Countries, Principalities, and Bees

[tmcg]

Apropos of nothing but how much I suck at geography and how I avoid the G category in Trivial Pursuit as if it were a little blue oval of ebola-anthrax blotter, the drag-and-drop European Geography Level 3.

Apropos of nothing but delight, my blooming spiraea plants continue to attract big, fat, fuzzy, wonderful bumblebees, who go patiently about their work, perturbed by nothing, and make me happy.

Comments

[ferragus.livejournal.com]

Oh evil evil evil Geography!

My first shot was a 76%, not too bad, I did bad mostly on the tiny countries, I mean who knew there was a dot between Switzerland and Austria called Leich, funny I always thought that was where Lichtensten was ... oh wait ... never mind ;)

I can get a 96% on it, but a lot depends on what order they present the counties, hold back on Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece and Turkey and you're pretty much hosed trying to figure out where Macedonia or Moldavia go or at least close enough to count as a hit.

Most embarassing moment, I got lazy putting Iceland on the map and missed! Oops!

Still it's kinda fun

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Exactly true, about the order of the big landmark countries. My biggest frustration was that sometimes I actually knew where a country should go, but my click intended to drag it to the right place instead popped up the answer. "No!" I'd cry. "No, ya bistids! I knew that one!" *g*

It is fun, and I improved significantly on each play, which means I actually learned some geography! Yee! Plus there's a plethora of information in the learn-more-about links.

I haven't looked yet, but it will be very cool if there are games like this for all areas of the world. I would honest-to-ghod learn something. What a concept.