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[Spider from Mars]

I decided to put my geography to the test and got 162/197. I did better than I thought i would, but still not super well. I still suck at countries in Africa and parts of Europe. I want to get all of them by the end of the month.

How well do you chumps know your shit?

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/world

 

[Strax]

Nope

and I was on a school trivia team for 4 years

 

[Volotaire]

Ah Sporcle. Good times.

 

[Dishwalla]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w

 

[super-famicom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w

Hey, I was gonna post this!

 

[Amory]

Lol no. If I could name 100 I'd be proud

 

[orochi91]

Weird, I thought there were 200+ at the moment.

 

[BPoole]

I don't know anything about Africa or the Middle East so I'm not even going to play. Up until a few months ago I didn't even know Africa had different countries within it.

I am confident I could do all of NA, SA, Europe, and most of SE Asia. Does Australia have different countries in it? I know it's a continent, but is it also a singular country?

 

[Spider from Mars]

I don't know anything about Africa or the Middle East so I'm not even going to play. Up until a few months ago I didn't even know Africa had different countries within it.

I am confident I could do all of NA, SA, Europe, and most of SE Asia. Does Australia have different countries in it? I know it's a continent, but is it also a singular country?

Australia is part of Oceana which has 14 countries.

 

[Moon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w

Out of date, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine etc are missing...i stopped watching when they said Russia to be honest

 

[Vermillion]

Weird, I thought there were 200+ at the moment.

Same.

And no, no I can't.

 

[v1lla21]

I can name 7.
A.M.E.R.I.C.A

 

[Spaced Harrier]

Not Scotland.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

By the time I learn these 197, the number would have already changed.

 

[Amory]

Up until a few months ago I didn't even know Africa had different countries within it.

Really?

 

[Dereck]

My biggest issue is spelling

 

[Spider from Mars]

My biggest issue is spelling

Mine too, but if you are close enough, the correct function will carry you to the finish line

 

[Mr.Swag]

All the ones in north,central and south America for sure


Scratch that forgot about the carribean islands

 

[Syrinx]

Script on the site kept crapping out on me. Got 88 in the first 10:30 before I said fuck it.

 

[EBE]

fuck no

 

[jchap]

I was deemed average with 132 of them... I mostly missed little islands and parts of Africa... Also somehow... Poland and Denmark

Spelling really held me back... Haiti and papua new guinea I tried to spell like 10 times each

 

[Kieli]

I probably know about 20. 30 if pushed.

 

[santi_yo]

92. English is not my first language, so the spelling was a nightmare with some countries.

 

[Jonnax]

I gave it a go and got 79. Pretty embarrassing. Though I must say that I've heard of all the countries one it was revealed.

Also how is the average score 67%? That's people getting 132 on average.

 

[Requiem]

46...only fucking 46

This makes me sad

 

[Slayer-33]

USA
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Russia
Canada
Mexico
El Salvador
Chile
Colombia
Brazil
Argentina
Australia
Germany
UK
China
Philippines
Malaysia
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Haiti
Bahamas
Honduras
Ecuador
Panama
Japan
Vietnam
Korea


Um. I'm going to stop because I'm going to run out VERY soon. I'm sure that's the case for most people.

 

[diggmcbadass]

I could probably name more if I knew the English names.

 

[kudoboi]

52... yeah

 

[collige]

I got 95 and missed some really obvious ones that I just didn't think of like Greece. There's a couple I just plain never heard of like The Solomon Islands and some non-countries listed too like Vatican City, Puerto Rico, and Palestine.

 

[akira28]

I can name 7.
A.M.E.R.I.C.A

*applause*

 

[ZZMitch]

I got 160... forgot Germany tho, whoops

 

[Renzoku]

If you gave me more time, I'd have thought of the ones I'd forgotten.

Also the map of europe was so small that it caused me to miss a few I thought of in my head and forgot.

American here, btw, we're not all complete idiots.

 

[Business]

I did 135. Spelling was an issue. Also I ran out of time plus in the most cluttered areas I missed some because I couldn't tell what I was doing.

I wouldn't have done 100% but I'd been pretty damn close.

 

[santi_yo]

I can name 7.
A.M.E.R.I.C.A

That's six.

 

[freenudemacusers]

no, i've only bothered to remember the important ones, like USA and, um. Japan?

 

[scogoth]

This is stupid. Wouldn't accept things like St. Maarten, it needed Sint Maarten.

 

[obin_gam]

I knew only 61 apparently :/ But I'll blame the time limit and its stress

 

[Darkangel]

I can't believe the average is 67%.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

Out of date, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine etc are missing...i stopped watching when they said Russia to be honest

Yakko's list also includes Kampuchea, which I don't think was even a country at the time.

Edit:

Just looked it up. Guess it's just another name for Cambodia

 

[Moon]

97

Did Europe, central Asia and Asia pretty much complete but spelling got the better of me with at least another 10~15

 

[B.K.]

No, I can't. I got 70. I probably could have got another dozen or so, but I went brain dead. I suddenly couldn't remember a lot of the countries.

 

[GK86]

48. Smh. I couldn't think of more than 5 in Africa. I can't believe I didn't name everything in Central/South America. I missed quite of few in Europe as well. Ain't nobody got time for the rest of the world.

 

[pashmilla]

I got 113. The Middle East and Africa kind of screwed me over. I had no idea my African geography was so terrible =/

 

[Alphahawk]

34 I recognized most of them once I saw the answer but in the heat of the moment I couldn't think of them.

 

[Ivan 3414]

fuck no

.

Edit Greenland isn't a country?

 

[demon]

got 80. Would have been 81 but I had no idea Trinidad was supposed to be "Trinidad and Tobago". It was mostly Africa that killed me, I blanked on a whole bunch.

I also cheated a bit and had to google the spelling on a couple. Like fuckin hell I can remember how to spell Kazhakistan.

 

[cajunator]

129. Got most of the continental ones just missed a lot of islands.
I know the mainland ones though. Also the spellings kind of tripped me up on the mainland ones I didnt get.

 

[catmincer]

139/197.

Struggled on Africa and the Caribean countries.

 

[EBE]

okay so i got 85. africa killed me. island nations can go fuck themselves

 

[slider]

At the risk of sounding like I'm patronising folk, having the map helps. I'm currently at 93 and have to stop for dinner.

Edit: D'oh, time has run out.