Im so dissapointed in my own country bc there are people who can't tell you all the states or they might be like i thought france was a city or something like that meanwhile people from other countries be getting 100 on this (btw i got a hundred im just talking about a lot of people from america)
Americans are bad at geography in specific for how advanced of a nation they live in. Obviously, the average American is going to be better at geography than the average person from a third world country. I am American and there are definitely many intelligent people here, but focusing on geography in specific, the school system is not so great at teaching it. In my school, geography is taken in for a semester in 4th grade, a semester in 7th grade, and the whole year in 9th grade. Also, I do know that in many American schools it is gym teachers who teach geography.
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It really makes me mad when people say "100% and I'm not from America." GOOD FOR YOU! I'm sure that if I tried I could get 100% on any other country, and in fact, I have! Why do non-Americans feel that need to go around bragging that they know our country? Honestly, why does it matter so much? Americans aren't stupid, in case you didn't know. So get that stupid stereotype out of your head. Please, thanks.
No, we're not stupid. But our American educational system is broken. Sadly broken. If you asked the average person on the street to take this test it would be appalling.
No, silly Potato... Liopleurodon meant that Charlotte is misplaced on the border between NC and SC. It's decidedly in the middle of NC. Quiz author should fix it!
Too many cities! I'm fine with the edges but all those blobs around the Great Lakes mess with my head. My excuse is that I'm English but really I should know more than I do.
I always get mixed up with Cleveland and Cinncinati. I got all the others, though (however, I am a ten year old from Denver, and I'm learning about US geography in school).
I got all of them with 2:41, having only been to Pittsburgh, Philly, and Boston. For some reason I always thought that Cincinnati was in Indiana (but knew that Indianapolis certainly was) , but I guess not.
This WaS pretty easy to me, NY errors were just careless like clicking Denver when I meant to hit Dallas. What is scary to me is my daughter who's in 7th grade and has gotten AS and BS HER WHOLE LIFE IN SCHOOL DID HORRIBLY. They don't teach things like I used to have to learn. Anything I had to memorize...multiplication tables ,states , capitols, she he never had to learn.
Well to be fair anything can easily be looked up on our phones nowadays so learning this kind of thing became less relevant. Understanding is more important than memorizing anyway.
As a native Nashvillian, y'all shouldn't miss us! Nashville is the capital of Tennessee, therefore, it's right in the middle! When you think Memphis think of the Mississippi River; it's all the way on the other side of the state :)
The place where you have Memphis is really Blytheville, AR or Dyersburg, TN. Memphis is right next to both AR and MS, but more of the suburbs are in MS. The metro area does sprawl a bit, mostly to the South and East due to the River and nice farmland in AR.
79% (not American). I missed Tampa, Charlotte, Birmingham, Memphis, Omaha, Milwaukee, and St. Louis. I didn't guess any wrong though. Not bad for first attempt at American Geography
There so many actually important cities missing. What's up with Boise and Birmingham but no Orlando, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, Sacramento, Reno, Kansas City, San Antonio, etc...
probably because he wanted to space the cities out, he already had Tampa and Miami for Florida, i don't understand why he would put another one. Sacramento and Reno would be to close to other Cities in California.
I told about a few including FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society.
She worked on it for a couple of hours brought into my office and showed her wonderful poster which said
A NEW SOCIETY!
WHAT A GREAT DEAL!
I'm just 13!
I'm from south america bruh
i accidentally clicked Boise instead of Boston