There are a few who've answered quite well in the full article. But it worries me that you have such idiots in the country that's somehow managing to be top dog in the world.
2 or 3 more at best.
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I'm sure all the chemists would have a riot too if I tried to label the periodic table. Doesn't make me an idiot, just means that I have no use for the knowledge. The people labeling the maps have no need to memorize the locations of every single European state (and vis-versa, American states), and so they don't.
Brute memorization is for computers and books, it's the application of knowledge that's important.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Croattosaurus Rex:
Spoiler :
His mom is from Varna? Well, that's all fine and dandy until she moved to Kurdistan, afterwards it got kinda dark.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
What does one have to do with the other ? Asking europeans to name the american states is like asking americans to name the german states. You can't compare countries with subdivisions of countries.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
9/16. I guessed most of them, except for the combined ones (i.e Baden-Wurttemberg or Rhineland-Palatinate).
tl;dr: all hail EU3.
tl;dr: all hail EU3.
Sporcle is more about spelling than geography. Just so as long you remember that (say) Rhineland-Palatinate is somewhere in Germany and you can spell it, then it'll appear on the map (assuming, of course, that you've picked a valid German state).
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I got all 50. And 10 german states (yay Schleswig-Holstein)
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
pff, 16/16 on the german states and all spelled in german.
Anti-clockwise from furthest north: Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Baden-Wurttemburg, Bayern, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The three in the middle, west to east: Hessen, Thuringen, Sachsen-Anhalt
City-states: Hamburg, Bremen (in two parts, Bremen proper inland and Bremerhaven on the coast), and Berlin
Because I'm insufferable I'll do France too:
Thank you EU3
Edit: I maintain that the Rhone-Alpes-Whatever is a stupid name
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Cantons of Switzerland pls
It does reflect an often-overlooked historical reality
I think the periodic table would be rather less important. What I wonder is, how many people in positions of power in the US, those who actually manage its international projection a.k.a meddling, know about foreign geography, customs, etc. They're drawn from those people who filled in those maps, but I hope that someone un-idiotises them along the way, for all our sakes. Do you remember Dan Quayle?
But you need some knowledge to apply firstJoecoolyo said:
I missed Thuringen and had problems spelling Baden Wurttemberg
madviking
north american scum
i missed rheinland-palatinate, saxony-anhalt, and mecklenburg-west pomerania
i can name all 48 ceremonial english counties in 3 minutes flat.
i can name all 48 ceremonial english counties in 3 minutes flat.
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