Can you name the upside down countries? by leppyfresh

Can you name the upside down countries?

created by leppyfresh

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
NOTE: Countries are not to scale. Countries are rotated 180 degrees. Answers go by columns not rows.
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☝Upside Down Countries☟ Quiz

by leppyfresh

Created May 22, 2011 in Geography
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	leppyfresh:	May 23rd, 2011 at 00:15 GMT	7 points
	I am having a little trouble figuring out if I should make this forced answer or not. So, if you think it should be forced answer, please comment. I have the time set to 5 minutes, but I could increase/decrease it depending on the results. If you want to try out my Upside Down U.S. States quizzes, can you find them here: http://www.sporcle.com/games/leppyfresh/talk_about_continental_shift http://www.sporcle.com/games/leppyfresh/upside_down_states_2

	Treverbeast454:	May 23rd, 2011 at 01:04 GMT	4 points
	if your going to force in answer then label the answers, if not, leave it as is

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	aaaandrew:	May 23rd, 2011 at 06:06 GMT	9 points
	so much harder than i thought

	mbflyhigh:	May 23rd, 2011 at 11:32 GMT	-3 points
	I'd go for a shorter time - 3 mins at most

	Flick:	May 23rd, 2011 at 16:53 GMT	6 points
	I thought standing on my head would help...it didn't !

	jpii:	May 23rd, 2011 at 21:06 GMT	2 points
	Yeah! Kyrgyzstan made the list!

	smike:	May 23rd, 2011 at 22:05 GMT	3 points
	Nice quiz! Very hard, i barely made half of the answers. @jpii where do you see ktrgyzstan?

	leppyfresh:	May 23rd, 2011 at 23:48 GMT	4 points
	@psubball1 Thanks for the Editor's Pick! @Everyone I think I'm going to leave the time as it is. I like how the results are coming out. @jpii and smike Kyrgyzstan isn't an answer, but if you want, you can try typing it and see what happens.

	slamb:	May 24th, 2011 at 11:39 GMT	1 point
	You even made the Dominican Republic and Haiti the same scale, so the pieces would fit. This is a hard quiz.

	cuttywise:	May 24th, 2011 at 19:45 GMT	4 points
	It's a nice quiz. Nice balance between fairly easy and difficult. Works well as open answer because there aren't very many answers.

	Ubbiebubbie:	May 24th, 2011 at 20:11 GMT	2 points
	My head hurts. At least I was able to avoid my neck snapping.

	brodeur:	May 25th, 2011 at 00:20 GMT	2 points
	great quiz... much harder than i thought... although i dont really know the shapes of the country normally... i also thought kyrgyzsstan was on it, then i read the comments... i was a little disappointed... but still great idea

	Nightingale:	May 25th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT	1 point
	The only thing I would do is add a minute. I was working on Poland when time expired. The others I missed, I wouldn't have gotten anyway. Too much extra time would have just been more frustrating than it already was. I'm going to invert my globe straight away! Good quiz.

	DiegoSanchez:	May 25th, 2011 at 10:40 GMT	3 points
	To Hispaniola-centric! Haha good quiz

	wanderbygrace:	May 25th, 2011 at 17:28 GMT	1 point
	You should say that they aren't just upside down, but also backwards.

	Adam12:	May 26th, 2011 at 00:35 GMT	2 points
	How many of you tilted your heads until it hurt?

	arpw:	May 26th, 2011 at 12:20 GMT	1 point
	Agree with wanderbygrace, these have been rotated through 180 degrees rather than flipped upside-down, and you should either specify this or change the pictures so that the countries are upside-down

	FishyInSpain:	May 26th, 2011 at 17:38 GMT	1 point
	They are not upside down, so much as seen from a South-on-top orientation

	Margann:	May 28th, 2011 at 02:47 GMT	1 point
	I said Switzerland too. :(

	kagomeshuko:	May 28th, 2011 at 03:16 GMT	3 points
	Definitely challenging.

	HuskerTan:	May 28th, 2011 at 23:13 GMT	3 points
	Part of me thinks how this was actually a lot harder than I assumed. While the other half thinks it wasn't so bad at all....naw I think the first part was right.

	Stamps:	Jun 1st, 2011 at 01:33 GMT	3 points
	imagine our world was like that... oh dear...

	GeoExpert:	Jun 6th, 2011 at 05:24 GMT	2 points
	I did not tilt by head, but I did turn my laptop upside-down a few times. Anyone else ye same?

	cheesenewyorkbob:	Jun 6th, 2011 at 18:28 GMT	2 points
	Exactly I have to keep turning my head upside down it got a bit annoying after a few seconds or a secondbut it was an amazing quiz though. You've been cnyb'ed. Laters

	13uttafly:	Jun 6th, 2011 at 20:36 GMT	2 points
	Wow. I liked the selected countries. Unfortunately I probably wouldn't have recognized them even if they were right side up without seeing their geographical locations. SMH At least I learned something.

	happygi1more77:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 20:41 GMT	2 points
	Very challenging....good quiz

	mike5816:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 17:01 GMT	0 points
	Considering that there is no "up" or "down" or whatever to maps or to Earth, then none of these are truly upside down... just rotated from common (but not universal or even required) cartographic perspective. It seems all the non-geographers forget that the north-at-the-top convention is only because it made sense to Renaissance-era mariners who used the north star to determine latitude and direction. In medieval times, maps were often south-at-the-top (toward Rome) or east-at-the-top (toward Jerusalem). I'm not familiar enough with non-European maps from before the modern era to know what they did, but I'm sure they had whatever direction for whatever reason, too.

	leppyfresh:	Jun 27th, 2011 at 05:33 GMT	1 point
	For those interested, I just released the sequel: http://www.sporcle.com/games/leppyfresh/upside-down-countries-ii

	aust:	Aug 13th, 2011 at 22:31 GMT	0 points
	what confused me was cos they were twisted to be upside down when it would be easier if they were just flipped

	cheesenewyorkbob:	Oct 22nd, 2011 at 10:42 GMT	0 points
	I quit early because my head hurts. You've been cnyb'ed. Laters.