I'm not much for quizzes, but this is kind of awesome.

[apocalypsos]

78

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[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

You know what my head did when I saw this?

o/` United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru... o/`

[valerie]

*high five*

Nations of the World totally helped my ass on this :P

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

I never did manage to figure out what name they had Britain/Great Britain/United Kingdom/England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland under... My country has too damn many names.

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

Ireland got its own name, but everything else was lumped in under the united kingdom. :/ i wasted a good 20 seconds on that one.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Ireland *is* a separate country.

Republic of Ireland = a country on its own.
Northern Ireland = a part of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom = Northern Ireland + Great Britain
Great Britain = Scotland, England, Wales

We like to keep things complicated. Why do you think we resisted decimalisation for so long?

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

True, but Puerto Rico technically isn't and it counted on its own.

yeah, well.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

13 (http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/fight5)

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

I think I hit around 78, myself. Largely that was because of The Amazing Race and my family's months-long sabbaticals through South America and Europe. *grin*

... and then I looked at the list of those I hadn't gotten and facepalmed. "How did I miss all those?"

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was drying up on African countries and the only ones that were coming to mind were ones that I remembered from TAR.

I did way better than I expected with eastern Asian countries, so I've got that going for me. :)

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. For Africa I think I got Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Liberia, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Kenya, Chad, and Morocco. For the East Asian countries I nailed the easy ones (China, Japan, North/South Korea, Taiwan), and then fumbled around with Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Nepal.

The Mideast and the Near East were MUCH easier. *grin*

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

81, but I missed some painfully obvious ones. Netherlands, for crying out loud! I missed the Netherlands!

-blue

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Is it awesome because it does absolutely nothing when I hit enter?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You don't have to hit enter if you type a right answer. It just adds what you just typed to the count and clears the entry space.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

I discovered how it worked eventually. The problem was that I started with "USA" or England and neither worked. It had to be "United States" "United Kingdom" etc. V. confusing at first. But I did manage to get 70 in spite of typing a space at the beginning of the words quite a few times and having to start over. LOL Persnickety program!

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

I only got 53 :-(.