I knows mah states

[winterbadger]

3m 37s

Click here to try the quiz.

EDIT: I did very badly on the English one, though, spacing about half the counties. Try it here:

http://www.quizzes-online.com/map/counties.html

Comments

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

I suck - I was still missing 3 when the timer ran out! Stupid school never having geography class...! ;)

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

Wow, interesting, thanks!

The English one is awfully fussy. It doesn't accept the traditional county names, but expects the modern administrative units instead - incidentally making a nonsense of its "Ceremonial Counties" claim; whatever a ceremonial county is meant to be, you'd think it would have something to do with the traditional counties - so "Yorkshire" is unrecognised for instance! And you have to know the official name of the county too, so "East Yorkshire" is also rejected, you have to type "East Riding of Yorkshire" to tick that one off. And by the time you've gone through that lot you've used up a substantial chunk of the available time! So yes, I'd say that anyone who can get through that lot in ten minutes is very clever indeed. Alas there's not a Scottish one. I see the Asian countries quiz is biased towards the Burmese military dictatorship - it wants "Myanmar" and rejects "Burma"...

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I don't even *know* the names of most English counties, so you're way ahead of me in that respect.

[noting-nothing.livejournal.com]

This is great - but maddening, lol! I got 45/50 states and 42/48 counties which isn't too bad (now I'm off to find the ones I missed...!)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

2m 18s

(http://quizzes-online.com/map/fiftystates.html)

Click here to try the quiz. (http://quizzes-online.com/map/fiftystates.html)

[sun-in-splendor.livejournal.com]

I thought the English one was fun.

The Asian one was a bear. Even when I knew the name I got stuck on the spelling on a lot of them.
And isn't Hong Kong part of China now?

[winterbadger]

One of my friends at work and I had a number of bones to pick with the Asia one. Macao and Hong Kong are part of China, so it's disingenuous to treat them as independent. Tibet is an independent country that is illegally occupied by China. Taiwan is not recognised as an independent nation by most countries. "The West Bank" and "Gaza" are part of the State of Palestine.