I have a couple of reasons that I should know more about the Middle East. My dad might be going to Kuwait for business soon, multiple friends have fought there (Iraq, Iran, Kuwait), I study the Bible and other religious texts, lots of our money goes there, it’s in the news, etc.
I decided to get an education on geography the best way possible – take an online quiz!
I got a 53/75 the first time, and was able to get all but one country after the 3rd time. It seems that Turkmenistan is a slippery little guy. I don’t mean to make fun of Turkmenistan-is, I am just pointing out how uneducated I am.
Anyway. I feel less than educated enough to vote for my next Commander In Chief in a few weeks and it worries me that most of my fellow Americans will probably do about as well as I did on this quiz.
Reply with your score.
May the Lord’s will be done,
CWillZ
Tags: Afghanistan, America, education, election, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, online quiz, war
I got 57:75 the first time. The ‘Stans are hard.
Okay, I am rather ashamed of myself right now. 48/75
65/75 on the first try.
41/75. Yuck.
I should note that I got that despite getting caught in the downward spiral of discouragement about my performance at about question 12.
Good work guys. Dauthan, the questions are randomly generated so # 12 must be tricky.
The *stans are hard, I agree.
What happened to us? We are all educated right?
We are educated , but. I got most of the Countries that are big factors in our foreign policy and some of the obvious ones but the lesser known (if you will) countries that don’t make the news and are clustered together…like the ‘Stans are still hard. It’s way better than some man-on-the-street interviews I saw on BBC where some American said Australia was N. Korea. Or, even worse, Australia was actually France. DUMB. So don’t beat yourself up about it too badly.