background

Global Etymology Knowledge Test

Since 2013, we have been measuring the global knowledge about etymology through the online quiz game.
The results are based on 986511 answers to questions in category etymology, given by players from 164 countries.
This test has questions in the following languages: Russian language, Spanish language, Polish language, Dutch language, Italian language, French language, Ukrainian language, Portuguese language, English language and German language.

Results by country

Results by gender

men
 26.7% /241522
women
 18.2% /223952

Origin of answers

Answers distribution by gender:

gender
men
51%
241522
women
49%
223952

Answers distribution by language:

language
Russian language
0%
2434
Spanish language
0%
28
Polish language
89%
885343
Dutch language
0%
13
Italian language
0%
209
French language
0%
125
Ukrainian language
0%
821
Portuguese language
0%
29
English language
6%
65811
German language
3%
31698

Answers distribution by country:

country
flagPoland
87%
87%
867023
flagGermany
3%
3%
30182
flagthe United States
2%
2%
21942
flagthe United Kingdom
1%
1%
11929
flagIndia
0%
0%
8743
flagAustria
0%
0%
5531
flagAustralia
0%
0%
3082
flagSwitzerland
0%
0%
2783
flagCanada
0%
0%
2385
flagthe Netherlands
0%
0%
2289

Quiz size

Number of active questions per language:

language
Russian language
2%
7
Spanish language
0%
1
Polish language
44%
144
Dutch language
0%
1
Italian language
0%
2
French language
0%
2
Ukrainian language
1%
5
Portuguese language
0%
2
English language
25%
83
German language
24%
80

The results are released under the CC-attribution license.

You may freely use it and re-distribute, but you must provide the link back to this page