Tuesday, July 03, 2018

I got a 98/100

Geography quiz here. 73 questions. I got a 98/100, which translates to a 72/73. I'm rated a "Ferdinand Magellan."

The quiz is fairly easy because it's multiple choice, and you can easily deduce the correct answer via process of elimination. There are other geography-related challenges online, though, so if this quiz doesn't do it for you, find another.



4 comments:

  1. Well, let's hope you have a better fate than Magellan. His death is still celebrated here in the Philippines...

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  2. I wonder how I got a 99%?

    There was one challenging question, a tiny country in Europe on the coast near England. I got hung up on Denmark and Netherlands. I'm pretty sure I was right with Netherlands, but that was the only one with options close enough to challenge me.

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  3. Probably the Netherlands if it was tiny. Denmark is larger and farther north being, as you know, a Scandinavian country.

    We Yanks constantly confuse the Danes and the Dutch, the Swedes and the Swiss. Some of us even confuse Austrians and Australians.

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  4. You're right, Kevin. The thing is, that question was the only one where two countries were close enough to be possible. I mean, I was certain Kenya and Thailand (or whatever the other two options were) were not in Europe.

    I have an embarrassing amount of trouble recognizing Peru from Chile. But when that question came up, the options were Chile and three countries on different continents.

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