Can you name the 10 richest countries per continent in general? by deco

Can you name the 10 richest countries per continent in general?

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10 top countries per continent in general Quiz

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Created Oct 30, 2010 in Geography
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	doback:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 16:40 GMT	19 points
	Please link to a real source and name your criteria for richest. Is it highest GDP, GDP per capita, etc? If you're looking at GDP per capita, I'm not sure your data is accurate since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita has Denmark, Switzerland, and Ireland in the top 10 but you don't have them at all in your quiz.

	LinuxLinus:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 16:50 GMT	10 points
	This is a good idea for a quiz, but it needs a source and I'm not sure it's correct -- I'm not sure what measure of wealth indicates that, for instance, would place Malaysia ahead of Israel and Turkey.

	deco:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 18:06 GMT	-4 points
	ok thanx will change it abit now

	deco:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 18:14 GMT	-4 points
	cheers hope thats better

	doback:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 18:45 GMT	11 points
	umm..no, not it's not better. You still haven't defined your criteria for "richest" or linked to a source. The only changes you made were to add the countries listed in the comments and removed Norway which should be on there (assuming you're doing GDP per capita, which I don't know since you don't say). This could be a good quiz, but as is it's not even close.

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	bucknaked623:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 20:07 GMT	2 points
	May want to cut it a minute or two as well, you can pretty much name every country in the world with this much time

	deco:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 20:34 GMT	3 points
	ok, cheers

	joebobs:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 20:52 GMT	7 points
	Sorry, but this data is completely wrong. You've mixed GDP per capita with GDP total (the first describes how rich people are, the second describes the size of a country's economy). That's why people are asking for your source. By that, they mean, where did you find this information? On the game creation page, when you edit the quiz, in the 'game info' tab, it asks for source URL and source description. For example, you could use the CIA World Factbook, or even Wikipedia is better than nothing (their page on GDP is actually well sourced).

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	h4ydn:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 21:24 GMT	5 points
	bit boring really

	vdubb:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 21:30 GMT	2 points
	It also wouldn't hurt to clean up the appearance of it by using proper capitalization and punctuation

	chriskotx:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 22:21 GMT	1 point
	How did Kuwait and Saudi Arabia not make this list?

	sdc1030:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 23:02 GMT	16 points
	What, exactly, does "in general" mean?

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	techwork:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 23:08 GMT	7 points
	I am interested to know how Russia qualifies over the UK and France..and where is Germany???

	Geo_Crazy:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 00:01 GMT	0 points
	Interesting that India is higher than Israel and Bahrain, and that Russia makes the cut but Austria, Netherlands, Monaco, and Germany do not.

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	Everblue:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 00:27 GMT	20 points
	"you cant say i havnt tried" Well, we can't really say that it's good either

	NYCub:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 01:58 GMT	11 points
	I think the way you described getting your information proves everybody else's point. First of all, you googled "richest," which as several people have pointed out can mean more than one thing. And as a couple have said, there are pretty reliable sources out there that could give you the information you need. Why don't you just go to one of them, use it as your source and fix your quiz?

	indianwolf1992:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 06:19 GMT	2 points
	I think you got countries like India and Kenya on by accident because you must have taken 'GDP' information. India does not belong on that list by any standard, as Bahrain, Malaysia, even countries like Philippines and Indonesia, are richer than India. India's GDP is high because it has a large population and size, GDP does not determine richness.

	biser:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 06:57 GMT	3 points
	Richest according to what criteria exactly? It's neither GDP nor GDP per capita...

	bart122333:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 11:43 GMT	4 points
	Russia richer than Norway.... What a joke! :p

	techwork:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 16:16 GMT	4 points
	It was a fair try but unfortunately I think this quiz is a bit of a fail. I'd delete it!

	daHOOK:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 19:08 GMT	1 point
	Anybody else getting Asia split with 3 at the beginning and 7 at the end?

	lpjanneke:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 21:28 GMT	5 points
	Source?

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	Rooster:	Nov 1st, 2010 at 16:59 GMT	5 points
	This is horribly executed

	joebobs:	Nov 1st, 2010 at 21:28 GMT	9 points
	@ deco: See, that's where you've had a problem. If you just put 'richest', what does that mean? Is that how rich the country is (which is measured in GDP) or how rich the people of the country are (GDP per capita)? 'Richest' has to mean one or the other. GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product - it means the value of all the wealth generated by a society. GDP per capita is that number divided by how many people there are. The problem with your list is that you've got both sets of data, one for GDP per capita and one for GDP, and you've combined them with in one list. I hope you can see, I'm not taking a shot at you, like some comments, I'm trying to explain so you can see where the confusion comes from. Hope that helps!

	samkrum:	Nov 2nd, 2010 at 01:58 GMT	3 points
	i dont care about the source and stuff, but can you just capitalize

	pecheneg:	Nov 2nd, 2010 at 03:51 GMT	3 points
	heh, I was thinking the quiz was a bit surreal when I was taking it. I'm not sure if deco's explanations make it more or less so

	Llyr:	Nov 3rd, 2010 at 17:48 GMT	3 points
	You need to define what 'richest' means otherwise this is a pretty useless quiz.

	wtncffts:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 08:17 GMT	6 points
	Forget it guys, it's clear this user isn't really interested or intelligent enough to make proper quizzes. I'm not one for name-calling but just looking at the responses as well as some of his other quizzes, it's evident he just isn't getting it.

	Stewart:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 22:43 GMT	6 points
	I was going to give a 2 for effort, but seeing the quiz maker's attitude toward improving it I dropped it to a 1.

	lucia:	Nov 6th, 2010 at 20:21 GMT	3 points
	based on what? quality of life, income per capta, country's economy, if so, how come germany isnt in it?

	whatsername2009:	Nov 8th, 2010 at 19:03 GMT	4 points
	And Germany should definitely be on the list of the top 10 richest countries in Europe, whatever indicator you use. But I agree, this quiz appears badly thought out and even worse executed.

	tomahaha:	Nov 9th, 2010 at 22:20 GMT	3 points
	"generally" in the title should tell you all you need to know about this failure. I understand having multiple sources being a problem but a simple answer of "based on GDP" or "based on a number I pulled out of the sky" at least tell us what the basis for these rankings is.