Le géopolitologue Gilles Gressani, confondateur de la revue Le Grand Continent, pose ce «paradoxe» dans le dernier ouvrage de sa revue consacré aux ennemis de l’Europe, alors que la Chine représente «la moitié de ce qui compte en géopolitique et en économie».
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.