Can you name the progressively tougher questions about geography? by Davidos

Question	Answer
How many U.S. states are there?
What is the largest continent?
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What is the smallest U.S. state?
What is the southern-most continent?
Which country is shaped like a boot?
How many seas border Greece?
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How many countries border Kyrgyzstan?

Question	Answer
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What is the largest country in Africa?
What is the capital of Iceland?
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Progressively Tougher Questions: Geography Quiz

by Davidos

Created May 14, 2011 in Geography
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	Kevmaster5000:	May 14th, 2011 at 19:30 GMT	4 points
	Ican spell Reykjavik! Yay!

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	Thoughtless:	May 14th, 2011 at 22:41 GMT	7 points
	That's the flag, but the question asks about the emblem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Saudi_Arabia

	dancastro:	May 15th, 2011 at 01:44 GMT	6 points
	The results so far show that really the toughest question is that about the Saudi emblem: 37% of the players couldn't answer it, while only 18% failed in the supposedly toughest question. It would be interesting to remake the quiz arranging the order of the questions according to the results. For example, that about the boot-shaped country is very easy: 98% of those who could answer the previous one also guessed it. However, it appears as a very hard question (in the last place but one).

	tahitiwahini:	May 15th, 2011 at 02:10 GMT	3 points
	dancastro has a good point: if the quiz desires to be progressively tougher it can do that through being arranged according to the guessed right statistics. It's fairly easy to move rows about in a live game. The author should consider doing so. Nice quiz.

	Davidos:	May 15th, 2011 at 02:21 GMT	2 points
	thanks. i was thinking about moving it but wasn't sure. changed up the order of a few. i also wanted to wait and see how tough they were for other people. i didnt know so many people knew italy looked like a boot?

	Chocolatl:	May 15th, 2011 at 04:57 GMT	5 points
	I thought everybody knew Italy was boot-shaped. It's sort of the first thing you learn in geography. Most of these questions seem to be about the same degree of difficulty.

	Chocolatl:	May 15th, 2011 at 05:00 GMT	2 points
	Also, you need to change the wording on the next-to-last question, since it isn't the last question anymore.

	Davidos:	May 15th, 2011 at 15:57 GMT	2 points
	thanks. i forgot to change it when i switched them up. sorry about the slow change of difficulty but it's kind of difficult coming up with good tough questions.

	balatjr:	May 17th, 2011 at 17:16 GMT	1 point
	Nice idea. However, as it took only a bit over 2 minutes to do, you could either shorten it, or invite some more relatively tough questions.

	milc:	Feb 24th, 2012 at 08:59 GMT	-2 points
	For the very first one I put in 46 before I put in 50. Technically, that is true, but the answer provided is the common answer, so fair enough

	kaulbach:	Feb 24th, 2012 at 11:34 GMT	1 point
	I think you need to clarify what 'largest' and 'smallest' means - it could be population or area. The largest european country by population isn't Ukraine...

	marpocky:	Feb 25th, 2012 at 05:13 GMT	3 points
	Largest/smallest without clarification typically refer to area, at least when referring to countries.

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	Riko:	Feb 25th, 2012 at 16:23 GMT	3 points
	"Which country's emblem..."

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	kolosomo:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 07:23 GMT	0 points
	Iceland is in the north Atlantic. It's capital city is Reykjavik.

	Headers2304:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 18:13 GMT	0 points
	Only with help from the comments would I have got that last question. Thank you :)

	Davidos:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 19:32 GMT	1 point
	uhhhhhh no problem.....

	cms479:	Feb 28th, 2012 at 16:55 GMT	-2 points
	The main island of Australia is 3x as large as Greenland, and isn't even a whole country let alone a continent.

	Davidos:	Feb 28th, 2012 at 19:27 GMT	1 point
	The continent is sometimes referred to as Oceania on Sporcle most of the time, but usually the entire continent is referred to as Australia (especially when most people first learn about it in school).

	cms479:	Feb 28th, 2012 at 21:11 GMT	1 point
	@Davidos: just because two things (Australia/Oceania the continent and Australia the Country) have the same name doesn't mean they're the same. That would be like arguing that New York doesn't count as a city because New York is also a state.

	Jiggernaught74:	Mar 1st, 2012 at 05:13 GMT	1 point
	I would recommend that you Clarify whether the largest country completly in Europe is by area or population, but other than that, good quiz.