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4/7 for me all WAG.

Okay, I got two out of seven on this one...(this one really tilted heavily to the British...("Mini The Minx" ? "The Basher Street Kids*... What's that about?)

But I believe I have one that could only be explained by Rubatoan Mathematics:

In cities worldwide, street names have a male bias, an Italian study suggests. In Rome, 45.7% are named after men. What proportion are female?

Well, the obvious answer to that should be 54.3%, (a clear majority)

But the only choices were:

3.5%

13%

35%

(And the correct answer is alleged to be 3.5%)

Unless in Rome, there is some unspecified percentage of streets sporting names with a transgendered bias, that can't be right...





*sounds like a ripoff of The Katzenjammer Kids....

What about numbered streets or streets named after trees, places or otherwise? Do those count for the other 53%? Given that so many streets are number streets or named for something other than a person, it is interesting that 1/2 of the streets in Rome are named after a person. (About 1/2 the streets in Portland are numbered streets, and many of the ones named after something are not named for people).