# A totally freaky test **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895 "2009-11-25T11:40:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/41 "2009-11-26T06:54:57Z")
I kept thinking of Delaware as my country that starts with a “D.”:smack: ---
**Author:** ![\_cc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19b73/32.png) [@\_cc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_cc)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/42 "2009-11-26T06:57:50Z")
An iguana eating acai berries in Djibouti? Oh hey, at least I wasn’t the only Djibouti thinker! ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/43 "2009-11-26T07:12:57Z")
I suck at math, so I ended up with a Yak in Germany eating a Kiwi. I felt all special for being part of the 2%, until I realized that I was part of the 2% of people who can’t do basic math. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/44 "2009-11-26T08:52:57Z")
raccoon in Damanhur eating a nectarine (but I had to google for an “n” fruit.) ( **even sven:** hee hee! good one.) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/45 "2009-11-26T09:51:03Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > same. Accept Djibouti. Ibex, Djibouti, same here. Jinx! > [@Taenia\_spp](#): > > I also came up with Djibouti, but I chose Ichthyosaur for the animal. I couldn’t quite think of a fruit that started with R, so I just chose radish. Let me get this straight; you though of ‘Djibouti’, and ‘ichthyosaur’, and couldn’t come up with ‘raspberry’? ---
**Author:** ![TheGraemeGardenGoodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@TheGraemeGardenGoodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGraemeGardenGoodie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/46 "2009-11-26T10:57:00Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > Koala in Denmark eating an apple. \ Hey me too! Although I saw a kangaroo just yesterday, so I don’t know why I thought of a koala first. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/47 "2009-11-26T15:29:33Z")
I has an ibis in Dubai with a starfruit. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/48 "2009-11-26T18:15:32Z")
Koala bear in Denmark eating a raspberry. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/49 "2009-11-26T19:42:03Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > There are no countries that start with W, as far as I can tell. Depends on your definition of “country” (really, when I tell people I’m an uber-geography geek, I’m sick of the question “how many countries are there in the world?” **There’s no right answer, people!** ) No UN members begin with W, but, off the top of my head, there’s Wales (a “constituent country” of the UK, has several aspects of a country), Wallis and Futuna (couple of tiny islands in the south Pacific owned by France), Western Sahara (a hotly disputed territory in West Africa; administered by Morocco, some claim illegally), and, to stretch it farther, Walloonia (region of Belgium). Now X, _there’s_ a letter where you’ll be hard pressed to find anything resembling a country that starts with that letter! (I’ve been a geography geek for close to 30 years and still have yet to find one). For the record, UN members (to narrow the definition of “country”) that begin with D consist solely of Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, and the Dominican Republic. Dubai is a city (and I think an emirate) within the UAE, Deutschland is the German name for Germany (which I think of as blatant cheating IMHO), and Darfur (an answer a friend of mine gave for a similar quiz, obviously trying to think outside the box) is a region in Sudan. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/50 "2009-11-26T20:19:57Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > Koala bear in Denmark eating a raspberry. Koala in Denmark eating an apple. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/51 "2009-11-26T20:29:20Z")
I had a cat from the Dominican Republic eating a tomato. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/52 "2009-11-26T20:36:02Z")
You know a way they could make the quiz much more of that “wow” factor - since we smart Dopers obviously exposed the man behind the curtain by pointing out that there isn’t just one country that begins with “D”, leading us to several animals, and even more fruit. Once you are lead to “4” as the correct answer, you can then be asked to think of a colour that starts with the last letter of your choice (when spelled into words) - granted it may be derailed here as there’s probably more than one colour that starts with “r”, but it’s a safer bet than steering them to “Denmark”. Then, once you have your colour, ask the person to think of a suit from a deck of cards that begin with the last letter of your colour. Then, magically present the four of diamonds - is this the card you were thinking of? Now, is that so hard? ---
**Author:** ![TheGraemeGardenGoodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@TheGraemeGardenGoodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGraemeGardenGoodie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/53 "2009-11-26T20:37:18Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > Koala bear in Denmark eating a raspberry. It’s sweet that you think of him as family Panda, but a koala isn’t a bear. I just spent a couple of minutes wondering how you could come up with raspberry for the last letter of koala:) ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/54 "2009-11-26T21:08:56Z")
Dubai isn’t really a country. It’s an emirate. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/55 "2009-11-26T21:19:30Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > a cat in the Dominican Republic licking a tomato? Haha! I said Tangerine, but yeah… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Taenia\_spp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Taenia\_spp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taenia_spp)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/56 "2009-11-27T01:39:16Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Let me get this straight; you though of ‘Djibouti’, and ‘ichthyosaur’, and couldn’t come up with ‘raspberry’? :smack: I knew there was an obvious answer! ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/57 "2009-11-27T02:27:07Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > … Once you are lead to “4” as the correct answer, you can then be asked to think of a colour that starts with the last letter of your choice (when spelled into words) - granted it may be derailed here as there’s probably more than one colour that starts with “r”, but it’s a safer bet than steering them to “Denmark”. Then, once you have your colour, ask the person to think of a suit from a deck of cards that begin with the last letter of your colour. Then, magically present the four of diamonds - is this the card you were thinking of? > > Now, is that so hard? red-peach, hearts. nope, it’s the four of hearts. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/58 "2009-11-27T05:59:23Z")
> [@Aestivalis](#): > > I had an Ibex in Dubai eating a… What fruit starts with X? Heh. That’s exactly what I had, and where I got stuck … Evidently you think just like me. Seek psychiatric help at once! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/59 "2009-11-27T06:37:10Z")
Isn’t Dakar a country? That’s where my rhinoceros gets his strawberries. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-totally-freaky-test/518895/60 "2009-11-27T07:42:37Z")
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