Geography quiz

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…”

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!

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150 on the US one - almost got mixed up between Alabama and Mississippi though. Lucky the rivers were pretty obvious though.

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.

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.

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

btw - the one point lost on USA and Whole World were because of a faulty mouse click, not because I goofed or anything…:wink:

With me it’s West Virginia and Virginia.

150, but I should be disqualified because I used to work for a map company.

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). :frowning:

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.

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

That’s practically a capital offence. :slight_smile:

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.

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

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[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.

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…

Damn. That’s really quite good.