How many countries of Asia (including the Middle East) can you name in 10min?

[contactme_11]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/asia.php
post how many you got before giving up

 

[EdenResident]

I got 30.

 

[Journeyman]

44 out of 48.

Missed out Bahrain, Qatar, Bhutan and the Maldives.
I kept on staring at Bhutan on the map, thinking, "What's the name of that isolated country with one set of traffic lights that measures "Gross National Happiness" instead of GDP???"

It also took me a couple of minutes to remember all the "-stans".

 

[MetroStyles]

40. Couldn't spell Kyrgyzstan for the life of me.

 

[gamelan]

38. and that's missing Malyasia, Cambodia, and Jordan. arrrghh....

-Jeff

 

[Huntsman]

Criminey. 38 and I quit with 2:00 to go. Mostly I had spelling issues with the -Stans! And Qatar. Mental block on Indonestia, completely forgot Bhutan existed, and even horrors, that Brunei was on this map....

 

[whodini]

39. Maldives....and several of the -ans with tricky spellings.

 

[Connemara]

30. Try the Europe one! http://www.sporcle.com/games/europe.php

 

[Huntsman]

The Europe game is even more embarrassing. I tried and tried to remember Lichtenstein and spell Herzegovina, but couldn't. Missed Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Cyprus, etc....

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by Huntsman

The Europe game is even more embarrassing. I tried and tried to remember Lichtenstein and spell Herzegovina, but couldn't. Missed Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Cyprus, etc....
I did better with Europe, 41/47. Missed Cyprus, Monaco, Andorra (WTF?), Liechtenstein, San Marino, and Vatican City. Honestly I am shocked I got 41. I pulled most of the Eastern Bloc countries out of ******. I spent like a minute trying to remember how to spell Herzegovina, and then I remembered it is "Bosnia Herzegovina"

 

[Huntsman]

It is quirky about things -- I tried "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and it wouldn't accept that. Presently, I am reading about San Marino on wiki.

 

[jpeirpont]

31 quit with 4:00 minutes left.

 

[jpeirpont]

At least I got all of Africa. But only 28 in Europe, missed easy and well known countries, like Serbia.

 

[LabelKing]

45.

I also tried the African one but it wouldn't accept either Congo or Zaire.

 

[acidboy]

38 in Asia, all of them in Rick Astley