Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by." -- Henry Holcomb BennettAs an confirmed flag dork, I felt OK about my score of 118/195... until I noticed that this only placed me in the 55th percentile. A suspiciously huge number of entrants -- 20.7% -- have scored 195/195, which either means that many of you out there are WAY flagdorkier than Carto and I, or that some quiz takers have, shall we say, used visual aids. I'm thinking it's been an educational tool for schoolchildren?
Once you finish the quiz, you get to see how many people got each flag correct. I guess I would predict that countries that have large populations of people liable to take an English-language flag quiz, and a distinctive flag, would be likely to fare well:
The top four: Japan (88.3%), the U.K. (88%), Canada (87.5%), and the U.S. (86.8%). Not too surprising. Numbers five and six are most less distinctive tricolors, but still probably familiar countries to most of the people participating in the quiz:
Italy (85.1%) and France (84.5%). Flag distinctiveness kicks in after that, with Israel's Star of David motif, Switzerland's square red cross, Germany's bold and garish colors, and South Korea's yin-and-yang rounding out the top ten.
The top four: Japan (88.3%), the U.K. (88%), Canada (87.5%), and the U.S. (86.8%). Not too surprising. Numbers five and six are most less distinctive tricolors, but still probably familiar countries to most of the people participating in the quiz:
Italy (85.1%) and France (84.5%). Flag distinctiveness kicks in after that, with Israel's Star of David motif, Switzerland's square red cross, Germany's bold and garish colors, and South Korea's yin-and-yang rounding out the top ten.
Can you ID the four flags that, each under 36%, are the LEAST recognizable to takers of the Sporcle quiz?
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The serious Sporclers also take and retake quizzes until they get higher scores.
ReplyDeleteItaly and France? In that order? I guess it's time for me to go Sporcle.
ReplyDeleteWoo Hoo, a comment! We've hit the big time!
ReplyDeleteYes, a comment! But it didn't actually get you to reverse the order of the French and Italian flags to match the order they're listed in your discussion....
ReplyDeleteMichael, I think we will learn that vexillophiles are very detail oriented... :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jennifer
I admit to being detail-oriented, but I'm definitely more embarrased than proud of being picky. (Well, that's not true in my job, but in normal life, it is.)
ReplyDeleteI think I was warped by reading Games magazine as a kid where they offered to send t-shirts to people who submitted corrections, making it seem like a good thing....