How well do you know the Middle East?
By Grace on Sep 25, 2007 in games
Did you know that the Middle East stretches as far west as the Western Sahara in Africa? What is the smallest country in the Middle East?
I love geography. Memorizing all the countries with their respective capitals was my favorite past time even before I entered high school. Then I escalated into memorizing the flags, the currencies, then the nicknames of each of the states in the US. I clearly had all the free time in the world. It was fun, at least for me. A great challenge I can always take even now.
I found this on Sabine’s blog and of course, I wasn’t able to resist, especially that I am living in this region. I’d say I scored well! If only big old Russia didn’t blow up into pieces of tiny nations, my score would have been perfect on the first try. 
Go on, take the challenge! Don’t forget to come back and tell me how you did!
Well, I tried it and just found out again that I still suck at geography, especially in this region. With most countries I didn’t have a clue. I’m just glad I had multiple tries for each, otherwise I still wouldn’t know where they are. Sadly, even when I tried it a second time from the beginning, I got several ones mixed up again. Very frustrating. Maybe I should have stayed awake in school more often during geography lessons… ;o)
samulli | Sep 25, 2007 | Reply
yeah that was my problem as well, I knew that all those -stan countries belong near Russia, just didn’t know in what order!
SabineM | Sep 25, 2007 | Reply
Wow I did quite a bit better than I thought(but not great) - once I got a few major ones in it seemed that the others just fell in to place but there were a few I had to try in every blank spot. It helps that all those countries over by turkey like to end in istan then I could make some guesses.
Mom not Mum | Sep 25, 2007 | Reply
Geography has always been one of my worst subject. I probably couldn’t even name all 50 states!
kailani | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
i suck at geography, was able to get it though by trial and error hahaha…
ideru | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
hahahahaha i checked out the link.. and didn’t even dare to try! i’ll stick with languages i think.
melbs | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
That was fun! I love geography. Ha! If it wasn’t for countries dividing, and renaming themselves, I still did pretty good. I remembered about 75 percent. It helped to have a teen daughter who just had social studies last year and had to study all the new Russian countries.
Christine | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, that was a fun quiz. I wish there were more like that online.
Stacey | Sep 28, 2007 | Reply