How well do you know the Middle East - take the quiz

[LynneSin]

I got an 80 out of 87 (I still get my 'stans mixed up but I usually get them by the 2nd try.

How well do you know the Middle East? Take the quiz

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

[dolo amber]

1. YAY!! I Suck!!

64 out of 84...

<shame> :(

[dolo amber]

HA!!

Try the Eurpoe one...I just got 104 out of 111. :P

;)

[Whitacre D_WI]

12. I also got 104.

Everything's screwy in the Balkans. Otherwise, I aced it.

[dolo amber]

17. Damn

I just realized mine says "Eurpoe"...and it's too late to edit. :D

[LDS Jock]

28. 110 out of 111 on Europe

Its much easier.

[dryan]

2. I got 87 on first try!

[GOPisEvil]

3. Show off!

I haven't studied the Middle East in depth since I left college in 1990. All the "-stans" weren't independent yet. Dammit.

[LuLu550]

8. You win the grography bee!

I was not too good.

[pmbryant]

16. Me too

Perfect score! :-)

:bounce:

Peter

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I got a 79.

Djibouti and the Stan's got me.

[LuLu550]

9. When I hear the name "Djibouti" all I can think of is

"Sheik Djibouti" sung to the tune of that Disco tune "shake your booty" by KC and the Sunshine Band.

:7

[usrbs]

5. 80, too. 3 tries for Djibouti. That was fun. Thanks! (n/t)

[Zuni]

24. DiJibouti is part of the coalition

of the Willing, providing Internationa legitimacy to US unilateralism. With Dijibouti, Uzbekistan, Eritrea,Bulgaria Angola, Honduras, Poland, Tajikistan and Kuwait, Bush has assembled a mighty multinational force.
These nations are Godly freedom fighters

[Zuni]

25. 41 out of 42 on Central America

terrible on the Carribean one

[Dead_Parrot]

6. 80...

...Still don't know where Djibouti is...

[Vladimir]

7. Shamefully

I got 67...

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. 74.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. 85. DAMN UZBEKISTAN! DAMN YOU!

It's not a real country anyway.

[LynneSin]

14. HEY, that's part of Bush's Coalition in Iraq - so don't you get uppity

:crazy:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. "part of Bush's Coalition in Iraq"

Isn't that the textbook definition of 'not a real country?'

:D

[LynneSin]

19. You try telling that one to Bush

especially since Uzbekistan has some of the worst human rights violations in the world but they're out there fighting for democracy

:crazy:

[Zuni]

21. Hey, the Uzbeks

besides being ruled by unreconstructed Stalinists, Russian Mafia and Islamic Clerics is a nation fighting for FREEDOM in Iraq, something you Liberals do not want to see.
Go back to France and your anti-Freedom coalition.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Yup, I'll go back to France, where they've never had to overthrow

corrupt regimes....Oh. Hang on.

[Zuni]

13. If you take away the very similar republics of the former USSR

I would have done great---74 out of 87

[noonwitch]

18. I got a 74-I need a new atlas, one published after the fall of the USSR

That's my downfall.

[Zuni]

23. I am supposed to be working on my PHD in Soviet History

but damn me if I can't tell Uzbekistan from Turkmenistan or Tajikistan

[Zuni]

20. try the Africa test---it is a lot harder

I got 104 out of 150 or so

[LynneSin]

26. HAH!!! I'm up to 132 on that quiz

:P

[LDS Jock]

27. 79 :( damn those whateverstans

84 the next try. I never really thought of Russia as a Middle East country.