Well, that was fun.

[rivka]

83

My score seemed impressive to me until they presented me with a list of the 187 countries I "forgot," which in many cases (e.g., Navassa Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands) I had never even heard of.

Comments

Map Geek Alert!

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I totally want to go back and try it a couple more times and see if I can improve my score. :)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

You thought of 20 more than I did in that time.

Re: Map Geek Alert!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I just tried it a second time and came up with 94. But wow, it's amazing how the map just disappears from your mind's eye.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

I got 69. It's so easy to just go blank—I didn't even get all of the countries I've been to.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says Navassa Island isn't a country; it's an uninhabited source of guano.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

72 I ran out of time before I ran out of countries. Part of the problem is bad spelling mixed with bad typing. I also had to retype some stuff because it wouldn't take England (it wanted United Kingdom, which is fair enough) or Democratic republic of Congo (I guess it wanted the "the"). It also wouldn't take The Gambia, but rather Gambia. And I can never remember how to spell Luxemburg.

I think I got about 80% of the countries in Africa.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

got 88 the second time through. I cannot freaking spell...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

It just wants "Congo," which is a little unfair when you've gone to all the trouble of typing "Democratic Republic of."

Third time through I made it up to 104. Then my mind became a total blank and I missed stuff like India.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Some of the countries in its list are simply not countries: Kosovo, Hong Kong, Palestine.

I wasted quite a number of seconds trying to get it to accept "Mexico". Apparently the name they wanted was "Mexico". (If you can't see the difference, neither can I.)

And I simply could *not* remember Brunei; I kept spinning my wheels, trying to remember "What's that small country on Borneo?"

So, 72.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

Well there are TWO countries called Congo. The original one (also known as Congo-Brazzaville and then Zaire-turned-into-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo (which we refer to a DR Congo).

It also wouldn't take Guinea-Bissau which sort of freaked me out.

I skipped the entire central Asian republics, since I cannot spell Tajikistan or Kazakhstan, etc. without spell check.