I like doing this online quiz every once in a while (although the website has gotten much shittier over the past few decades.)

Got 123/197 today, those tiny west African countries and pacific island nations tend to get me.

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    All of them and identify them all on a globe (besides island countries cause we all know that’s impossible)

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    United States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru Republic Dominican Cuba Caribbean Greenland El Salvador too

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      Puerto Rico Colombia Venezuela Honduras Guyana and still Guatemala Bolivia then Argentina And Ecuador Chile Brazil

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        Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, and French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam

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    Damn I didn’t realise it was timed. Trying to do all that typing on mobile was a bit slow, I only got to 80 before running out of time, and still hadn’t done Europe and only started on Africa.

    A bit rough they make you spell them all!

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      Well they have to unless they’d present you with a list of fake and real ones or something.

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        Yeah true. Can’t give you a list to pick from I guess haha, just annoying that I know the countries but sometimes can’t spell them!

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      The last couple of times have had me wondering if I hallucinated the existence of the Philippines because I apparently don’t know how to spell.

      ETA: like I immediately think for a minute it’s still like Guam and not its own thing?

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    My spouse is great at these. Her only blind spots are small islands in the Pacific and some down the Caribbean chain, and half of those she knows. I would bet the farm she could hit 150 named correctly on a map without breaking a sweat. Then place their flags and name capitals.

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    Got 123/197 today, those tiny west African countries and pacific island nations tend to get me.

    It’ll get easier with time.

    Unforunately.

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    106

    What countries did y’all embarassingly forget? For me: Austria, Albania, Montenegro, Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Lebanon

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    Algeria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Dominica, Egypt, France, Gambia, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mongolia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Surinam, Turkey, Uruguay, Vietnam, West Xylophone, Yemen, Zimbabwe

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    124 before running out of time. Spent way too long trying to spell Phillipines and Liechtenstein, and ended up giving up. I think I would’ve ended up on 135ish maybe.