You Know More Than You Think: 50 General Knowledge Questions To Prove It

Accidentally stumbled upon is more like it.

Places are discovered all the time that already have people in them. According to the definition Columbus did discover America, because it was unknown to Europeans before that. Just like the inverse would be true if Native Americans had sailed to Europe. I just don't understand why people make this point every time this is brought up.

Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia and Antarctis was the Finnish school system's opinion

Dutch here and taught 5 continents as well.

Oh rly? To which of those 5 was Antarctica added?

In Poland too - so why there are 5 olimpic rings

There is even a subdivision with only 4 continents: America; Africa-Eurasia; Australia; and Antarctica. So, the answer could have been either: 4, 5, 6 or 7, depending on your definition/division.

Spaniard here and they teached me the same.

I was sometimes taught 5 sometimes 7

I remember it as : Africa, Eurasia, the Americas, Australia and Antarctica!

Greek here, the same

2 Americas, and Antartica. Was that part of Oceana?

Zealandia?

Yeah, most of this was known to me when i was 10 years old