jography
In my childhood; well, secondary school really, I had this really cool subject named Social Sciences. It was a mixture of basic economics, geography and similarly interesting subject matter. It was cool because I like geography, in a see interesting places, if only on a map sort of way.
Today, I basically had to put my money where my mouth is and place countries of Europe on a virtual map. The game link is here. The number of correctly placed entries count, as does the time taken to complete. The average error in placement (computed in miles) also counts. I completely blew at placing some countries of Eastern Europe, incidentally.. most embarassingly, I missed Bulgaria. Of course, there were lots of smaller places (like San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein) that I misplaced. To my shock and horror, I actually guessed Malta right. Hmm, so my average error was about 60 odd miles; which sucks a bit.. but I got 39 out of 45 right! Whee.
Actually, the entire site is rather cool with more geography based quizzes covering other continents. Now, where was this stuff when I was going to school ?
On 24-Jul-05 at 5:28 am,
chickenbutt wrote:
I sucketh at most of em , but hey i got a 75% for Asia! Your entry reminded me of the time i spent drawing and coloring world maps for social science.hehe they didnt help much..:D