Can you name the countries of North and South America by their first 3 letters?

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Americas by First 3 Letters Quiz

by RobPro

Created Feb 2, 2012 in Geography
Featured Feb 8, 2012
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	DLJessup:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 04:16 GMT		5 points
	Er, United Stated of America?

	pfrijiritr:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 04:25 GMT		37 points
	Hey, why not? Verbize all of them, get great past tenses. I totally Belize'd this quiz, even though the time pressure on such quizzes usually gets me Perued before I Brazil.

	dirtbag:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 04:42 GMT		3 points
	This was fun, a 1:00 quiz I can almost actually do.

	WredAguyW:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 05:32 GMT		20 points
	I typed USA out of total habit and was surprised to see it get accepted. When did it become the Usated States of America? Lol.

	adhair:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 07:13 GMT		8 points
	Where's FRA?

	demonstah:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:18 GMT		11 points
	If you want FRA, you would need NET and another UNI as well. And technically DEN, too. Easier (and fairer) to stick with actual American countries, rather than worrying about extracontinental nations with American possessions.

	Pogues:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:46 GMT		6 points
	Timewise, this quiz is doable. Brainwise, not first thing in the morning.

	TAR2:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 12:03 GMT		4 points
	Darn all those little island countries

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	Rob42:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 14:17 GMT		-3 points
	Good quiz, and the fact that we only have to type the first three letters makes the quiz more manageable within the one minute time limit. However, I missed an obvious one due to having one eye on the time (Argentina).

	TL333s:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 14:28 GMT		2 points
	It's too bad there are only two countries that share the first three letters.

	Ferro:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 14:44 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz. The 1 min timer keeps it challening. I keep coming 1 or 2 short. What keeps slowing me down is the fact that i'm used to typing the whole name so i often have to delete some things so i can make my next entry.

	bowsntoys:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 14:45 GMT		-1 points
	I'm not sure how we're expected to type in 35 countries in 1 minute. That's less than 2 seconds per country to think and type. Not everybody types 60+ words a minute. Even with 2 minutes, that's less than 4 seconds per country.

	gigimacmurray:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 15:08 GMT		-4 points
	I agree with bowsntoys. I was typing as fast as I could, and the minute just flew by. Challenging, though.

	dlauthor:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 15:10 GMT		2 points
	Is there a parallel universe where "by first 3 letters" means "type the country's whole name"? I'm sure there are other quizzes already in the offing for Europe, Asia, and Africa, right? (And Oceania, I guess?)

	ostroffj:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 15:45 GMT		2 points
	@bowsntoys: Technically a person who types as slow as 20 WPM could complete this quiz in a minute (if they can think of countries fast enough), since a "word" in the WPM scale means five keystrokes and some of the countries share the same first three letters. I think that's a low enough barrier that the quiz is fine as is: tough to complete, but almost everyone has a fair shot.

	climber_v12:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 17:19 GMT		0 points
	I'll probably get voted down, but I don't think this quiz was a very good idea. Still, I suppose it would be good if you wanted to learn all the countries but couldn't type very fast. Might have consequences though, like - "Can you name the countries of North America?" "Sure can! Can, Uni, Mex, Gua, Pan,

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	Tolkienite:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 17:42 GMT		4 points
	the subheading on the quiz was right, i did type in KYR for old times sake

	Slaykraze:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 19:02 GMT		1 point
	sporcle should make it so that it manages time after how fast you type on other quizzes or so, I'm a slow typer myself and usually has troubles with theese short quizzes (this one typed all the time, no thinking brakes, but still missed 9) so it would be neat if sporcle made the time manageable, depending on the user. But aweesome quiz, love theese kind of things. Great job RobPro!

	thewildboo:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 19:46 GMT		-1 points
	I will never, ever remember Guyana and Suriname.

	tulliuscicero:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 20:18 GMT		-2 points
	@Stran: This is sporcle. You should no better.

	eab21:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 20:32 GMT		16 points
	@tulliuscicero: This is Sporcle. You should know how to spell "know."

	tunnel:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 21:17 GMT		1 point
	You left out Denmark. Greenland is part of North America.

	sennomulo:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 21:44 GMT		16 points
	Judging by the percentage difference between three of the countries here, it seems not everybody thought to just type "SAI".

	VonRay:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 22:35 GMT		-1 points
	There was no time to think of 10 countries

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	nbalegend87:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 22:56 GMT		-3 points
	French Guiana?

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	Anarion:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 23:18 GMT		0 points
	I think the right countries are included. Although there are some European countries that have islands in the Americas they are not counted as countries of the Americas. South America has 12 countries and North America has 23. Time is enough, I managed 34 and only failed because I forgot Antigua and Barbuda.

	eab21:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 23:59 GMT		9 points
	@jshorne: If you want to troll, Sporcle is definitely not the place to do it.

	adhair:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 11:29 GMT		5 points
	@demonstah and @tunnel: those are possessions/territories, whereas French Guiana is an integral part of France in the same way that Hawaii is part of the United States.

	snoopsteryomom:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 15:00 GMT		1 point
	Definitely a fun quiz, I liked the challenge. keep it up!

	Zithreal:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 19:13 GMT		3 points
	I giggled when I realised I had just typed "Uni Can Bra"

	aznemesis:	Feb 10th, 2012 at 04:50 GMT		2 points
	As far as the blitz quizzes, this is one I liked. I think it's doable within the time frame. You still have to remember the countries, but there's enough time to actually type them in. Helps a lot that "sai" gets you several answers and "dom" gets you two more, of course.

	mchamden1:	Feb 10th, 2012 at 14:08 GMT		-1 points
	@nbalegend8: I'm not sure why "FRE" for French Guiana isn't included either. It's controlled by France, sure, but it's still part of South America.

	demonstah:	Feb 12th, 2012 at 07:15 GMT		-1 points
	@adhair - obviously. When discussing borders, this distinction has validity and merit. But for the purposes of this quiz, the distinction is meaningless. @mchamden1 - FRE would get you nowhere, as the country is FRAnce.

	Headers2304:	Apr 29th, 2012 at 16:21 GMT		0 points
	As the other 'First 3 Letter Country' quizzes have roughly 50 answers, why not add Oceania to this one to make it as equally challenging as the others.

	jimmydoom:	Oct 13th, 2012 at 17:25 GMT		3 points
	...do people seriously think the caribbean countries are part of their own separate continent?