# Geography quiz **URL:** \ **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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/21 "2006-05-11T08:49:41Z")
Europe test: 107 of 111 (missed a piece of Yugoslavia). I’m from Spain. USA: 116 out of 150. Most of the stuff between the Appalachians and the Rockies is just a blur to me. Central America: 41 of 42 (I clicked Puerto Rico in my first bid for Jamaica, please don’t sue) South American: 39 of 39. I got lucky, I always mix up the three Guayanas (Guyana, Surinam and French Guyana) so it was a bit luck of the click. Africa: ah, no, I already passed the exam in 10th grade! No way! Quote from a 10th-grade classmate: “don’t know what’s worse, those teeny-weeny African countries around the lakes or the square states in America…” ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/22 "2006-05-11T10:04:23Z")
149 of 150 on the USA - after sucessfully negotiating Minnesota, I confused it for Wisconsin on the last question! Wisconsin now replaces Delaware as my least liked US state! mm ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/23 "2006-05-11T16:12:29Z")
150 on the US one - almost got mixed up between Alabama and Mississippi though. Lucky the rivers were pretty obvious though. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/24 "2006-05-11T16:20:36Z")
Can’t tell North Dakota from South Dakota? Or North Carolina from South Carolina? Easy. The North state is on the bottom each time. :dubious: Europe: 84 out of 111. Some of the ex-Soviet states threw me. Canada: 27 out of 39. Don’t know those as well as I should. United States: 145 out of 150. Some of those teeny East Coast states are hard to click on! Enough excuses. That was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/25 "2006-05-11T16:40:08Z")
155/162 for Africa, better for US, Europe, Canada, but an embarrasing 41/96 for Mexico, the country that’s only 15 miles away from me. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/26 "2006-05-11T17:09:34Z")
USA - 149 of 150 Europe - 74 of 111 (the former communist nations had me all befuddled) Asia - 61 of 87 (stoopit -ikistan countries) Whole World - 32 of 33 South America - 33 of 39 same for Canada Australia - 20 of 24 Middle East - 60 of 87 and that’s all I’m going to attempt. I remember in junior high they made us learn all the Chinese and African states/countries/territories but I never saw the point, so I never paid attention ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/27 "2006-05-11T17:11:21Z")
btw - the one point lost on USA and Whole World were because of a faulty mouse click, not because I goofed or anything…😉 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/28 "2006-05-11T18:52:30Z")
> [@MissMossie](#): > > I’m the same way with the Carolinas. With me it’s West Virginia and Virginia. 150, but I should be disqualified because I used to work for a map company. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/29 "2006-05-11T19:02:22Z")
132 out of 150. It’s them darn East Coast states, all the same size. :smack: I’m ashamed – I spent literally hours playing with a map puzzle of the US when I was a rugrat, and I thought I knew my US geography pretty well. At least I can still identify the continents, and draw a reasonable equivalent of a Mercator projection world map freehand (our social studies teacher made us do that in class, and it’s stuck). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/30 "2006-05-11T19:05:19Z")
Perfect for the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe. I really fell apart with Asia because I can never tell the “Countries ending in -stan” apart. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/31 "2006-05-12T03:45:49Z")
_Somebody_ on this board must be able to ace all of these. But it won’t be me ;)… Perfect Scores **World U.S. States Canadian Provinces Central America South America Europe Middle East Asia** Near-Perfect Scores **Africa** ( transposed the two Congos ) **Australia** ( transposed Victoria and New South Wales ) Middlin’ **Mexican Provinces** ( can get the north and south, not so much the middle ) **Chinese Provinces** ( I felt particularly bad about this one - again the middle was a problem ) Woeful **Caribbean Islands** ( I can’t sort out the Lesser Antilles to save my life ) **Oceania** ( I just stopped trying after awhile - I couldn’t do the South Pacific nations to save a million lives ) - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/32 "2006-05-12T04:18:24Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > **Australia** ( transposed Victoria and New South Wales ) That’s practically a capital offence. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/33 "2006-05-12T12:46:12Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > That’s practically a capital offence. 🙂 Hehe. Yes. The Australian one was stupidly simple. They should have used cities or something. I did surprisingly badly on the Pacific one, I’m ashamed to admit. I did okay on the US one, but I came unstuck in the North-East, New England-type areas, but some of that was my dodgy mouse on those tiny states - Rhode Island, I’m looking at YOU. Did moderately okay on Africa, but I should have done better. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/34 "2006-05-12T18:42:33Z")
I love geography. Here are my scores (alphabetical order): Africa: 161 out of 162 (clicked Somalia instead of Ethiopia) Asia: 87 out of 87 Australia: 24 out of 24 Canada: 39 out of 39 Carribean: 64 out of 66 Central America: 42 out of 42 China: 36 out of 93. Didn’t expect to know any of these, most of what I git right was remembering names of what I got wrong earlier in the game. Europe: 111 out of 111 Mexico: 96 out of 96 (pleasantly surprised! I thought I’d do well, didn’t expect perfect) Middle East: 86 out of 87 (clicked Turkmenistan instead of Kazakhstan) Oceania: 93 out of 96 (guessed wrong on some islands. I know the countries, though) South America: 39 out of 39 USA: 150 out of 150 World (Oceans and Continents): 33 out of 33 ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/35 "2006-05-12T18:48:34Z")
[ol] [li]Africa- 97/162[/li][li]Asia- 79/87[/li][li]Australia- 18/24[/li][li]Canada- 35/39[/li][li]Europe- 102/111[/li][li]South America- 35/39[/li][li]USA- 136/150[/li][li]Continents & Oceans- 33/33[/li][li]Middle East- 86/87[/li][li]Central America- 41/42[/li][li]Carribean- 28/66[/li][/ol] Didn’t try Oceana (could have done OK but not great, probably) or China (don’t think I would do very well. Things got easier as I went on, partly through practice, partly because they repeated some of the countries. My carribean, australia and africa sucked, though I’m not too surprised about that. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/36 "2006-05-12T19:35:26Z")
I love me some geography, but I know my maps outside of the USA will suck. Especially Europe. Thanks a lot, guys. I learned you all during the Cold War and now there’s all kinds of new stuff there (one Germany, though). USA score was perfect - 150 out of 150. Living in New England helped immensely. If you go north on Rte 93 from Boston you end up in New Hampshire, which is the right-hand skinny state above Mass. 91 North takes you to Vermont, which is on the left. If you go on I-95 to Philly you go through Delaware for a quick minute - so I knew it was south of Jersey and east of Penna. Almost got Montana and Wyoming mixed up. Damn, Montana’s a big state! Indiana/Illinois are a little tricky, but I know Ill is bigger. Colo/Neb/Kan are tricky because of their square-ness, but I know Neb has that jagged edge and Colo is one of the four-corner states… those are all of my tricks. I’m about to go stink up the other maps… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257/37 "2006-05-12T21:00:07Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > I love geography. Here are my scores (alphabetical order): Damn. That’s really quite good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-quiz/356257.md?page=1)