. What European capital city has a psychological syndrome named after it?
Please post your initial answers or thoughts if you can.
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