Guys I am aware of Nur-Sultan. @Jerry928 I even sent you a personal e-mail with my reasoning. We'll make the change eventually, but we're not in a rush to bend over backwards because of some third world despot.
Third-world despots are responsible for many changes in country names and their capitals. Almost every capital change -- Gitega, Dodoma, Naypyidaw, Astana/Nur-Sultan itself -- is nothing more than a power move by a despot trying to create a personal base away from the former power center. Unless you have reason to believe the change is brief -- Paraguay's Ciudad Pte. Stroessner and Russia's Stalingrad and Leningrad reverted to their original names years later -- there's no way to ignore it (unless you also stop accepting the country names Myanmar and Burkina Faso on the same grounds). Compromise: Accept both names, but display the currently correct name.
Does anyone know why the Quizmaster considers The Vatican/Holy See, Taiwan, and Kosovo countries though they are not fully recognized by the UN, but doesn't consider Somaliland, Palestine, Abakizia, South Ossetia, North Cyprus, Western Sahara, and many more as countries? They have the same level of representation at the UN as Kosovo. If he considers those countries he needs to consider many more as countries. Also, Palestine has more representation in the UN than Kosovo.
Easy, those countries mentioned above may not be recognized by the UN, but they have a majority of the world countries recognizing them, and so they are considered countries in that sense.
I think its quite rude to even suggest considering North Cyprus as a country. Do you know even know the history of how the Turks illegally invaded and occupied a third of the island, displacing thousands of Cypriots? How many grandmas and grandpas could never visit their childhood home again? Calling this illegally occupied land a "country" is crazy to me- they aren't even allowed to open franchises there because it isn't, and will never be, a country.
I know it, just couldnt spell it, turned out I missed the first u. Thought it was Ngerlmud. Instead of thinking to add a u, I thought I mist have messed up the order of "gerl" so Ngrelmud, Nreglmud, and quite a few others..
I decided from now on I will remember it by thinking of "dumb lure" which is nearly what the first part is backwards, if if wasnt for the "silent b" in dumb.
Imagine they would call a city washington.. Or nassau, sucre, georgetown, and many others (like perhaps gaborone, yamoussoukro, malabo, mbabane, port louis,). It is a common practice to name (capital) cities after leaders. Quite often aswell without using a specific name, like kingstown and port-au-prince.
I'm not sure if I've asked this in the comments of a quiz or not.
But... could you or someone possibly do a quiz that has...1. an empty map at the start and 2. you need both country and capital together to make the country show...???
I finally got 100%! And with five minutes to spare. I've been at it for like a month, whenever I've had 15 minutes to spare, usually between 1-3 times per day. Never thought I'd know all the capitals of the world, although I know nothing about most of them aside from their name. I'm pretty sure I know some of these just based on the order of this list. I need to retest my knowledge on an empty map now.
Yes! 100% with 1:36 left. I worked on this for roughly about 3 days and for 1 hour a day. Africa was the hardest in my opinion, I took so much time on it. I feel relieved.
Which continent were you thinking they were in then? Or confused with a different country? (I dont know, El salvador?, also 2 words one starting with an s and in a Romance language. Long shot I know..) It is not like it is near any other continent, so curious about your thought proces.
Went from 127 to 146. I am getting there :) Not actively learning them, but subconscious absorption through other quizzes. Which helps remembering them in the long run instead of actively learning them, then they are fast in, but just as fast out again (with a few sticking).||
Though the downside with that is... the ones that never get mentioned in any quizzes haha. I think most of the ones I didnt get fall in that category, I think there are atleast 10 more that I missed that I should ve gotten or atleast look familiar enough. I think about 30 you hardly see on any quiz.
Great quiz, finished with plenty of time. I think you should add another version of this with less time for experts and this for starters. Also, Colombo should be added as the capital of Sri Lanka, since that is the more commonly used capital. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is impossible to spell!!
