h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6083496.stm

A good little quiz.

I got 7/10 Must try harder.

6/10, and most of that was guess work.

I thought I was good at geography, but I got 6/10. Well done, SWL

I'm not going to let on what my score was suffice it to say it was below 50%. Would have been more if I hadn't second-guessed.

I got 9/10, but I really am good at geography. I didn't know whether it was Kosovo or Montenegro, though.

7/10

I got 19 on the English one!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4246472.stm

8/10

Missed Paraguay and Quatar.

sprout

... and now nobody else will miss them!

9/10. Got Pakistan wrong for some reason.

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What am I missing here then? there is obviously a quiz around that I know nothing about

See the link in posting 1, Scorp...

Thanks

9/10

7 years working for an airline weren't wasted then

19 on the English one too Darn apostrophes. Its' a disgrace that I always get them mixed up

5/10.

Might possible have done better had there been a little more context, especially on the south-eastern Europe question. But not much better, I'm sorry to say.

And I guessed one country because of the text, which said "a significant minority speak Russian", not because of the map. And the one with the capital of Ulaanbator was also got from the text, not the map.

I find it hard to believe, though, that one fifth of British schoolkids couldn't find the UK on a map of the world. Was this a cross-age sample, from five to seventeen, or whatever?

TRiG.

Woodpigeon says his two-year-olds can find Earth on a map of the solar system, and Ireland on a map of the world.

7/10 on the Geography 20/20 on the English. So I may get lost but I can ask for directions.

10/10! But then, geography is something that interests me a lot..

Damn Woodpigeon just stole my thunder! I thought I was going to be the first person to get 10/10.

I do want to be a geography teacher, so I should be good at this sort of stuff.