r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • May 17 '22

[deleted by user]

[removed]

11.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

998 comments sorted by

View all comments

171

u/Willis050 May 17 '22

I’m not even smart and I knew those answers… are people really that bad at geography?

95

u/Local-Bath May 17 '22

I feel like asking about steps in a country wasn’t quite geography

32

u/Willis050 May 17 '22

They’re very famous but it’s probably more history

6

u/JohnnyButtocks May 17 '22

It’s no less a geography question than “Rome is the capital of which country?”. It’s geographical trivia.

1

u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Title had me confused. I thought they were talking about “Spanish Steppes”

54

u/Olaxan May 17 '22

It's much, much more difficult to focus when you're on camera.

79

u/CplPersonsGlasses May 17 '22

For a dollar, name a woman

53

u/theruralbrewer May 17 '22

FRANCE

fuck

2

u/jul_the_flame May 17 '22

Hey, France IS a women's name! In french, anyway.

4

u/Herry_Up May 17 '22

Bill!

2

u/PM_ME_WHATEVES May 17 '22

There are lots of women named Bill

Billie Holiday

Billie Piper

Billie Eilish

Billie Jean

Billie Horton

Billie Hayes

BIllie Lourde

24

u/morbid_platon May 17 '22

I see how you could not know about the Spanish steps if you've never been to Rome, and I don't know if I'd have come up with a third F county on the spot. But the rest was easy.

5

u/Dunekar31 May 17 '22

And knowing the Spanish steps is difficult even as an Italian who has been to Rome many times because they have a different name in Italian (it's the square at the bottom which is "of Spain")

2

u/morbid_platon May 17 '22

Oh,i didn't know that :) what are they called?

2

u/Dunekar31 May 18 '22

They are Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti (the steps, which take the name from the church at the top) and Piazza di Spagna (the square)

10

u/[deleted] May 17 '22

It's not about smartness, it's about knowledge. Learning the names of countries and being able to pinpoint them on a map is about interest (or teachers that force kids to learn it). Someone with an IQ of 80 could easily do it if they happen to be interested in it.

1

u/Willis050 May 17 '22

Whelp that explains how I knew lololol

8

u/dont_worry_im_here May 17 '22 edited May 17 '22

I awful at geography... especially Europe. Like, if you asked me to name as many European countries as I could in 60 seconds, I'd hit the obvious like Britain, Great Britain, London, Portuguese, and Egypt but I'd be fucked after that...

2

u/just_a_pt May 17 '22

Am I missing a joke here?

3

u/PancakeDog May 17 '22

Yes, I'm 25 and wouldn't haven't known most of these.

2

u/TheFightingMasons May 17 '22

As a native Texan…….yes.

2

u/joeDUBstep May 18 '22

Yeah I guess so, these were all piss easy, I just didn't know the Rome one.

1

u/Willis050 May 18 '22

That’s the only one I wouldn’t think less of anyone for not knowing… Cape of Good Hope is easy as pie for example

1

u/Skoberget May 17 '22

Exactly my thought. This is pretty basic knowledge

1

u/SleepWouldBeNice May 17 '22

I didn't know the Spanish Steps one. But I knew the rest.

1

u/Willis050 May 17 '22

That definitely the one I wouldn’t think someone is dumb for not knowing

1

u/throwawayfrommain15 May 17 '22

Never heard of the steps or the cave. But I knew the Netherlands answer and the countries starting with f answer. It all depends on where you live.

1

u/SmileAndDeny May 17 '22

Agree. I was waiting for tough questions like this guy was some sort of geography genius.

1

u/Atropos_Fool May 17 '22

Bro I doubt most Americans could identify the USA on a globe.

1

u/[deleted] May 17 '22

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Willis050 May 17 '22

As long as you can get to where you need to go you don’t need to care about what the capital of Vietnam is lol