Monday, March 19, 2007

Geography Genius?

You have 10 minutes to name all the 192 U.N. member states...

5 comments:

Greybishop said...

I got 82. What's embarrassing is forgetting stuff like "Denmark" and "Finland".
On the upside, I remembered "Brunei" and "Lesotho".

Sawsee said...

Lesotho? Isn't that a Shakespearean play? ; )

I got stuck on the spelling of 'liechenstien' or leichinstein' ... Plus, I couldn't get the spelling for 'Phillippines': two 'l's and 2 'p'....you would Have to be a genious to know that! (genius)
I saw a chart which indicated how many hours it would take a person to learn various languages: French was one of the easiest; English was up there with Manadarin and ....something like Botswanian??

Or Paraguaian?

Greybishop said...

Paraglidian?

Greybishop said...

I tried "Phillipines" too and got frustrated after 2 different spellings.
Tried the "The republic of" trick a few times, but it only worked for "Congo". Who knew that the real name of the Bahamas was "THE Bahamas"???

Sawsee said...

They should have a spell check built in, as the exercise is to recognize countries not know how to spell them. "The" Bahamas is bit unforgiving!

Lol! Paraglidian. I hear the residents tend to have their heads in the clouds...