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Is it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish person know about the 6 nations?

I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European countries?

Absolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland won it.

That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but that was way easier to guess correctly than a random rugby tournament.

I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.

Griping a bit, I know, but we, Europeans, always see these questions in various trivia games.

It's not our fault that you don't pay attention to something called the World Series. It's also not our fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's not the called the American Series where you'd be expected to ignore it. /s

I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also talk about whirled peas too.

Am European, don't even know what a Six Nations Grand Slam is