Can you name the Countries you NATURALLY THINK OF? by LaviniaB

Can you name the Countries you NATURALLY THINK OF?

created by LaviniaB

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The country which naturally comes to mind after the hint country if you're playing "Countries of the world" (this is how my mind works, it might not be the same for everyone). Example: S Korea-N Korea
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Country	Country
Dominica
Republic of the Congo
Swaziland
Guinea
Marshall Islands
Czech Republic
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Afghanistan
Greece
Netherlands
Paraguay
United Kingdom
Niger

Country	Country
Oman
Zambia
Cape Verde
Mauritania
Australia
Vanuatu
Ethiopia
Romania
Luxembourg
Estonia
St Kitts and Nevis
Mali
Spain
Armenia

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Countries you NATURALLY THINK OF Quiz

by LaviniaB

Created Aug 20, 2010 in Geography
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	LaviniaB:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 18:43 GMT		4 points
	The answers might seem completely random for some countries and I apologise for that. When I play the "Countries of the world" quiz these are the countries I think of, one after the other. The connection between them is often geographical or linguistic. Have fun with it and please let me know what you think. Thank you for playing!

	joebobs:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 18:49 GMT		28 points
	Great quiz! I think the same for most of them. Stumped me with Afghanistan though, I always group it with Pakistan.

	peanut4:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 18:56 GMT		29 points
	This isn't "countries you naturally think of" but "countries I naturally think of". Most are probably the same for all people but not all - Swaziland to Switzerland and Afghanistan to Azerbaijan are two I don't naturally think of. Greece has no obvious, natural progression at all; and UK to US is totally up to personal opinion.

	Moofz:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:00 GMT		9 points
	Slightly subjective but easily guessable. You could probably add a few more to fit the time better. Here are a few I think are probably common enough: Mauritius and Mauritania, Oman and Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Cape Verde and Cote d'Ivoire, Thailand and Taiwan, St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines and St. Kitts & Nevis, Armenia and Albania, Slovakia and Slovenia, Indonesia and Micronesia, Libya and Liberia.

	LaviniaB:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:13 GMT		-1 points
	Cheers for the suggestions Moofz. Guys, I said this twice both in the note and the comment: these are the countries I think of but I can't put that in the title because no one would be interested in this quiz anymore. Also since it's "easily guessable" I don't think anyone should have any problems with it and there is more than one answer for each country exactly because I don't want this to be too subjective, so for example the UK has US but also Ireland as answers.

	HistoricalJoe:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:16 GMT		36 points
	When I think Afghanistan I think Pakistan long before Azerbaijan. Also when I think Greece I immediately think Turkey. They've hated each other for so long its hard for my mind not to think that way.

	Pit_trout:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:20 GMT		14 points
	Like others, Afghanistan/Azerbaijan and Swaziland/Switzerland are the two that don't work for me. I definitely pair Swaziland with Lesotho, and don't generally pair Pakistan with anything — possibly Bangladesh. I guess this shows up how some people index information more verbally, others more by meaning...

	AlexRandom:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:22 GMT		15 points
	Most were either shared by me or easily guessable if not, but Afghanistan - Azerbaijan puzzled me. They are not geographically close, they are not alphabetically consecutive like Swaziland - Switzerland, and their names are not so similar as Paraguay - Uruguay. I agree with joebobs in grouping Afghanistan with Pakistan (they are the two "stans" that are not ex-Soviet, border each other, and with US military tangles) so perhaps you should allow that as an alternative answer at least.

	bsd987:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:22 GMT		-2 points
	Agree with everyone else.

	chuckkuhbaby:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:25 GMT		12 points
	Am i the only one else who pairs Greece with Turkey? or Kazakhstan with Mongolia? ahaha

	brokenviolin:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 19:56 GMT		11 points
	I did the Greece-Turkey thing too. For me, I often pair up UK and Ukraine, since I am used to getting UK from putting Ukraine, and when putting UK in and it does not work, I just continue with Ukraine.

	bart122333:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 20:20 GMT		15 points
	I don't get the Afghanistan-Azerbaijan one. I would rather say Afghanistan-Pakistan and Armenia-Azerbaijan..

	hollabackitsobi:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 21:00 GMT		7 points
	Yeah, I usually group Armenia and Azerbaijan. Afghanistan-Azerbaijan is very strange. I co-sign all of Moofz's suggestions save for Armenia-Albania, and Cape Verde-Cote D'ivoire. The others are related enough by sound/proximity/history to be acceptable.

	cuendillar:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 21:06 GMT		11 points
	I'm not really "pairing" Kazakhstan with anything, instead I group all the ex-Soviet *stans together. I often think in slightly larger units like Baltic states, Scandinavia, ex-Soviet Europe etc. Agree with Swaziland/Lesotho and Afghanistan/Pakistan. I would also like to add Nepal/Bhutan, Nauru/Palau, Togo/Benin, San Marino/Vatican and Guyana/Suriname.

	newenglander:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 21:48 GMT		13 points
	i think of sao tome and principe after cape verde, because thats the other west african island country

	kimo:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 21:52 GMT		5 points
	eritrea/ethiopia

