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"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the
by Aspos 1y ago
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
- pasc1878 1y agoFirst great to have non US questions. This is how we see many quizzes as too local. Would you have objected to an American Football question? But Ireland have won the Grand SLam 4 times so could appear in several postions So not a good question.
- rkuykendall-com 1y ago> Would you have objected to an American Football question? As an American not into sports, the only Football question I think would be of such historical significance to match the rest on this list would be "US Holds First Superbowl" or something.
- leoc 1y agoRugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
- prerok 1y agoNeither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my country would.
- leoc 1y agoI can't really name any ski-jumping results from memory, and I have only the fuzziest recall of its history. But I haven't claimed and wouldn't claim that ski-jumping is an "obscure, hyper-local" sport, either, so this is not really relevant. "Hyper-local" would be something like road bowling.
- btilly 1y agoFor what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy". And as parochial as you think that American sports are, the USA has a population that is half again as big as the "Six Nations" that you intended. And here is an important fact. Most people in the world who speak English as their first language, live in the USA. The dominance of American perspectives in online conversations in English reflects our actual representation among native English speakers.
- nesk_ 1y agoI suppose you are American, this isn't obscur for Europeans at all.
- eej71 1y agoI hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
- prerok 1y agoGriping a bit, I know, but we, Europeans, always see these questions in various trivia games.
- dylan604 1y agoIt's not our fault that you don't pay attention to something called the World Series. It's also not our fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's not the called the American Series where you'd be expected to ignore it. /s I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also talk about whirled peas too.
- olddustytrail 1y agoIs it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish person know about the 6 nations? I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European countries?
- input_sh 1y agoAbsolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland won it. That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but that was way easier to guess correctly than a random rugby tournament.
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