Comments on: Fun with maps

By: Cryptic Ned

Cryptic Ned — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:18:04 +0000

During the ten minutes I spent on that site Hungary went from 1st to 15th, while the rest of the leaderboard was almost unchanged. It must have just been linked on Maxim’s Hungarian website or something.

By: Cryptic Ned

Cryptic Ned — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:15:29 +0000

10/10; 10/10; 9/10; 10/10; 10/10. The only guesses were on Vanuatu and the Marshall Islands; a country like that shouldn’t be represented by a dot, considering that it controls an area about 800 miles square. I got Eritrea, Libya, Bosnia, and Bangladesh on the 3rd test, and again on the 4th test. Odd.

By: Alan K. Henderson

Alan K. Henderson — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:54:39 +0000

6/10. Missed Malawi, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu, Mauritius. Got Ireland, Germany, Cape Verde (easy one – I built a city there once in a game of Civilization II), Swaziland (process of elimination – I knew it was east sub-Saharan and knew almost all the surrounding countries), Myanmar, Angola. Not a single country in the Americas.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:47:33 +0000

Eszter, God this thing is addictive. After several times at 90% I finally got 100% with the following nations: Phillipines, Krygzstan, Dominican Republic, Oman, Niger, Finland (well, one should be a softball), Brunei, Latvia, Swaziland and Macedonia.

By: Thomas Dent

Thomas Dent — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:32:24 +0000

It didn’t seem very random to me. I got Nauru three times (correct by chance!) and Paraguay and Greece twice. Pacific islands do tend to make it more difficult – I also got handed Vanuatu and Tuvalu! United Kingdom’s showing in the “medals table” is dismal…

By: will

will — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:00:40 +0000

9/10 Right: Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cyprus, Turkey, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein Wrong: Kiribati Yeah, I never bothered with S. Pacific geography.

By: Ralph Hitchens

Ralph Hitchens — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:59:41 +0000

I’d guess you missed Kazakhstan; hard to keep those “stans” straight. I got 10/10 but was phenomenally lucky to nail Suriname, Mauritania, and Sierra Leone. Easy enough to get in the ball park with those, but the “last mile” was pure guesswork.

By: Jonathan Edelstein

Jonathan Edelstein — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:37:24 +0000

10, 10 and 10. The relative positions of the Pacific nations on the map seem a bit off, though; the quiz would work better if they were shown by their maritime boundaries rather than a dot on the capital. The DRC/Congo thing was also annoying, although I guessed correctly that “Congo” meant Congo-Brazzaville.

By: teep

teep — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:58:18 +0000

I suck: 3/10. Got Iceland, Belarus, Laos correct. Totally failed to identify Eritrea, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea, Macedonia, Comoros, Sudan, or Lesotho.

By: David W.

David W. — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:08:33 +0000

Hah, 10 out of 10 for me. (I have a B.S. in Geography, BTW.) I raised the U.S. score from 57.55 to 57.56! Yay team!

By: BenA

BenA — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:05:06 +0000

100%! Korea, North; Iraq; Mozambique; Monaco; Mali; Fiji; Uganda; Argentina; Kazakhstan; Congo (Confession: The first time I took it I missed Suriname—who can keep those three countries straight?—and Ghana)

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:39:10 +0000

8/10 New Zealand,Cape Verde,Georgia,Taiwan,Bulgaria,Algeria,Finland,Niger,Papua New Guinea,USA Missed Niger and New Guinea

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:22:28 +0000

7 out of 10—I missed Laos, Slovenia, and Zambia.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:38:47 +0000

6, 9 and 9. But once it said I’d clicked on Sudan instead of Bosnia. Frankly I resent the implication, and I will not be playing again (sniff).

By: JR

JR — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:42:58 +0000

10/10. First time I’ve ever been totally right about…anything. If I was in the NBA, right now I’d let out one of those primal screams. china, denmark, south korea, bahamas, russia, slovakia, tunisia, jamaica, thailand, haiti