Can you name the continents that these countries might be considered to be in? by Purgatory

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Double-Continent Countries Quiz

by Purgatory

Created Dec 15, 2009 in Geography
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	HiddenPalace:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 02:13 GMT	12 points
	USA has a part in Asia because of that row of islands sticking out from Alaska into Russia?

	Purgatory:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 02:21 GMT	2 points
	The US is a silly one, but territories like American Samoa and Guam give them significant claims to those continents.

	Brian:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 02:26 GMT	3 points
	Uh, you have two "the's" in your title.

	horseface:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 07:32 GMT	13 points
	Surprised France isn't in this with French Guiana

	A_is_for_Addict:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT	14 points
	The title for this quiz on the user created list says double-continent, either change that title or remove the USA since you have it on three continents not two. If you're going to keep Multi-continental countries then, as horseface says, France would be an interesting addition, being in Europe, North America (Guadeloupe and Martinique), South America (French Guiana) and Africa (Reunion). HiddenPalace is correct in saying that the westernmost of the Aleutian Island chain are actually integral parts of the USA in Asia. Personally, I don't see why people have such issues with the USA being considered multi-continental. Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific plate and its closest neighbours are Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, it's certainly not in North America.

	nadivereb:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 09:30 GMT	4 points
	France has territories in Oceania as well (New Caledonia, Tahiti)

	bart122333:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 09:46 GMT	5 points
	Add France and accept 'everywhere' as an answer :)

	gqb:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 13:38 GMT	8 points
	What about the UK with territories in North America? Or do they count?

	wolverine09:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 14:20 GMT	-2 points
	This is a pretty silly quiz- the only ones I would count are Russia and maybe Turkey. When you think of the Netherlands, you think of Europe. I don't think you should count territories.

	fusillirob1983:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 14:53 GMT	6 points
	What territory does Egypt have in Asia and Yemen have in Africa?

	Purgatory:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 15:18 GMT	1 point
	Other countries, like Denmark (Greenland), France (Guyana) or the US (Guam) have substantial claims in other continents. Also, Yemen and Somalia share islands on each other's coast. The Suez canal marks the change from Asia to Africa, since Egypt owns both sides of the canal it has the same double-continent claim that Panama does.

	joebobs:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 15:45 GMT	4 points
	This was infuriating. What about France's Caribbean islands? I can't believe North America isn't listed for France. Oh, and Pierre and Miquelon, next to Canada. North America was the first place I thought of for France (apart from Europe) - I can't believe you don't have it.

	kristen58:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 15:57 GMT	1 point
	fun, but pretty easy.

	btroup1:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 16:31 GMT	12 points
	I think this will continue to lead to points of contention since a continent is a geographical reference, and a country is a political reference. This quiz tries to marry the two, but some will maintain their world view that many of these nations only exist on multiple continents from an imperial perspective. If they can let go of that view for these five minutes, then they'll have an easier time with this quiz.

	dukestupid:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 16:45 GMT	4 points
	I'd say you should shorten the amount of time. I had way too much time to keep guessing.

	Eyzhveit:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 16:55 GMT	-4 points
	Anyone wonder when Oceania became a continent?

	jUNKIEd:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	4 points
	This quiz is ridiculous in a bad way.

	mrpete12583:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 17:20 GMT	-1 points
	I suggest decreasing the time by a minute or two.

	rockmycasbah85:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 17:50 GMT	3 points
	Please fix the France stuff! The Caribbean is considered North America.

	Psyk:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	-3 points
	This quiz is just plain wrong really. I can see why France, Denmark and maybe the Netherlands are on there, but the UK definitely shouldn't be. No part of the UK itself is anywhere but in Europe. The overseas territories, while "owned" by the UK, they are not part of it. USA is an interesting one, at first thought it sounds stupid, but I guess Hawaii is more oceania than it is north america.

	Purgatory:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 18:35 GMT	1 point
	A country is in a continent if it has land there, i.e. the UK is in Europe because Great Britain is in the European continent, but the state of the United Kingdom also claims the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa, and therefor is part of the African continent, not to mention the Straits of Gibraltar. It may seem silly but this quiz also has to do with the political contexts that stretch countries across continents, something that most of the geography quizzes lack. It isn't enough to know where something is, but why it is there, or the circumstances under which it lays claim to territory somewhere else.

	Gomoodys:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT	6 points
	you should do the other way around, making us guess the countries.

	Purgatory:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	2 points
	I made one where you guess the countries, but no one played it.

	TimeAndTide:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	3 points
	I think I agree with jUNKIEd, although I wouldn't have stated it so harshly. It's not a bad idea for a quiz, Purgatory, and I'm not criticizing your efforts. But the topic is a quagmire for disputes. Should territories and other dependencies be included, or just fully integrated parts of the country? Where does one continent end and another begin? (It's not just a simple matter of plate tectonics as we like to think.) What about disputed claims on territories? Etc. etc. I'm not really one to talk, as I've made my fair share of quizzes that have ended up as magnets for dispute and even bickering. Anyway, that's just my $0.02 opinion. Good quiz format, at any rate.

	PhilSandifer:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 20:50 GMT	1 point
	I would like to see "North and South America" accepted as well for Panama.

	Ecto2:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 21:14 GMT	-3 points
	eurasia eurasia eurasia.... its all one land mass ppl

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	alltheway2eleven:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 01:34 GMT	3 points
	antarctica is a continent, and many countries have claims there

	roflcopter69:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT	1 point
	Australia should be an accepted answer for Oceania.

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	danmont:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 07:01 GMT	4 points
	This would have been better if we had to guess the countries, from knowing which continents they were on. It should be reversed.

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	TimeAndTide:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 15:20 GMT	2 points
	@Diablo11d: Surely Turkey counts. Admittedly only a small portion of it's land area is in Europe, but a significant percentage of its population lives in that small portion. Turkey is even listed on both the Asian Countries quiz and the European Countries quiz. And the Sinai Peninsula, which is part of Egypt, is arguably in Asia, so I think there's a good claim for Egypt as well.

	Bulletchewer6:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 20:29 GMT	3 points
	One minute is not enough time; 2 minutes would be ideal.

	jaypunkrawk:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	2 points
	Would've had them all in 20 more seconds. I kept typing "and" when it wasn't necessary.

	kromclovinfasho:	Dec 18th, 2009 at 03:28 GMT	2 points
	not enough time!

	simpleerrors:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 21:32 GMT	3 points
	this kind of quiz is hard to make in general Correct the title, and make it not a typing test.

	jgizow44:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 05:33 GMT	1 point
	Among all the user created quizzes with more than 5 minutes worth of thought put into it, this is possibly the worst quiz on sporcle. It is just wrong on so many levels.