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National Geographic Geography Quiz
National geographic had a geography quiz for 18 - 24 year olds. Here is a sample test with 20 questions and the scores for each country - Global Geographic Literacy Survey
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Geography: The lost world How important is geography? I always had maps hanging my room and whenever we drove out of state I always followed our trips and where we were on a map. It seems pretty sad that we only came a head of Mexico. I thought it was also pretty bad that the test is even multiple choice. How well do you do on it?
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11-21-2002, 03:18 AM | #2 |
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I suck at geography, but I still managed to get 15 out of 20. I got the US population question wrong, and I got the Israel location wrong, and japan (!), and I thought that the religion question was a trick question, so I when for Islam, and which two countries had population numbers over 1 billion - I knew that China was one, but I couldn't decide between Russia and India.
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11-21-2002, 03:19 AM | #3 |
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Got 'em all right!! It's pretty sad when you can't find your own country on a map!
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11-21-2002, 09:37 AM | #4 |
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19/20
Got one wrong, didn't realise that Christianity was the biggest religion, thought it was Buddhism.
Guess those boring Geography lessons at comprehensive school paid off ............ maybe should have paid more attention at Religious Educations tho' |
11-21-2002, 10:26 AM | #5 | |
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Anyway it's not just the "yoof" who struggle - I was on a Rhine cruise once and got talking to this very nice older couple. "Just imagine", he said. "If we kept going on this river we'd get to the Med!" I pointed out as diplomatically as I could that rivers don't flow between seas and the Rhine starts in the Alps!
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11-21-2002, 11:35 AM | #6 |
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I got them all right - but the Christianity one I also thought was a trick question. I just thought that Europe, North America, South America and Australia are basically Christian continents - so I guess that that had to be the answer. Also - Christianity includes Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Greet Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Pentecostal, Baptist, Southern Baptist, Methodist, etc.
3% of Swedes didn't know where Sweden was. If the multiple choice list included Finland or Norway in the choices - then I would have been guessing. I couldn't remember which one was Sweden.
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11-21-2002, 12:11 PM | #7 |
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Pretty dreadful all round. It's not really surprising, though, is it, given that most Americans don't own passports. There are less reasons for them to know about other countries anyway (no EU to complain about, no interminable harping on about Empire in history classes, no international cricket scandals, etc). Though you'd've thought they'd've figured out where they were going to invade by now. All I can say is, Lithuania better look to its border defences.
The UK is not much better. I hate it when there's a disaster on the news and they go on about how many Britons chipped a nail while the train crashed, killing hundreds. Last edited by Dunadan : 11-21-2002 at 12:13 PM. |
11-21-2002, 12:43 PM | #8 |
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What's really sad is when we Americans don't even know where our OWN country is. And it's not as if the shape is hard to recognize, either!
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11-21-2002, 12:55 PM | #9 |
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19/20. I missed the Religion question, too. couldn't remember if Islam passed up Christianity yet or not.
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11-21-2002, 01:01 PM | #10 |
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I got them all right, but I also wasn't sure about the religion question.
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It does annoy me when people bring up the fact that most Americans don't own passports or speak a second language. As I've said before, if you superimposed our country over Europe - it would extend from the western coast of France to the Ural Mountains in Russia. I recently figured out what the equivalent cities I would have lived in in Europe had I moved around like I have in the US. With London as being the point of New Jersey and Russia being the west coast (I know backwards) - I would have lived in England, Belgium, Germany, Russia and Turkey. If every state required a passport to travel between them like Europe did until just 1999 - Americans would have passports too. I can fly from New Jersey to California and any place in between (which I have done). This is 3,000 miles and all I need to show is my ticket and picture ID (security is a little stricter now after 9/11, but that is still all I need). Quote:
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The fact that Americans travel to fewer foreign countries is all relative to European countries being the size of out states. It's easy for a European to say they've traveled outside their country. It's much harder for us when we live in one of the largest countries in the world and are surrounded by water on both sides. By the way - I had a passport when I went to England twice - but I let it expire. I don't need it to go to Canada (even if I fly in there) and I don't need it for Mexico. If I travel overseas again - which I plan to - I will get another one. In terms of speaking foreign languages - the same holds true. Our country is an English speaking country. The European Union has this to contend with - Quote:
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I do think that the US's numbers are ridiculous though. We have some of the best universities in the world, the best industries, and the best companies - yet people can't find New Jersey on a map or know where the hot spots of the world are. Obvisouly more people would rather worry about who the "Bachelor" picked ('Bachelor' picks brunette Helene) than what is going on in Iran or Iraq or any other part of the world.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what society or schools can do to make people more educated in geography and what is going on in the world? In my 6th grade we had open classrooms (4th, 5th and 6th all in one class and people worked at their levels) - every Friday we had a news cast. Someone was assigned international, national, local, sports, etc and had to research an event that was happening. We had about 5 newscasters a week and we sat at the "anchor desk" and reported the news (someone also did weather ). We then discussed as a class the news items. At the time I guess I didn't think I was learning anything - because it was fun and everyone had a good time. We sat in circles and talked about things and figured out where things were happening in the world. Now I realise that I was actually learning there and I wish schools would look beyond the standard methods of teaching. Here is a quiz (Take the European test) about the European Union that was given to Europeans. England came in second to last. Quote:
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11-21-2002, 02:04 PM | #13 |
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I just missed the US population question. I got the rest right. And I'm not even 18 yet. (14)
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11-21-2002, 03:50 PM | #14 |
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Re:Europea Test
I only got 7/8 ...........although the question I got wrong was "Who wrote Hansel and Gretal" so I think I can live with myself
It is shocking that many of the basic facts of geography and history aren't being taught (or not being taught effectively enough).......I last studied geography 13 yrs ago and can still remember the basics as covered in the National Geographic quiz. I wonder exactly what kids are taught in school these days Whatever it is it's not enough What also worries me is that parents seem oblivious to it........would you not become concerned if your child couldn't identify their home country on a map? |
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[B]I only got 7/8 ...........although the question I got wrong was "Who wrote Hansel and Gretal" so I think I can live with myself THE BROTHER'S GRIMM. Mx |
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