We decided to check if our players really know their capitals cities, and found some interesting results. From 44 different questions relating to capital cities all over the world, and over 900 participants, our Qwizard players obtained an average team score of 69.0%. This is well above our average score for these events of 62.9%, and statistically significant.
But here is the interesting thing…if we measure the results for 3 questions relating to the NZ capital then our players only scored 39.0%. These questions included; What was the capital of NZ at the end of the 19th century?, Which city or town was the capital of NZ immediately prior to Wellington?, and a multi-choice question about how long Wellington been NZ’s capital city?
Can we imply from this that our knowledge of capital cities is fairly insular? Or do these results demonstrate a lack of knowledge in NZ history? Maybe next time we compare our players results on NZ history compared to other similar topics.