I like doing this online quiz every once in a while (although the website has gotten much shittier over the past few decades.)
Got 123/197 today, those tiny west African countries and pacific island nations tend to get me.
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru…
It’s a bit of a hobby of mine, I also do lots of quizzes on jetpunk.com, so naming all countries of the world is actually very easy for me, with or without a map.
All from memory:
Latvia, Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Congo, Egypt, South Africa, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Dominican Republic, Czechia, Australia, The United States, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Argentina, Peru, Cuba, UAE, Haiti, Tonga, East Timor, Liberia, Paraguay, Hondurus, Panama, Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea, Iran, Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Cambodia, Moldova, Romania, Ireland, Palestine, UK, Poland, and Cyprus
So many.
All of them!
How many can I name correctly? Some of them.
My spouse is great at these. Her only blind spots are small islands in the Pacific and some down the Caribbean chain, and half of those she knows. I would bet the farm she could hit 150 named correctly on a map without breaking a sweat. Then place their flags and name capitals.
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United States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru Republic Dominican Cuba Caribbean Greenland El Salvador too
Puerto Rico Colombia Venezuela Honduras Guyana and still Guatemala Bolivia then Argentina And Ecuador Chile Brazil
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, and French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam
Damn I didn’t realise it was timed. Trying to do all that typing on mobile was a bit slow, I only got to 80 before running out of time, and still hadn’t done Europe and only started on Africa.
A bit rough they make you spell them all!
Well they have to unless they’d present you with a list of fake and real ones or something.
Yeah true. Can’t give you a list to pick from I guess haha, just annoying that I know the countries but sometimes can’t spell them!
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Oof, I used to be better. I didn’t realise it was timed, and and number of them I knew but couldn’t spell.
The last couple of times have had me wondering if I hallucinated the existence of the Philippines because I apparently don’t know how to spell.
ETA: like I immediately think for a minute it’s still like Guam and not its own thing?
124 before running out of time. Spent way too long trying to spell Phillipines, and ended up giving up. I think I would’ve ended up on 135ish maybe.
Got 123/197 today, those tiny west African countries and pacific island nations tend to get me.
It’ll get easier with time.
Unforunately.
And then harder with more time, as is tradition
167/197
I’ve got the continents down pretty well, but the islands always get me.
