Someone needs geography lessons

[6079SmithW]

I got a 149. I'm kind of surprised because I usually can never remember the mid-west states. On a side note, I swear I saw something online listing New York as a New England state. What?! Its a Mid-Atlantic state, just like Maryland (my home state).

 

[ThankQ]

Easy way to remember NM... it borders OK.

Or, if you'd rather, Mexico borders TX. New Mexico borders TX.

 

[bigdaddy]

This seems fitting....

http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/what_we_call_the_news

I took the USA quiz and got 147. The only ones I messed us was Alabama (I clicked on Mississippi) and Wisconsin. Every other state I got in one try.

 

[marillion]

As an American, I got 144 on that quiz. And I actually did swap Arizona and New Mexico, whoops.

Killin' me.. Just killin' me..

 

[Tan Ru]

.. or perhaps the people who work for Fox are dumbasses.

Hey, they're all part of the great 57 states!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Honestly I don't know much about Australia, but I know Queensland is not it's own island.

Yeah I think I would have looked twice at that map. But I couldn't ID the location of Queensland vs Queenstown to save my life. And it doesn't much bother me that I don't know that. If I want to find out, that's why God made Googlemaps.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

As an American, I got 144 on that quiz. And I actually did swap Arizona and New Mexico, whoops.

In yo face!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I thought the arrow pointed to Massachusetts instead of Rhode Island, so I got a point off for that

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I suspect that most non-Canadians would have a tough time naming all ten provinces, much less the three territories. Never mind placing them correctly on a map. Every time I go to a convention in the States that prints members' home towns on their badges, I see "city, state" for all the Americans. I get "Toronto, Canada". NO! It's "Toronto, Ontario," then "Canada" if you must.

(I can't quite see my badge for the 2009 Worldcon from here, so I'm not sure if it says "Toronto, Canada", "Toronto, Ontario" or "Toronto, Ontario, Canada". But the Worldcon was in Montreal that year, so it's quite possible they were printed with the name of the province. I'm pretty sure that they were printed with the province name in 2003, when it was in Toronto, but that one's even harder to see from where I'm sitting right now.)

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I can pretty much name them. I might fuck up Manitoba, but, honestly, who gives a shit about Manitoba?

 

[Miss Chicken]

I suspect that most non-Canadians would have a tough time naming all ten provinces, much less the three territories. Never mind placing them correctly on a map. Every time I go to a convention in the States that prints members' home towns on their badges, I see "city, state" for all the Americans. I get "Toronto, Canada". NO! It's "Toronto, Ontario," then "Canada" if you must.

(I can't quite see my badge for the 2009 Worldcon from here, so I'm not sure if it says "Toronto, Canada", "Toronto, Ontario" or "Toronto, Ontario, Canada". But the Worldcon was in Montreal that year, so it's quite possible they were printed with the name of the province. I'm pretty sure that they were printed with the province name in 2003, when it was in Toronto, but that one's even harder to see from where I'm sitting right now.)

I just did the Canada quiz. I got 36 out of 39. I had trouble telling Alberta from Manitoba (though I knew Saskatchewan was between the two of them). I also confused Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

The one country I would be very bad at are the counties of England. I don't even know how many there are.

 

[Skywalker]

Perfect scores on both the USA and Canada tests.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The one country I would be very bad at are the countries of England. I don't even know how many there are.

Neither do we English any more -- it's absurdly complicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England

Of course, counties are not the same thing as states. Thank goodness, we have enough bureaucracy already.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Got a perfect score on Canada too, though I almost mixed up Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories before I remembered that Yukon was the one that borders Alaska. The name of Northwest Territories makes you want to place it furthest to the Northwest. Deceptive Canadians.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I still can't remember which one is Alberta and which one is Manitoba but I know that the orange one is Saskatchewan.

 

[captcalhoun]

i got 102 on the US.

kept getting the middle states and east coast muddled up.

got 39 on Canada

got 21 on Australia

i got 137 on European countries. main probs were which was which on the Baltic states and the Former Yugoslavia countries.

and 69 for the middle east!

 

[Miss Chicken]

They should have a quiz for New Zealand. See if everyone can work out the difference between the North Island and the South Island.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

They should have a quiz for New Zealand. See if everyone can work out the difference between the North Island and the South Island.

To be fair, their location on an atlas is such that both can be seen to have top billing.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I can pretty much name them. I might fuck up Manitoba, but, honestly, who gives a shit about Manitoba?

Better you should say that than me. Steven still razzes me about the time our mayor called in the Army to dig the city out after a blizzard.

Okay, I'm impressed. Nunavut was only carved out of the Northwest Territories 12 or so years ago - I would have expected people to get that one wrong. (And Miss Chicken, Alberta is the one to the west, between British Columbia on the west coast and Saskatchewan. Manitoba is the one to the west of Ontario.)

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I got Nunavut right because I remember the news stories when it was created.