Geography Quiz

[Kass]

They call it "Can You Pass Third Grade?" It really is kind of fun, but I am curious how many Americans can actually place all 48 of the contiguous states, let alone do it within the time limit.

So can you pass third grade? (http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf)

[Fermented Yeast Paste]

Easy peasy stuff. Although for some reason it didn't seem to count the upper peninsula of Michigan.

[Angelyne]

Why aren't Alaska and Hawaii included on this quiz?

[Kass]

Because those are easy to identify. The problems people have are with the contiguous states.

[Trump]

Yeah, I got Michigan wrong, I dragged it to the upper penninsula =(

[Daishikaze]

I did it pretty quickly, though I was hazy about a couple, mainly because I haven't looked at a map of the US for quite some time.

[Lisa M]

I passed.

I always get AZ, NM, CO, and that other one in the square mixed up.

But I got all the states in the right places before time ran out. Winning FTW!

[Jiant Flying Panda]

I got 20/48

LMAO fuck. Oh well, those 20 sates are the only one that matters anyways.

[Random]

I got 10 ;P

But hey, I've never seen a map that shows states in any detail, not to mention never took "third grade".

[SlickWilly440]

Wow things sure have changed because I never learned to identify the 50 states until I was in the fifth grade.

I failed the test!

Okay I beat it the second time, but fitting the upper states took forever!

[Neon Pink Shoehorn]

heh, I got washington and oregon mixed up, but other than that, I stilll remember where everything goes. It'd be harder if you had a map of canada and had to identify all the ... whatever they call em up there.

they make kids in the UK memorized the american states?

[Cherub Rock]

I passed.

I always get AZ, NM, CO, and that other one in the square mixed up.

But I got all the states in the right places before time ran out. Winning FTW!

And Utah.

I just remember Arizona is closest to California and Utah is above it. After that it's easy to remember New Mexico bordering Mexico and Colorado is the one that looks like a horizontal rectangle.

I'll do this as soon as my batteries for my mouse finish charging.

I can place pretty much every country in the world where it belongs except for the African ones and those stupid Pacific island countries.

edit: Stupid Kansas and Nebraska. I did it with over half the time left but I will admit to placing Nebraska in Kansas' place. >_>

[MeneerDijk]

I got 24 out of 48. I don't think i would have gotten even half of that a year ago though

[Beowulf]

heh, I got washington and oregon mixed up, but other than that
Your far from the first person to do that...

I got them all right except that I missed Delaware twice because I was in a hurry and I kept missing that damn little state.

[Soli]

30/48
I might have gotten more if it didn't take me so long to figure out how to do it.

In all my years at school, I've never ever been required to know all the states. ^_^ I still get confused if there are 50, 51, or 52. I always forget.

[Jiant Flying Panda]

I was never required to know all the states either Soli. I just know this by what I've picked up over the years.

[The Divine Comedy]

I got all of them eventually, with a few mistakes on the square-looking ones in the West.

[Josh]

I worked from Virginia up and down the coast all the way over to the place where the Mississippi would be, then started on the West Coast.

Its not all that hard to do as long as you can remember a few key state locations.

[Shamu]

I got all 50 states! yay! Er...the 48 on the quiz...I do know where Alaska and Hawaii are too thoguh:P
Had to think a minute about which was which with New Hampshire and Vermont though >_>
We had to know all 50 states and all the provinces of Canada by 6th grade. I have to think really hard to remember how Canada is laid out though ><

[kilreli]

it took me two tries....i got a bunch wrong though...those stupid middle america states...:mario:

[haterllnation]

I beat it. The part where I had to think a little involved the smaller states. The Massachusetts, Connecticutt areas are the ones I had to think about.

[Random]

they make kids in the UK memorized the american states?

Hell no, we don't learn a thing about America except in early History learning about the native americans.

[Lateli]

The tiny states were a pain, but it didn't stop me from completing it. Damn them for being so hard to click! :(

[jindojim]

Rhode Island took the longest to place, only because it was so tiny. But, I guess being drilled in geography during elementary school helped, even over a decade later.

[Stephy]

Tiny areas made me lose. Stupid East coast and their tiny ness! (lives in Ma. >_>; ) it was hard to place the thingy!

I couldn't do it within the time limit. But I know at least where 40 or more are. The middle area got me stuck for a bit. ;(

[Jetsetlemming]

Did it in with a little less than half of the time bar left. :O Had to use some trial-and-error in the southern midwest, though. :( But really, who cares about those states? ;)

[h2orowe]

I don't even remember half those states. I don't think I've ever met someone from Wyoming >_>; Jesus. I somehow, magically, knew Montana. I got 20 something the first time. The 6th time I got them all >_>; barely.

