Who wants to be a millionaire question

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Does the below question make sense to any of you?

Yes. What are you confused about?

The first part of the question seems irrelevant! Which letter starts the common English name....

No, I didn't understand what they were asking at all! Neither did my husband, so you're not alone! I only realised once she started naming the countries

Yes makes sense to me

Because some countries have different name in different countries

Germany-Deutschland
Spain Espana
For example

I get it but only after reading it a few times!

Not the foggiest. I thought it was asking for a number, but a PP said its a country.

Just means the name in English rather than the native language, yes? So Greece not Hellas (bad transliteration there but you get the idea).

Question makes sense, but what was the answer?
L maybe, if Lithuania and Latvia are in the EU? Along with Luxembourg and maybe Liechtenstein.

My guess would be L.

It should be "largest" number not highest.

Oooh - or maybe S... Sweden, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain... But are they all EU...??

Well it’s because it’s asking about country names in English rather than another language eg Spain rather than Espagna (Spanish) or Espagne (French) eg

or Germany rather than Alemania (Spanish)

question itself makes perfect sense to me - although it’s hard as requires you to be able to know all eU countries to guess

If you listed all the EU countries in english (i.e. Spain, Greece, Germany, Ireland, etc.) what would be the most common initial?

Or 'the most EU states' would perhaps be clearer.

I couldn’t work it out - I thought it was asking “what letter is at the beginning of a number” that most eu states have. And that question doesn’t make any sense.

It would have been clearer to ask “what is the most common starting letter of names of EU states, when written in English?”

I really can't see how anyone could be confused by this. The answer is S

Well I'm glad I asked, makes sense now! Still think it's badly worded. It was D

I only understood the question when you said the first bit was superfluous. I guess it’s because countries are known by different names in other languages so this clarification is needed as others have said.

Yes - agree.

What’s confusing about that though? We start Hermany with a G, it starts with a D in German. The English name for España is Spain and so on.

It was badly worded.

I literally don't understand it at all, even after reading it 5 times 😂

Surely S starts Spain and E starts Espana, so they were saying they wanted the English spelling

What is it people aren't understanding?