Countries of the World Quiz

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Countries of the World Quiz

by MOXN23

Created Feb 14, 2011 in Geography
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	Db99:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 07:20 GMT	1 point
	This quiz has been done before properly with a map and a timer of 20 mins( even then it is still hard). Next time come up with some original ideas!

	cantthinkofaname:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 08:02 GMT	1 point
	I'm guessing that there's some items on here that aren't countries as there are only 195 countries and you have 200.

	nadivereb:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 10:59 GMT	3 points
	Palestine, Western Sahara, South Ossetia and Transnistria are not Sporcle-recognized countries, although I could guess them, as they are quite widely used in "Unrecognized countries" quizzes. However, I have no idea where Sealand came from. And another thing: you have to accept Myanmar, Timor-Leste and Cote D'Ivoire as well.

	matthewsch:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 11:04 GMT	0 points
	@cantthinkofaname There are only 193 internationally recognized sovereign states in the world. Kosovo and Taiwan are not officially recognized, despite the general Sporcle delusion that they are. Having looked at the answers, this quiz contains the 193 in alphabetical order, followed by Kosovo and Taiwan, and 5 other wrong answers (Palestine, Western Sahara, Sealand, South Ossetia and Transnistria). Of the seven, four are de facto sovereign states.

	johnlk:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 18:01 GMT	0 points
	Western Sahara and Palestine both have considerable international recognition - comparable to Taiwan and Kosovo. I guess they don't have Sporcle recognition, but I'm not sure what that is. Sealand, though, is weak, and I'm not sure why you'd include Transnistria and South Ossetia without including Abkhazia and Northern Cyprus (and, to a lesser extent, Somaliland). So long as sporcle front page quizzes count Kosovo and Taiwan, I don't see any reason why any individual quiz maker should be chided for making a quiz that has a slightly different, but just as plausible, list.

	MOXN23:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 20:41 GMT	0 points
	@Db99: I know about that game (it's actually one of my favorite games one here!), but because the map gets covered up by all the names I figured I'd make one where there was no map, and the countries were listed alphabetically (Except for countries like South Ossetia or Palestine, though). I meant to make those bonus answers.

	MOXN23:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 20:43 GMT	0 points
	Does anyone know how to edit games? I'm a bit new here.

	MOXN23:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 01:34 GMT	1 point
	Fixed all the bugs (finally figured out how to edit games!). Unfortunately, also discovered that a similar game has already been made (listing all the countries alphabetically) :-(

	MOXN23:	Apr 23rd, 2011 at 02:33 GMT	1 point
	UPDATE Added a few more acceptable answers for countries, as well as the bonus answers.

	MOXN23:	Jul 23rd, 2011 at 01:19 GMT	1 point
	UPDATE changed the data to reflect South Sudan's independence.