Good at geography?

[nobius]

http://sickflash.com/swf/country_europe_G2_drag-drop.swf

I got a 77%. Damn tiny countries.

[DynaKat]

84%

95% When I finally used the mouse right. :)

[naranjableeder]

I got a 75%

[aveslacker]

91% but I messed up when I let go of my touch pad and put Sweden in the Bay of Biscayne. Those small countries are tough too.

[FCLouie]

82%, not too bad but some places are just too hard to eye-ball.

Andorra is a real place. How did I totally forget Andorra.

[aveslacker]

It's very difficult to locate San Marino somewhere inside Italy. I eyeballed it and got a little lucky.

[sidis]

84%

[The Gribbler]

what a stupid test. an empty map with shapes? I'm a geog minor and i had a tough time with that test. that and im drunk. that's not a good test.

[newtex]

92%

I got Slovakia first and missed that one some and then Moldova and was a little off. Pretty good after that except for Malta. I know someone who lives in Malta but I couldn't remember how far east it is.

[yanks02]

87% The tiny countries were really hard to eyeball.

So apparently I know European Geography but not Houston Geography.

[Dre00]

91% but that test is bs. It's all about luck. It's a hell of a lot easier to eyeball those small countries when the bordering countries are already in place. I lost points because they gave me Liechtenstein and Slovenia first.

[MBean]

93%, which is rather embarassing because I used to teach Geography. Pretty much all those points missed were because 1) I got Belarus first and missed it by about 50 miles too far west, and 2) because I absent-mindedly put Monaco in San Marino's spot. That game really needs an "are you sure?" button because as soon as I put Monaco down I said "wait... Monaco's in the French league"... put it down over by Marseilles, but by then it was too late.

[Dre00]

93%, which is rather embarassing because I used to teach Geography. Pretty much all those points missed were because 1) I got Belarus first and missed it by about 50 miles too far west, and 2) because I absent-mindedly put Monaco in San Marino's spot. That game really needs an "are you sure?" button because as soon as I put Monaco down I said "wait... Monaco's in the French league"... put it down over by Marseilles, but by then it was too late.

Well, I didn't want to say it but I was a Geography major (actually, Environmental Sciences but it was in the Geography Department and had a lot of Geography classes). Plus, if I would have said it, I would have gone in rant mode saying how Geography is a hell of a lot more than knowing where countries are located.

[zolafan]

I would have gone in rant mode saying how Geography is a hell of a lot more than knowing where countries are located.

so you're saying at least you know the chief exports of Liechtenstein and Slovenia, eh...;)

[nobius]

Now try the USA game:

http://sickflash.com/usa_education.html

I got a 94% because I didn't eyeball a few states right.

[anderson]

Do they have any historical maps (e.g., Europe pre-WWI, Napoleonic era, etc.)?

[nobius]

Now for a tough one: Africa (http://sheppardsoftware.com/country_Africa_G2_drag-drop.html)

Score: 41/53 77%
Avg Error: 526 Miles
737 seconds

[Dre00]

Try the upper level Europe ones. I played one where you had to place the country in the correct spot and if you got it right, it disappeared (meaning you couldn't use it to gauge any other nearby countries). In addition, the countries weren't in the right position and you had to rotate them. Not too bad for the easy countries like France or Spain but a pain in the ass for those in Eastern Europe. I think I got something like 82% when I did that one.

[DrLudicrous]

Now for a tough one: Africa (http://sheppardsoftware.com/country_Africa_G2_drag-drop.html)

Score: 41/53 77%
Avg Error: 526 Miles
737 seconds

Score: 37/53 70%
Avg Error: 483 Miles
686 seconds

[Dre00]

Africa

Score: 49/53 92%
Avg Error: 117 miles (I was about 2300 miles off on Djibouti...completely effed that one up)
Time: 415 seconds