Can you name the most national capitals possible in 60 seconds?

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60 Second Blitz: World Capitals Quiz

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Created by: 1447 -
Contributed: November 18th, 2009
Published: May 10th, 2010
Category: Just For Fun
Plays: 87,172

Tags: Blitz Quizzes, Capital Quizzes, World Quizzes, second, possible, national

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	Golden:	May 10th, 2010 at 23:26 GMT	38 points
	Thats seriously stressful... just trying to get your brain not to jump around madly and be efficient. Which I totally failed to do.

	kcostell:	May 11th, 2010 at 00:29 GMT	21 points
	Oddish, I think Golden nailed what the "point" of this quiz is. Unlike many of the other "blitz" quizzes (books of the bible, presidents, states, elements, etc.) there's no "natural" order to go through the answers here. Combine this with a list that's far too long for anyone to come close to finishing and a set of answers that often require a bit of thought to arrive at, and you've got a nifty test of efficiency.

	WKS:	May 11th, 2010 at 01:07 GMT	12 points
	I couldn't even keep my fingers going consistently. Crazy quiz, involves panicking :)

	GeoExpert:	May 11th, 2010 at 01:19 GMT	21 points
	First one I tried was Bandar Seri Begawan

	Jaspers:	May 11th, 2010 at 01:49 GMT	36 points
	Okay, admit it, everybody who typed Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte was just trying to mess with the statistics.

	jasperwyld:	May 11th, 2010 at 02:19 GMT	14 points
	Interesting to find out what your brain pulls up. I didn't even know what Monrovia was the capital of, must be too much sporcling.

	BigSwitz98:	May 11th, 2010 at 02:36 GMT	1 point
	That didn't go near as badly as I thought it would. Managed 25 just trying to remember those short enough to type efficiently.

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	CommanderCupcake:	May 11th, 2010 at 03:45 GMT	1 point
	No idea what made Managua and Tarawa pop into my head with

	aroddick08:	May 11th, 2010 at 04:13 GMT	6 points
	It is fun to see how the brain can deal with such pressure. besides efficiently going for the same name capitals, I managed to get out Kigali, Andorra La Vella, and Tegucigalpa...no clue.

	jefe_:	May 11th, 2010 at 04:41 GMT	5 points
	I can name most of 'em, just can't type 'em in so fast :(

	CommanderCupcake:	May 11th, 2010 at 05:38 GMT	5 points
	I mean: No idea what made Managua and Tarawa pop into my head with less than 5 seconds left

	tigerschick:	May 11th, 2010 at 06:29 GMT	2 points
	What I think is really interesting about this quiz is the results page gives a detailed insight into the most famous capitals in the world - according to SPorcle users (and, let's face it, we're the ones that matter most ;o) ) - I know there will be anomalies but I think over time it'll be interesting to see which capitals are in the first column - and so far they are not the shortest ones first!!

	Onno:	May 11th, 2010 at 07:14 GMT	5 points
	So has the "Sporcle standard" capital of Palau become Ngerulmud now? It was usually just Melekeok before.

	AhLeah:	May 11th, 2010 at 07:21 GMT	5 points
	This is about 80% geography and 20% speed typing. ;)

	y2jdilemma:	May 11th, 2010 at 10:20 GMT	4 points
	I got totally thrown off by it jsut accepting "vatican" and had about 7 capitals typed out behind it before I noticed.

	1447:	May 11th, 2010 at 14:38 GMT	1 point
	@Onno: Don't think so, but Palau's capital is, and has been since 2006, Ngerulmud, not Melekeok. Melekeok and Ngerulmud are separate villages, located about 2 km apart. Both are located in the state of Melekeok though, maybe that's why people seem to think Melekeok is the actual capital. Look at the image below and you'll see the location of both Melekeok and Ngerulmud: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/State_of_Melekeok.png

	anyaisthebest:	May 11th, 2010 at 15:05 GMT	16 points
	Ouagadougou is by far my favourite world capital name.

	qtowndogg:	May 11th, 2010 at 15:38 GMT	5 points
	This quiz is the devil! 195 answers in 60 seconds: good luck.

	ToughQuiz:	May 11th, 2010 at 16:59 GMT	1 point
	The list is far too long for a blitz quiz. Divide it up into continents; Europe, Asia, and Africa would provide decent challenges for 60 seconds.

	goofymuffin:	May 11th, 2010 at 18:06 GMT	1 point
	Mind-numbing.

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	caramba:	May 11th, 2010 at 21:09 GMT	0 points
	@tigerschick: If this was a "detailed insight into the most famous capitals in the world - according to Sporcle users" , wouldn't Bishkek have more than 1.2%? All hail the Kyrgyzstani capital!

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	Volante:	May 12th, 2010 at 20:05 GMT	3 points
	@ToughQuiz: That's the point. This is Tetris of the sporcle world; you can't beat it, you can only hope to improve your score the next time round.

	mike5816:	May 16th, 2010 at 15:39 GMT	4 points
	O goddess! My brain totally froze up, and all I could pull out of it were hard to type capitals like "Tegucigalpa" and "Copenhagen". Finally I said "short! Short!" and I got "Rome" and "Paris" and "Lomé". (Lomé?!?!?)

	sconeyj:	May 16th, 2010 at 23:35 GMT	2 points
	staying calm in this game is impossible. absolute information overload! i love the fact that sri jayawardenapura kotte was above some simple european capitals. good ole' sporcle!

	dominiquef:	Jun 12th, 2010 at 19:57 GMT	7 points
	Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is the capital of Sri Lanka. Thing is, I bet the quiz also accepts Colombo. So that's why it's above a lot of others.

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	monarch614:	Jun 27th, 2010 at 16:38 GMT	6 points
	i spent most of the 60 seconds trying to spell Reykjavík