How many countries can YOU name in 5 minutes?

[foghorn67]

I can't effin spell! lol

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: zerocool84
I can name them all in 1:47

this sure brought up memories
i used to watch animaniacs as a kid.

but quite a few of those countries are gone, renamed, or split or whatever the hell happened to them

Puerto Rico, Caribbean, San Juan, Czechoslovakia, Kampuchea, Algier, all wrong for different reasons

 

[smokeyjoe]

67.. I got Liechtenstein but forgot Italy :/

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: Farang


Puerto Rico, Caribbean, San Juan, Czechoslovakia, Kampuchea, Algier, all wrong for different reasons

ru serios?

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: LS21

Originally posted by: Farang


Puerto Rico, Caribbean, San Juan, Czechoslovakia, Kampuchea, Algier, all wrong for different reasons

ru serios?

i r am.. I suppose Puerto Rico could be called a "nation" but I am using more of the nation-state definition rather than the more vague term

 

[LS21]

we pwn PR. carribean is a geographic term for that area/group of islands, czech republic broke off from slovakia, kampuchea = cambodia, algiers is a city

 

[theprodigalrebel]

68. It didn't recognize 'Czechoslovakia' - answers listed it as 'Czech Republic' (ed: ah, post above mine explains it. I appear to be severely out of touch - hehe, I even threw in Zaire initially)

I forgot most of Europe - Greece, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Finland etc. Also zoned out a few times for several seconds. My attention span FTL.

 

[LS21]

i put in zaire... dont even know where it is... teh dark continent is my downfall

tho i was able to put in the 2 different congos

 

[theprodigalrebel]

From wiki: The Republic of Zaire (pronunciation: [za?.?r]; French: République du Zaïre) was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971, and 17 May 1997.

Had to look it up after it rejected it. Hehe, I always assumed Congo was some other place.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: LS21
we pwn PR. carribean is a geographic term for that area/group of islands, czech republic broke off from slovakia, kampuchea = cambodia, algiers is a city

yes.. so we are in agreement now. I am confused as to your first reply to me. Anyway PR could (and probably should) be considered a "nation" as the Animaniacs stated it was, since a nation is not necessarily a nation-state or "country."

 

[Ika]

66, but I have a hard time with the "tip-of-the-tongue" effect. Also missed a lot of Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

 

[LS8]

80. I could name them off quicker than I could type them, also some I skipped because of spelling errors.

If I could name them off verbally I would be well over 100.

 

[Imported]

104.

I could have had another 10 or so if not for spelling errors.

 

[Colt45]

75, kinda half asleep though.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I tried this a while ago. Best I did was 123. First try I got 99. To get 100 or more you have to methodically move from one continent to the next while keeping 1-2 countries "in queue" so to speak so you are never not typing. You also have to be able to type fast and have good spelling.

EDIT: That was a different version that accepted all sorts of non-countries (Hong Kong? Guam? Puerto Rico? Greenland?). In this one I got 116. I like the stats at the end.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

I kept typing Zaire and eventually remembered Congo.

 

[sandorski]

49, so, what's the point of this? Seems more like a typing test and/or ability to type/think simultaneously test.