Comments on: Middle Eastern and N. African Geography Quiz

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By: mcwetboy

August 1, 2003, 6:54 am

This quiz was first posted on MetaFilter last April, in the comments of the thread, by no one in particular. My grumpy thoughts on geography quizzes (self link).

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By: juv3nal

July 31, 2003, 6:17 pm

anything in africa not touching the mediterranean absolutely killed me, a few errors and a bunch of lucky educated guesses for the rest. not good, but better than i expected.

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By: davros42

July 31, 2003, 4:39 pm

Swaped Niger and Chad... and stupid little Bahrain screwed me up too... damn you Bahrain!

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By: bobo123

July 31, 2003, 1:30 pm

grrarrgh00, you sure you're not thinking of the one languagehat posted? I remember that one, but not this one. Actually this one was linked to in that older thread, by myself actually.

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By: Civil_Disobedient

July 31, 2003, 9:23 am

Goddamnistan. Everything else, a-ok.

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I also wished there was a score after finishing, but I'm also kinda glad there wasn't - I know I got more than 7 X's. I'm proud to say that I at least knew which countries were on which continent. But...

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By: c3o

July 31, 2003, 7:19 am

It should give a score. I had the X come up 7 times.. not too bad, I guess. Africa and the Middle East were fairly easy (with a few exceptions), we learned those in school here in Austria. The -stans I...

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By: littlegirlblue

July 31, 2003, 7:03 am

Mauritania is bigger than I thought.

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By: grrarrgh00

July 31, 2003, 6:01 am

When this test was first posted on MeFi a few months ago, I bookmarked it and did it at least once a day until I could get everything right, no matter what order I placed them in. It made me feel happy.

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By: jennak

July 31, 2003, 2:28 am

I lived a block away from the Kyrgyzstanian embassy for a year and a half and I don't believe I was ever able to pronounce its name during my time there. (But now I can say it -- Kir-gi-stan! Woohoo!)...

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By: Dreama

July 30, 2003, 11:05 pm

Damn -istans. Why couldn't they all just stay part of one big monolith? Always whining about the independence this and sovereignty that, wah wah self-determination, blah blah blah.

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By: Rattmouth

July 30, 2003, 10:49 pm

Quick Tip for the tiny Bahrain problem. With Flash you can usually Right-click and "Zoom In". Then Right-click and "Show All" to return to 100%.

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By: Utilitaritron

July 30, 2003, 9:52 pm

Hmm. I flipped-flopped Bahrain and Qatar, but beyond that perfect. The formerly-Soviet 'stans were more educated guesses than certainties — but I got them all. On preview: BT speaks the truth. At least...

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By: mcsweetie

July 30, 2003, 9:50 pm

man alive, there sure are a bunch -stans up in this bizotch!

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By: BT

July 30, 2003, 9:41 pm

obfusciatrist -- languagehat's link to the related thread above leads one to a much more complete set of world geography quizzes. The interface isn't as nice. If you think the Middle East is hard, I...

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By: Ufez Jones

July 30, 2003, 9:37 pm

I'm still waiting for the UN to honour Ufezistan. Bastards are sitting on their hands with regards to this very important issue.

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By: uosuaq

July 30, 2003, 9:33 pm

Look, speaking as an American...we learn geography by invading countries. Is it my fault most of these suckers haven't pissed us off enough yet?

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By: obfusciatrist

July 30, 2003, 9:21 pm

Does anybody know of similar things for other parts of the world. Or maybe one for doing the whole world in one game? That would be great. I used to have one where you had to match European capitals...

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By: RubberHen

July 30, 2003, 9:06 pm

Trouble with Bahrain was that once you got the neighboring island...you might be saying," Is that littler island...has it....I cannot tell if it is yellow....X....(fade ) damn! I screwed up on most of...

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By: languagehat

July 30, 2003, 8:38 pm

I thought it was a double post too, but I think we're thinking of this: same idea, different site. (Bahrain gave me trouble too, so I saved it for last and got it by default. Tiny little place.)

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By: interrobang

July 30, 2003, 8:35 pm

Amazingly, I lucked into the -stans (helped by specious logic like "Turkmenistan must be the one closest to Turkey" and "Kyrgyzstan sounds like its the farthest away, 'cause it's the weirdest.") I...

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By: BT

July 30, 2003, 8:27 pm

**digs out atlas** **looks much more closely at screen, curses weak eyesight** I suppose I should feel better, since I didn't actually think Qatar was an island to begin with. But now I just feel...

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By: lowlife

July 30, 2003, 8:21 pm

and it'd help if I could spell "Qatar" :/

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By: lowlife

July 30, 2003, 8:17 pm

Qutar isn't an island, it's like a little pointy bit of land that suddenly goes north after a long southerly shore. The CIA World Factbook entry on Qutar has a good map. I've been to their capital,...

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By: airgirl

July 30, 2003, 8:13 pm

DAMN, I'm good! FINALLY all that news-junky-ism and post-9/11 reading has paid off! Woo hoo!

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By: BT

July 30, 2003, 7:49 pm

Amazingly, I lucked into the -stans (helped by specious logic like "Turkmenistan must be the one closest to Turkey" and "Kyrgyzstan sounds like its the farthest away, 'cause it's the weirdest.") But...

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By: bobo123

July 30, 2003, 7:47 pm

Crap, I had memorized this four months ago... now I can't remember where Algeria is. But I don't think I'll ever forget about Bahrain.

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By: interrobang

July 30, 2003, 7:38 pm

Anyone else do this more than once? It's very educational. Thanks for the link.

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By: ruwan

July 30, 2003, 7:37 pm

Armoured-ant: damn you, i kept clicking that quizzila thing before i realized it wasn't a link. yes i'm stupid... but in better news, i only missed four countries, and they were all -stans...

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By: kirkaracha

July 30, 2003, 7:28 pm

I'm pretty sure this is a double post, but I'm too drunk lazy to find the alleged previous post.

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By: armoured-ant

July 30, 2003, 7:21 pm

Next up: Which Middle Eastern Nation Are You? via Quizilla.

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By: quam

July 30, 2003, 7:17 pm

Same here --- no problems, except with the former Soviet republics (except for Armenia --- a past news story involving Bob Dole and Armenia helped me remember Armenia's location. By knowing Armenia's...

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By: yarmond

July 30, 2003, 7:09 pm

I don't think I can spell, pronounce, or locate most of the former Soviet republics that were on that list.

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By: mr_crash_davis

July 30, 2003, 6:59 pm

I kicked major ass in the east and Middle East (even got all the 'stans correct) but as soon as I got to the countries west and southwest of Libya I started to suck swamp water. Overall, I'd give...

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By: coelecanth

July 30, 2003, 6:57 pm

I was pretty good about naming all the places we've invaded. (Side note: I had always heard it was Mencken, but that the old saw about war being "God's way of teaching Americans geography" seems to be...

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