<p>Well, when a person says “empire,” they usually go straight to the idea of the British Empire, but a state doesn’t need to have colonies to be an imperialistic state. An empire is any state that has wide-reaching control/influence over another state. Westernization is a effect of American Imperialism, for example.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, Fudge the scholars!</p>
<p>I hate being the only post on a new page. ):
The screen is so empty.</p>
<p>british drive on the left side cuz in the olden days, knights approach each other so that their sword (right) arm faced the opposing rider. sucks to be a left-handed knight.</p>
<p>and measuring ingredients would be WAY easier with metric</p>
<p>Elmo, I crown you the king of esoteric knowledge.
All Hail Sir Knowsalot!</p>
<p>I agree, metric is just simpler…
100 cm = 1 m.
36 in = 1 yd?!
W-T-F</p>
<p>Hey, what am I king of? Asia, perchance?</p>
<p>Hudson, your post count has some interesting/enlightening connotations.
I believe the devil within must become unchained at this point…</p>
<p>Well, you’d be a queen, but you surpassed that status when you announced yourself to be a dictator.
I suppose I shall crown you “Our Exalted Leader of the Prosperous Land of Asia.”</p>
<p>NO! I messed it up!</p>
<p>There’s a place in London where they drive on the right! It’s right outside this famous theater, and it’s different because all the ladies complained about having to cross the street in their long gowns, getting them necessarily wet and puddly, it being London, of course. So they changed it there! [/random knowledge]</p>
<p>I see. You can refer to me as “O Goddess of the World” to simplify the matter.</p>
<p>Earil - For reasons unknown, I cracked up when I read that…that’s very interesting.</p>
<p>Oh no, elmo, I think Cira is making a bout for your title!</p>
<p>Fwahahaha! I know the only state in the US whose proper name has a diacritical mark in it!</p>
<p>A challenge–let them joust! I’ll sit on the sidelines and watch them charge…and once they knock each other out, I shall seize power while no one is looking.</p>
<p>Hawaii?</p>
<p>Fridge- do I at least get a position of power in your new world order? I know how to keep the plebeians in line… Conga!</p>
<p>Yep! This smart kid on Teen Jeopardy or whatever didn’t know it- he’d won almost $50,000 up to that point.</p>
<p>!!!
I tried out for Teen Jeopardy last fall. Needless to say, I didn’t make it despite knowing the answer to practically every question on their qualifying test…I heard the selection was partially randomized. The questions on the Teen version are so easy in comparison to the adult version. My genius brother made it to the second ground; I hand my head is shame. But I will vindicate myself by taking over Asia.</p>
<p>And of course Earil can have a role in my sprawling bureaucracy! But no assassination attempts; that could get ugly.</p>
<p>Do you guys know what “New World Order” means?
In 1991, Bush Senior, then President, made that statement in a speech about the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was symbolic of the fall of Communism. Anyway when he said that, he was really saying, “America is now the world’s only superpower, and as such, we’re the boss.”
That gave me the creeps when I found it out. It’s so…arrogant.</p>
<p>Yeah, except for the mountain range ones. Kind of random there. I knew most of the questions for the episode… How do you try out?</p>
<p>Eh, I understand. We’re the biggest kids on the playground, and people are going to listen to us, whether we feel like being nice or mean. Can I say it’s half luck and half political Darwinism without inciting too much rage?</p>
<p>yeah they are, i get angry when the kids dont know like common pop culture-esque things.</p>
<p>Earil - Every fall, I think in September, you can register on the Jeopardy website to try out for the show. Then one day they have an online qualifying exam. If you get a good score and are (randomly) selected to move on to the next round, you’ll have to go through another qualifying test and an interview (apparently one of the factors is personality??) and THEN if you are chosen, you will be on the show…all the filming is done in like two days.</p>
<p>I hate teen jeopardy; it’s more about pop culture info than real information.
It’s insulting how stupid they take teenagers to be. From what I hear, the qualifying test is harder than the actually game.</p>