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http://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name.php

When I first tried this two weeks ago, I could name about 30-40. Now I can recognize over 140 on the map. For the ones too small for the map, I spend a little time on Google Earth, particularly street view.

So, how many can you name? You've twelve minutes on the clock, and it's fine without capitalization. Good luck!

Dammmm those other quizzes are addicting. Sorry if anyone disappears from here.
 

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I got 99. I spent a full minute thinking to myself... "small pacific island nation... good at rugby... somalia! Damnit, that's not it..."

I basically sucked in Africa and presumably the Pacific islands. Also, Kyrgyzstan is hard as hell to spell under pressure
 
I got 106. I'll try again tomorrow. I wish I could see all the countries in the Caribbean so I could picture them in my head, but they're too small to show up on the map.
Edit: I got 130 this last time. I need to go look at a map.
 
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I only got one right. Nauru.
 
109, spelling got me in the end.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
USA!

One. Are there others?

Yeah, remember there was that other one we broke away from. That makes two, I think.
 
I only got 83, I feel so ashamed. I missed some really obvious ones, but got some that over 80% of the test takers missed.
 
I got like 66 :(. When the hell did they change hte name to New Zealand?
 
158.

Most of the ones I missed were too small to show up on the map so they didn't jog my memory. The ones that I saw on the map and missed were Kyrgyzstan, Guinea-Bissau, and that bunch of islands at the far right... Marshalls? Micronesia? Looking more closely at the map, I now see Djibouti, Lebanon, Cyprus and Trinidad & Tobago that I would have gotten if I had seen them.
 
155. I wasted time trying to type in countries that weren't countries, and couldn't spell countries like Guinea-Bissau. Not sure if I typed it wrong or just forgot the hyphen. Also couldn't figure out how to spell Czech Republic until it was over. Cote-d'ivoire and French Guiana weren't working.
Who else got San Marino? I was surprised I thought of that.

Edit: just got 177. Can't believe there's still 18 more I'm missing.
 
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leroyjenkens said:
155. I wasted time trying to type in countries that weren't countries, and couldn't spell countries like Guinea-Bissau. Not sure if I typed it wrong or just forgot the hyphen. Also couldn't figure out how to spell Czech Republic until it was over. Cote-d'ivoire and French Guiana weren't working.
Who else got San Marino? I was surprised I thought of that.

"Ivory Coast" works.

I rattled off all the City-States and tiny countries first thing. About three minutes into it, I looked up and saw I was trying to enter "Stvincent saint lucia Trinidad and tobago grenada dominica,..." etc. Due to the no space in the first one, it didn't "go in" and all the subsequent names just piled up in the bar. I don't know how much time I lost there.

I did notice that putting in just "Congo" took care of both Congos!

And for some reason they did not accept Tannu Tuva, or Kingdom of the Volga Bulgars.
 
Scoring
You scored 93/195 = 48%.
This beats or equals 75.8% of test takers.
The average score is 71.

Must have wasted a good 30 seconds trying to figure out how many names England goes by.
Has to be a sovereign nation, so Scotland and England don't count, etc...

Never did figure out how to spell Equador, um Equidor, er... never mind...
 
I suppose I should point out that some of you might have missed the list that follows your completed quiz. When time's up, scroll down to see what you got right and missed.

edit: I'm up to 151!
 
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I'll perhaps make some others who did not do all that well feel better by saying I only got 37.

Had I more time and been able to remember how names were spelled (I could not for the life of me remember how to spell Czech Republic) I probably would have gotten another couple dozen at least. I was surprised at some of the names I did remember and for some reason I did not think to go through Asian countries until there were only 2 seconds left (I only picked up China, Japan, India, and Indonesia not counting middle eastern countries). Timers make me nervous.
 
Newai said:
I suppose I should point out that some of you might have missed the list that follows your completed quiz. When time's up, scroll down to see what you got right and missed.

edit: I'm up to 151!

Thank you. I still have the page up.

12 most missed countries:

Equatorial Guinea
Solomon Islands
Marshall Islands
Cape Verde
Vanuatu
Palau
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Comoros
Tuvalu
Kiribati
Sao Tome and Principe
Nauru

We'll have to get the boss to visit those places, if he hasn't already.
 
TheStatutoryApe said:
I'll perhaps make some others who did not do all that well feel better by saying I only got 37.

That's better than my first time. Keep at if for a few weeks and watch what happens!
 
OmCheeto said:
Must have wasted a good 30 seconds trying to figure out how many names England goes by.

England doesn't go by any other names. The country you were looking for, however, is called the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). It's amazing the number of people who thing England and the UK are synonymous.
 
cristo said:
England doesn't go by any other names. The country you were looking for, however, is called the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). It's amazing the number of people who thing England and the UK are synonymous.

That would be me.
 
cristo said:
England doesn't go by any other names. The country you were looking for, however, is called the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). It's amazing the number of people who thing England and the UK are synonymous.

When was the last time it was even called England?
Some people can be way out of the loop. I talked to a guy a little while ago who thought Czechoslovakia was still a country.
 
I got 62. I'd say there were about 30 I really had no clue about.
 
Newai said:
That's better than my first time. Keep at if for a few weeks and watch what happens!

This will be the new geek challenge that my friends and I play for at least a night. Doing it again so shortly afterwards, and seeing the list of answers, seems like cheating though.

It will be a good way to educate myself and refresh my memory.
 
leroyjenkens said:
When was the last time it was even called England?

The UK is made up of Great Britain (which is the big island, in turn made up of England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland. So England is a country, but the sovereign state is the UK, which encompasses all four countries.
 

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