Can you name the correct answers to these over/under questions (please read game note)?

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Question and Number	Over or Under	Actual Number
Countries w/French as official language: 27		29
Official languages of the U.N.: 10		6
Native Mandarin speakers: 1.3 billion		845 mil.
'E' tiles in a Scrabble game: 9		12
2-letter Scrabble words: 85		124
Greek letters: 26		24
Total words in King James Bible: 173,309		788,280
Number of Roman numerals: 11		7
Languages on the Rosetta Stone: 5		3
What a stitch in time saves: 5		9
Official languages of the E.U.: 28		23
Countries w/English as official language: 27		54

Question and Number	Over or Under	Actual Number
Countries w/Arabic as official language: 27		25
Countries w/Kyrgyz as official language: 27		2
Countries w/Spanish as official language: 27		22
Letters of the Hebrew alphabet: 18		22
Traditional parts of speech: 6		8
Base Scrabble points for 'Kyrgyzstan': 46		30
U.S. state mottos in Latin: 11		23
Official languages of European nations: 31		46
Languages of Lawrence of Arabia: 6		8
Words used by Shakespeare: 11,344		31,534
Phoenician letters: 26		22
Native English speakers: 500 million		328 mil.
Countries w/French as official language: 27	328 mil.
Official languages of the U.N.: 10	328 mil.
Native Mandarin speakers: 1.3 billion	328 mil.
'E' tiles in a Scrabble game: 9	328 mil.
2-letter Scrabble words: 85	328 mil.
Greek letters: 26	328 mil.
Total words in King James Bible: 173,309	328 mil.
Number of Roman numerals: 11	328 mil.
Languages on the Rosetta Stone: 5	328 mil.
What a stitch in time saves: 5	328 mil.
Official languages of the E.U.: 28	328 mil.
Countries w/English as official language: 27	328 mil.
Countries w/Arabic as official language: 27	328 mil.
Countries w/Kyrgyz as official language: 27	328 mil.
Countries w/Spanish as official language: 27	328 mil.
Letters of the Hebrew alphabet: 18	328 mil.
Traditional parts of speech: 6	328 mil.
Base Scrabble points for 'Kyrgyzstan': 46	328 mil.
U.S. state mottos in Latin: 11	328 mil.
Official languages of European nations: 31	328 mil.
Languages of Lawrence of Arabia: 6	328 mil.
Words used by Shakespeare: 11,344	328 mil.
Phoenician letters: 26	328 mil.
Native English speakers: 500 million	328 mil.

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Over/Under: Language Quiz

by Hejman

Created Aug 25, 2011 in Language
Featured Jul 12, 2012
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	thewildboo:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 15:15 GMT		32 points
	As one of the 9% that got the Kyrgyz one wrong let me clarify: it was an accident.

	pete622:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 15:25 GMT		50 points
	Sign of the times: When the quiz said "Languages on Rosetta Stone," I read this as meaning "Languages offered by the Rosetta Stone language-learning computer software series."

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	bigjoeco:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 15:38 GMT		12 points
	I also messed up the Rosetta Stone question. I was thinking to myself, "I've seen way more than 5 of those yellow boxes in the bookstore. It has to be over."

	demonopie:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 15:40 GMT		27 points
	Kyrgyzstan not allowed so 0 points.

	Evil44:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 15:49 GMT		3 points
	Yes, the "Rosetta Stone" question can be a little confusing. I would suggest making the question "Languages on the Rosetta Stone", to avoid any confusion with the software suite.

	Hejman:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 15:59 GMT		11 points
	@MarineAquaqua- Although Shakespeare is credited with 'inventing' over 1700 words (http://shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html) the question in this quiz is asking for the total number of words he used, not the number he invented. The statistical analysis of those words can be found here: http://math.ucdenver.edu/~wbriggs/qr/shakespeare.html

	Ironstamp:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 16:02 GMT		3 points
	@MarineAquaqua: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=words+invented+by+shakespeare

	waffle35:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 16:13 GMT		4 points
	Great Quiz! And of course it wouldn't be a true Sporcle quiz without a Kyrgyzstan-related question. Great Job!

	MarineAquaqua:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 16:16 GMT		9 points
	@Hejman and @Ironstamp. Thanks a lot. Checked both and both are very interesting. It appears that some of the words invented by Shakespeare never actually became popular enough to get into our dictionaries:))

	sknight:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 16:33 GMT		20 points
	Too bad some of Shakespeare's new words didn't get into the dictionary. I'm sure most of them were perfectly cromulent words.

	DrunkenSpooner:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 16:35 GMT		8 points
	native english speakers may not be over 500 million but it's well over 328 million... don't believe everything you read on wikipedia.

	Hejman:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 17:18 GMT		8 points
	@DrunkenSpooner- Actually, the source for the native English speakers number is the Ethnologue, generally the most reliable source on that information that is readily available: http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=eng Ethnologue lists 328,008,138 native English speakers of which 215,000,000 are in the U.S. This is based off of the 2000 US census population of 281.4 million so is likely slightly higher if you use the 2010 figure of 308.7 million. That 215 million number comes directly from the US census (http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-29.pdf) which notes that 28 million Americans listed Spanish as their native language and more than a million each listed Chinese, French, German, Tagalong, Vietnamese and Italian. In all, the 2000 census showed 22 native languages plus ASL.

	Tony_A:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 17:44 GMT		6 points
	I love these quizzes, but I invariably end up clicking under when I mean over and vice versa on a handful of these.

	bluerose2:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 18:16 GMT		14 points
	What's the second country that has Kyrgyz as an official language?

	kcostell:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 18:28 GMT		6 points
	I figured "Oh, English is an official language of India, and there's tons of people there, surely that's enough to put it over the top". Turns out that of the 350 million+ people in India who speak English, only 179,000 of them (by Ethnologue's count) speak it as their first language.

	monstro:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 21:10 GMT		4 points
	@bluerose2: I wondered that as well. Wikipedia lists Kyrgyzstan as the only language with Kyrgyz as an official language. Anyone know the other?

	adhair:	Jul 12th, 2012 at 23:01 GMT		2 points
	My thoughts on Ethnologue's reliability aside, I would argue that there's a distinct difference between speaking a language natively and speaking it as your first language.

	relihjm:	Jul 13th, 2012 at 00:02 GMT		0 points
	My thought process: There are more than 8 E's. Types under.

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	chair:	Jul 13th, 2012 at 04:00 GMT		4 points
	@secretgajin: "numerals" refers to the symbols that are used to form numbers. There are 7 roman numerals: I, V, X, L, C, D, M. To compare, I'm guessing you are most familiar with arabic numerals, of which there are 10: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. A finite number of numerals can be used to make an infinite number of numbers. If that makes sense. :)

	unkpoker:	Jul 13th, 2012 at 21:08 GMT		3 points
	Something to think about...from that all-knowing source - wikipedia.com..."In the Middle Ages, a horizontal line was used above a particular numeral to represent one thousand times that numeral"...that would make 14...yes - I know this comment is doomed to the abyss known as "below threshold" - but this fact did enter my thought process on my "over" answer...

	Hejman:	Jul 13th, 2012 at 22:33 GMT		1 point
	@unpoker- If only you have taken this quiz during the Middle Ages!

	fnurt:	Jul 14th, 2012 at 00:45 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz, and the little dashes of humor made it even more enjoyable. Now I'm off to find out the other country that recognizes Kyrgyz.

	Lokayata:	Jul 15th, 2012 at 01:43 GMT		3 points
	According to Wikipedia's list of official languages and a little research, I believe the second nation with Kyrgyz as an official language is PRC China. They seem to recognize languages differently than most nations, based on regions and ethnicities. Kyrgyz seems to be officially recognized in the autonomous region of Xinjiang. Within Xinjiang, Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture seems to be a particular place of Kyrgyz language in China.

	Hejman:	Jul 15th, 2012 at 14:31 GMT		2 points
	We have a winner! @Lokayata figured it out. Actually, in the year between when I made the quiz and when it got published, I had forgotten what the second was and had to research it again, but it is, indeed, China (specifically the Xinjiang province). Great work Lokayata!

	kick:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 02:31 GMT		1 point
	I would have done better guessing...