@ americans

Originally posted by trev33
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/mideastquiz.html

is qatar even on this map? for the life of me i couldn't find it... plus only counted 24 countries. i got 70/75 feckin qatar.

The only opinion that matters: Obama said he had campaigned in all 57 states!

Originally posted by wormwood
here's europe for comparison, should be roughly comparable task for us eurotrash?

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/euroquiz.html

133/144

I was really struggling with the former yugoslavia. funny how you think 'of course I know them all, no sweat', but then when you have to actually pick between something like montenegro and bosnia & herzegovina, it's not that easy anymore.

Originally posted by trev33
i managed to get 96, which i didn't think was that bad considering i'm not american.

i can see i lot of yanks struggling with this as well.

Originally posted by Frank Burns
I got all 103 of them. Didn't even cheat.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Come on Frank...hell I got 136.

Originally posted by Frank Burns
Sounds like you got some of them more than once. Should only be about 103 of 'em.

Originally posted by Thomaster
I wonder how the English came to calling Wit-Rusland Belarus...

Originally posted by wormwood
you mean why they stopped calling belarus white russia? -apparently because it was both derogatory and confusing. as the emigrants fleeing the soviet 'red' revolution were 'white russians', and hence persona non grata. not that being 'white' was seen derogatory outside soviet union, quite the opposite, but it did have that negative meaning inside soviet union. -at least that's how I've understood it.