General Knowledge!

[BFM_Kiwi]

Sorry Goalie, I shouldn't have assumed I was correct!


Brazil - Portugeuse  correct
French Guiana - French - correct
Guiana - Portugeuse  - yes, but wrong language
Suriname - Portuguese - yes, but wrong language
Uruguay - Portuguese (?) - nope, they speak spanish

[Marty]

Don't Suriname and Guiana both speak French?

[BFM_Kiwi]

There is French Guiana and then there is Guyana (formerly British Guiana).

French Guiana oddly enough speaks French.

But no, Suriname and Guyana do not have French as their primary language.

[Goalie]

I was gonna wait for other people to try before I did, but I'll try again.

Guiana - English
Suriname - I'll go with English here as well
Venezuela (?) - Portuguese (?)

Maybe the fifth one is an island nation that I'm not thinking of. 

[BFM_Xtr3me]

ok, im gonna take a crack at this,

first of all i know these 2

Brazil: Portuguese
French Guiana: French

then i think these 2 are correct as well

Guyana: English
Suriname: Dutch


now for the last one im gonna take a guess

Paraguay: i think they speak something like Guarrani aswell as spanish


(wow, my geography classes actually paid off)

[BFM_Kiwi]

Brazil - Portuguese - Goalie
French Guiana - French - Goalie
Guyana - English - Goalie
Suriname - Dutch - Xtr3me

The fifth I was looking for was the Falkland Islands (English).  (more of a territory than a country however)

I didn't know about Guaraní - it is an official language of Paraguay, along with Spanish.  Other countries in SA probably have indigenous languages as official languages, but in Paraguay apparently more people understand Guaraní than Spanish, so well done Xtr3me.

Goalie got 3 right, so your turn Goalie if you've got one for us

[Goalie]

Okay, I'll make it a little easier on you folks.  Especially you Brits should know this one:

Tell me the odd one in this list, and justify your answer.

Eurythmics
The Cranberries
Depeche Mode
The Police
Dire Straits

[BFM_Kiwi]

The Cranberries are Irish.  I think the rest are British?  Except I think Annie Lennox is Scottish.

All 80's rock bands, except not sure exactly what genre Depeche Mode would be.

In other words, no idea.

[Goalie]

Nope, you got it completely correct!  The Cranberries is the only Irish group out of a bunch of British ones.

[jim360]

I wouldn't have got that one because I only listen to good music.

[BFM_Kiwi]

Bach is dead, and has been for some time.  Move on.

[BFM_Kiwi]

What was the first city to reach a population of 1 million?

[BFM_Xtr3me]

umm, im pretty sure it was Rome

[BFM_Edison]

Answer depends on the source... My guess would have been Chang'an (now Xi'an) though.

[BFM_Kiwi]

I would have guessed London, as I thought only modern cities reached that sort of population.  London had a population of 500,000 in the late 1600's, and reached a million in early 1800's.  It had a documented population of over a million in 1811.

If you google, you'll see that Rome is considered to be the first to reach a million, but this is undocumented.  Baghdad was also likely over a million.

So the answer isn't clear.  But I'll give it to Xtr3me.