Don't try to out pedant...

[lovingboth]

So there's an annual mayor's charity quiz night for teams of four. I'm not on L's team.. until someone cancels on her about two hours before it starts.

One question is, if you arrange all the countries alphabetically, which is the first one beginning with C? The former mayor / ex-headmaster doing the questions says it won't be the first one you think of.

Well, that's Canada, I guess. Where else? Ah, Cameroon. Ah2, Cambodia. Hmmm... can't think of anything earlier.

But when it comes to the answers, he says that it's officially the Kingdom of Cambodia - and so starts with K !- so the answer of Cameroon is the right one.

Except that's officially the Republic of Cameroon.

So why doesn't that start with R comes the heckle? (You can guess where from...)

No adequate response is forthcoming.

Especially when it turns out during the break that the UN's official list of members has them as 'Cambodia' and 'Cameroon'.

But it also turns out that there's another one: Cabo Verde, previously referred to in English as Cape Verde...

Next year, I want to be asking at least some of the questions and that one will be in it - with the right answer - along with...

.. which is the first one beginning with D?

Comments

[purplerabbits]

Is there some reason it's not DRC?

Also you and I should totally design a geeky quiz one day :-)

[ludy]

Can i do the textiles and random church stuff rounds? :p

[lovingboth]

Since the days of The Great Leader, it's been the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea', and that's what it was finally admitted to the UN as.

Similarly, South Korea is the 'Republic of Korea' (and was admitted at the same time...)

As with the two Germanies, they won't have a title that admits they only control part of it.