Know your world capitals? Take this quiz and find out how well.

[BlueIris]

It's a good one. Not too hard, I don't think. If you're brave you can post your score. Mine was 1020 (out of 1300) after the first time through.

http://www.hypography.com/quiz.cfm?id=32829

[XemaSab]

1. link?

:eyes:























:P

[Robeson]

2. Xema!!....

...always love that broccoli...:thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

4. hey robeson!

how u been?

[Robeson]

5. Doing fine, thanks! Hope all is well with you.....

...:toast:

[XemaSab]

9. Things are well here

Had my midyear review today.

Boss man had some constructive criticism, but he also had some good things to say.

Apparently I am "easy to work with." :P

How are you?

[BlueIris]

6. Oops.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. I can name all the countries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc

[BlueIris]

8. Good for you.

[blondeatlast]

11. I LOVED that bit! nt

[BlueIris]

7. Okay, link is fixed.

It's still a good quiz.

[blondeatlast]

10. 960. nt

[Strawman]

12. 37 of 40

1240 out of 1300 points.

[BlueIris]

13. Nice!

[ellisonz]

14. 1280.

I mixed up Latvia (Tallinn) and Estonia (Riga). Now where's the hard one?

[momophile]

15. 1070. and only one South Pacific nation! nt

[Critters2]

16. 37 out of 40

Had to completely guess on Macedonia!

[BlueIris]

17. Oh, come on. Surely we must have some more aspiring geography geeks here.

Or, you know, actual geography geeks.

[TZ]

18. 1110 n/t

[Adsos Letter]

19. 33/40

I can't beleive how many time I had to redo Austrailia, Switzerland, and Bhutan. And Malta...Malta...

:D

[LostInAnomie]

20. I did shitty.

760, I would have sworn I knew my Geography better than that.

But, in my defense, many of my countries were eastern Europe countries and they don't really count. :evilgrin:

[Adsos Letter]

21. Yeah...

for a long time it seemed like the capitols of Eastern Europe came under the general heading of "Moscow"...

[idgiehkt]

83. me too.

I took it the other day and didn't even post my score because it was so low, I can't remember it exactly but I know I didn't break 1000. :(

[ashling]

22. Who knew the capital of Uraguay

was on You Tube?

[Adsos Letter]

23. You are toying with the English language, yes?

:rofl:

[ashling]

33. Just trying to be punny

[Inchworm]

24. tomorrow.. sober.. yer on!

:hi:

[BlueIris]

25. Oh, I will be sure to kick this for the AM crowd. nt

[chknltl]

26. Got 32 right !

:woohoo: This was due to an 9th grade geography teacher a loooooong time ago. (1970 seems about right). First day of class we found him sitting indian fashion on his desk, his necktie wrapped around his head like a strange bandanna. We took our seats quietly, not sure what was up. His first words were: "Ouagadougou- now you all say it." "ewadai-what??????" came out of me. He repeated slowly "oooo-waaaa-gaaaaa-doooooo-goooo" We all followed along. Then he made us repeat it: "Ouagadougou" Then he stood up on his desk brandishing his pointer stick like an orchestra conductor and made us say it again. Then again and this time he was jumping up and down on his desk...we of course were mesmerized by this maniac and expected the real teacher to roll in at any moment with a gang of cops to cart this guy off to the nut-ward but we followed along chanting Ouagadougou. Then he stopped, pulled his tie down off his head and used his pointer stick to point out a bit of Western Africa. "This is the country called Upper Volta, for the rest of your lives, if you remember only one thing from this class, it will be that Ouagadougou is the capitol of Upper Volta!"

He was right. I am quite sure that there are between 30 to 40 other 52 year olds who know where Ouagadougou is to this very day as well!

By the end of that semester we had a pretty fair notion what our world looked like, our weekly tests were to draw maps of the continents which included each country and it's capital, the rivers, mountains, deserts and important cities. He told us that we would be able to do this easily enough before the semester was over, a task we knew to be impossible but we were wrong.
This man was indeed: a teacher! I may not remember his name but I know who to thank for getting those 32 capitols right on that quiz I just took.

[NoPasaran]

48. Of course, the joke's on you

Since Upper Volta (coolest name for a country EVER) is now called Burkina Faso.

[chknltl]

58. I did not know that!

I agree, coolest name for a country ever and coolest name for a capitol as well! How dare they change any of that without consulting me! (I'll bet republicans had a hand in this...those sneaky bastids!)

[Eurobabe]

27. 1260, 2 wrong

thanks for the link, I LOVE :loveya: geography. I bet Lil'Boots would get about 5 right on that test!!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

28. 37/40 n/t

[BlueIris]

29. Darn. I thought this was going to be my most popular thread ever!!!

Le sigh.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. 38/40

That was fun.

[terrya]

31. 1030

[Puglover]

32. Fun quiz

I got 1210. I doubt however that I would have scored as high if it hadn't been multiple choice.

[CatholicEdHead]

34. 1050 out of 1300

29 out of 40 correct

Need to listen to more BBC World Service.

[skygazer]

35. 1140 - 35 of 40

One of them being Australia! :banghead: I guess it's too early for geography. :dunce:

[formerrepuke]

36. 1300 out of 1300. I wore out the Atlas I got as a kid; the best gift I ever got....n/t

[eyepaddle]

37. 37 out of 40

1180 points.

