# A fun geography game **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899 **Category:** The Game Room **Created:** [February 16, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899 "2008-02-16T18:24:06Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/1 "2008-02-16T18:24:06Z")
A moments diversion [Geo quiz](http://www.usfunds.com/landingpages/travelIQ/index.asp) I got 387825 ---
### Author: ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/2 "2008-02-16T18:39:06Z")
[QUOTE=Mongo Ponton] A moments diversion [Geo quiz](http://www.usfunds.com/landingpages/travelIQ/index.asp) I got 387825 [/QUOTE] 1. I boned level 5 by only 499 pts. ☹ I love geography though and I was very surprised by some of my answers. ---
### Author: ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/3 "2008-02-16T18:46:20Z")
I got 409,660. I made it to level 9, but made some bad calls on the Very Hard World Cities. After practice last time I played this, I could make it to level 11, but never got to 12. ---
### Author: ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/4 "2008-02-16T19:02:24Z")
Sub Saharan Africa knocks me down. And for some odd reason I have a mental block about New Zealand. I know where it is, I look over there and see it and then I click on New Guinea. ---
### Author: ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/5 "2008-02-16T19:27:55Z")
I stink!!! I know I learned this stuff…didn’t I. Mr. Moran was right…I was excused for band lessons and didn’t learn anything. Waaahhhhh ---
### Author: ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/6 "2008-02-16T20:08:59Z")
I got as far as level 10, with 419525 points. It helped that two of the “hard” cities were ones I’ve lived in, and another was one I’ve visited a few times. Fun game though! ---
### Author: ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/7 "2008-02-16T20:22:20Z")
407,022. I am completely unfamiliar with any island nation not in the Caribbean or Mediterranean that is not named New Zealand, Japan, or Madagascar and don’t know a damn thing about Sub-Saharan Africa ---
### Author: ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/8 "2008-02-16T20:43:09Z")
I was bored and tried again. 427,244 this time. ---
### Author: ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/9 "2008-02-16T21:03:13Z")
392,315 Sub-Saharan Africa and some of the island groups are my weaknesses. Even for the Caribbean islands I know, the map resolution isn’t enough to see them. I think this is the third time this game has been posted here. ---
### Author: ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/10 "2008-02-16T21:35:26Z")
~50,000 point, wait higher is better? I’ve never been good with geography. ---
### Author: ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/11 "2008-02-16T21:37:30Z")
344,487 points by the end of level 10. _sigh_ At one point in early high school, I could label nearly an entire map of the world from memory, mostly owing to a combination of me being a strange child and a stunningly inane middle school social studies class. Now I can barely remember all the South American nations, to say nothing of Africa or Eastern Europe. ---
### Author: ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx) #### Post date: [February 16, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/12 "2008-02-16T22:41:57Z")
For those of you who want to bone up on your geography knowledge, I find this site invaluable: [World Maps - geography online games](http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm) I’m currently pretty darn good with African countries now. However, every time I learn one continent, I forget another, so it’s kind of a neverending cycle for me here. ---
### Author: ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/13 "2008-02-17T02:36:53Z")
I scored 457, 136 and made it to level 11, where there were 3 questions on Russia and two on China that were places I never heard of. In one of the early rounds where they were asking for locations of famous places, I got Fenway Park. I did not and do not have a clue what city in the US it is located in. I clicked fairly randomly on what somewhere in the north easterly US. ---
### Author: ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/14 "2008-02-17T05:25:25Z")
First time, 349,022. Africa kills me. I need to work on that. And I can never remember where the Galapagos are for some reason. They also threw some cities at me I never heard of, but I got to level 10, which can’t be too bad. I expected some Dopers would kick my ass, so that doesn’t bother me. ---
### Author: ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/15 "2008-02-17T06:25:16Z")
456,990… Who the hell knows where in the Pacific the Marshall Islands are? ---
### Author: ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/16 "2008-02-17T11:06:32Z")
387, 753. Map resolution sucked. ---
### Author: ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/17 "2008-02-17T11:09:10Z")
That map is way too small to really have a chance of hitting anything accurately, even if you know where these places are. Which I don’t. ---
### Author: ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/18 "2008-02-17T11:21:09Z")
71,038. I couldn’t get past level 3. Apparently, I don’t know where Finland is. Or Moscow (Russia is freaking _huge_, y’all). Or Bolivia. At least I could pick the right continents. Mostly. Ah, hell with it, I suck. ---
### Author: ![Shot\_Clock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/19 "2008-02-17T13:58:49Z")
177,288 here, **BUT** I got within 2 km of Edinburgh and 11 km of Quito! 😃 ---
### Author: ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne) #### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/20 "2008-02-17T14:27:35Z")
362 709 on a quick try. A bigger map would be useful. The Caribbean is a problem for me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899.md?page=2)