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Geography quiz!!
« on: July 12, 2007, 05:58:04 am »

Any geography geeks out there? There must be! This site lets you locate countries/states on a map and scores you. I got 132 pts for USA! Helps having an American girlfriend. I ALMOST got all of Europe except I screwed up on Serbia dagnabbit.

Russia was a bit trickier…

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

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Re: Geography quiz!!
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2007, 07:10:24 am »


http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 08:42:27 pm »

Yay, geography! Cheesy

World35/36
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Africa104/162
Asia90/96
Central America34/42
Europe114/117
Middle East71/75
South America37/39
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Australia22/24
Canada25/39
USA89/150

I'd get close to 0 for the Caribbean/Oceania/China/Russia/India. Tongue
And obviously I'm not very good at sub-nation regions. Lips Sealed
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 10:06:39 pm »

I used to be a geo geek in high school, but I've forgotten where many of the countries
are now. Alas. (Atlas?)

I have a fond memory of geo class in school when a girl asked, "Is Asia in Russia?"
Ah, fun times.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2007, 10:22:34 pm »

I used to be good at this too. There have been a lot of changes in the world since my high school days though (like the Balkans for example).

Oh, well...at least I can still ace the USA quiz.  Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2007, 05:30:16 pm »

I'm from Canada, and we only have 13 regions. It was pretty easy to pass the test.
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2007, 06:13:51 pm »

149/150 on US (I switched Vermont and New Hampshire)
112/117 on Europe (Yugoslav fragments nailed me, and I mixed up Molvania... I mean Moldova... with Ukraine)
37/39 on Canada (PEI, and I figured the NW territories would be in the NW. Go figure.)
95/96 on Asia (I thought Tajikistan was Uzbekistan)

The asia quiz is broken. I answered Singapore correctly and it said I was wrong, TWICE.
Really, they should have set aside the entire interior of those little circles as belonging to the encircled state. Oh well.
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2007, 12:48:04 am »

94/96 for Asia (screwed up the central Asian countries)

But get this:
158/162 for Africa!
I challenge anyone to beat that
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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2007, 05:50:18 am »

But get this:
158/162 for Africa!
I challenge anyone to beat that
Shocked Impressif [sic]. Africa is a really despairing one.

And indeed, the stans in Asia and former Yugoslavia in Europe were troublemakers. Tongue

I managed to get a perfect score for USA on the sixth attempt (up from 89/150...).
Now I actually get the states joke in the Simpsons trailer. Cheesy
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Re: Geography quiz!!
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2007, 05:56:14 am »

150/150 USA
36/39 Canada

$%&@$%&%#@* @$^@!##&$@%$#!%#@

Thanks for ruining my perfect score for an entitre continent, Prince Edward Island. I did not know that little floating turd even existed. Outside of North America, I do not trust my geography at all. Maybe I should try memorizing South and Central America so I can say I know half the planet really well.
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