The number 40 is not "fourty"
it is forty

Who is not a Dragon Highlord in the Dragonlance novels?
Verminaard
Lord Soth
Ariakas
Kitiara


What! How would i know.

Your answers are from sites like:
www.croatians.com

PLS take a look at something more authentic.
How should we know that the croatians regard these inventions as theirs?

Just one more thing:

inventors.about.com (your source!) says:


You shouldn't just crop the things you don't want to hear. Nice try btw.

Idézet: aneksi - 2010.03.15. 23:31:02

NHL and NFL questions don't seem so ridiculous now, eh? But those get rejected, and THIS is approved???

That doesnt excuse questions of this type, the dragonlord should be removed since it fals in the same category as the NFL questions. Even more that an NFL question since that is hands down far more known than Dragonlance

A gong is located 1000 yards/mts away, with a microphone next to it, to play the sound near you. Which sound will you hear first when the gong sounds?

Please delete it . Thanks .

Evaluators please quit .

you call wiki more authentic than educational program approved by the government (and I don't mean Croatian government, I wouldn't trust my government if they told me the sun is yellow... but the government of former Yugoslavia, and even before Yugoslavia)...

the sites I listed, you can maybe call the bias, but they come from documents in possesion of museums, so there are physical proofs..

As for the parachute, you can see from the time line that Faust was the first to construct it, and even jumped with it (and survived ), and that it was credited in a book. Even though grandmaster Leonardo has made some sketches before..

But I tell you what - you can exchange the thing that bothers you the most from the list with zeppelin, or forensic medicine

(I didn't want to put Nikola Tesla seeing that there are still arguments was he Croat or Serb...)

PS - I cut a big portion of text about Faust to remove unnecessary bio info, didn't bother to read all

Now the following question should be removed as two answers are plausible and one other option not given and should have been given as an answerable option - see quotation below for my understanding from the Internet:

What is the nationality of Albert Einstein?
French
German
Swiss
Italian

The answer given to the question: German. Yes he was born in Germany, but had renounced this and became Swiss.

Albert Einstein was born a German, took Swiss nationality in 1900 and German-Swiss nationality after the war, renounced German citizenship in 1933, and became an American citizen in 1940. Such real and symbolic frontier-crossing was appropriate in a man who hoped for a world in which there were no binding or fanatical nationalist allegiances to cause distrust, hostility and war.

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.03.15. 16:27:52

Would be pleased to join up. I would be happy to look through all the questions that are on this 'so called' database and get rid of questions that are dubious, carry mistakes etc

Spelling error:

The "eric arthur blair" question.

correct answer is: george orvell

It is ORWELL not ORVELL

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist

A croatian government site is still not authentic. Even your source states "credit for the invention of the first practical parachute frequently goes to Sebastien Lenormand", and that the first device was based on Da Vinci's drawing. I think that should be enough to get rid of the Q.



It doesn't matter if you say so. Still, the question bleeds from many wounds. If someone would search google for who invented the parachute, credit wouldn't go to a croatian.



Dávid Schwarz was the inventor of the zeppelin, (german) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin bought the plans from his widow. Hugo Eckener disputed this, but either way it wasn't a croatian who invented it.

The first written account of using medicine and entomology to solve (separate) criminal cases is attributed to the book of Hsi Duan Yu(translated as "[Washing Away of Wrongs]"

The admins should decide what to do with your Q. I think you should choose another field when you write a new one.

here we go again...

David Schwarz (1852-1897) is not German, he's a Croatian Jew who lived in Zagreb, state capital...

as for the medicine, I agree..didn't notice the Chinese being so early

and btw, I didn't say "croatian government site" I said government...meaning historians and aproved by them...it is taught in books not just in my country, and the museums hold the proofs..so, you can say what u want..

btw, u didn't list any of your sources (more authentic than one's government, or otherwise..)

as for googling, google croatia inventions, and sites will state those things listed by me.. you can on the other hand also search any thing on the internet and you'll probably find sources that contradict each other...

but, as you said, let the admins decide. I do however agree that it confuses people.. but still, there's 50% answer rate..which is more than some less debatable questions in the database...

4800 watts at 120 volts = ??amps.

Should have been written in a more elegant manner.

Which of the following is not a fish?
Stingray
Tuna
Shark
Dolphin

please remove
multiple answers are correct

Pinocchio ( Walt Disney) is celabrating his anniversary this year (2009) s. Which one is it?

Idézet: Plumpkin - 2010.03.16. 23:00:34
No...the correct answer is the only animal listed that is not a fish. (sorry)

So, the question is 100% valid.

edited due to speeeling errors

Here's a winner though...

Anyone know what Badminton is in this game? Would you guess a banned word?

Forbidden word in the 3. answer!

Evaluators take a break . Thank you .

Idézet: Valkyrie - 2010.03.16. 19:05:30

David Schwarz (Schwarz Dávid) was a hungarian. Born at Zalaegerszeg (some sources say Keszthely) died at Vienna. He just spent most of his life in Croatia.

According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schwarz_(aviation_inventor)
Acording to the Library of Congress: (Schwarz, David, builder of airships; b. 12/20/1850 Zalaegerszeg (Ungarn); d. 1/13/1897 in Wien)
http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n83-302420.html
According to hungarians: http://www.hungarianhistory.com/pics/aviation.pdf

That's the problem w/ you and your sources. You take what you like, and throw away the rest.

And things like

I can't see your education and museums from where I'm sitting. Noone else does. That's a poor argument. Show me.
Everyone can see what the Library of Congress, the Wikipedia and the hungarians say.
I didn't state my sources 'cause I don't have to. Everybody can google them.

The Q should still go:
Which nation invented parachute, torpedo, neck-tie and 1st mechanical pen?
Americans
British
Italians
Croats*

Parachute: Italian
Mechanical pen: (Biro) Hungarian
Neck-tie: Croatian
Torpedo: American

As for David being Hungarian, did u happen to notice that Croatia back then was PART OF big Hungarian empire? And of course the hungarians are gonna claim him theirs (btw, in the pdf u linked, they don't claim it theirs, they just list him in the history of theirs aviation.. which is fine by me.)that doesnt change the fact he was croatian by nationality

as for torpedo, I've already proven where it came from and have no intention of repeating myself.

as for the parachute, although leonardo had some ideas and sketches, Faust Vrancic first made it, tested it and jumped with it, which is documented in a book from that time...

You know, you remind me of an historian from USA who came here after the war, and tried to convince me in one course of events during the war that were nowhere near what really happened...but, he's a historian, and what he says is true. yeah right..

And I don't really care if they remove the Q or not...this discussion will remain in the forum and people will be able to read and decide for themselves.

And, of course that "big" countries will try to claim everything possible theirs, and small ones will have to always prove themselves...

and an advice for you - don't take wiki for granted

that's all I'm gonna say on this subject. Stay well, friend