Well, I got 30/45, but I'm tired right now...and considering half of these countries didn't even exist when I was probably first learning geography in school, not too bad, actually.
That's not true. Only these don't exist (except if you are older than 70 right now) Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia, Kosovo, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which is only 14 (pls tell me if I missed any bcos I didn't check i only used my own knowledge)
38 out of 45 seems about right. It wouldn't be the average if you surveyed a bunch of random people on the street about European capitals. Not even close. But a self-selected group of people who specifically came to a trivia site and sought out a geography quiz is hardly a random sample.
yup, other way around wouldnt have been this easy. Pretty sure I would ve definitely missed out on atleast 5, including spelling issues.
I just put my hand over all the capitals and see if I knew them by heart and these were the ones that didnt come instantly (Spelled correctly) (some did after a few seconds, but not sure that would be the case tomorrow)
I would miss, Albania, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Moldova. plus I might forget about valetta in a few days, just learned that one today)
I dont think it ever was, but you arent the only one in thinking that. I have heard it many times by other people and it is a common misconception. It ís the most famous district, so I guess people might have just assumed it (since it has no official capital, otherwise you would ve heard about that one more, so there was a gap to be filled and people filled it with monte carlo) and other people just accepted it as truth from other people.
Oh c'mon! If RUSSIA can be in the 'European' countries even though most of the body of the country is in ASIA then so can Cyprus. At least Cyprus is in the EU.
Clicked "Random" on the Jetpunk front page and got this - having spent months doing the capitals of the world quiz, this was a breeze. Jetpunk clearly knows me too well!
Please consider adding Hague as alternative capital of the netherlands. And technically Switerland has no capital, so Bern with an asterix (*de facto capital) should probably be used.
Some years ago I randomly learned every european capital because my math teacher wanted to do a quiz with us about them because on of our students was pretty dumb. So I learned every one of them. Was it necessary? No. Did I impress my teacher because i took 5 of the most random countries someone would take? I think so. Did I forget some of them after the years? Yes. And I wanna refresh that knowledge and put every capital of the world into it. Gonna be a though one ngl.
I triple dog dare simply seeing one European, of any statehood, get 100% on a usa state capitals quiz, similar to what I, as an AMERICAN, OF THE red blood variety, just got on their euroquiz.
Mal's 20 most difficult Capitals quiz
I just put my hand over all the capitals and see if I knew them by heart and these were the ones that didnt come instantly (Spelled correctly) (some did after a few seconds, but not sure that would be the case tomorrow)
I would miss, Albania, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Moldova. plus I might forget about valetta in a few days, just learned that one today)
Also can we please accept Czechia for Czech Republic tia.
Check out my quizzes (in French) ;)
can anyone recomend a good quiz
https://www.houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/science-education/why-switzerland-has-no-capital-and-other-questions-you-have-about
Hungary
Slovakia
Slovenia
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
maybe I'm good at flags :)
I got a 100% and a score of 45 (current average 36) in 2:11.