Geography games!

[qatarperegrine]

I'm digging the geography games over at Sporcle.com.

How many world countries can you name? I got 159, and missed some embarrassing ones.

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[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I got 168. I ran out of speed after 10 or 11 minutes, and it was no longer a typing contest. No truly embarrassing omissions, although I still feel bad about Costa Rica, Zambia, and Sierra Leone. The rest were too small to see on the map (although I may still have missed many of the smaller islands if I had seen them).

I rather like this version. It accepts multiple names for countries, something which is generally a problem with these games. But I'd prefer it if they were just colored in. Right now, the names obscure countries on the map.

"My country's skies are bluer than the ocean.."

[(Anonymous)]

"missed some embarrassing ones"

Er, don't you mean "I, embarrassingly, missed some obvious ones"? Please don't denigrate countries; they may be my favorites.

Don_k_hotay

[kit-ping.livejournal.com]

I got 90. Excuse me, I now need to go get "African History and Current Events For Dummies"...

(Also, can someone build one of these with spelling hints? There were a good handful more I can say but not spell. :)