It may sound a little condescending, or like I’m bragging about something as elementary as putting on my pants or brushing my teeth, but I wouldn’t say that this thread is entirely unjustified either considering how so many adults are (almost) clueless about the subject.
It took me only 0.5–1 hour(s) to master this, and any frustration that I had was minor.
I’ve definitely wanted to learn more about Africa the last ~9 months. Sorely uneducated about it here. Happy Breakthrough News has done some stuff on Zimbabwe recently. There’s so much of the world we just never hear of here in the West, it’s a damn shame because everywhere has such beautiful cultures and history (minus the pain of course).
Geography is cool. As a party trick I can name every skyline I see, know every capital, know roughly the population of many cities in the world etc. I am yet to find a useful use for this, but still.
Winning trivia night?
“the less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want the U.S. to intervene.”
(Source.)
ETA: The first hyperlink in my post also showed examples of adults making irrational decisions simply because they, or somebody else, was in Africa. Anywhere in Africa, when the Ebola virus was confirmed in only three African countries.
oh man I’m worsre than I thought. I know the obvious ones (egypt, south africa, algeria, etc etc), but other than that, best I can do is the general region of the ones I don’t know
I did Asia last week and it was kinda tough but I got most right, Africa was so tough bc I think there’s like 3 flags that are red green and yellow stripe with a star in the middle. South America was a fun one to do, I think I confused Venezuela and Colombia at first but it’s not too tough.
I didn’t realize I was this bad at African geography. I can do the americas super easy, I’m ok at Europe, not tooo bad at Asia, (honestly I’m probably better at Asia than Europe), but Africa is hard (I’m surprised how many I don’t even know the name, and most of the rest I just know a general area.
Got all right but my fat fingers got me 67 attempts
My first attempt was 42 countries in 502 tries
gonna have to apologize to the citizens of Djibouti…
I honestly found that one in only like three tries because I thought “oh yeah, funny name country”
oh no
I did not screenshot them, but in my first playthroughs I accumulated literally hundreds of attempts before I finally scored everything. Now few (when any) of my attempts go wasted.
82 attempts; not the worse for a first attempt I guess. Atleast I got all the countries where I know someone from that country correct.
This just reminds me of when I used to play a lot of Seterra, was able to list all countries of Europe in <0:30 and <1:30 for Asia without mistakes. Seterra is much more forgiving though, as after 2 attempts they just highlight the country in red.
Overall could do the worldmap in roughly 15 minutes but with a few stragglers (yellow/orange) especially in the Carribean, Central america, Africa and Oceania.
I play geography mobile games sometimes and it’s pretty illuminating. Knowing where every nation is already puts you leagues ahead of most westerners in basic knowledge of Afrika, which is pretty sad. It’s worthwhile, though, for sure.
54 in 54 attempts. I’ve been really into geography since forever so this was easy
I got 20 in a row until Eswatini… Damn you Eswatini! Why are you so tini?!.. even my spellchecker doesn’t recognize you!
It’s probably because they changed their name fairly recently from Swaziland
I’ve always been so bad with south african geography/history/politcs etc. I don’t know why I find it so confusing.
