# Geography quiz
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257 "2006-05-10T18:46:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/1 "2006-05-10T18:46:59Z")
I’m embarrassed to announce my score on the USA quiz.
[whispers]115 then 130 of 150[/whispers]
[take the quiz](http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html)
There are many countries I couldn’t place on the map of Europe. S.A., C.A. and Africa are almost blanks to me.
Barbuda? I thought I knew the Caribbean. I don’t.
Take the tests -
Am I the only one who doesn’t remember? Class of 1975 St. Francis Prep. (smile)
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/2 "2006-05-10T18:59:39Z")
Latvia vs. Lithuania caught me out, the bastards. I’m not going to embarass myself with any of the others.
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/3 "2006-05-10T19:00:07Z")
140 out of 150. The ones I missed were all because of mouse pointer problems in the smaller states.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/4 "2006-05-10T19:03:47Z")
Got 128 on the USA test. Perfect score on Canada.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/5 "2006-05-10T19:17:10Z")
Perfect score on the US one. Couldn’t place some of the former Yugoslav countries on the Europe map (those came into being after I studied geography in middle school). The “stans” messed me up on the Middle East and Asia quizzes- other than Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, I can never remember which one is which.
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/6 "2006-05-10T19:25:13Z")
Well, damn. The only one I got entirely right is the easiest one – oceans and continents. I’d have gotten Africa, except I got my Congos backwards, and messed up the Seychelles, Mauritius and Comors. And for Europe, I made a stupid blunder by switching Slovakia and Slovenia – both places I’ve been to. The U.S., I managed to switch Utah and Colorado. It could happen to anyone. Canada, I more or less disgraced myself, though at least I didn’t identify Saskatchewan as one of the Maritimes. In the Middle East, the Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, the Caucusus – damn! I didn’t dare try China, Oceania, or Mexico – it would have been hopeless.
You know, this is a bit of an eye-opener. I always considered myself decent at geography.
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### Author:  [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/7 "2006-05-10T20:21:00Z")
144 on the USA test thanks to switching up Nebraska and Kansas (idiot!) and a couple pointer difficulties in the Northeast. 28 of 39 in South America. A humbling 64 of 111 in Europe. 100% correct on the continents/oceans, thankfully. And in the ‘I Don’t Keep Up W the News’ section, I got a 49/87 on the Middle East.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/8 "2006-05-10T20:23:43Z")
Ratfuck. I _always_ get those Dakotas mixed up.
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### Author:  [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/9 "2006-05-10T21:36:14Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#):
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> Ratfuck. I _always_ get those Dakotas mixed up.
I’m the same way with the Carolinas.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/10 "2006-05-10T21:46:37Z")
> [@Survey1215](#):
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> And in the ‘I Don’t Keep Up W the News’ section, I got a 49/87 on the Middle East.
I don’t keep up with the news either- most of what I’ve learned about geography in the Middle East, Asia, and to some extent Europe, I learned from playing Europa Universalis II. _Much_ more fun and less depressing. 😃
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/11 "2006-05-10T21:55:36Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#):
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> Ratfuck. I _always_ get those Dakotas mixed up.
Heh heh.
I got 149 on the USA one, by not going with my gut and mixing up Vermont and New Hampshire. I had it right and talked myself out of it. Pretty easy and not terribly interesting.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/12 "2006-05-10T22:03:39Z")
Only got 105 of 111 on Europe. Western Europe is simple, but some of the Eastern countries are a bit tricky. Would probably have done worse if it weren’t for Diplomacy.
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### Author:  [@Kiminy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiminy)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/13 "2006-05-10T22:44:44Z")
Thank you so much!!! My son has a quiz on the US states in a couple of days, and while I’ve found several quiz sites like this to help him prepare, the timing was _very_ good for this one. He didn’t get a perfect score, but it did let me challenge him a little bit.
The only two continents I am very comfortable with are North America and Europe, since those are the only places I have lived and travelled in. The Europe quiz, though, I could only get the non-Soviet countries, since the Soviet Union still “reigned” over Eastern Europe when I lived there. I did visit Yugoslavia, but I have no clue how that was divided up later.
I tried Africa, and while I could get the North African and Francophone countries okay, I miserably failed with the others.
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### Author:  [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/14 "2006-05-11T02:52:21Z")
Damn Moldova, anyway.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/15 "2006-05-11T03:23:34Z")
I thought this was going to be about the recent [National Geographic study.](http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/)
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/16 "2006-05-11T03:44:23Z")
Perfect score on the U.S.
Europe: I missed “Russia (Kaliningrad).” Who knew?
I won’t even bother taking the others.
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### Author:  [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/17 "2006-05-11T03:45:16Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> Heh heh.
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> I got 149 on the USA one, by not going with my gut and mixing up Vermont and New Hampshire. I had it right and talked myself out of it. Pretty easy and not terribly interesting.
Vermont is the V-shaped one. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/18 "2006-05-11T04:15:56Z")
I took the USA one the other day and just did it again. 149/150 both times. 😛 Last time I though Nebraska was Kansas, this time I thought Alabama was Mississippi. Oh well, I doubt I’ll ever be in any of those places.
I got a 36/39 for Canada, I think that’s respectable. 69/111 for Europe isn’t so great. I knew the bigger countries, but when we got into Eastern Europe it mostly went to hell. I wasn’t in elementary school that long ago and that map still looks very different from what I learned about the area (if anything). I figured I’d do worse than that anywhere else, but I was 77/87 in Asia, and I’ve never been there.
Wherever Ambrose Bierce is, I’d like to tell him that I think I have got the right answer for every country America has gone to war with.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/19 "2006-05-11T05:28:09Z")
I did the Australian one, but it’s not particularly challenging. The names of the states are often a giveaway.
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### Author:  [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/20 "2006-05-11T08:00:29Z")
149 of 150 for the US. Clicked too soon as I ran down the list to Wyoming. 😛
73 of 87 for the Middle East. Can never keep Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia straight, then screwed up the Horn of Africa countries.
71 of 162 for Africa. The equatorial nations and the stuff just north of South Africa always lose me.
Perfect score for Australia and the World maps. Not really a challenge on either of them.
79 of 87 for Asia. Couldn’t get Brunei to click right. And kept clicking on the wrong ones in the various 'stans, even when the very next question was for one I just clicked on. :smack:
34 of 39 for South America. Totally lost Uruguay for some reason. Didn’t even see the outline on the map. :eek: :smack:
30 of 66 in the Caribbean. I need to play more **Pirates!** 😃
38 of 96 for Mexico. Sad, just sad. ☹
40 of 42 for Central America. Wasn’t sure about El Salvador.
36 of 39 for Canada. Always screw up the Maritimes.
22 of 93 for China. I actually got 4 of them right on purpose. 😃
66 of 96 for Oceania. Been too long since I read about the Pacific Campaigns of WWII. And it took me 3 run throughs to even find Guam on the map.
107 of 111 for Europe. Messed up Ukraine, Slovenia, Estonia, and Croatia.
Obviously need more travel in Mexico and China. And the Caribbean and the South Pacific. A real sacrifice, but one I am willing to make, if one of you generous souls will kindly bankroll me. 😃
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