LongTimeLurker
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4/10 and knew 3. -
5/10 and knew 3.
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8/10 and knew 6, with two well-informed guesses helping things on from there.
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Happy with 4 given I only knew 1 courtesy of Borat following the way of the hawk.
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7/10 and knew 5. Jebem ti opera.
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7/10 as well and knew 5. If it had been a Guardian one with no Anzac content it would have been a day where 10 might have been doable after yesterday's near wipeout.
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2/10 which is the statistically expected outcome when you know none. Seemed a bit heavy on put another shrimp on the barbie content today.
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Happy with five on that. Think I knew 3, but it's not showing me the answers so I can double check.
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On top of what has already been pointed out all three tend to play summer seasons in their local leagues because they get the full brunt of storms coming in off the Atlantic. I seriously doubt a full 30+ game league season could ever be played over the winter by an island select team but you have to wonder if club licensing opens the door to Scottish Cup entry.
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4/10 and knew 2. Geography questions usually save the day for me.
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Think some people are actually trying, although they could save themselves a lot of effort by simply adopting Faroese.
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7/10, got the city right on a couple of others. 5/10 and knew 4 on the Aussie quiz.
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A very pleasing 7/10.The one I would guess would be referred to above helped balance the tie me Kangaroo down sport content, but knew 4 in total and was reasonably confident on 2 more.
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There isn't one Norwegian language. There are two major literary standards referred to as Bokmal and Nynorsk (and some extra fringe nutter ones). Bokmal is basically Danish with some minor changes to better fit a Norwegian accent and add in some distinctive local vocabulary, because the main cities like Oslo became Danish speaking over the centuries of Danish rule, while Nynorsk is closer to Norway's traditional Old Norse that was still being used in rural areas especially in the west around the Sogne fjord. It's exceedingly unlikely that Scotland would ever ditch standard English given all the advantages it offers globally. It was a lot easier for Norwegians to give up literary Danish in practical terms, but the raw material in linguistic terms of Burnistoun sketch character vs Buchan fermer is still there in Scotland for something similar to unfold if historical circumstances were different.
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Consistently no matter where they are and who they are speaking to, yes. Get away from East Renfrewshire into rural areas or fishing villages and the way the older generation speaks amongst themselves can be very broad. If you have never been in that sort of environment socially, it's easy to be completely unaware of just how broad that can be.
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4/10 and somewhat relieved. Knew the two geography related ones.
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Lesser used names for daughters include Alaska, Alva and there was both a boy and a girl called London. Hopefully, not named for similar reasons to Elgin in the book version of Trainspotting.
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6/10 and knew 4.
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4/10 and knew 2.
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Ach awa an dinnae talk pish!
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4/10 and knew 2.
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5/10 and was only really sure about the coypu one, so pleased with that.
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ditto and managed to get another Aussie rules one correct with an educated guess based on the teams I have heard of before being likely to generate the highest TV ratings. Flag one is potentially a bit controversial as it is the Assad regime one and many countries now recognise the opposition, who use a flag with a green bar.
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2/10 and knew 1. Have flown over the African country so memories of checking the in flight map and hoping we weren't about to fly over Libya during the revolution there came in handy.
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6/10 and knew 3.