2 pet peeves with this quiz having spent a while to master it. I think there should be some sort of option to take the quiz 1) without any predictive text/filling in the answer when you get close, since I would like to get in the habit of typing the full names correctly and 2) removing the duplicate answer when you type Kingston and it fills in Kingstown for St Vincent. Because of this I rarely remember the latter because it is always filled in for me. Also would like to type the "city" for capitals that use it i.e. making answer Guatemala City instead of it counting just Guatemala but that is a minor issue I guess
As far as I know, Majuro is the island on which the capital, Delap-Uliga-Djarrit, is located. I don't know whether there is a particular reason why you chose Majuro instead, but I believe you should at least accept Delap-Uliga-Djarrit (commonly referred to as DUD) as a type-ins.
Can you lower full point percentage to 90.0 percent? Reason being due to the amount of geography nerds, I got 194/196, but it's still not in the 95% percentile due to the amount of people who got full.
My god, 184, this was hard to type all these names. And they have to spelt correctly i found. I messed up many times just from 1 letter mixed with the other lol.
I got 183 out of 196 and still didn't get a 5. Are you kidding me? This must be one of the hardest quizzes on Jetpunk and most people probably aren't getting more than 70 or so. What do I have to do to get a 5? Get all of them right?
Can you add Colombo as an acceptable answer for Sri Lanka's capital? Sri J... is a district of Colombo and I cannot manage to spell the official capital correctly
i feel like accepting shortened versions, while it can be helpful, shouldn't be done. I understand it's making spelling easier, and I agree that acronyms like DRC or CAR are good, but if it's just a shortened part of the word you could keep typing without noticing. This happened to me as I was typing Ouagadougou and it just accepted 'Ouaga.' Kinda ruins the flow.
Some of these are annoying because the answer is accepted but there's still more to type, which leaves the correct letters in the next answer. A couple of the shortenings I don't like because I'm drilling myself to keep my knowledge current and I actually want to know the full name of the capitals of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka and Brunei.
But not everyone uses the quiz this way, and lots of people are frustrated with knowing roughly "Ouagadougou" but not how to spell it.
What I'd love is a feature where I can choose (for a given quiz, a given take, or maybe for my user) whether to accept loose spellings and (especially) shortenings or whether to keep it strict. The accepting of close misspellings doesn't bother me, but the truncation does.
Howcome Colombo isn't accepted along with Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte when Bloemfontein, Cape Town & Pretoria all are? It's the same situation in Sri Lanka as it is in South Africa:
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre.That's Sri Lankas constitution, even though Kotte is in Colombos urban area, those are two different cities still. Their constitution defines Kotte as the capital.
South Africa have officialy divided their 3 branches of power in three different cities that aren't even near onw another. Two totally different situations.
Because you've taken this quiz more than once. If you get Paris right the first time, but miss it the second time, it will show your percentage for Paris at 50.
I was really confused why Bujumbura didn't work for Burundi and Dar es Salaam didn't work for Tanzania. Okay maybe I should've known about Tanzania, apparently it was moved to Dodoma quite a while ago...
Sorry, you've got the capital of Indonesia wrong. It's Nusantara, on Borneo, not Jakarta. (As of today, that is. See CNN article, "Jakarta isn't the capital of Indonesia anymore.")
This has been in the works for several years. And although Nusantara hasn't been built yet, and will be built in phases, it seems to be implied that once the legislature made this ruling this week, it became the de jure capital of the country, even though nothing official happens there yet. (A bit like the Bujumbura / Gitega thing in Burundi, although the (small) Gitega did already exist.)
Techically that would be cheating due to mexico and guatemala having city after there country as their capital.But andorra having la vella after their country’s name.
What is a pain in the ass when you are typing without looking is when you type the correct spelling for:
Vientiane
Tallinn
...for example, and the final letter (for whatever reason) is not required and ruins your next answer because there's a dangling final letter at the start of your lovely new capital.
I suppose for those guys who have completed it multiple times and are going for time improvements, this fact can be borne in mind (Jackinthebox above, for example) but for me, it is painful.
Also I don't recall typing the name of the capital of St Vincent because the capital of Jamaica is acceptable because it's close enough. BUT NO ! It isn't.
