I like doing this online quiz every once in a while (although the website has gotten much shittier over the past few decades.)

Got 123/197 today, those tiny west African countries and pacific island nations tend to get me.

you should play worldle and travle

United States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru Republic Dominican Cuba Caribbean Greenland El Salvador too

Puerto Rico Colombia Venezuela
Honduras Guyana and still
Guatemala Bolivia then Argentina
And Ecuador Chile Brazil

Got 123/197 today, those tiny west African countries and pacific island nations tend to get me.

It'll get easier with time.

Unforunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1508wboZXk

And then level up to When Taken!
https://whentaken.com/?trk=public_post-text

All. I played that quiz more than 30 times. A few days ago I played the flag quiz to refresh my memory.

Does some know of a good quiz about capital cities or big cities? That's something I like to learn

I got 72 on that quiz just now.

You could try When Taken to really test your knowledge! Gets you thinking about more than just where the image is, but when also.

https://whentaken.com/?trk=public_post-text

Seterra has many games, including capitals and flags

167/197

I've got the continents down pretty well, but the islands always get me.

Seterra all the way!

Oof, I used to be better. I didn't realise it was timed, and and number of them I knew but couldn't spell.

The last couple of times have had me wondering if I hallucinated the existence of the Philippines because I apparently don’t know how to spell.

ETA: like I immediately think for a minute it’s still like Guam and not its own thing?

Damn I didn't realise it was timed. Trying to do all that typing on mobile was a bit slow, I only got to 80 before running out of time, and still hadn't done Europe and only started on Africa.

A bit rough they make you spell them all!

When Taken is a nice concept, but I have found a mistake once and lost a bit of trust in it. In the picture was a birth and death year of a person, but the photo was supposedly taken a few years before the person died.

Interesting, I haven't played in while but only came across the odd national celebration, no birthdays. I'm not too surprised there may be mistakes. The computer 'ai' guess can be...how the hell can it figure that?!, so I assume it's created using the same programme.

I don't think they use a ai program for that, they probably just have a dataset with the pictures. Might even be a dataset for training ai.

The picture in question was from the AIDS Quilt when it was displayed in Washington D.C. in the 90s. So not even a very old picture

I put ai in ' ' as I assume it's generated automatically somehow. AI is just a somewhat a modern/newer version of computer generated/automated in general (colloquially speaking).

The date part is probably the most tricky one to add when making these, unless it's an accurate record, it could be an estimate anyway.

And then harder with more time, as is tradition

124 before running out of time. Spent way too long trying to spell Phillipines and Liechtenstein, and ended up giving up. I think I would've ended up on 135ish maybe.

Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, and French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam

My spouse is great at these. Her only blind spots are small islands in the Pacific and some down the Caribbean chain, and half of those she knows. I would bet the farm she could hit 150 named correctly on a map without breaking a sweat. Then place their flags and name capitals.

Well they have to unless they'd present you with a list of fake and real ones or something.

Yeah true. Can't give you a list to pick from I guess haha, just annoying that I know the countries but sometimes can't spell them!

So many.

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru...

All from memory:

Latvia, Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Congo, Egypt, South Africa, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Dominican Republic, Czechia, Australia, The United States, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Argentina, Peru, Cuba, UAE, Haiti, Tonga, East Timor, Liberia, Paraguay, Hondurus, Panama, Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea, Iran, Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Cambodia, Moldova, Romania, Ireland, Palestine, UK, Poland, and Cyprus

It's a bit of a hobby of mine, I also do lots of quizzes on jetpunk.com, so naming all countries of the world is actually very easy for me, with or without a map.

Probably like 12 and half would be continents.

1. Malta was driving me nuts; couldn't think of the name.

Algeria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Dominica, Egypt, France, Gambia, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mongolia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Surinam, Turkey, Uruguay, Vietnam, West Xylophone, Yemen, Zimbabwe

over 150 in under 9 minutes.

106

What countries did y'all embarassingly forget? For me: Austria, Albania, Montenegro, Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Lebanon

and I forgot Austria of all places

All of them and identify them all on a globe (besides island countries cause we all know that's impossible)

None. They’ve already got names, and in any case, I don’t think anyone would let me name any of them (which is a shame, because I’d name Mexico as New Tenochtitlan, spelling accurate of course)