Geography Games
Oct. 11th, 2010 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI did the maps again. Today I got:
36/53 on Africa which is 9 more than I got yesterday. Nine new countries in a day is pretty good! I missed four that I should have gotten – Ethiopia (which I always think of when I do Estonia but forget about with itself), Senegal (my mind just blanked, I never thought of it), Togo (why do I always forget it when not playing Map Quest, why?) and CAR (because its initials stick in your mind or they should). Angola was driving me crazy because I knew it started with an ‘A’, there was an ‘o’ in there and it was similar to Andorra but I just could not figure it out! Africa has three Guinea’s which I’m going to try and remember for next time and Comoros, which I keep coming across, is north of Madagascar. Big plus is that I am much better at remembering where countries are now.
With Europe I got 42/47 which is five more than yesterday. I had the hardest time remembering Bosnia and Herzegovina. Not only could I not remember how to spell Herzegovina (not a clue even) I just could not think of Bosnia. It wouldn’t come.
On Asia I got 45/48 which is eight more than yesterday. I was left with Kyrgyzstan (which I think might be the hardest country name to remember ever), Azerbaijan (I knew it was an ‘A’, I feel like this should be easy to remember), and Tajikistan (which I was so close to getting, though I had it in the wrong spot. I knew it was ‘Ta’ and there was an ‘i’ and it ending in ‘stan’ but I just wasn’t quite getting it.)
I also played some Know Your World and ended by getting 4 km on New York City! That is definitely a new best. ThenI got 9 km on Auckland New Zealand.
36/53 on Africa which is 9 more than I got yesterday. Nine new countries in a day is pretty good! I missed four that I should have gotten – Ethiopia (which I always think of when I do Estonia but forget about with itself), Senegal (my mind just blanked, I never thought of it), Togo (why do I always forget it when not playing Map Quest, why?) and CAR (because its initials stick in your mind or they should). Angola was driving me crazy because I knew it started with an ‘A’, there was an ‘o’ in there and it was similar to Andorra but I just could not figure it out! Africa has three Guinea’s which I’m going to try and remember for next time and Comoros, which I keep coming across, is north of Madagascar. Big plus is that I am much better at remembering where countries are now.
With Europe I got 42/47 which is five more than yesterday. I had the hardest time remembering Bosnia and Herzegovina. Not only could I not remember how to spell Herzegovina (not a clue even) I just could not think of Bosnia. It wouldn’t come.
On Asia I got 45/48 which is eight more than yesterday. I was left with Kyrgyzstan (which I think might be the hardest country name to remember ever), Azerbaijan (I knew it was an ‘A’, I feel like this should be easy to remember), and Tajikistan (which I was so close to getting, though I had it in the wrong spot. I knew it was ‘Ta’ and there was an ‘i’ and it ending in ‘stan’ but I just wasn’t quite getting it.)
I also played some Know Your World and ended by getting 4 km on New York City! That is definitely a new best. ThenI got 9 km on Auckland New Zealand.