(Sorry - I see my frustration is aired by partdavid above)
OK, just wanted to let the creator of this quiz know, that it's a great quiz, it needs no change, and I've taken this quiz about a million times and I've loved it every time. Great Job! I now know the capital, location, and name of every country in the world because of you!
I've done this quiz several more times since I wrote this comment. My high score is 100% in 6:52 and in the Countries of the World quiz my high score is 100% in 6:43. I know that nobody cares, I'm just really proud of my self and really thankful to the creator of this quiz and the Countries of the World quiz.
Would it be at all possible to either change the posted answer for Ukraine to Kyiv? I know it's a small thing, but like, anything to decentralize Russia as the source of transliteration/translation of other countries and such. Just a thought! Otherwise, love this quiz!
I think that because most sources (Wikipedia, BBC, Britannica etc) have switched to Kyiv, and given the situation right now that you should change from Kiev to Kyiv.
I agree Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel, and this is generally international consensus, Quizmaster has his own set of (somewhat controversial) beliefs. Hard to argue Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine however - most people would probably agree on Ramallah.
It took me many tries to get all the capital cities down and I still spend 10 mins a day practicing. There are so many difficult spellings to remember and I've had to get creative with some. For example Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte = Sir Jay, a warden at Epura Kotte prison. Silly, but it worked for me. Now that I know all the cities, I practice them in various orders, including alphabetical A-Z and Z-A. I found if I just did the quiz top to bottom, I was memorizing what words were next on the list rather than learning which countries the cities belonged to. I did the same with the 196 countries of the world and the 118 elements of the periodic table. Fun and good for the brain!
i just got all 196. i’ve done this quiz 3 times over the course of the past 4 months. i was stuck on dushanbe for a good 3 minutes and i thought i wasn’t going to complete it. i’m so proud of myself
Aced all 196 somehow, on Burundi I thought, *Why isn’t Bujumbura the capital? It should have been.* Then I realized I had like 4.5 minutes left and thought *IT’S GITEGA!* I like this quiz
I accidentally clicked give up instead of unlimited time, nooooooooo, I couldn't do it in time but didn't want to fail ones I knew, I would have gotten so much higher
Allow Welington (without l) and Ryadh (maybe more).... non-native English speakers could have problems with that...lots of countries and cities are written really differently in another languages (in mine we haven't got double L`s and is more simple)
I had mastered them all except africa and been able to do them just fine, including the map version tests for each area. I came here after doing Africa right for first time and wanted to see which ones I haven't mastered.
Albania and Parguay in west. Palikir and Majuro in Oceania. And randomly Bishkek and Beirut for Middle East/Stan. They're all the random ones I've had issues with before.
6 in Asia, Kualu, Dhaka, Phonom, Dili, Vientiane and Thimphu. There same old ones I've had issues remembering on site.
12 in Africa isn't too bad, cause only done Africa once, and haven't even done the map version yet.
I skipped all the ones I dont know and checked in at end, and its the same old culprits, some reason Bhutan and Thimphu are just impossible for me to memorize.
Its why mistakes are awesome, cause when you make same mistakes over and over, you remember last time messed up and randomly remember things you messed up. I remember Thimphu in end cause remembered its the word I always forget.
Jerusalem is the official capital that Israel claims but it is not universally recognized by other countries (the US recognized it just a few years ago during the Trump administration). The de facto capital is Tel Aviv. For the most part quizzes on this site use the official capital that is claimed by the country (the only exception I know of is Benin which accepts both Porto-Novo and Cotonou). I personally think the de facto capitals should be accepted as type ins at the very least, but its obviously not my call to make.
I think its quite rude to even suggest considering North Cyprus as a country. Do you know even know the history of how the Turks illegally invaded and occupied a third of the island, displacing thousands of Cypriots? How many grandmas and grandpas could never visit their childhood home again? Calling this illegally occupied land a "country" is crazy to me- they aren't even allowed to open franchises there because it isn't, and will never be, a country.
I decided from now on I will remember it by thinking of "dumb lure" which is nearly what the first part is backwards, if if wasnt for the "silent b" in dumb.
