There are two capitals in Sri Lanka - Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the administrative and legislative capital, and Colombo, the commercial, executive and judicial capital. Could Colombo also be accepted? (Just as Bolivia and South Africa have multiple capitals)
Yes! Got them all with 4:45 remaining at 1:42:46 PM on March 16, 2019. It took more than three months of practice for me to get them all. Oceania, the Caribbean, parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and even the Balkans for a time gave me trouble. But not anymore. I tried to guess them all in order, which proved not possible for Oceania and Africa; however, I still got most of them in order, and guessed Zimbabwe's capital last as I intended. I almost forgot Mali's capital but remembered it after about twenty seconds of thought. This is a great quiz! There should be a badge for not just getting all the countries of the world, but all the capitals and flags as well.
promastermage is correct, this happened following the resignation of their longtime (29 years) president yesterday (whom I had never heard of until I saw this on Wikipedia's current events portal), which prompted Kazakhstan's government to rename their capital in his honor.
That's quite a few name changes in the past few months, isn't it? First Swaziland and Macedonia change their names a little, then Burundi relocates its capital, then this happens.
Since it has already spread that Kazakhstan is renaming their capital to Nursultan this comment is rather pointless.
However, I'd like to suggest something for the interesting facts category. The former name the city had since 1998, Astana, literally means "capital city" in Kazakh.
I spent at least 5 minutes trying to spell Ulaanbaatar. 80% of the capitals are impossible to spell! Capital of Iceland is Reykjavik, HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT!??! Anyways great quiz! : )
You've changed Macedonia to North Macedonia. You've changed the capital of Burundi to Gitega. You've even (incorrectly) changed Swaziland to Eswatini (it's actually eSwatini). But for some reason you haven't changed the name of the capital of Kazakhstan from Astana to Nur-Sultan. While I am a bit offended by the change (as I might also be if our capital became Trumpington, D.C.), I think that in this case we have to concede the facts on the ground.
On 23 March 2019, Kazakhstan's capital was renamed to Nur-Sultan following a unanimous vote by its parliament. This has wrecked all the Capitals Starting with A quizzes as well.
I stumbled across Nur-Sultan in today's newspaper, and immediately the question crossed my mind: Has the capital been renamed in all the relevant Jetpunk quizzes? So I looked, and sure enough, no! I think this is one of Jetpunk's "keynote" quizzes and should be corrected soon. I'm even fairly sure he/she is also right about the eSwatini thing, although Wikipedia hasn't changed it to that at this point. It doesn't affect the typed-in answer on the Countries quiz since input case is irrelevant, but still.
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.
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 don't wish to start a fight on here, but given the contested status of Jerusalem, listing it as a capital like any other, without so much as an asterisk, is a political statement, especially given that the majority of world nations continue to recognize Tel Aviv instead. In addition to a footnote, other options include adding Tel Aviv to the answer, a la Benin, or adding Palestine to the quiz, a la Taiwan.
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.
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
The only reason I got Malabo is bc one time for school I took a spanish class and we did a project with countries that speak Spanish and learned their capitals too and found out that Equatorial Guinea spoke Spanish and learned that it’s capital was Malabo
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
That's quite a few name changes in the past few months, isn't it? First Swaziland and Macedonia change their names a little, then Burundi relocates its capital, then this happens.
However, I'd like to suggest something for the interesting facts category. The former name the city had since 1998, Astana, literally means "capital city" in Kazakh.
i bet most people on jetpunk have done it before
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.