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[Breadstick]

i thought it'd be interesting to see how well americans know eu countries and how well europeans know the united states. i don't know if it's difficult at all for anyone but i'm just curious

obviously this is the internet and anyone can just google a map but it'd be cool if you didn't cheat

EU countries for americans: http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/europe

united states for europeans: http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states

non-americans/europeans are free to play as well

my results for europe in spoiler:

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fucking monaco man, totally slipped my mind

[Matisse]

Europe

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USA

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[stcolbert]

Do you guys study geography or something?

spoiler:countries mentioned.

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I know alot of the countries because I visited them but shit like moldova, san marino, andorra and malta?  I didn't even know they existed and I don't remember them being significant in anything.

The only reason I knew of Liechtenstein is because I drove through it and I only know Luxembourg because that was my buddy's team name in beer pong olympics/they make a lot of $$$.

[Matisse]

stcolbert, on 20 December 2012 - 02:36 AM, said:

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Do you guys study geography or something?

I know alot of the countries because I visited them but shit like moldova, san marino, andorra and malta?  I didn't even know they existed and I don't remember them being significant in anything.

The only reason I knew of Liechtenstein is because I drove thought it and I only know Luxembourg because that was my buddies team name in beer pong olympics/they make a lot of $$$.

Gonna spoiler my reply so we don't give anything away

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I read a lot and I'm interested in history/politics. I know of Andorra because I study about France (and sports and tax breaks), Malta because it was important during WWII, San Marino is an interesting place to visit, and Moldova just because (created during/after fall of USSR, maybe I know it from there).

[Breadstick]

some of them i remembered just because i felt like they were notably irrelevant (not a slam @ eu, us has some notably irrelevant states as well)

[Shipupi]

these guys are a bunch of cheaters

I remember they already did this quiz a bunch of times some weeks ago

[Shipupi]

IM ONTO YOU

[Matisse]

[9:44:06 PM] TOM FOOLERY: like i'm actually curious about this so it's not gonna be cool at all if people don't post their maps man

yo post your maps, and spoiler any posts that have country/state names

[Breadstick]

Shipupi, on 20 December 2012 - 02:44 AM, said:

these guys are a bunch of cheaters

I remember they already did this quiz a bunch of times some weeks ago

yeah i've done it before, i don't care about mine or it being a competition though i'm just legitimately curious about other people's

especially the non-american perspectives

[stcolbert]

Breadstick, on 20 December 2012 - 02:42 AM, said:

some of them i remembered just because i felt like they were notably irrelevant (not a slam @ eu, us has some notably irrelevant states as well)

Speaking of which, tfw you need to know the province/states in the US, whereas just the country in europe.

I did better on the europe quiz.  Not only that but I looked at the map and knew where they went.  When I was doing the US it was more of just typing down states that I heard of (from monopoly, sports teams etc.)

Shipupi, on 20 December 2012 - 02:44 AM, said:

these guys are a bunch of cheaters

I remember they already did this quiz a bunch of times some weeks ago

Ah, that makes sense now.

Matisse, on 20 December 2012 - 02:45 AM, said:

[9:44:06 PM] TOM FOOLERY: like i'm actually curious about this so it's not gonna be cool at all if people don't post their maps man

yo post your maps, and spoiler any posts that have country/state names

I already closed them but the ones I got wrong for europe I mentioned in my first post.

The ones for the US:  

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rhode island (didn't even know this was a state), delaware, west virginia (didn't know there were two), louisiana, arkansas, Missouri, Wis cousin, utah, nebraska ,kansas, Iowa.  Most I knew, I just couldn't think of them at the time.

[Zoness]

http://i.imgur.com/f3R20.png
http://i.imgur.com/m9xOL.png

[Matisse]

Attempted Asia/Middle East

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I should've gotten Maldives, I was reading about it recently (how it has such a low average height above sea level), no way was I going to get Timor-Leste.

[Slashgiggle]

I got all the hard ones right and somehow missed Romania, Denmark and legit forgot Portugal existed

[stcolbert]

Also noticed this, kind of funny.

When doing the US one, you get these suggested games:  
When doing the Europe one, you get these suggested games:

[stcolbert]

Damn Shipupi would be proud.

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I had this all done in a minute except for Ecuador, took me forever to think of it.

[Hobbeś]

29/47 EU

50/50 US.

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Took me a solid 3 minutes to remember Mississippi

30/48 Asia, damn

[droolingmoron]

would be a lot harder if you'd have to know where they are

[Matisse]

droolingmoron, on 20 December 2012 - 03:23 AM, said:

would be a lot harder if you'd have to know where they are

Post pics

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And I know where they are

[stcolbert]

droolingmoron, on 20 December 2012 - 03:23 AM, said:

would be a lot harder if you'd have to know where they are

Agreed.  I would've gotten a similar mark in Europe but like 10/50 in the US.

[Shipupi]

stcolbert, on 20 December 2012 - 03:21 AM, said:

Damn Shipupi would be proud.

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I had this all done in a minute except for Ecuador, took me forever to think of it.

no need to know those unimportant countries