[Bunny]

38. 1180. Fuckin' Lithuania and Bhutan!

x(

[eyepaddle]

44. Effing Bhutan and MALTA got me.

:(

[HERVEPA]

39. 1160

[HERVEPA]

40. 1160

[racaulk]

41. 1120, I missed 6 of them

Malta
Vietnam
Bhutan
Estonia
Latvia
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Cool quiz! Thanks for posting! :thumbsup:

[Sanity Claws]

42. 1080

I missed several African capitals.

[trackfan]

43. 1230

Quiz finished!
Your score: 1230 out of 1300 points.

You have 38 correct out of 40 questions

I missed Bhutan and Zambia

[NoPasaran]

45. 1280

I missed the capital of Bhutan.

[DFW]

46. 1280--I missed Bhutan, too

The rest were pretty easy, but as most of them were within
a maximum of 2 hours' flight from here, that's not surprising.

[fudge stripe cookays]

47. 1210...Vietnam screwed me up....

Wasn't sure of its current status.

[tjwmason]

49. 1260.

Bhutan and Norway took 2 guesses - I'm always getting the Scandinavian places confused and must admit to a significant lack of knowledge of Bhutan.

There were several where it was an educated guess.

It would have been much more difficult if the former Soviet republics of central Asia had featured more.

[mainegreen]

50. 37/40

not bad

[bumblebee1]

51. 1230 out of 1300 n/t

[truebrit71]

52. 1070.

nice quiz!

[bumblebee1]

53. Just tried the flag quiz

490 out of 700.

[NMDemDist2]

54. first time thru I got 1030

Quiz finished!

Your score: 1030 out of 1300 points.

You have 31 correct out of 40 questions.

[BlueIris]

55. Heeeeey. Look at all these cool people who took my quiz.

You are awesome. And have mad geography skillz.

[bicentennial_baby]

56. 1060 on the first go round...

[Catshrink]

57. 19/20 on the science quiz

missed the dog star question.

I had 30/40 on the capitals -- not so good at that.

[Common Sense Party]

59. 1100. 33 out of 40. n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

60. I got 30 out of 40...

it took me both guesses to figure out the capital of Bhutan and a couple of the African countries...and where in the hell is "Eritrea"? I guessed the capital right on the first guess though

[NoPasaran]

64. Eritrea

Horn of Africa, on the Red Sea, north of Ethiopia and east of Sudan. Former Italian colony, annexed by Ethiopia after WW2, gained independence after a long war.

[no name no slogan]

61. 39/40

I missed Malta's capital.

Fuck Malta :P

[Tektonik]

62. 39/40, but only

because I was retarded and misclicked Stockholm as Norway's capital :grr: , so really I got 40/40 :P

[Parche]

63. quiz

1170 out of 1300 not bad for a history and geography buff that I am!!! :hi:

[treestar]

65. 1160

Fun!

[BreweryYardRat]

66. Got 1000.

Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia really threw me.

[ironflange]

67. 1300!

I have to admit Bhutan was a lucky guess, though.

[smtpgirl]

68. 1060

[MonkeyFunk]

69. damn

got 39 out of 40.

I got Vietnam wrong - didn't think it through and went with Ho Chi Minh city instead of Hanoi.

[krispos42]

70. I got a grand even

Quiz finished!
Your score: 1000 out of 1300 points.

You have 28 correct out of 40 questions.

Oh, well

[BlueIris]

71. Hee. I posted another popular Lounge thread.

Hee hee.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

72. 1160. Should have had one other- but had a brain hiccup.

[Zero Division]

73. 1180 - Valletta didn't ring any bells for some reason.

I'm surprised that I correctly picked capitals like those of Rwanda, Estonia, Albania, and Latvia. It's like my subconscious mind recognized them, even though I'd never be able to recall them consciously.

[OllieLotte]

74. 840...yeah I'm dumm

[Deja Q]

84. 880, I'll have to join the club.

Apart from Canada (Sorry Q, you'll have to spank me... :blush: ), the only countries I missed were ones I'd never exactly heard of before.

[Left_Winger]

75. 1280

[deadparrot]

76. 1160.

Your score: 1160 out of 1300 points.

You have 36 correct out of 40 questions.

[TK421]

77. 1030....the second time

:(

[Throd]

78. 1210

But fom now on I will always know the capital of Bhutan

[liontamer]

79. 1140

it asked for countries that I didn't even know were countries :) My trouble spots were primarily in Asia. That and Albania. Tough ones.

[Aristus]

80. 1240. 3 wrong.

Damn you, Zambia! :mad:

[FarLeftRage]

81. 40 out of 40...

1300 out of 1300 points scored.

It was rather easy...

[smirkymonkey]

82. 1300

First try. I like geography.

[pink-o]

85. I missed Bhutan only!

...and boy, am I pissed. I work for the travel industry, geography is one of my strong suits.

But Alaska Airlines doesn't have any flights to Bhutan, so I guess I didn't remember that little detail!!!

[Kat45]

86. I got 1220.

I'm cool with that.

Edited to add: Geography was my absolute favorite subject in school, but a lot of the countries in the quiz weren't around back then. I knew most of them, guessed correctly on several, guessed incorrectly on a few.

[Bryan]

87. 1010 out of 1300

I find I am very weak on Africa and eastern Europe, but I've never been to either area, so I guess my ignorance is understandable in context.