I came across a game about guessing accents. You listen to a person read two lines from a Kipling poem, then you’re presented with a list of choices and have to guess the country. For some, you get bonus points for guessing (and you betcha I was guessing) the city. There was one, however, that I didn’t have to guess…Canada. I knew he was Canadian half a dozen words in, and by the time he said “about”, I knew he was from Ontario. I clicked Canada, then looked at the list of cities, and picked Ottawa because that was the only Ontario city listed. I saw Ontario itself as one of the listings, but it isn’t a city, or at least not one in the province of Ontario, Canada. Québec has a Québec City, and there are lots of US cities called Ontario, but the Canadian province has no city by that name. Using logic, I clicked Ottawa…and was marked incorrect. The correct answer was “Ontario”, which is incorrect because I was asked, “For a bonus point, which city?” and Ontario is the name of the province. If there’s any inhabited area in that province that is called the city of Ontario, it must be a tiny village in the extreme north, because nobody’s ever heard of it.
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