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Can you name the countries that were formerly part of the soviet union'? Enter a state in the box below Correctly named states will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 4 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 17394 States by Capital 15851 Top Food Chains (US) 12987 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 9179 1-100 5296 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 4978 And more...
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	Kevin:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:10 GMT	3 points
	I got crossed up on the Central Asian -stan's. Oh well, 11/15 isn't terrible.

	Jaksiel:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:11 GMT	30 points
	I almost forgot Russia. And seeing the results...a lot of people did forget Russia.

	RandallPinkston:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:12 GMT	18 points
	I wonder what percentage had the same breakdown as me--14/15, missing the headslappingly obvious one (Eurasia).

	Rossum:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT	6 points
	I had that same breakdown until the last minute! Darned Russia! :-)

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	Gordo:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 09:41 GMT	3 points
	Forgot Russia. Damn.

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	Liberal:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:01 GMT	8 points
	Why are people forgetting Russia?

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	deej:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:41 GMT	7 points
	i am really good at geography and i forgot Russia. it is so obvious your brain doesn't even think of it

	jaspa:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 11:02 GMT	38 points
	Alright, I'll say it... In Soviet Russia, Quiz take YOU!

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	pdu:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:04 GMT	0 points
	I also thought of Russia last -.-

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	LAD1992:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:50 GMT	-1 points
	Yay I got them all with ease- some of those -stans were a little tricky tho :(

	NHJ:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:55 GMT	6 points
	Really, the hardest part is spelling the English names correctly.

	chambers:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 13:08 GMT	1 point
	all of em nearly missed the eurasian one...

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	ared:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:26 GMT	8 points
	@mr badman: as far as i know finland and the soviet union didn't get along so well (although the SU did have a lot of influence in finland). anyway, finland wasn't a "satellite state". that is only true for the warsaw pact countries (and probably yugoslavia and mongolia, maybe even north korea).

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:32 GMT	2 points
	Got all 15 but wasn't thinking Russia either. Eventually the Eurasia gave it away since only Russia and Turkey span both.

	davebesag:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:33 GMT	2 points
	Can someone make their mind up whether you can have Kazakhstan spelt as Kazakstan? It would be nice to have some consistency. To have the latter acceptable in the countries of the world quiz but not here is ludicrous.

	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 15:06 GMT	0 points
	@Vernon G.: Not true. Three other former Soviet Republics also span the border of Europe and Asia (the first in central Asia and the second and third in the Caucasus).

	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 15:14 GMT	2 points
	@Burton dW.: No. Poland was never Soviet territory: the eastern half of Poland was previously part of the Russian Empire but that was lost during World War I, before the formation of the USSR. Finland actually ceded territory to the Soviet Union after World War II as part of a reparations deal that I'll never understand. (USSR invades Finland; USSR gets kicked out of Finland; Finland ends up ceding territory and paying huge compensation.)

	zigra:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 16:19 GMT	8 points
	Pretty easy if you've done the other geography quizzes a million times, but it definitely helps me with the organization. Maybe a "countries of the former Czechoslovakia" quiz? will follow soon?

	GeordieGuitarist:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 16:30 GMT	3 points
	Two of the three 'name all the country quizzes' i can do are Europe and Asia, so i loved this quiz a lot!

	DLJessup:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 16:35 GMT	2 points
	Loved this quiz. 15/15 in 46 seconds. It does not hurt that I've been using the Baltics, the Caucasus states, and the 'stans to chunk up information for the other geography quizzes.

	ShevanelT2:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 16:38 GMT	-1 points
	good quiz that! 15/15 yehh Russia was the fourteenth one i entered ahaha!

	Niki:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 16:45 GMT	7 points
	@zigra: wouldn't that be a rather short quiz?

	Moose:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 17:00 GMT	2 points
	13/15. It's early... And yes, i forgot Russia. I was trying hard to remember Tajikistan and azerbaijan, I kinda forgot about the 'Motherland'. woops

	emh:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 17:04 GMT	4 points
	Wow I sucked at this. But I did get Russia. So I've got that going for me.

	Lenard:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 17:08 GMT	4 points
	I learned these from Ghost Recon games.

	shel99:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 17:43 GMT	2 points
	14/15...forgot Moldova, which I always seem to forget in the Countries of the World quiz too. ALMOST forgot Russia but got it towards the end.

	cmkeller:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	9 points
	Got them all, but didn't some of them go by different names as Soviet Republics? Belarus was Byelorussia, Moldova was Moldavia, the central Asian republics were called "Kazakh SSR", "Uzbek SSR" etc rather than -stan, and Russia was technically the RSFSR.

	nhrafan:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:15 GMT	0 points
	15 on the first try, but the last ones i remembered were the caucasus nations, which i hate myself for since im 1/4 armenian

	Hetch:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	1 point
	I wonder why everyone forgot Russia? 15/15

	Annie:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	0 points
	Fun quiz. I missed Moldova, but I'm glad I gave up, because I would have never guessed it.

	magister:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:35 GMT	4 points
	Stupid Russia. How did I do that? All pumped to get 15/15, spend 1 solid minute spelling Kyrgyzstan, and then bomb out on Russia. Nyet!!!

	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:50 GMT	3 points
	@Chaim M.K.: Yes, they went by slightly different names when they were part of the USSR. But the quiz asks for countries that were formerly Soviet republics so the modern forms are required here.