Can you name the COUNTRY NAMES in their NATIVE LANGUAGES? by Sneuticles

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COUNTRY NAMES in their NATIVE LANGUAGES Quiz

by Sneuticles

Created Aug 7, 2010 in Geography
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	LlamaDuckKing:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 04:00 GMT	5 points
	I've been studying French for some time now, so I hope I'm right, but, I had always learned that France was France (in a French accent) in France. Source?

	LlamaDuckKing:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 04:01 GMT	2 points
	Oh, and excellent idea for a quiz.

	ablackperson:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 04:08 GMT	6 points
	Yeah, France is France in French. "Francaise" means French, not France.

	Sneuticles:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 04:16 GMT	3 points
	^^ Oops -- my bad. Changed it, and now it's kind of a nice "trick answer."

	NYCub:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 04:43 GMT	5 points
	"Osterreich" is technically misspelled. The "O" has an umlaut, and when you can't type one, the correct alternative is to place an "E" after the umlaut vowel. You should still accept Osterreich, but on the quiz it should be spelled "Oesterreich."

	dancastro:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 04:48 GMT	4 points
	Very good quiz in general. But to make the game more elegant, it would be better that the answers appear with their diacritics ("accents"). Usually this isn't important, but here we are referring to native languages. Accept "espana" for entering it, but it's nicer if the answer appears as "España". The same for Österreich and Éire. (To type the special characters, "ñ" is Alt 164, "Ö" is Alt 153 and "É" is Alt 144). Also Ellas should be accepted for Greece as an alternative to Hellas.

	masaeaida:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 06:29 GMT	3 points
	"Hellas" is ancient Greek - the more common name in modern Greek is "Elláda". "Nihon" should be accepted for Japan, too, since that and "Nippon" are equally correct in Japanese (though sometimes used in different contexts). "Nippon-koku" is a long-form, official title ("State of Japan" rather than just "Japan") and therefore shouldn't be the preferred response.

	georgieburgess:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 06:41 GMT	4 points
	This reminded me of a skit from a while ago. You can find almost anything on Youtube now:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TNs_INmqH0

	egernunge:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 08:52 GMT	5 points
	You should also accept "Noreg" for Norway, since Norway has two official languages, Bokmål and Nynorsk. The name for Norway is "Norge" in Bokmål and "Noreg" in Nynorsk.

	Djungelurban:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 10:26 GMT	1 point
	Seconding Nihon for Japan aswell... Cause you know... That's how it's spelled...

	Sneuticles:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 12:39 GMT	1 point
	^^ Now accepting Nihon and Noreg; thanks for input.

	randomhandle:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	1 point
	@NYCub, actually, no, the quiz should show up as "Österreich," and all three answers should be accepted.

	Riko:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 18:38 GMT	1 point
	very nice quiz. you should still post a source. i suggest [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/]

	Sjoerd:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 19:27 GMT	2 points
	@georgieburgess: very nice video

	kypzethdurron:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 21:35 GMT	2 points
	Agree with the above: tried Ellas before thinking of Hellas :)

	smartashley:	Aug 9th, 2010 at 01:34 GMT	2 points
	Great idea, pretty tricky on a few of those!

	cuendillar:	Aug 9th, 2010 at 06:28 GMT	1 point
	Judging from the results so far, it helped being Scandinavian here.