I had the same experience. But this may just be an artefact of humanity now having been trained exceptionally well to identify traffic lights and busses, but being relative novices at identifying elephants.
And now I'm wondering if this may not be a spectacularly useful tool to raise standards of education world-wide. Imagine, say, the French government buying them and asking every person on the internet twice a day to match some vocabulary to images: Identify "le baguette"! Lingua Franca, le sequel.
Or a maps puzzle: "Please identify Equatorial Guinea, Papua New Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau".
And now I'm wondering if this may not be a spectacularly useful tool to raise standards of education world-wide. Imagine, say, the French government buying them and asking every person on the internet twice a day to match some vocabulary to images: Identify "le baguette"! Lingua Franca, le sequel.
Or a maps puzzle: "Please identify Equatorial Guinea, Papua New Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau".