It helps to know a Slavic language. In Russian, which is related to Montenegrin/BCS, Pod = Under Gora = Mountain, so Podgorica is the place under the mountain. Since Montenegro is the Black Mountain, the pairing is easy to remember.
I'm not going to say my age, but I finally did this with 2:25 left on the clock! Very pleased! Am still trying to list all of the capitals in order so that they match the list of countries... Congrats to the youngsters who do these quizzes! Keep up the good work-
I'm terrible on capitals but I finally managed to get all the countries a few times on the countries of the world quiz, so now I'm starting on learning all the capitals. Started with South America, the easy one, now it's on to Europe. Only got 31 right today, but one of these days I'll post 100% and I'll be doing the happy dance even if there's only one second left. As I've commented before, European capitals were much easier to remember when I was in school in the 1960s. I have a feeling Ljubljana is going to be a spelling thorn in my flesh.
Yes, let's remove from the quizzes all countries in the world which are not recognized by someone. That would make the geography quizzes MUCH easier. Of course, then you have deal with those who have become unrecognized being ticked off, so how would you deal with them, Epic?
They should, but they can't, because China and Russia still have veto power! Why, UN? Why do these five random countries just get to decide if something's a country or not?
Here's what I do: Spell it as close as you can (Doesn't have to be accurate) then right click it and click on Chisinau. Therefore you don't have to spell it completely accurate
Things are far too political when it comes to country recognition. China denies Taiwan's existence so it isn't in the UN, Morocco ignores Western Sahara, the Koreas both pretend they control the whole peninsula, and Serbia fails to recognise Kosovo. None of those are because of illegitimate claims, it's just that those countries, politically speaking, have it in their best interest to keep those countries in their territory. Kosovo fought a war, they won the war, and they control their territory with passports accepted in a majority of countries. Grow up and deal with it.
Fought a war? Then ISIS fights a war now as well. Shall they win it, yu should be one of the first to accept them as independent state. UCK was nothing else then a terrorist organisation. First PM of the "independent Kosovo" was a criminal involved in drug smuggling and trading human organs
If ISIS wins a war I will certainly accept that they are a nation (although their failure is almost certain now that their main base of operations is captured). Whether something is a country or not has nothing to do with whether you like it to be. I don't care how it became a country, what matters is that it is one. The United States itself fought an easily avoidable thirteen-year war - but you don't deny that they're a country, I presume.
Indeed. Thank goodness, because international negotiations in the Middle East are confusing enough without another country in the mix trying to kill basically everyone.
I have no problem accepting ISIS as an independent state if they are one because I'm not a petulant child that refuses to accept reality if it doesn't conform to my prejudices. That said, they've lost their de facto capital and are steadily disintegrating so at this point it doesn't seem like we're going to have to do that anyway.
Also, Mocni unsurprisingly doesn't know what terrorism is, and Pristina is a nicer place than Belgrade with much nicer people. Not that either of these points have anything to do with sovereignty.
You guys are such losers. I got 1000% in -1000 seconds and I'm -1 years old. However I am from Pristina, capital of Kosovo, so I guess that gives me an advantage
It took me forever to understand that "Chișinău" is just a fancy spelling of Kishinev. Would you accept that alternative name, which is recognized by Wikipedia (fwiw)?
Yea, I had the same problem on both this quiz and the World Capitals Quiz. I've completed these quizzes multiple times so knew CHISINAU was right so kept typing it in, sometimes slowly in case it would then accept it!
I copied and pasted the answer from the World Capitals Quiz onto this one (when Chisinau wasn't accepted) and it works but the answer has the special 's' and 'a' characters - Chișinău. I am unable to type those characters
Yes me too. I thought I must have the wrong spelling but I triued several times. Finally I googled it and when I copied and pasted it in with the bits under and over the letters (I know there are technical terms for those but I'm not sure what they are) then it was accepted. But I can't type those on my keyboard.
Still works fine for me. What browser are people using? I'm having a hard time figuring out why it wouldn't work. Maybe if you're on a mobile device it's being corrected to a misspelling.
Please just allow one standard spelling. It really grates to spell Tallinn correctly for it to be accepted with one n, and then my next answer gets an n stuck on the front. Surely it isn't too much to ask for people to learn how to spell these places correctly with either the way the country itself spells it, or the UN accepted spelling?
Happy to get them all correct with over 60 seconds remaining. Took me almost a minute to get the Croatian answer though. Just one of those answers that would not immediately come to me.
I saw that Azerbaijan's capital Baku is near the Asia-Europe boundary (due to the separation from the Ural Mountains) so it counts as an European country.
i thought of vilnius for lithuania but i didn't bother to type it in because i thought "meh that's probably just a random word" but when i saw that it was actually vilnius i was like "😭😭😭😭"
I would like to point out that there is no de jure capital of Switzerland, though since Bern is the de facto capital and "federal city", it makes sense to use it for these quizzes. I am just trying to raise people's attentions.
i used auto correct for Ljubljana the only one i couldnt spell :P
also Podgorica got me trying every possible version of Po__gori_a bc i remembered the letters but not the order of them (i realzied i could just autocorect but it was too late so i used it for Ljubljana)
Took me 14 tries to get them all. These quizzes are harder than the countries of the world to me, but for why I honestly couldn't explain. Am I crazy or does anyone else feel the same?
I got 44/45, and I'm pretty proud of my result because I only know many cities in German, and not as many in English. I didn't know how to spell Bucharest, that's why I "only" got 44/45. I should've gotten that one
Finally, after mastering the test of lining up country to list of capital names. I moved onto this much harder one. The map one is hard to, as never mastered exactly where the smaller countries are so gonna practice that one now.
Overall isn't terribly hard, I mean half of them are pretty easy that anyone should just know from movies. Ones like Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Prague heard of so just took a minute to memorize their country. Some I just knew mostly cause have friends or celebrities I know from Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo and Dublin.
Ones that gave me the most difficulty were Zagreb, Tirana, Podgorica, Vilnius, Ljubljana and Vaduz. As had no connection to them and had hard time remembering how to spell and which country they belong to.
Surprisingly Reykjavik and Chisinau were easy to remember, only took like 2 tries til knew like Skopje, Riga, Tallin and Velleta.
UN should step in and hurry the process up.
I'm 10
Cyprus (not here, probably "Asian")
Scotland (will perhaps be independent one day soon)
Catalonia (same ^)
Turkey (has some European land too)
Atlantis (its REAL!!!)
Also, Mocni unsurprisingly doesn't know what terrorism is, and Pristina is a nicer place than Belgrade with much nicer people. Not that either of these points have anything to do with sovereignty.
So easy...1:23 left
I copied and pasted the answer from the World Capitals Quiz onto this one (when Chisinau wasn't accepted) and it works but the answer has the special 's' and 'a' characters - Chișinău. I am unable to type those characters
I also think The Hague should be accepted because it's the de-facto capital of the Netherlands.
Can you change the spelling of Kyiv from 'Kiev' to 'Kyiv', since it has been changed and many countries recognize it.
Sources:
Google Maps, Wikipedia, the BBC and Britannica have all switched.
also Podgorica got me trying every possible version of Po__gori_a bc i remembered the letters but not the order of them (i realzied i could just autocorect but it was too late so i used it for Ljubljana)
Overall isn't terribly hard, I mean half of them are pretty easy that anyone should just know from movies. Ones like Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Prague heard of so just took a minute to memorize their country. Some I just knew mostly cause have friends or celebrities I know from Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo and Dublin.
Ones that gave me the most difficulty were Zagreb, Tirana, Podgorica, Vilnius, Ljubljana and Vaduz. As had no connection to them and had hard time remembering how to spell and which country they belong to.
Surprisingly Reykjavik and Chisinau were easy to remember, only took like 2 tries til knew like Skopje, Riga, Tallin and Velleta.