The citizens of many other nations make light of America’s lack of knowledge of the world beyond their borders. And it’s true; few Americans could point to Senegal or the Aral Sea on an unlabeled map. But surely we know the nations on our own continent, right? All 23 of them? Even with a head start of seven countries, we dare you to ace this quiz and name the 16 others.
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I missed 3, not bad…
posted by Paul on 9-30-2009 at 12:15 pm
Not bad at all, Paul!
posted by Sandy Wood on 9-30-2009 at 12:50 pm
I missed 5 when I finally realized that Central America was actually North America. Really got burned on the Dominica Dominican Republic thing, though.
posted by Brian on 9-30-2009 at 1:04 pm
I could not for the life of me remember how to spell Guatatamala…see, I still mispelled it. I did get the Dominica and Dominican Republic, but I missed St. Lucia and Barbados….I was totally singing the Beach Boys song to see if any island names came up that I forgot…lol.
posted by J-me on 9-30-2009 at 1:22 pm
Got all of them except Saint Lucia. Thought it was part of the Netherlands Antilles.
posted by Josh on 9-30-2009 at 4:33 pm
I love your geography quizzes. I play the Geography Challenge game you have in the trivia section almost every time I visit the site. I am weak on island nations and missed 4 here and also Costa Rica.
posted by Kedar on 9-30-2009 at 4:41 pm
10/16 – I was trying to recall all of Yakko Warner’s countries of the world song, but totally froze up. Forgot about St. Lucia and Nicaragua (among others – don’t want to spoil the quiz too much!).
posted by Steve from San Diego on 9-30-2009 at 4:45 pm
Like Josh, I only missed Saint Lucia… hard to keep those Dutch colonies straight.
posted by Tom in GA on 9-30-2009 at 4:50 pm
Missed 3-without giving too much away I missed 1 Central American and 2 island nations.
posted by Marc in UT on 9-30-2009 at 4:58 pm
I spent forever trying to type in Guatemala before I realized it wasn’t on the list. Isn’t it right next to Mexico?
posted by Kagami on 9-30-2009 at 5:33 pm
Got all…I’m from Trinidad though, so naming our neighbours wasn’t too difficult. Love the geography quizzes. Also, as far as I know St. Lucia had been fought over by the English & French – it never was Dutch.
posted by Rae on 9-30-2009 at 8:01 pm
Ha! I got all of them. And I’m not even living in a North American country. I am a geographical genius when it comes to naming countries! Can you please do a quiz on European countries???? Please????
posted by Karl on 9-30-2009 at 9:35 pm