Can you name the countries you'd reach first sailing straight from the indicated ports in the indicated direction?

created by Booger

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Click any empty Port - Direction or Destination Country to answer for that location
Note: For purposes of this quiz, please assume that your boat sails as necessary to reach open sea and then continues in the indicated direction at the same longitude (for northerly and southerly voyages) or latitude (for easterly and westerly voyages) as your port of origin.
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You have 7 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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Port - Direction	Destination Country	Traveled Body of Water
Brighton, England, UK - South		English Channel
Mumbai, India - West		Arabian Sea
Perth, Australia - West		Indian Ocean
Aruba, Netherlands - North		Caribbean Sea
Jacksonville, Florida, USA - East		Atlantic Ocean
Manila, Philippines - West		South China Sea
Kingston, Jamaica - South		Caribbean Sea
Paramaribo, Suriname - North		Atlantic Ocean
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - East		Atlantic Ocean
Baku, Azerbaijan - East		Caspian Sea

Port - Direction	Destination Country	Traveled Body of Water
Nome, Alaska, USA - West		Bering Sea
Stockholm, Sweden - East		Baltic Sea
Sevastopol, Ukraine - South		Black Sea
Tel Aviv, Israel - West		Mediterranean Sea
Venice, Italy - East		Adriatic Sea
Male, Maldives - North		Arabian Sea
Valdivia, Chile - West		Pacific Ocean
San Francisco, California, USA - West		Pacific Ocean
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - East		Caribbean Sea
Singapore - East		South China Sea

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Sail the Ocean Blue Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Contributed: September 22nd, 2009
Published: November 12th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 49,257

Tags: Country Quizzes, sailing, port, direction, destination, travel, body, straight, blue, ocean, water, indicated, sail, reach

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	jdtrinkle:	Sep 23rd, 2009 at 06:47 GMT	19 points
	Nice game.

	RandallPinkston:	Sep 23rd, 2009 at 07:19 GMT	23 points
	Good luck with getting this one posted--it's a fun one.

	Distiller:	Sep 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 GMT	9 points
	Great game.

	pienet:	Sep 23rd, 2009 at 16:36 GMT	5 points
	Excellent idea. I couldn't find Panamaribo; no way it could miss one of the Caribbean islands, i thought.

	breizad:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:30 GMT	8 points
	Excellent game. The trickiest items were really fun.

	segacs:	Sep 25th, 2009 at 02:25 GMT	7 points
	This was a lot of fun, and really tricky without a map to look at. I do have to wonder, though, how accurate it is - are there no island chains or territorial waters in the way? But maybe I'm overanalysing. Anyway, cool concept for a quiz.

	Onno:	Sep 25th, 2009 at 14:31 GMT	11 points
	This is a really good game. It requires some knowledge of world cities and exact positions of countries. You actually sail that map or globe in your head while doing this quiz!

	Merijn:	Sep 25th, 2009 at 15:22 GMT	5 points
	Really a tricky quiz, espacially when you're leaving from a big country and you have to sail half of the world. But it is fun!

	BigFlax:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 01:08 GMT	4 points
	Cool idea!

	Jordan117:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 02:44 GMT	2 points
	Great idea! Very original. PS: How did you get a note posted along with the quiz directions? The FAQ says you can't do that yet.

	urban_nomad:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 05:17 GMT	7 points
	Lots of fun...the suriname one took some work and really surprised me.

	Patteroast:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 11:35 GMT	4 points
	Fun and different! :)

	chux:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	2 points
	Sing with me now! "We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship's a beauty. We're sober men and true, and attentive to our duty."

	Lauro:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 14:51 GMT	4 points
	Very entertaining quiz, thx a lot!

	thelargeone:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	6 points
	Difficult. Good test of visualization

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	match:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 19:48 GMT	17 points
	This one needs to get published.

	melissa:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 00:55 GMT	13 points
	Great concept - another clever twist on geography quizzes - great mix of relatively intuitive answers and really surprising ones. One minor suggestion: Bologna's not a port, so perhaps pick a different Italian city like Venice or Ancona.

	Booger:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 14:30 GMT	10 points
	Thanks Melissa. You are right. Venice is a better city to use, and it just makes it to keep the same answer.

	Tats:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 14:43 GMT	36 points
	man. hell of a trip from suriname. better pack a lunch.

	johnson:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 19:33 GMT	5 points
	great game... love the creative concept

	pbrown:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	4 points
	This was tough to understand at first, but after i got one it was "smooth sailing" from there on out. Great Quiz

	AtoneMENT:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:18 GMT	4 points
	Once I mastered that left/right, east/west thing, I did much better! :) GREAT game, you really raise the profile of the term "booger!"

	Capo:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:36 GMT	6 points
	the suriname one was hard and took me a while.... i guess everyone underestimates how far east south America swings out :S

	Bren808:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:41 GMT	3 points
	fantastic! I loved this one - definitely got me thinking. I kept thinking "Vladivostok" for "Sevastopol" and missed a relatively easy one though. Doh! Thanks for the quiz!

	motomoto:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	3 points
	Wow - what a great game. Paramaribo was my last one to figure out - guess it never really occurred to me how far west the easternmost part of the islands were.

	tigerschick:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	3 points
	Oh my! I didn't even consider that answer for Paramaribo! I tried the whole Caribbean twice just in case I miss-typed something!! Am also really surprised by the Perth answer - I thought it was much further south! Brilliant quiz :o)

	ianbob:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. I had Google Earth running in my brain.

	Geo_Crazy:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	5 points
	A totally different perceptive of geography. Like it.

	RyGuy:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	12 points
	That Aruba, NETHERLANDS had me confused

	urbanmapper:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 21:43 GMT	-2 points
	Malaysia should be a bonus for Singapore - its the first country you'd get to from the northern 2/3 of singapore. And, also as bonuses, I'd include "Sweden", "Philippines", "Maldives", "Brazil", and "Italy", as they are technically the first countries you come to after leaving those cities. You could change the directions, but I think its cooler to leave them as easter eggs. Finally, a la Bolognia, Valdivia isn't really a port town; how about Puerto Montt? Don't take any of this as disparagement; great game!

	HammondEgger:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 21:52 GMT	1 point
	Depends on what map was used. Sailing east from Venice, Italy the answer could be Croatia, Slovenia or Italy again.

	geowiz85:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:14 GMT	5 points
	just a suggestion, you might want to use an actual port on aruba, like maybe oranjestad, although i think if you went north from there youd just hit aruba again

	conradmcmasters:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:17 GMT	1 point
	one of the best quizzes so far. 20/20, took a while, but awesome quiz

	JasonJP:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:20 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz!

	pg2470:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	7 points
	How did so few people get Colombia? C'mon, if you're heading south from anywhere in the Caribbean, your options are pretty much Colombia, Venezuela, or Panama. Then again, only 64% knew Russia is Alaska's western neighbor.

	MatteSE:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	0 points
	@RyGuy: Yeah me too. I tried every possible country north of Netherlands but no hit ;-)

	Lin:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT	0 points
	I did get a tad confused with the Aruba, Netherlands hint, but other than that, this was a really fun game!

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	orbit:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:56 GMT	6 points
	Loved it, great quiz! A geography quiz that tests actual map knowledge and not knowledge of the alphabet.