How many countries can you name?

[Misty]

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

I got 126/195.

 

[akuchi]

My boyfriend got them all minus Poland and uhh.. some other really obvious one. I got 140, largely due to working out that most of the colonies in Pirates now count as countries.

 

[jumpluff]

123/195

So close to you D:

 

[ultimifier]

i used to know all the countries in the world back in grade 12 for a geography course. I took it now and i only got 98 :(

 

[cookie]

145

stupid yugoslavia splitting into 32897123981273 different states

 

[cantab]

125. DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!

Missed loads in Africa, most of the Carribean, a couple in the middle east, several in central America, quite a few of the Pacific Island nations, and a number of eastern European/near Asian ones. I also missed a major European country because I thought I'd entered it.

Got pretty much all of Western Europe (as I bloody well ought to!), most of Asia, and almost all of South America. Got a few obscure ones that I only know from doing this kind of game before.

There's only maybe half a dozen I've never actually heard of, it's just remembering them all in 15 minutes is the problem.

And I admit to using the internet to spell-check one of my country names.

 

[Misty]

My boyfriend got them all minus Poland and uhh.. some other really obvious one. I got 140, largely due to working out that most of the colonies in Pirates now count as countries.

Obligatory "He forgot Poland" joke.

 

[asim]

so i had 135 and with like 30 seconds left i remembered this thread.

so i typed in poland and got 136...

gah and i missed so many easy ones too (afghanistan and hungary to name a few)

 

[St Dionysius]

132, but I'm a tool because I forgot Italy (family is from there). This is a fun little game, I did it contintent by continent since it's too hard to do it alphabetically for me.

 

[McGrrr]

Would have been 10 times harder if we were required to match the names to the map.

Spoiler

 

[Accent]

42 yay

 

[Delko]

only 102, just because most names are spelled differently in English then in Dutch, so I ran out of time ^^'

 

[Hipmonlee]

I got 130, I was annoyed with a lot of spellings. If you name your country Kyrgyzstan then you deserve to be ignored in the world stage. Surprisingly though I got every other Asian country except Cambodia which I just forgot about because the map is so small..

Missed some obvious ones like Poland and a lot of the pacific islands (I couldnt remember which of the pacific islands are actually countries and which are islands within countries and which dont count as countries at all eg Cook Islands).

Have a nice day.

 

[mtr]

Damn you, Hip, I got 129.

Most of my country knowledge came from history books, which is why I found myself typing in things like 'Rhodesia' and wondering why the stupid thing didn't recgonize it.

 

[High Turtle]

92/195
not too good. mostly missing a bunch of stuff in the Caribbean and africa

 

[VKCA]

Since when is united kingdom a country? I spent a good 5 minutes typing england, scotland, and ireland with different spellings..

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[13] (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe.

 

[TONY MONTANA]

You got 128 out of 195 Countries of the World.

WAHH I tried mah best, lol.

 

[gene]

158

http://i47.tinypic.com/5kjzaw.jpg

missed a lot of easy ones because these goddamn tags overlap. it should black out the country instead of creating that dumb tag and making a clusterfuck out of the map.

 

[Yehom]

142/195

 

[Altmer]

I got 163/195

 

[Bull of Heaven]

138/195 because I accidentally typed Ugansa instead of Uganda as the time ran out. I also managed to miss Hungary, the Dominican Republic and some others I should have thought of.

 

[cantab]

Since when is united kingdom a country?

Since the Act of Union in 1800 (that united Britain and Ireland).

I presume the map is using the UN member states, with a few additions - Taiwan and the Vatican aren't UN states (Taiwan is claimed by the People's Republic of China, while the Holy See, though distinct from the Vatican, is an 'observer'). There must be a third one, maybe Western Sahara?

 

[Duckster]

Man, reading internet forums really does nothing to boost my self esteem when it comes to academics. . I got a whopping 69 and I can't say there were more than 10 obvious ones I "should" have got! Why is everyone around here so damn knowledgeable?

When I took tourism in grade 12 I always got the highest mark in the class on these types of quizes..

 

[Glen]

this thread is really starting to remind me of those old IQ test ones, wherein people respond with things like 'i only scored 130 but thats because im tired and i was also watching tv at the same time'

 

[askaninjask]

i got 147

having this song memorized certainly helped