Hozzászólások - manunkind

"Besides making food taste good, salt is also a..."

preservative is a correct answer. antibiotic, marked incorrect, is also a correct answer.

Who is the king of nascar raceing?

no 'e' in racing.
NASCAR is an acronym and should be in capitals.
and since NASCAR has no actual king, adding "known as" would be more accurate.

"From 1955, Princeton Hospital pathologist Thomas Harvey kept whose brain in a cardboard box behind a beer cooler?"

Alfred Einstein is marked as correct.
unless he is Albert's evil twin brother, i'm going to have to call this one incorrect.

perhaps it's because a chestnut is both a tree and a nut, i dunno.

so much for a reasonable span between dates on answer choices, eh?

When did World War II take place?

1939-1945
1938-1944
1939-1944
1938-1945

Which isn't mythology creature?

mythology should be mythological
an 'a' should precede mythological.

"what is the name of the director of the mouvie The Ghost (1990)?"

no 'u' in movie.
no 'the' in this movie's title.
what should be What.
sloppy.

When was the first MTV Music Video Awards xceremony held?

i'm pretty sure there's no x in ceremony.

^ dangling preposition. how about:

From what was a giant mythical Jewish Golem made?

i have to agree with Johannes, here. i've gotten that j.r.r.tolkein quote question 6 times in the past 2 days. i can appreciate statistical anomalies, but there is clearly a limited rotation of questions running at any given time. the quiz olympics don't seem to have the same problem.

oh, good point, Johannes.

Where does the Los Angeles Dodgers play?

well, they PLAY all over the US. the question seems to be about where they are based.

"Where does the Los Angeles Dodgers play?"

does-->do

perhaps the evaluator didn't like the nobody/none-of-the-above option.

he was a reverend. here's a copy of his obituary: http://www.jack-russell-terrier.co.uk/breed/parson_john_russell_obituary.html.

^ so, why not change parson to reverend?

"National animal of India?"

sentence fragment

"Months have 31 or 30 days. How many months has 28 days?"

has-->have

"How do you call the 30th aniversary of marriage?"

grammar

When was Julius Caesar murdered?
54BC
44BC
45BC
34BC

pretty tight range of dates (just 20 years across all four answers) for an event that occurred more than 2000 years ago.