I knew I was ignorant, but this is embarrassing: Given a blank map, I could only identify 64 countries, out of 194! Plus I didn't know Greenland was part of Denmark, I thought Bangladesh and Bahrain were cities, and I thought Qatar was an airline. (In my defense, I did overlook a few that I should have gotten, such as Finland, Lebanon, Kuwait, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines. And yes, I know I mis-label Malaysia and Swaziland, but I was close.)
If I'm going to be a world citizen, I need to do some more studying. So I'm setting myself a goal that this time next month, I should be able to identify twice as many. Hopefully this will go better than my Italian studies.
If you want to take your own test, get a blank map here. (If you want to cheat, you can get a list of countries here. Answers are here.)
P.S. Hopefully I won't cause an international incident if I recognize Taiwan as well.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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