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Keith Law
The 5pm Quiz: Name the Countries of ASEAN
by Keith Law - May 26, 2009 - 5:00 PM

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Editor’s Note: This summer, we’ll be inviting a handful of special guests to contribute a week’s worth of quizzes in the 5pm time slot. Our first such guest is baseball expert/food critic/bookworm Keith Law of ESPN. Make him feel welcome!

One of my various childhood fascinations was maps. I had a great-uncle who traveled extensively – no one was ever able to give me a straight answer as to why, so I’m just going to assume he was in the ol’ import/export business – and he brought me maps as well as foreign coins that spoke to all of these endlessly interesting countries that I could only dream about visiting when I grew up. (I’ve been to sixteen now as well as Bermuda, but let me warn all of you would-be globehoppers: Do your traveling before you have kids.)

The interest in geography extended to anything related to foreign countries, from lists of capitals to foreign languages to border changes to all of the various international organizations that, at the time, seemed important to me. (Ah, the innocence of youth.) So in that vein, can you name the ten countries in ASEAN – the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – in 5 minutes?

Take the Quiz: Name the Countries in ASEAN

Comments (7)
  1. Welcome, Keith! Love your stuff over at ESPN. I hadn’t checked out your personal blog before, but I’ll add it to my reading list.

  2. Yay, 100% in less than three minutes! (I’m southeast asian)

  3. Good to see you over here, Keith!

    (9/10. Damn you, Laos!)

  4. Only 6/10 for me. I think I missed the hard ones. :(

  5. I missed one. Being such a disgusting American, I had no idea what part of the world that country was in. I’m not happy with myself, I assure you.

  6. Named all of them in less than a minute. And that’s relying solely on my geography skills.

  7. everyone play the countries of the world quiz on sporcle! i got them all because of it… i’m canadian.

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