Can you name the countries beginning with the letter 'I'?

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'I' Lands Quiz

by Anne13

Created Dec 2, 2009 in Geography
Featured Mar 2, 2011
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	lucia:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 16:08 GMT		40 points
	cant believe the only I forgot was italy, i'm part italian

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	BunnySMG:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 16:30 GMT		14 points
	The only one I missed was Iceland, which was guessed most and I started off with Israel, the least guessed. My brain is odd.

	beforever:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 16:56 GMT		57 points
	I forgot Italy too. Why do people forget Italy? Someone get a scientist on this.

	tigerschick:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 16:57 GMT		2 points
	cuendillar (archived comments) - at the moment, the results are going in alphabetical order with the exception of India which has dropped a couple of slots; like you say, it's interesting to look at the results page and see how people work things out :o)

	caramba:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:01 GMT		11 points
	@anne13: Congratulations on your first published quiz!

	giospurs:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:12 GMT		5 points
	Yeah, it's interesting that Italy is so far down the list. I'm part-Italian aswell and only stumbled upon it towards the end

	pgrossma:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:25 GMT		12 points
	I also forgot Italy, something odd is at work here

	Anne13:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:50 GMT		2 points
	caramba, Thank you!

	TitaniumShovel:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:53 GMT		25 points
	I forgot Italy, too! I think it might be the way frequent Sporcle players think - it's the Kyrgyzstan effect. You think of the most complicated ones first and completely disregard the most obvious ones.

	IronFirefly:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:31 GMT		10 points
	"oh this will be easy" slap forehead

	WyattsTorch:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:49 GMT		5 points
	Not many Jewish Sporclers today it seems.

	monstro:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:49 GMT		8 points
	I got Italy last. Kind of surprised I was able to get them all; usually a quiz like this has one of those countries I always for get, like Kiribati or... that other one.

	Genius7294:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 19:04 GMT		4 points
	i forgot italy this is WEIRD and i got iceland

	Akhoya:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 19:41 GMT		6 points
	Is anyone else surprised that Iceland is the most guessed? Maybe it's because it sounds more like "'I'-land" than the others - but that would be true for Ireland too, and way more people are Irish than Icelandic!

	Bob91351:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 19:52 GMT		8 points
	I definitely need to learn to type faster, or at least to type Indonesia correctly the first try, or the second...

	matt01:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 20:37 GMT		13 points
	I'd love to know who got Iran but not Iraq

	strags11:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:57 GMT		21 points
	Swell. Now when I die, I'll be greeted by fifty generations of angry Italian ancestors.

	PK9:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 22:00 GMT		2 points
	@Akhoya: It's really close, my guess is the difference is the handful of people who thought "Ireland" and then dismissed it erroneously as part of the UK. I went "Iceland" "Ireland" "India" "Illinois" in my thinking so thinking of subnational entities is something that happens. Having the answers in alphabetical order helped a lot, I don't think I would have gotten them all without being able to narrow down the second letter of the missing countries, and with I- a lot of second-letter combinations are immediately discardable "IO-? IP-? IQ-? IR-? Oh right, Iran/Iraq"

	lucyzoe:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 22:23 GMT		3 points
	i bet so many people forget Italy because they're trying to get the more obscure answers

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	hotrod14:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 22:52 GMT		4 points
	i hate it when the answers to country quizzes are in alphabetical order. some times it can be an unfair advantage, but more often, it hinders my thought process because i stop thinking logically and start running letter combinations through my head to come up with the answers. much better when in ramdom order!

	brianiac13:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 22:59 GMT		7 points
	I'm Jewish and the only one I forgot was Israel.

	WeirFan:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 23:29 GMT		11 points
	Hank Scorpio was correct: "Nobody ever says Italy."

	Patricio:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 23:47 GMT		-3 points
	Awesome quiz, very original (?)

	SexualCamel:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 01:36 GMT		2 points
	Italy got me too. Great quiz. There's no tricky tiny islands or obscure countries, yet it's still hard to solve.

	jaypunkrawk:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 02:29 GMT		-2 points
	Italy was the last one I got with 21 seconds left after getting all the others in the first 20 seconds.

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	Killerseven:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 11:37 GMT		7 points
	@climber_v12: That's cause the general name for Ivory Coast on sporcle is it's official name: Cote d'Ivoire. Great Quiz btw, stumbled for a while on Italy like everyone else.

	gene:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 12:30 GMT		1 point
	With the 1st 7 countries out of the way in 20 seconds I figured I was a lock to ace this quiz. Nope. Couldn't remember Italy. Even with the knowledge the countries were listed in alphabetical order I still couldn't figure out the last on the list. (Let's see: IS, IT, IV , etc.) I was too embarrassed to leave a comment, but when I saw a lot of other people forgetting Italy I didn't feel so bad afterall.

	MERM:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 12:43 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz! you should know all the countries. They were either big or had their banking systems melt down recently.

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	dma1130:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 19:44 GMT		2 points
	Of course I forgot the most OBVIOUS ones, I'm Irish and I didn't get Ireland, Iceland (which like everyone got) and Israel even though I'm Jewish as well. Shakes head Some of my guesses inclued Illinois, Istanbul and Islam. It is VERY sad. But I got Italy! That has to count for something..

	SenorKristobbal:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 15:18 GMT		1 point
	I didn't forget Italy it was the last one I put though as I realised it must began IT with the answers being in alphabetical order