Agreed, join the mapnerd gang

so im embarassingly bad

first try i think i had like 10 skips, 160+ attempts

6 tries later no skips 100 attempts.

im adding this to my "trivia and brain games" bookmarks folder. going to be a daily for me now

62 attempts 0 skips first try

I am the GOAT.

If you are on Linux, there is also the program kgeography to practice geography

(Thanks for the reminder, I really should practice again...)

One of our most beloved comrades dropping some entertainment for our dear Hexbears in this most trying of times, Post-Dunk/Dredge lockdown.

I've been feeling it, folks, not gonna lie, been a last couple of boring days without our homie, UlyssesT keeping us up to date with King Bazinga's post-election euphoria, lib mask-off meltdowns, and other golden turds from the dredge pile.

I took over 100 attempts. That was embarrassingly bad.

I've had the placement of all the African countries more or less down for years, I might even be able to name all the countries of Africa off the top of my head just by visualizing a map of the continent in my mind's eye. I made two mistakes in the linked quiz, however, namely mixing up Mauritius and Seychelles, and mixing up Mali and Mauritania — for the former mistake I should've known better, for the latter mistake, that was just because I was tired and going on autopilot. In any case I did manage to locate all 54 countries in 56 attempts with no skips.

I can also identify all the African national flags, and could probably draw them all from memory, too. I can also identify all the national coats of arms of Africa, but I definitely could not draw those from memory.

Testing myself on African capitals, which I used to have 100% memorized, I could only correctly identify two-thirds of them now. It probably won't take much for me to relearn the capitals I'm weak on, since for a lot of the names that I couldn't remember off the top of my head, those names did sound familiar once the answers were revealed.

I also quizzed myself on African national anthems as performed by the US Navy Band.

There are also a few historical anthems, anthems of unrecognized/partially-recognized countries, or subnational anthems I might've been able to identify, but which weren't in the playlist I listened to. There's also the question of whether you count Yemen as an African country because of Socotra, but I wouldn't do this personally.

Which means that I got 21 / 54 countries, or just over two-fifths.

I just poke around on google earth and street view when I can't sleep. Helpful for general geography knowledge and for reminding you how big and beautiful the world is

53 countries, 284 attempts, 1 skipped (Zambia, wtf are you)

I like this website way more for this: https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3069

uhhh I got like 30 on like 50-ish attempts with a bunch of skips before the game became unplayable due to the graphical glitches haha

This is why harder than I thought it would be, mostly because the text-boxes take up a massive chunk of the screen. Particularly the Central African Republic somehow takes up almost the entire middle part of the continent. Any tips on how to move them?

Competency test for Foreign Minister should include capitals, leeching ex-colonial powers, and at least one ethnicity or widely-spoken language for countries over 20M.

ugh i used to be good at maps. i only know the big regional powers and North Africa

my score is embarrassing i'm going to go to wikipedia and read about every single modern African nation and try again later

took me like 10 tries before i got them all correct without skips or missed attempts. fun game!

Death to America

54/54

learned africa a while ago to play travle.earth

55/54

53 countries, 95 attempts, 1 skipped