Geography Games
Oct. 12th, 2010 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaToday’s Map Labeling:
Africa - 44/53. That’s eight more than yesterday which surprises me (but a nice surprise.) I totally forgot about Botswana (and it was really bugging me) and Sierra Leone. I knew ‘Sao Tome’ but forgot the ‘and Principe’ and I had a hard time getting the right spelling for Mauritius (I did get it). So to work on, beyond not forgetting countries I know, will be Sao Tome and Principe, Burkina Faso, Benin and Burundi.
Europe - 44/47 which is two more than yesterday. I completely blanked on Bulgaria (I knew it but I couldn’t think of it), I had Bosnia and Herzegovina except I couldn’t spell it, and Kosovo didn’t enter anywhere near my mind.
Asia - 46/48 because I completely blanked on Brunei (it was driving me crazy, I was going through all the B named countries. It was ridiculous) and Tajikistan (though with like 10 seconds left I suddenly thought of it and started going through various spelling and just ran out of time. I almost had it too.)
I did much better on North America than I thought I would with 20/23. I got Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines (though to be fair it gave me it when I wrote Saint Vincent, I don’t know if I would have gotten the second part), Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda. I missed Barbados and I knew ‘Saint Kitts and’ but couldn’t remember ‘Nevis’. I also missed Nicaragua because I couldn’t remember how to spell it. For some reason I thought there was an ‘r’ at the end. Oops.
I also did better on the Oceania than I thought I would with 9/14. I got Vanuatu after playing around with the vowels for a minute or two (I knew it started with a ‘V’ had an ‘n’ and ’t’ and was made with a’s and u’s so it was just a matter of rearranging) so it could maybe be considered cheating since I didn’t know it.
Finally I did the world map and got 177/195 before I ran out of time. The crowdedness remains a problem. Perhaps next time I’ll have an unlabelled map next to it to look at. I ended up missing some very obvious ones because I couldn’t actually see anything but a sea of names after a certain point. El Salvador, Belarus, Syria and Chad for instance. Of course some of them I wouldn’t have gotten anyway (Kiribati, The Gambia, Cameroon) and some I just blanked on (Zimbabwe, Zambia). And once again I had a problem with Angola – I don’t know what it is about that name that keeps throwing me. Still, I’m pleased with how I did.
Africa - 44/53. That’s eight more than yesterday which surprises me (but a nice surprise.) I totally forgot about Botswana (and it was really bugging me) and Sierra Leone. I knew ‘Sao Tome’ but forgot the ‘and Principe’ and I had a hard time getting the right spelling for Mauritius (I did get it). So to work on, beyond not forgetting countries I know, will be Sao Tome and Principe, Burkina Faso, Benin and Burundi.
Europe - 44/47 which is two more than yesterday. I completely blanked on Bulgaria (I knew it but I couldn’t think of it), I had Bosnia and Herzegovina except I couldn’t spell it, and Kosovo didn’t enter anywhere near my mind.
Asia - 46/48 because I completely blanked on Brunei (it was driving me crazy, I was going through all the B named countries. It was ridiculous) and Tajikistan (though with like 10 seconds left I suddenly thought of it and started going through various spelling and just ran out of time. I almost had it too.)
I did much better on North America than I thought I would with 20/23. I got Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines (though to be fair it gave me it when I wrote Saint Vincent, I don’t know if I would have gotten the second part), Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda. I missed Barbados and I knew ‘Saint Kitts and’ but couldn’t remember ‘Nevis’. I also missed Nicaragua because I couldn’t remember how to spell it. For some reason I thought there was an ‘r’ at the end. Oops.
I also did better on the Oceania than I thought I would with 9/14. I got Vanuatu after playing around with the vowels for a minute or two (I knew it started with a ‘V’ had an ‘n’ and ’t’ and was made with a’s and u’s so it was just a matter of rearranging) so it could maybe be considered cheating since I didn’t know it.
Finally I did the world map and got 177/195 before I ran out of time. The crowdedness remains a problem. Perhaps next time I’ll have an unlabelled map next to it to look at. I ended up missing some very obvious ones because I couldn’t actually see anything but a sea of names after a certain point. El Salvador, Belarus, Syria and Chad for instance. Of course some of them I wouldn’t have gotten anyway (Kiribati, The Gambia, Cameroon) and some I just blanked on (Zimbabwe, Zambia). And once again I had a problem with Angola – I don’t know what it is about that name that keeps throwing me. Still, I’m pleased with how I did.
