Don’t Know Much About Geography

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  Cabbage Boy on March 26 at 2:14 p.m.

  I did okay. Knew the general area of the most countries I got wrong, but the -akiztans are bit hazy, as is western Africa.

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  DFO on March 26 at 2:21 p.m.

  I was golden re: Middle East, lucky in dealing with the “stans,” and then fell apart in northern Africa. Leave it to Cis to come up with tough links to test our skills in all sorts of areas.

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  Cindy_H on March 26 at 2:26 p.m.

  As someone who has been known to get lost driving to her home in North Spokane from Spokane Valley, I don’t know nothing ‘bout no geography.
  I’d just be happy if Spokane Valley would label their streets in a numerical order that made sense.
  Once I was asked to interview a woman in a home on 9th Ave in the Valley. I called my editor in a panic and told him there wasn’t any such residence on 9th. He paused and said, “Oh. It must be the OTHER 9th Ave, in the Valley.”
  Huh?
  I can name all fifty states AND their capitols AND find them on a map. I know where Mexico and Canada are. I know the general direction of all seven continents. What else do I need to know?

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  JeanieSpokane on March 26 at 2:36 p.m.

  I’m with Cindy. I could get lost in a paper bag. Worse - I have to be **on time** if not 15 minutes early for dinner dates. I have been known to wander and wander and not be able to find the “quaint little bistro behind the fourth maple tree on the right, next to the little bead shop” and when it approached the witching hour of 6:30, I gave up and went home. I will NOT be late.

  Once I drove to my parents house in Yachats, Oregon and took the wrong exit and ended up lost (I told my parents I was touring) in Albany. Albany is about as big as from here to that wall over there.

  And further - why is it that people NOT from Washington state (further than Idaho) think that I’m talking about D.C., as in, “Washington is a state????”

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  scootermom on March 26 at 2:53 p.m.

  I did OK. The “stans” kind of got me.

  When I was an undergrad in Lawrence, Kansas I spent a great deal of time lost. All the main streets are named after the states, in the order they were admitted to the union.

  Hawaii I could find, but I had to get a map to find Arkansas, Iowa, etc. It was more a history test than a geography test, but I was still lost.

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  Cis on March 26 at 3:12 p.m.

  Bahrain was the one that got me… I thought they were fooling around by throwing in an extra name… but then found the spot. I did pretty well, once I got Afghanistan, figured out the stans were close by. rest was the war and news that got me thru…. . then Africa was a little challenging..

  As far as directions are concern…in town… my daughter and I tell where places are by the yard sales we went to… you know like… you know where we bought the tricycle, it is two houses from that… or know where we got the leather jacket with the cheap shoes.. next door. lol

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  JohnA on March 26 at 3:28 p.m.

  Great little test, Cis. I messed up western Africa (I’d never heard of Western Sahara or Mali) but got the rest correct.

  This would be a good tool to teach geography. I’ll forward it to my three sisters, all of whom teach in the area.

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  toadman on March 26 at 3:36 p.m.

  bugger all those ‘stans. Otherwise, got all North Africa and Middle East..

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  Stickman on March 26 at 8:19 p.m.

  Since I have traveled my whole life, I have geography down.

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  marmitetoasty on March 27 at 1:03 a.m.

  My friends little boy is named Stan :)

  x

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  JBelle on March 27 at 10:13 a.m.

  I loved Social Studies in school, love geography, love maps, collect old maps and love to plan trips and analyze logistics. sigh. I’m not kidding. I really am an ubergeek. This was great fun.

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  florined on March 27 at 10:29 a.m.

  Boy, it would be interesting to be back in a classroom, either as a teacher or a student, with all the tools now available. Just for fun, I looked further at the site Cis introduced, for other areas. And isn’t that what learning is about? Answers lead to more quesitons?

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  hhuseland on March 27 at 8:58 p.m.

  I was stationed in Morocco in the fifties and knew western sahara. I was, however fooled on Bahrain, since it was such a small target. Other than that, I even got all of the stans correct. I’ve been a student of the middle east since I was there in the fifties, then again when the 1990 war broke out. While my ancient brain doesn’t hold all of it’s memories, I still apparently have some.

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  hhuseland on March 27 at 9:15 p.m.

  Toadman, you have to stop listening to Marmite. Bugger is a rather distasteful reference to anal sex that the British use casually.

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  Stickman on March 28 at 5:36 p.m.

  I will always listen to Marnite herb, she is the essance that makes this blog, no matter what she says.

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