How many countries can you name in 10 minutes?

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:02 am

Try this:

http://andys.org.uk/countryquiz/

(Unfortunately it's biased for English speakers, as the country needs to be spelled correctly).

I managed 110...did OK on Europe, Asia and South America, but very badly on Africa and the Caribbean. But isn't it strange how your mind goes blank... I must have spent 30 seconds trying to remember the name of the tiny country between switzerland and austria... and when I remembered, I couldn't spell it

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:17 am

112. Albeit I shouldn't count Niger which I kinda got for free while trying to write Nigeria

So, 111.

Some that I couldn't write correctly in English but did remember: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, East Timor (this was apparently just a typo, after all), Tajikistan and Yemen

And I thought I had written Romania, but apparently hadn't.
And I completely forgot for example Japan and Indonesia. My internal mapping system is clearly still imperfect.

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:23 am

94

My mind didn't go blank as much as I simply lost lots of time due to severe difficulties with the spelling of different -istans.

diogocanilho · Post by **diogocanilho** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:14 pm

92

There´re lot of differences between english and portuguese countries names...

Fjon · Post by **Fjon** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:33 pm

108
Stupid pacific islands and African countries always let me down

yli · Post by **yli** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:53 pm

I got 126

Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

but I even forgot counties that I have visited (Albania, Kazakhstan, China

)

JP Simões · Post by **JP Simões** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:55 pm

I got 116 (Belgium and Slovenia not included

).

And I didn't know that (DR) Congo's full name was (Democratic Republic of) the Congo. But I thought of those, so I deserve partial credit.

EuroNederweert · Post by **EuroNederweert** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:13 am

I've got 112. I will try again and see if I can remember more countries then.

Akajoe · Post by **Akajoe** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:04 pm

92 countries left...

Sirmia · Post by **Sirmia** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:22 am

114. Strange how my mind seems to remember (for example) Equatorial Guinea, while it forgets about... Greece.

And Bulgaria.

BogPoet · Post by **BogPoet** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:49 am

99.

Luxembourg was one of the very last ones.

Missed that I shouldn't have: Austria, Chile, Colombia, Equador, Hungary, Jamaica, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Sao Marino, Singapore, Switzerland.

Remembered them, but didn't know English spelling: Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau (at the very last seconds: I only missed the hyphen, apparently

), Guyana, Philippines, Republic of the Congo (forgot "the"), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (see previous), Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, The Bahamas ("the" this and "the" that...).

Also, I remembered that former Dutch Guyana is now a country with a different name, but couldn't recall it (Suriname).

Zjonbelz · Post by **Zjonbelz** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:38 am

I've got 137

Could have been even more, but miss spelled some countries and I just kept forgetting names of countries I know...

WinstonSmith · Post by **WinstonSmith** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:45 am

122 out of 192.
I kept on writing Hercegovina instead of Herzegovina.
I lost one minute trying to write Vatican, Vatican City, Vaticancity, Holy see, Holy Vatican, Popeland, Ratzinger City... only to find out that it's not in the UN.
And I lost another one trying to write Centrafrican Republic / Republic of Central Africa / Centre Africa Republic, without succeeding!