Latvijas Avīze quiz asks readers what a phalerist, arctophile and numismatist collect

The website of the Latvian newspaper Latvijas Avīze (la.lv) has published an entertaining quiz that invites readers to test their knowledge of the names given to different kinds of collectors. The quiz has ten questions. Its headline claims that 97% of people cannot say what the collectors named in it collect. The source does not say what this figure is based on.

What the quiz is about

The introduction says that words such as phalerist, arctophile or tegestologist may at first sound like rare diseases or unusual professions. In fact, all of them describe people who collect something. Readers have to guess what people who use such labels for themselves actually collect. The quiz is presented as a test of both erudition and intuition.

The first question

The first of the ten questions concerns the numismatist: what does this person collect? The answer options are coins, postage stamps and paper banknotes. The correct answer is not given in the published excerpt. Readers can find it by taking the full quiz on the site.

Format

The quiz is entertainment content that the publication offers alongside its news. It is not part of any scientific study. The text gives no information about how many people took part or about result statistics.