This Is A Test - ASIA
 

Asia ~ you know the routine. :D

72%... not too knowledgeable on asian countries.

That's pretty cool. I got 29/32, but that's probably because I've been to Asia so many times.

29/32, missing Uzbekistan, Bhutan and Brunei.

26/32.

Back when I took geography, West Asia was much less complicated. It was pretty much USSR, India, Pakistan.

Trying to locate all of the new "gurkistans" is impossible. Also, because I don't care much.

26/32 or 81% Better than I expected to do, actually.

75% Error 98 miles. Kazakstan was so close and I got Armenia first.

24/32 75% 133 miles avg error. poor.

31/32 Avg. error: 9 miles.
Better then I thought condsidering all the shit republics that came out of the USSR.

24/32 75% avg error 192 miles

27/32 84% 86 miles on the 2nd try...not very good. :headshake

How much better than your first try was that, though?

2nd try still @ 75%, but my average error is down to 91 miles.

Oh shit, I didn't post the first one, did I? :smack: It was under 70%.

First time: 28/32, 88% correct with a 39 mile error. Better than I thought I would do. Much of this test is simply visual - matching shapes. I should have gotten a 50% score or so.

that sucks. i thought this would be Name That Tune with music from one of the greatest bands ever, but noooo stinking brainiacs in the cellar have to test their USEFUL knowledge instead.

Until I did the Asia test I'd never heard of Turkmenistan. Yesterday on TV I discovered the country has a weird government along the lines of North Korea. Posters and statues of President For Life Niyazov where, officials, teachers etc all spouting the "official" line, everyone with a pained expression telling the reporter how happy they are and how wonderful the president is, elaborate choreographed North Korean style public ceremonies. There is even a golden revolving statue of Niyazov that always faces the sun. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

He runs parliament like a medieval court and making new laws on a whim. I.e. It is unlawful for women TV presenters to wear makeup because Turkmenistan women are pretty enough already!! As he is an orphan he built a grandiose state run orphanage where the kids get a decent education while the rest of the nation are barely taught enough to be literate.

It's almost to strange to be true :headshake but it is.

http://www.turkmenistanembassy.org/t...sbio.htmlevery

We touched on Niyazov here before. I still love this tidbit about him, which is no longer on the BBC's country profile of Turkmenistan:

Mr Niyazov underwent major heart surgery in 1997, after which he quit smoking, ordered all his ministers to do likewise and banned smoking in public places. When Mr Niyazov started to go bald after the operation he resorted to Chinese herbal remedies, he said, to save his people from the "unpleasantness" of having a bald leader.

That was before my (Cellar) time.

On the TV show they showed a picture of him on an old bank note and commented on how he had, in the years since the note was printed, gone prematurely black.

I got all the countries that amount to a piss hole in a snowbank, like China, Brunei, Japan, Brunei, India, Brunei.......... :lol: