French people (Marie Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy, uhhhhh damn my brain forgot the name of the current president even though I literally read about him earlier today)
Swedish people (the King and no I can’t remember what number of Carl he is, a Swedish friend, oh fuck I can’t remember the surname of my other Swedish friend)
Estonian people (Kaja Kallas, holy shit where do I go now, oh yeah the Disco Elysium guys: Argo Tuulik… fuck who was the main guy? Who was the money guy?)
Russian people (Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin-- wait he’s dead, ok what about the geopolitics guy on Twitter nuh uh can’t remember his name)
Americans who aren’t or weren’t the president or the vice president (drew a blank until I thought of the RedLetterMedia guys, then realized I forgot Mike’s last name, then cheated by remembering Mike Morhaime’s last name instead)
And I’m not even on the spot in a studio. The human brain just doesn’t work that way.
edit: and for context I’m Finnish, so I picked neighbouring countries that I should (and do) know people from
I just realised that you could just guess based on the country if you know the naming system well enough. For Iceland I thought of Olafur Waarge, Bjork, and then tried and failed to name the female prime minister/president around the 2008 finacial crisis and just threw out “Freya Thorsdottir” and it’s a person. No idea who the fuck she is, but she exists.
Yeah I sat here trying to name three of:
And I’m not even on the spot in a studio. The human brain just doesn’t work that way.
edit: and for context I’m Finnish, so I picked neighbouring countries that I should (and do) know people from
Teemu selanne, miikka kiprusoff, linus torvalds…
first 3 finnish people i could think of…
If i had to name 3 more, they’d also be hockey players, :(
I just realised that you could just guess based on the country if you know the naming system well enough. For Iceland I thought of Olafur Waarge, Bjork, and then tried and failed to name the female prime minister/president around the 2008 finacial crisis and just threw out “Freya Thorsdottir” and it’s a person. No idea who the fuck she is, but she exists.
Yeah I feel like sports fans probably do better than average on this quiz. Nationalities are quite prominently considered there.