How Many Countries Can You Name?
Posted in Cool by Evan at 8:14 am
Want a web app to show you just how little you know about the world? I’ve got just the thing for you: name as many countries as you can in 5 minutes. Prepare to feel way more stupid than you should when you forget…a lot.



22 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Stijn
I can do 61.
Feb 4th, 2008
etienne
i knew 43
Feb 4th, 2008
Paul B
Hmmm, has anyone seen that old Animaniacs! cartoon skit where Yakko names tons of countries?
Here is the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc
Feb 4th, 2008
ClaMs
65, but it couldn’t see Holland.
Also, I could have sworn that Tahiti was a country.
Feb 4th, 2008
MikeB
92, could not remember where the H was in Kazakhstan
Feb 4th, 2008
Mikey
32…
Feb 4th, 2008
Roger
Partially a typing test. But fun.
@Clams, I think you were looking for “Netherlands.” I got THAT, but you still beat me by 20!
Feb 4th, 2008
j2
61 also.
Feb 4th, 2008
Matt
48.
Feb 4th, 2008
Reis
Some of these are a bit fishy, for one Antarctica isn’t a country and nor is British or French of any of the others mentioned Antarctic Teritories concidered a country? Also they missed out a few Andora is a country by their logic if they have Monaco in there
Feb 4th, 2008
Chris
50 :-/
I took the colors one, and that one seems a bit dubious too. Many of the colors turned out to be “medium yellow” and the like, while excluding some that I thought were obvious. It’s like they got their list from a crayon box (Probably did)
Feb 4th, 2008
marc
only 48 here…im awful at geography
Feb 4th, 2008
stevie
Holland isn’t a country. The Netherlands, baby. The Netherlands.
Feb 4th, 2008
Bryce
I only got 44, and FYI; England is a country.
Feb 4th, 2008
Bode
I don’t understand in what way this shows how uncultured or out-of-touch I am with the world. I can’t name all the elements, but i understand the basic properties and interactions of the most significant ones.
Even still, asking people to pull all the names out of the recesses of their memory is an incredibly irrelevant and meaningless way to gauge some one’s familiarity with the world’s countries.
Fun but inconsequential.
Feb 5th, 2008
CzarCruise
@Reis: Andorra is spelled with two “r’s”
@Clams: Tahiti is owned by the French
I got 79…which isn’t terrible
I swore Antarctica wasn’t a country either..I call bullshit on that one lol.
Feb 5th, 2008
Lavin
217 baby
open an atlas
u might get 268 if ur fast at typing!!
Feb 5th, 2008
11 year old
i got 29 which isnt bad since im 11
Feb 9th, 2008
nishant
65, there aren’t even 200 countries in the world. many of those are territories
Feb 18th, 2008
Cathy R.
I got 117 on my first try but I love geography, type fast, and spell well. This test is right up my alley.
Feb 18th, 2008
lumiere
Hey, guys
sorry for stupid question :))
but where is the link for that test?
thanks
Feb 21st, 2008
scott
268
Mar 26th, 2008
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