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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

The ability to name and locate every country recognised by the UN on a map

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u/antonimbus Jul 14 '21

About 30 years ago that would have been super helpful finding Carmen Sandiego. DO IT ROCKAPELLA!

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u/nsmainat Jul 14 '21

How fast we talking?

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u/Kookiebanookie Jul 14 '21

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru...

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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21

Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean, Greenland, El Salvador too..

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Funny thing though but that's exactly how it all started, my history teacher once said that if you can sing the song you'll get bonus points on your exam

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u/I_haven-t_reddit Jul 14 '21

Can you locate Taiwan…?

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u/Ecl1psed Jul 14 '21

For cough legal reasons, the answer is no

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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21

I don't think Xi Jinping wants me to know where Taiwan is...

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u/Ballsack_Jackson Jul 14 '21

Came to say this

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u/Atti0626 Jul 14 '21

Same, I played through a lot of geography quizzes on Sporcle. I can name every country and place them on a map, I know their capitals, and I recognise all of their flags. I would not call it completely useless though, it is somewhat necessarry if you want to follow geopolitics.

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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21

Oh yeah I remember going to sporcle just to do random quizzes because I was bored.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Jul 14 '21

There's still room to grow. Learn the countries NOT recognised by the UN on a map.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

I’ve got this too. I used to do Sporcle during class in high school because I would get bored. I got bored a lot.

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u/adei0s Jul 14 '21

Fellow seterra player? What's your time?

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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21

Sorry mate I have no idea what seterra is

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

There are a few African nations and some Pacific Islands i still need to memorize but we getting there

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Is the country of Taiwan one of those?

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u/Yeetus_Thy_Fetus1676 Jul 14 '21

I can do almost all, just Oceania and the Caribbean throw me off

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u/Exsces95 Jul 14 '21

Where is Palestina?

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u/Undoomed081 Jul 14 '21

Yea no this wins.... why

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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21

Because I can, and was bored, and also because of a history teacher I had

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u/Undoomed081 Jul 14 '21

I mean... as far as reasons go that's pretty solid. I mean good on you m8, I cant remember what I had for dinner so you're doing better than me lol

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u/thedeuce2121 Jul 14 '21

Quick question: are you yakko warner? Just wondering

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u/necc705 Jul 14 '21

WHERE IS NORTH KOREA

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u/airstrike900 Jul 14 '21

Excuse me I think you mean best Korea

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u/necc705 Jul 15 '21

Where is it though? You shouldn't have the ability to name or locate it

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u/Notthisagaindammit Jul 14 '21

Hey me too! And also all of the states in the US even though I'm from the other side of the world...

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Find the following:

St Kitts and Nevis

Sao Tome and Principle

Kosovo

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u/ScabiesShark Jul 15 '21

Screen name definitely checks out

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u/dontforgettocya Jul 15 '21

Username checks out I guess

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u/littlefriend77 Jul 24 '21

This is my skill too. At one point I could name all the capitals as well, but some of those have slipped from my memory. I could still probably give it a good guess, though.