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"Recently polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"
Miss Teen South Carolina 2007: "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and uh the Iraq everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the US, or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg
Maps....Miss West Carolina speaks out!
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But Spiegel, you just kick ass!
I find that I know the general location of most of the hard countries. Europe was actually harder for me than it should have been because it was so small - try picking out Austria in a hurry! I didn't get an Italy-heavy set, though, I think it only had Rome and Milan. Of course with places I've never heard of in India and China, I end up just picking the middle and crossing my fingers.
Very fun!
]]>I did the test once, got to level 11, a score of 432146 and travel IQ 118.
It helps when you've been around a bit of course.
Maybe I will try to get to level 12... but I think that will be extremely hard.
Anyway, thanks for the link!
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lyra wrote:Well, inspired by Ayahuasca's score, I studied my world atlas and then gave it another go. So this time I reached Level 10, and got a score of 391,347, and a travel IQ of 114. yay!
Goddamn you Lyra, I thought my score would be unbeatable! <shakes fist>
Well you know it's only a matter of time before somebody gets on here with level 11, or even 12 and 700,000 points or something, blowing us all away. haha
Well, inspired by Ayahuasca's score, I studied my world atlas and then gave it another go. So this time I reached Level 10, and got a score of 391,347, and a travel IQ of 114. yay!
Goddamn you Lyra, I thought my score would be unbeatable! <shakes fist> 
BAH!
LoL!
That's okay Pictus, we still like you! 
Well, inspired by Ayahuasca's score, I studied my world atlas and then gave it another go. So this time I reached Level 10, and got a score of 391,347, and a travel IQ of 114. yay! Much better! I felt like such an idiot for not knowing where half these countries were. I still mess up on all those little island chains, and I still get confused with some of the African nations. It's because the country names there all sound so similar - Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, it's a big blur. So when in doubt, if it looks like an African name and I don't know where it is I just point the clicker smack in the middle of Africa and hope for the best. haha
oh yeah, and I noticed that this quiz seems to have a lot of focus on Italy. ! Anybody else notice this?? Just study up on Italy and you'll do fine. haha
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]]>Second attempt I somehow made Level 10 and I confess I got exceptionally lucky several times with various African and Asian cities that I really had little or no idea where they were, but somehow kept getting incredibly close. I must have been in the zone or something!
Anyway:
Final score: 346,040
Level: 10
IQ: 109
Damn, I'm feeling clever