	Sjoerd:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 22:38 GMT		7 points
	Swaziland - Lesotho: small countries (nearly) inside South Africa; Cape Verde - Comoros: island countries near Africa starting with a C :-p

	hilco:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 22:59 GMT		12 points
	I usually do Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe together (islands west of Africa) and Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles together. And I always group Australia and New Zealand. But generally, it would be interesting to make a survey out of this.

	dajop:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 00:40 GMT		2 points
	fun quiz, trying to guess something where there is no defined correct answer. only one i missed was cape verde, so happy with that.

	dancastro:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 02:34 GMT		17 points
	I've been in Sporcle only since a month and a half, but I've seen that people here think naturally of Kyrgyzstan even without seeing the hint Kazakhstan.

	Heresy:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 02:37 GMT		8 points
	tuvalu-vanuatu. palau-nauru. tonga-samoa. indonesia-malaysia. china-taiwan. luxembourg-liechtenstein. monaco-san marino. ukraine-belarus. Fascinating study in how people think and memorize.

	cardspartan:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 04:23 GMT		6 points
	@dancastro-Yeah, I was wondering why Kyrgyzstan wasn't available for all of them.

	rockhopperlad:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 04:29 GMT		4 points
	Thanks for taking Ireland for UK. I would not have put it with the USA. Greece-Cyprus was a stretch for me. I'd have gone for Turkey. As for Cape Verde-Cote d'Ivoire, I never would have made that connection. My first thought was Portugal.

	masaeaida:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 04:55 GMT		4 points
	Cape Verde-Cote d'Ivoire, Afghanistan-Azerbaijan, and Greece-Macedonia make almost no sense to me (I went Sao Tome, Pakistan, Turkey respectively). The other ones I get, but I went UK-Ireland, Swaziland-Lesotho, Marshall Islands-Micronesia. I think it's particularly interesting the way people do Oceania differently: FWIW, my other pairs would be Australia-NZ, PNG-Solomon Islands, Fiji-Vanuatu, Samoa-Tonga, Kiribati-Tuvalu, Palau-Nauru.

	LaymansTerm:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 06:48 GMT		0 points
	Really fun quiz, very creative. 5/5 Sporcle orbs.

	Chris968:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 07:01 GMT		3 points
	Who thinks of the US and the UK together? Apart from the word "United" there is no connection.

	SanityLapse:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 07:02 GMT		3 points
	I don't see the Cape Verde and Cote d'Ivoire connection at all. I first thought of Sao Tome and Principe, since they are the only two island nations on the western side of Africa.

	peterpan:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 07:20 GMT		1 point
	i agree with cuendiller, newenglander, hilco, and heresy. This puts me with a lot of the rest of you, though not all. Also on oceania and asia near oceania, I would go: Indonesia/Malaysia, Aus/NZ, Pal/Nau, etc. I often do Brunei with bhutan and bahrain. And you might notice that this leaves Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste out, both of which I often forget!

	peterpan:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 07:22 GMT		3 points
	for being such a subjective quiz this is very interesting! so, good quiz! oh, i did get cape verde/cote divoire even though that's not how i think of it. but when i saw laviniab wasn't going with the african island countries, i tried senegal and cote divoire.

	ulashima:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 07:50 GMT		2 points
	I molstly think Sao Tome and Principe, when they say Cape Verde, since they are former Portuguese island colonies on the west side od Africa. Maybe it's because I'm thinking with my native language and Cote d'Ivoire is nothing close to Cape Verde.

	Bulletchewer6:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 08:03 GMT		9 points
	When I played this, I naturally thought it was crap!

	cantthinkofaname:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 10:17 GMT		4 points
	All accept the last one make sense. Cote Divoire and Cape Verde? Other than starting with the same letter (which is a pretty weak link) I don't see the natural connection.

	futureboy:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 10:29 GMT		4 points
	I like this quiz. Would always go for Swaziland-Lesotho myself though.

	kobayashi68:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 11:11 GMT		3 points
	interesting! two exceptions for me however : Swaziland is related with lesotho in my mind (both are included in Sth Africa. As for Cape verde, I think of Sao Tome and Pricipe (both are islands near africa). I usually relate the countries by continents so Swaziland and Switzerland do not go together well. Nice quizz however.

	horseydeucey:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 11:36 GMT		11 points
	It's a little strange for a quiz to tell me the nations I naturally think of are wrong.

	Navarro2814:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 12:11 GMT		20 points
	I thought of Kyrgyzstan for all of them

	bmo1616:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 12:42 GMT		13 points
	I don't know about you, but I'm Hungary for some Turkey.

	conradmcmasters:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 14:28 GMT		4 points
	I don't think Cape Verde & Ivory Coast, but otherwise I flew through it. Nice quiz.

	real408:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 14:33 GMT		2 points
	accept Ivory coast

	abanazerb:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 14:36 GMT		1 point
	Excellent, imaginitive quiz. Still trying to puzzle out the Marshall Islands though, even after seeing the answer!