Hardest.... Test... Ever

[HelloHockeyFans]

Originally Posted by getbak

I started with Canada, the States, and Mexico then started on the Caribbean. I got through Jamaica and got bored and stopped.

I think I might have attention defi

Red square for you!

[Kjesse]

That's supposed to be fun? Lol.... I tried for a bit but it reminded my too much of Poli 281 with Stan Drabek at the U of C.

The first "quiz" (and we were given a month warning) was you get a blank piece of paper, and had to draw, name, and have accurate borders (but not necessarily shape) of all the countries in the world.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Delgar

That's supposed to be fun? Lol.... I tried for a bit but it reminded my too much of Poli 281 with Stan Drabek at the U of C.

The first "quiz" (and we were given a month warning) was you get a blank piece of paper, and had to draw, name, and have accurate borders (but not necessarily shape) of all the countries in the world.

Yeesh, that would be tough. How did people do?

[Hack&Lube]

204 UN Member States in 10 minutes

You forgot:Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Azerbaijan,
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize,
Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic,
Comoros, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Djibouti,
Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea, Estonia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia,
Georgia, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, Jordan,
Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Macedonia,
Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius,
Micronesia, Moldova, Montenegro, Mozambique,
Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands, Nicaragua,
Palau, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino,
Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands,
Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland,
Tajikistan, The Bahamas, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia,
Tuvalu, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,

Named so far:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Australia,
Austria, Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, China,
Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark,
Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France,
Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary,
Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar,
Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia,
Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria,
North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand,
Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine,
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen,
Zambia, Zimbabwe,

I just kept typing them in and for some reason, I magically knew how to spell most of them and those that I didn't, I just typed over a few times and they worked. Stupid two "pp"'s in philippines killed me for awhile when I was doing double "ll"s

I think I watched too much

as a kid, that's where all the African and South American countries came from. Then I'm too much of a nerd with Soviet splinter states and balkan war countries (I'd never get "Bosnia and Herzegovina" though). I'm asian too so I knew the asian ones. I took a European Union course in Europe...and the rest is the rest is from hockey or friends of different ethnicities or school projects from junior high. I missed almost all the Caribbean aside from the obvious Cuba and Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago (I always thought it sounded like Tobacco as a kid). I don't know anything about the Caribbean, I should watch more pirate movies!!!!!!!!

[Weiser Wonder]

Originally Posted by tkflames

You don't know how to spell Canada?

Nope, I was spelling it with a y. Silly me.

Of course I know how to spell Canada. I wasn't being literal. I got to something like 20 countries, try to spell Kazahkstan, then Nicaragua, couldn't and felt like if I can't spell those I'm not going to be able to spell about 50 other countries so I stopped.

[GirlySports]

Here's another one!

"Olympic Cities"

http://www.sporcle.com/games/olympics.php

[troutman]

117 right?

Good thing I took that African Politics course.

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola,
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus,
Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chile,
China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica,
Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland,
France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana,
Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland,
India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan,
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon,
Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar,
Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico,
Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway,
Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines,
Poland, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia,
South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan,
Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria,
Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan,
Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Yemen,
Zambia, Zimbabwe,

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

204 UN Member States in 10 minutes

204 or 104?

I don't get the scoring - I had 117, and it says 192?

[You Need a Thneed]

I typed in Cote D'ivoire, but it didn't give it to me, but then it says I missed Ivory Coast? Sorry, the official english name of the country is Cote D'ivoire (with the accent on the first O).

Saw the same thing from American broadcasters during the World Cup too. Dumb.

[Arsenal14]

I forgot the entire Middle East. 18 missed total (I tried Bahamas but didn't think of putting "The" in front).

You forgot:Bahrain, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Grenada,
Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait,
Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
The Bahamas, United Arab Emirates, Yemen,

I think I've spent way to much time playing the games at
http://www.sporcle.com/games/category/geography

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Here's another one!

"Olympic Cities"

http://www.sporcle.com/games/olympics.php

Got every site back to 1964, then got fuzzy from there. No way in hell I would have gotten the 1936 winter olympics site even if I knew where it was.

71 countries total... ouch