But... could you or someone possibly do a quiz that has...1. an empty map at the start and 2. you need both country and capital together to make the country show...???
I love jetpunk!
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1255618/world-capitals-that-start-with-a-vowel
But why is São Tomé & Principe on Africa's column?
Ah san marino is a better candidate :)
I thought it was Bujumbura.
Thanks anyway!
I did not search this up, I just memorized it by memory
Get it right, you baked beans.
(this is satire in case it isn't already obvious)
Though the downside with that is... the ones that never get mentioned in any quizzes haha. I think most of the ones I didnt get fall in that category, I think there are atleast 10 more that I missed that I should ve gotten or atleast look familiar enough. I think about 30 you hardly see on any quiz.
anyways, i also though more people knew ngerulmud...
But Colombo doesn't work here.
If you suggested Pòtoprens I'd agree.
When I search for "World Capitals - Hard Version" I got no result.
ouaga => Ouagadougou
tallin => Talinn
vientian => Vientiane
bandar => Bandar Seri Begawan
sri jayawardenepura => Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
sana => Sana'a
kingston => Kingstown
Some of these are annoying because the answer is accepted but there's still more to type, which leaves the correct letters in the next answer. A couple of the shortenings I don't like because I'm drilling myself to keep my knowledge current and I actually want to know the full name of the capitals of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka and Brunei.
But not everyone uses the quiz this way, and lots of people are frustrated with knowing roughly "Ouagadougou" but not how to spell it.
What I'd love is a feature where I can choose (for a given quiz, a given take, or maybe for my user) whether to accept loose spellings and (especially) shortenings or whether to keep it strict. The accepting of close misspellings doesn't bother me, but the truncation does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre.That's Sri Lankas constitution, even though Kotte is in Colombos urban area, those are two different cities still. Their constitution defines Kotte as the capital.
South Africa have officialy divided their 3 branches of power in three different cities that aren't even near onw another. Two totally different situations.
World Capital Names with Double Letters
Spot the Imposter – World Capitals
That's it, I'm done.
Surprised myself by getting 157 on my first attempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara_(city)
What is a pain in the ass when you are typing without looking is when you type the correct spelling for:
Vientiane
Tallinn
...for example, and the final letter (for whatever reason) is not required and ruins your next answer because there's a dangling final letter at the start of your lovely new capital.
I suppose for those guys who have completed it multiple times and are going for time improvements, this fact can be borne in mind (Jackinthebox above, for example) but for me, it is painful.
Also I don't recall typing the name of the capital of St Vincent because the capital of Jamaica is acceptable because it's close enough. BUT NO ! It isn't.
(Sorry - I see my frustration is aired by partdavid above)
Finished with 7 minutes left on my most recent go!
Even though so many capitals have difficult spelling, for some reason the last one I was able to remember was "Maseru" hahaha
Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.
Only forgot capital of equatorial guinea
Malabo
Argh
196/196
Im so happy
Yay
The capital of poland-warsaw is called warsaw because it saw a lot of wars.
Get it like the n*zi germany and ussr stuff
(I have learnt all the 196 capitals including the other 2 of Palestine rammalah or east Jerusalem and 2027 new country of Bougainville,buka)
Love this quiz.
152-196
Albania and Parguay in west. Palikir and Majuro in Oceania. And randomly Bishkek and Beirut for Middle East/Stan. They're all the random ones I've had issues with before.
6 in Asia, Kualu, Dhaka, Phonom, Dili, Vientiane and Thimphu. There same old ones I've had issues remembering on site.
12 in Africa isn't too bad, cause only done Africa once, and haven't even done the map version yet.
Freaking Dhaka and Thimpu as always, I just cant remember them no matter what I do. Randomly forgot Asuncion which is one use to have problems with.
Shockingly I got everything in Africa except Juba.
I skipped all the ones I dont know and checked in at end, and its the same old culprits, some reason Bhutan and Thimphu are just impossible for me to memorize.
Its why mistakes are awesome, cause when you make same mistakes over and over, you remember last time messed up and randomly remember things you messed up. I remember Thimphu in end cause remembered its the word I always forget.
Finally i did it