[Daishikaze]

One of my old Middle school teachers liked to say "Wyoming doesn't exist". We'd ask him why he said that and his answer was "Have you ever met anyone from Wyoming?" the answer would always be "No", so maybe he was right? because I still haven't met anyone from there, nor do I know anyone who has. ;)

[Pierrot le Fou]

There was a test out there, perhaps posted here, which was a map of the US without outlines, and you had to drop all the states in. It would give you the distance you were wrong by, and a score at the end. Now THAT was hard.

[Plekto]

Feh. As usual, the test is U.S. biased.

How about an adult test placing the provinces in China or even the countries in Europe? It's a pet peeve of mine about education in general - that it's always incredibly myopic in the areas of geography, politics, and history, no matter where you seem to grow up.

[Lateli]

There was a test out there, perhaps posted here, which was a map of the US without outlines, and you had to drop all the states in. It would give you the distance you were wrong by, and a score at the end. Now THAT was hard.

I remember that test! (Or at least one similar)

Those damn tiny states fucked me over on that one too! :gloomy:

[Cherub Rock]

Find it. Now I am really interested in it and I'm afraid I will not be able to function until I try it.

I imagine it would be significantly easier if there were rivers, mountain ranges and lakes (well, more specifically Salt Lake so we can have an easy marker for the 4 corners states).

[Neon Pink Shoehorn]

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

level six, under states

[Firefly]

passed with about half of the time left. I like how the east coast people can't figure out the western states, and being from the west, i had trouble with the east...and yeah...it took me like three tries to get new jersey to stick.. :(

[japanat]

it took me like three tries to get new jersey to stick.. :(That's all the oil and chemical factories....

[Saitou Hajime]

Shut up! New Jersey doesn't have a lot of chemical factories! It's not like there's two chemical factories on the same road less than a mile apart in my town! No sir, there ain't!







:(

[Josh]

I took the one at sheppardsoftware.com and got a 90% with an average distance of 26 miles and it took me about 7 minutes. Not too shabby if I do say so myself but its probably because I took the original test Kass put up like 7 times trying to push the state locations into my head again.

[seiji]

I got 90% first try on the sheppardsoftware one too! But my average error was 31 miles, partly because I was a total idiot and tried to stick South Dakota on the Canadian border. :box:

[Kass]

30/48
I might have gotten more if it didn't take me so long to figure out how to do it.

In all my years at school, I've never ever been required to know all the states. ^_^ I still get confused if there are 50, 51, or 52. I always forget.

And people wonder why Americans are so clueless about the world... We don't teach it anymore. :( This makes me VERY sad.

I had to know all the states, their postal abbreviations (old and new), their capitals and the major rivers byt fourth grade. By high school I had to be able to place all the European countries and their capitals as well. In college, I had to be able to place the states in Europe, the USSR (the wall fell that year), Africa and Asia as well as the capitals and major river systems for each.

I can still do pretty well on the rest of the world, but all the new countries that have formed since I had to learn them throw me off sometimes.

[Kass]

One of my old Middle school teachers liked to say "Wyoming doesn't exist". We'd ask him why he said that and his answer was "Have you ever met anyone from Wyoming?" the answer would always be "No", so maybe he was right? because I still haven't met anyone from there, nor do I know anyone who has. ;)

Dick Cheney is from Wyoming. Yellowstone Park is predominantly in Wyoming (part spills into Montana).


Plekto, it is a US geography test. Of course it is aimed at Americans. I said as much in the opening post. LOL

[japanat]

I'm from Colorado, I know lots of people from Wyoming. One of my sister-in-laws is from Wyoming!

[Josh]

As for my World Geography skills, I like to think im pretty good at it. Elementary school was North America. Middle school was Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania. Then in high school back to the US but more in depth and then extremely in depth on Europe. I can place each country in Europe as well as their capitals and major rivers. Not even the Balkans mess me up anymore. Do believe me when I say that the Balkans took me forever to get down.

Word.

[Trump]

I saw a test/game that had you put a dot where a city was. It scored you by how close you were to being correct. This was worldwide.

[Y.T.]

This is the answer .. a worldmap quiz..http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html

I played two, once had 75, the other time 92.
Those west-african countries are terrible... very hard to get them right. Rest of the world is easy, though.

[Trump]

I got a 61 once. I can't do those everchanging African countries =/

[Josh]

I averaged about 70 but my lowest score was down around like 50. My highest was a 74. :(

Oh well. Not as good as I thought, but meh.

[kilreli]

someone should find one for the prefectures of japan. i would probably get around 5 at the most

[Jiant Flying Panda]

I don't see how poeple can't get the westcoast states.

There's only 3 :confused:

And we all know which one is California so.....

[Cherub Rock]

Yeah, I've never understood how people confuse Oregon and Washington either. Maybe they have never played Oregon trail.

The only states I really have trouble with are New Hampshire-Vermont and Kansas-Nebraska. I really should know Kansas though because it's next to Missouri due to Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KA.

[seiji]

NH-VT is so easy! New Hampshire is shaped kind of like a small "h", and Vermont is shaped kind of like a "V"!

