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Originally Posted by KentalCowtipper
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1. If you research into it the 30 years war had over 30 million casualties - military and civilian combined. Although some of the Chinese internal conflicts had a high casualty toll none come close to the 30 years count.
4. Notice I didn't say rushing touchdowns only? Receiving touchdowns count towards the 10 per season total.
5. Perhaps it could have been worded better but Greenland is not commonly accepted as part of Western Europe. Many people who participated in the trivia event said Russia - which is in Europe but in Eastern Europe.
9. This is the one of two questions I legitamtely messed up on. I was going off memory and you're right, Janszoon did beat Hartog out by a couple of years with Hartog being second. I awarded a point to both the person who first said Hartog and the person who first said Janszoon.
11. Not sure why you put this one as an error - Cleveland is commonly referred to as "The Mistake on the Lake". Unfortunately I live there [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
26. Nice catch. I'm not big into peppers but for the longest part of my life the Ghost Pepper has had the dubious honor of being the hottest. Upon researching I can see that the Trinidad Moruga Scorpian was confirmed to be number #1 last year. As no one said the Trinidad Moruga (within the 10 second time limit) the issue was not raised during the trivia event as it was with quesiton #9
30. I did change the wording on this question when I asked it compared to what I wrote down on the question list - As I was typing the question I changed it to "largest number of Native Speakers" as I saw the same ambiguity you did upon reading it. Thus making Mandarin the correct answer.
To be honest I did this Trivia event on a whim and had only about an hour to come up with the questions. I'm thinking I will make this a monthly occurrence; as such I will have more time to double and triple check all of the answers. Might also then outsource it to a 3rd party who doesn't play EQ to double check my work.
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I studied a fair amount of Chinese dynastic history in college, so the answers to your first question threw me for a loop and figured I'd look at the others. I'd be curious to see your sources for the 30 million figure. Seems higher than anything that I have read. Many sources put the figure for the Taiping rebellion between 20-30 million.
It's all the years of playing fantasy football. Differentiating between rushing/receiving and what not.
I'd agree with France, just that the Dutch might get pissy.
It's my favorite Cleveland quote? I did some study at College of Wooster (about an hour south of you), so am fairly familiar with the area. I always heard the old Cleveland municipal stadium referred to as the "Mistake by the Lake" because of how it was constructed. I'd be curious to know if the nickname was first applied to the city or the stadium, but don't have the inclination to actually research. At least it's not Detroit.
Yay for trivia.