Can you name the countries of Europe?

41 out of 47 - not good!
http://www.sporcle.com/games/europe.php

42/47.

Oops.

Not too bad though really.

43. The others don't matter.

Edit that post Charles - you farqin spoiler.

i got 38 ...would have got a couple more if i could spell

41.

Missed out on:

Luxembourg (spelling)
Androrra
Malta
Montenegro
Liechtenstein
Kosovo

But those final three are shit-heap places that change their names and ownership all the time, so I feel it was a moral victory.

Wot no Faroe Islands?

Dello, you'll get yelled at by Pete for spoiling!!

I had a brain melt. Only managed 28. FML.

46- just got to remember the footballing minnows and the Eurovision song contest.

Vatican city isn't a country - it's just a big church.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/cricketcountychampions.php


One for the hardened Cricket historian.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/testcricket_countries.php


Also a ruthless task.


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Two more farqin spoilers. You know who you are.

You might as well be batting v Holland.

41. with help. Bloody S.M.

also did African countries - ouch. Got about 39 of 52. Who knew?!

I just got 1

Netherlands

Dello wrote:41.

Missed out on:

Luxembourg (spelling)
Androrra
Malta
Montenegro
Liechtenstein
Kosovo

But those final three are shit-heap places that change their names and ownership all the time, so I feel it was a moral victory.

Liechtenstein has been one of the more stable countries in Europe over the past two centuries. It didn't even get involved in WW2.

Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are not included for some reason.

I'm sure Kosovo is not officially independent yet. If it's included then the Faeroes should definitely be there along with the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and probably a heap of others.

Yeah, it was a shit-heap quiz. Most of the names were made up.

Finland? Is it full of sharks or something?

Nutters.

True. They can't even spell Hungry who spent centuries at war with Turkey, mostly at Christmas.

And since when has the John Travolta musical Grease has it's own country?

Summer Lovin, my arse.

Accoring to my History 101 course it was the grease the hungy ones were hoping to cook the turkey in. They ended up with an Ostrich instead which is the German name for Austria.

my primary school nursery rhyme had Russia getting Hungry, eating Turkey, slipping on Greece, and breaking China.

Apart from the geographical randomness involved, isn't it amazing that those childhood rhymes stay unforgotten, so easily recalled ... long term memory is chemical, not electrical ...

And they think there's too much political bias in education nowadays.

I've always found it strange that we don't call countries by the same name as they call themselves. It's a bit like being introduced to someone called John but deciding to call them Bill instead.

Some are reasonably understandable, like Italy for Italia. In the case of Germany I suppose it was Germania long before it was Deutchland (not sure where the French got Allemagne from though). But how did Suomi become Finland or Hellas become Greece.

Hrvatska would take some getting used to.

Not to mention Κύπρος .

ten years after wrote:Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are not included for some reason.

I'm sure Kosovo is not officially independent yet. If it's included then the Faeroes should definitely be there along with the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and probably a heap of others.

I wondered about that too, but I find that's because they're are considered Asian countries. I knew Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan were in Asia, but thought the other two were in 'Europe'.

37/47.