I somehow confuse Montana and Nebraska. >_>;

[Trinadad]

I'm gonna be honest here...


... I didn't do very well....

:gloomy:

It's not my fault I'm Canadian!

[Jiant Flying Panda]

I'm gonna be honest here...


... I didn't do very well....

:gloomy:

It's not my fault I'm Canadian!

Well, whatcha score? lol

[ZaichikArky]

Yeah, about the 5th time I did it, I got like 42 and it still said I failed XD. Mainly because the last 10 of them, I kept guessing :p. So originally, I know where about 30 of the states are. Geography was never taught to me in school except for a couple months in 7th grade when we had map quizzes for most major continents. Never a US one though.... I've never been taught US geography!

[ZaichikArky]

One of my old Middle school teachers liked to say "Wyoming doesn't exist". We'd ask him why he said that and his answer was "Have you ever met anyone from Wyoming?" the answer would always be "No", so maybe he was right? because I still haven't met anyone from there, nor do I know anyone who has. ;)

It's a big state, comparitively, but doesn't it have the smallest population in the US? Montana is the same... such a big, beautiful state, but no one lives there XD.

[Plekto]

Cuz it's as cold as (insert euphamism of choice) up there in the winter.

[Josh]

Montana is beautiful because nobody lives there though. :hat:

[Roxie]

30/48...would've gotten more if my mouse pad hadn't mysteriously walked out of my room...and if I had read long enough to know how to do it w/out just jumping in.

[h2orowe]

on the world one I got like 19 the first time, 17 the second time >_>; and the third time.

[Cherub Rock]

The world one is hard. I did it twice and got 58 the second time plus whatever you get for getting it right on the first try (probably mid 60s). I just couldn't click Luxembourg on the map no matter how close I got to it. It was too small :(

[Pierrot le Fou]

67 on the world one the first time... Gonna try again...

61 the second time...

Damn, Lebanon is WAY too small to click.

[Cherub Rock]

Apparently you can zoom in, but then there's the risk of dragging the map to the area you want to click without clicking on one of the countries.

My high is 61. This game would actually be educational if they showed you where the country was after you missed it.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Eastern Europe, the Russian non-Baltic Satellite States (created post-Geography for me, unfortunately), and f'ing islands in the middle of nowhere (I'm looking at YOU maldives!) are my weakness.

Most of which are either not studied in Geography, or have changed since I learned 'em.

Where the fuck did Western Sahara go? It used to be right next to Morocco!

And the Czech Republic vs. Slovakia? Which is which half of Czechoslovakia anyway?!

~stan (that means Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and whatever other ~stans there are down there), like I know the difference? You're all Soviets to this boy of the Cold War Geography era!

Argh.

[Trinadad]

Well, whatcha score? lol

Kinda late.


Uhm...

10? :P

[Kass]

Yeah, I've never understood how people confuse Oregon and Washington either. Maybe they have never played Oregon trail.

The only states I really have trouble with are New Hampshire-Vermont and Kansas-Nebraska. I really should know Kansas though because it's next to Missouri due to Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KA.

Montana is bigger than Nebraska and borders Canada. Nebraska is in the middle of the country and above Kansas. New Hampshire and Vermont are not in alphabetical order.

It's a big state, comparitively, but doesn't it have the smallest population in the US? Montana is the same... such a big, beautiful state, but no one lives there XD.

Nearly all my family lives in Montana, but it's population is small in comparison to major metro areas. Fairfax County, VA has a larger population than the entire state of Montana.

[Trump]

Yeah, zooming in cost me one because I couldn't zoom in fast enough to click in time.

[Cherub Rock]

Montana is bigger than Nebraska and borders Canada. Nebraska is in the middle of the country and above Kansas. New Hampshire and Vermont are not in alphabetical order.



Nearly all my family lives in Montana, but it's population is small in comparison to major metro areas. Fairfax County, VA has a larger population than the entire state of Montana.

MO is Missouri, no? Kansas City certainly isn't in Montana. I don't see how anyone has trouble with Montana considering it's like the third or fourth biggest state.

[Kass]

Montana is MT, not MO. Kansas City is indeed in Missouri, which would be to the right of Kansas.

[Trump]

Here, I finally found it. This is a better one though it is definately harder.

http://www.geosense.net/

Hit the "Visit" button to get to the game and then the "play alone" button to get started.

[Kaji]

I only really mixed up Alabama and Mississippi, myself. Couldn't remember which faced which way, though if I'd taken a moment to remember my rivers it would have been easy.

Like Kass, I'm a bit surprised here. State names, abbreviations, and capitals were all required in my third grade, too (though we didn't necessarily need to know the old abbreviations when I went through).

[drdan]

47/48, as I was dragging the last state into place the time ran out.

[Angelyne]

This is the answer .. a worldmap quiz..http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html


83 while drunk as hell.

/stupid Brunei