Geography Games

Name World Capitals

Try #1 - 98 / 196 I was distracted (I had to keep pausing and left the computer a couple times) and didn't even manage to finish it so I'm going to do it a second time (without doing anything else first or looking at the answers.) There are some I'm just not going to get because of spelling - Brunei, for example - but I want to at least finish the bloody thing.

Try #2 - 111 / 196 So a little bit of an improvement. It's really annoying that there are a number of cities that I would know to look at but can't for the life of me spell - Brunei, Madagascar, Honduras, Myanmar, Paraguay, UAE and why can't I ever spell Kuala Lumpur? It's not that hard! (Plus spell check if it's a world capital you should know how to spell it!)

Also why the hell is it so hard for me to remember the Eastern European capitals? Belgrade = Serbia, Zagreb = Croatia, Chisinau = Moldova, Podgorica = Montenegro, Skopje = Macedonia, Pristina = Kosovo and Sofia = Bulgaria (it's a girl's name, this should be easy!)

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