We talk about the Middle East - but do you know where the countries are???

[LynneSin]

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/mideastquiz.html

I got an 87/90.

You get 3 chances to pick the country and I think 5 times I was a country off but got it the next time (Some of those old soviet nations I get messed up with).

How well can you do???!!!!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Those damned "-stan" countries get me every time!

x(

[LynneSin]

2. But what's your score baby???

:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

6. Sigh...66

:-(

[underpants]

8. Me too and how

66--- Eriteria?

[GOPisEvil]

12. Can I have "Places I'll Never Go On Vacation" for $500, Alex?

[LynneSin]

18. Don't laugh - Eritrea was one of the 'Coalition of the Willing'

Of course with their decade long war with Ethiopia, the most those 2 countries could send us was a dozen 12-year-old war veterans

(this may seem humorous - but children have been fighting most of the wars in in those countries)

[underpants]

20. ummmmmm What is 'three countries that have never been in my kitchen'?

From Cliff Clavens famous losing question on final jeopardy.

LOL GOP

[LynneSin]

14. Eriteria is pretty easy

that's part of Ethiopia!!

[dpbrown]

3. 78 out of 87

It's always those countries around the bottom of Saudia Arabia that get me.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I got a 58

Which is okay, I guess, considering I've never really studied a map of that area. I knew all the major ones but the little countries that one rarely hears of I missed most of the time.

[qb]

5. Holy cow! That was tough. 64

[XNASA]

7. 84

[RedEarth]

9. Too Easy.....lol

66

[VelmaD]

10. I got a 76...

not bad. I had a hard time with a couple of the little countries. *whew* That was fun but hard thinking. :-)

[Maine-i-acs]

11. Got an 80 out of 87!

Pretty proud o'myself. I'm going to try the others on that page. Thanks for the link!

[LynneSin]

13. The Caribean smacked my ass

I have no clue what all those little islands are!!!

Got a perfect on Central America, USA and Asia!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

15. 81

Got two of the "stans" messed up, picked the wrong one for Yemen (i knew it was on the south of the peninsula, but couldn't remember west or east), hit the wrong spot for Lebanon (didn't move the finger high enough and hit Jordan by mistake). So, i should have done a little better, but i did ok.
The Professor

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Why not boast? 87/87

But I'm surprisewd I did get the ex-USSR republics all right.

[mlawson]

17. 87/87 n/t

[ForrestGump]

19. Got 80 - those former Soviet republics always get me

I never learned 'em - seemed to be no point back when all those 'stans' were proliferating.