Take the Africa Geography Test
Posted on 06/12/2005 2:49:31 PM PDT by M. Espinola
Take the Africa Geography Test
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160/162 For Africa
Africa is the toughest test out of all of those listed.
128 on Africa..
Now he wants to do the other continents.
I Loused up on Lesotho, the offshore islands of the southeaster coast, and which Congo - they keep changing the name on me. Remember the good days with Upper Volta? :)
Very well done! It's not an easy test.
I remember Upper Volta well. I got hung up on Togo and Benin, and with the Seychelles and Mauritous.
With the news coverage about the Middle East these days, we should all be pros on the Middle East by now.
A perfect 162 for me! I thought I'd have trouble clicking on the little countries like Gambia, but the quiz worked even there.
For the past year and a half I have been writing a series of papers on African history for my website, at http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/index.html . Currently I have one chapter left to go, to cover what has happened there since 1965, so it would have been embarrassing if I didn't do well on the quiz.
Top notch score! A perfect A.
The way I have always remembered The Gambia, as the Gambia River being an English state inside a French one (Senegal). I have goofed up on some of the Islands off the southeastern coastline. Another method is recalling counties by their leading commodities, capitols, size or shape, and former European governing power.
Your linked website is superbly done with tons of useful researched data. Since 1965 there have indeed been name changes when the old colonel powers departed.
Have you thought of publishing a book on the general subject?
Question #17 , for 3 points,
They don't make it easy, like to the left or to the right or up or down.
The vast majority of those lands I never heard of.
Well, speaking of southeastern islands, I did notice that nothing happened when the quiz asked me where Mauritius was and I clicked on the first speck to the east of Madagascar, but it said I was correct when I clicked on the speck just to the right of it. That's got to be the island of Reunion, which I believe is still a French territory.
I'm not sure how I memorized them, it just seems to run in the family; my daughter came in second place at a statewide geography bee, back in 2001.
As for the website, I wasn't planning on publishing the African material as a book, but I'm in the process of doing it for the text called "A Biblical Interpretation of World History." Details will be posted there when it's for sale; come back and visit again sometime. :)
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