Nationalities of the Popes of the Roman Catholic Church Quiz by flixuk

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Nationalities of Popes Quiz

by flixuk

Created Dec 25, 2009 in Religion
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	acp39:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:56 GMT		3 points
	The idea of an "Israeli" did not existed before 1948, at least not during the first few centuries when there were popes from what is now Israel. You should write "Palestinian." Those early popes would have been considered Palestinian not "Israeli". Good quiz though.

	flixuk:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 15:43 GMT		13 points
	it was the Roman province of Israel; moreover, the quiz is for 'nationalities', and popes from this region were at the time considered 'israelites', not 'philistines'. The states of Italy, France, Germany and Spain didn't exist for most of these popes either, so I had to base it on ideas of a 'nationality' and make it less confusing.

	tbwilson:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 16:00 GMT		14 points
	The Roman province was called Judaea, actually. Interesting quiz, though.

	acp39:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 01:52 GMT		2 points
	Flixuk, I seriously recommend you reconsider your previous point. There was no such thing as the Roman province of Israel. It was Iudaea (or Judaea) and later became Palestinia. St. Peter would have been considered above all a Galileean but Judean might be acceptable. Pope Evaristus could also be called Judean because he was pope when the province was called Judea. However, the third pope from the area Pope Theodore was pope during the seventh century when the area was called Palestine. If you don't want to put Palestinian maybe you should settle on Judean. Israeli, however, is very inaccurate.

	flixuk:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 12:40 GMT		7 points
	As i said, i'm not going by names of countries at the time of the popes; otherwise, almost all of these would say "holy roman empire". however, I do appreciate your suggestion, and will change it to "Israelite."

	tonybraintree:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 20:04 GMT		9 points
	Israelite is wrong too. When Peter lived there, it was Roman Palestine or, as has been said, Judea. Illyrian is also problematic as it is an ancient (Roman) name. You're geography should be modern or ancient, not both.

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	jasonc_22:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 00:13 GMT		16 points
	...accept "jewish" as the nationality of a Catholic pope? Um...

	Masternachos:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 20:45 GMT		14 points
	WHAT?! No Japanese Popes?!

	abanazerb:	Jan 22nd, 2010 at 09:38 GMT		4 points
	Good game. I must admit, I typed in "Israeli" looking for some quip to come up as a bonus... glad to see that humour helps you in these quizzes!

	phibbyfan:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 09:07 GMT		20 points
	Why "Various African"? If you took the time to give each European country their respective counts, why would you lump Africa all together? Aren't the places outside of Europe the most interesting and unexpected anyway?

	flixuk:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 16:39 GMT		13 points
	Roman province of Africa now covers many different countries, so it's impossible to know which one. And each european country does NOT have its own count; Papal States and Kingdom of Sicily are all lumped together as Italian

	AdamBishop:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 20:26 GMT		5 points
	Roman Africa covered many countries, but so did Judaea/Palestine and Syria. And by "Greek" you apparently mean people who came from Greek territories outside of modern Greece. "Illyria" is also not a country, of course. Israelite usually refers to the people post-Exodus and before the split into kingdoms, so Peter is hardly one of those (he was pretty much Greek, anyway, as was everyone in that area at the time).

	alphadog:	Mar 10th, 2010 at 22:18 GMT		3 points
	typing "a " gives you Israelite and English

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	QuintFan:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 02:30 GMT		7 points
	How is this the worst quiz ever? Have you done some of the slop that gets posted here? This was a great quiz, I'm so thrilled I got them all. Who the heck is the English pope? I would also suggest changing the pop-up answer for Peter to Judean.

	flixuk:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 13:41 GMT		3 points
	@QuintFan liechtenstein hates me, he writes 'worst quiz ever' for every one of my quizzes.

	Flick:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 09:45 GMT		5 points
	@QuintFan. The only English pope was Pope Adrian IV ( born Nicholas Breakspear ) 1154-1159. He is probably most famous for the manner of his death; reputedly choking on a fly in his wine! What somebody's fly was doing in his wine is another matter ;)

	Riko:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 01:40 GMT		4 points
	Maybe you could explain that you are using the modern borders of the regions the popes were from since the nations and borders have changed so many times. With some minor tweaks it would work.

	ulashima:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 08:53 GMT		5 points
	Illyria can be considered as Albania, can't it?

	jefrunner:	Oct 27th, 2010 at 15:12 GMT		3 points
	Very cool quiz. I enjoyed it as a medieval historian, and appreciate the difficulty of naming "nationalities" for people who lived at a time when some of these categories would have been meaningless. I'm glad you accepted Croat for Illyrian, but as @alphadog points out, typing in "a" (I was going through western Europe and trying for Andorra before I moved on to the eastern Mediterranean) pops up Israelite.

	Raynard:	May 4th, 2011 at 17:34 GMT		2 points
	One day Kyrgyzstan will be on this list...

	M_C_HAMEL:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 01:47 GMT		1 point
	Still waiting for Sean O'Malley to be the first American pope...

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	Dralcoffin:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 03:57 GMT		3 points
	@sebastian: The "various Africa" is due to those popes being from the Roman province of Africa, which is Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, etc. We have no way of knowing their exact nationality.

	flixuk:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 14:04 GMT		3 points
	@sebastian Sometimes, it's fun to think before posting a comment.

	erlking:	Nov 9th, 2011 at 11:55 GMT		2 points
	You should accept Albania for Illyria.

	weevil6:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 08:00 GMT		1 point
	You need to include the new Pope

	SaulTaylor:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 06:43 GMT		1 point
	This quiz is inconsistant. Sometimes it gives modern countries (Italy and Germany didn't exist when most of the Italian and German popes where alive), at other times it gives the countries that existed when the Popes were alive (there are no modern countries called Illyria or England). Also, you need to ad Argentina.