Amazing quiz!! Could you please accept Carstensz Pyramid for Puncak Jaya and Great Victoria Desert for Great Victorian Desert (without that last n)? Keep up these awesome quizzes!
I need more spotlight awards! Definitely going to retake this one since missed a bunch of easy answers that were smaller. I'd add Skagerrak as a type-in, it the more common name I've seen, and also make Cape Town a star instead of a dot because it's one of the capitals.
I would say add skaggerak because that how I have written it my whole life and is how its is pronounced here (afaik...). But apparently I might be the only one, I was convinced this was the spelling, if not in English than atleast in my own language/the areas nearby. But haven't found evidence of that.
Still it might be worth having it as a type-in (no idea how to pronounce it if it is supposed to only have on g..)
I got 206 and 17% did better than that. I think that's pretty amazing. There were a few bodies of water that I knew but didn't pick up on the map. Probably my bad.
Very nice quiz! I really liked the group of answers. Got 221, because I kinda ignore the Australian geography, so I do not know most of the icons there haha
I have a suggestion: considering "Kara Sea" is an answer, it would be better to remove "Karachi". It is better not to have two answers with the same initials - talking about me, I had no idea about Kara Sea before getting it lol. Maybe changing it to Lahore? :)
Sorry to nit-pick in the opposite direction, but it's confusing that some bodies of water require the full name, while others don't. Kara Sea was one that I missed because it didn't come up when I just typed Kara, and by the time I figured out that some seas required the full name, I'd forgotten which I'd already tried.
There are so many answers that I wouldn't mind a couple of freebies, but I can understand wanting to avoid that. I'd just prefer that each type of answer be consistent in its requirements.
Excellent! About type-ins: maybe accept anything containing 'falkland' (in case someone types west falkland for example) and don't require 'sea' to be typed (eg beaufort gets you the answer but kara doesn't)
how did you make this map? I am trying to make something similar with both seas and country borders, maybe adding rivers etc. Can I use your map to make some quizzes?
Hey, I've used inkscape. Hardest part is to keep the file size under the limit but there are a few tricks for that. And sure, you can just use my map. The more quizzes like this the better.
If you're going to do the Gulf of Maine, could you at least accept the Bay of Fundy as a type-in for it? Although imo it's weird to have it at all when you don't have the Philippine Sea, the Bass Strait, or the Persian Gulf, for example.
Also, is it possible to make the red bit of volcanoes also go green once you've guessed them? It's a bit annoying especially when a volcano is overlapping another thing.
I also kind of second the comment about Svalbard. I get that you're only looking for Spitsbergen, but you did do the Falklands and Guadeloupe, so it's a bit inconsistent.
For type-ins, could you accept literally anything shorter than Great Dividing Range and Great Australian Bight? And also Heilongjiang for the Amur would be nice.
I love the way you did cities here. If I went, "well, it can't be a capital and it's around here so the most likely city is [x]", that was the correct answer every single time. Felt like it was my fault if I didn't know the answer.
The Bay of Fundy is a separate body of water, I agree with the volcanoes, the map highlights only Spitsbergen while all of the Falklands and Guadeloupe, and the type-ins are up to you. Congrats on another spotlight btw! (not me this time)
The entirety of the Bay of Fundy is highlighted, so it isn't *that* separate. Also you miss the point about it being a weird inclusion in the first place (largely due to its borders being defined by underwater basins, rather than neighboring land/islands).
Also you are thinking about Spitsbergen only from one direction: if you typed Falklands, Guadeloupe, then Svalbard rather than Spitsbergen. But what about if you typed Spitsbergen, then went to type Basse-Terre, for example? Because there is no way to know that the quiz wants the Falklands and Guadeloupe combined until you type the individual islands.
That's why the inconsistency is awkward. It isn't quiz-breaking, because there's plenty of time to try again with the other name, but avoiding awkwardness is good when possible. It would also work to allow Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre as type-ins for Guadeloupe, to solve the problem from the other angle.
Good point with the Bay of Fundy. For the islands it is strange inconsistency but you can still see all of Guadeloupe (both Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) are highlighted as well as both East and West Falkland for the Falkland Islands, while only Spitsbergen is highlighted in Svalbard, not any other islands.
I included gulf of Maine while other seas/straits might be more prominent cause theres not much going on in that area in terms of bodies of water while in southeast Asia/Oceania theres already loads of answers.
I feel like Bay of Fundy is too small of a subset for a type-in.
Added Heilong River as type-in.
I can see how it seems inconsistent with the islands but also nowhere in the quiz a group of islands is highlighted that requires its individual islands as answers. I added Archipelago in the category designation to make it clearer.
I got the vast majority of them and couldn't for the life of me find out why "Bay of Fundy" wasn't working. The entire area known as the Bay of Fundy is highlighted, so I can't contemplate why it wouldn't be an acceptable answer. I've heard it referred to it only this way and not the Gulf of Maine. Even Google Maps doesn't reference the latter.
The area highlighted clearly stretches way beyond the Bay of Fundy which itself is a part of the Gulf of Maine. So accepting Bay of Fundy would simply be wrong. Gulf of Maine is a commonly used designation.
Missed Hispaniola because I thought it was asking for both countries...and then I spent the last 2 minutes trying to figure out what it could possibly be
Sorry for that. Which colours are an issue? Maybe I can try to fix it although there is limited room for change considering how many different colours are needed.
Adding missing dots requires adding the position data of every dot. Maybe I get to it at some point but its a lot of work with that many answers.
I think a good strategy is to ignore the watery ones until you run out of what you can identify on land. Non-blue water can be confusing at times especially before you turn it all green.
Wow I love this quiz. It's clear that my geography knowledge of the Americas and Oceania is the worst. Could you please accept the Northwestern Passages? That's how I've always heard it being called, Wikipedia also considers it a correct name and it's the name Google Maps uses.
I would love a touch of leniency on the spelling of Kosciuszco. To be fair I did forget the exact spelling of the last name of my favorite Polish-American revolutionary hero, but I think knowing that there's a mountain named after him should be good enough without also remembering which order some of the consonants go in.
Yeah same lol, I was consistently a couple of letters off – but eventually got it. Seemed a bit more stringent than the JetPunk standard. This is a fabulous quiz of course!
This is a great quiz! I got 211, mainly because I really need to brush up on bodies of water. I almost didn't even notice that bodies of water was an answer category until I happened to type "Japan" instead of "Honshu." That's not to say you need to make it more obvious that it's a category, just sharing an anecdote.
Still it might be worth having it as a type-in (no idea how to pronounce it if it is supposed to only have on g..)
I have a suggestion: considering "Kara Sea" is an answer, it would be better to remove "Karachi". It is better not to have two answers with the same initials - talking about me, I had no idea about Kara Sea before getting it lol. Maybe changing it to Lahore? :)
Good eye with Karachi. I left it in since it resets the stats if I change an answer but I will make it necessary to write out Kara Sea.
There are so many answers that I wouldn't mind a couple of freebies, but I can understand wanting to avoid that. I'd just prefer that each type of answer be consistent in its requirements.
how did you make this map? I am trying to make something similar with both seas and country borders, maybe adding rivers etc. Can I use your map to make some quizzes?
Thanks
Thanks for your effort.
Nominated a while ago. Must be featured!
If you're going to do the Gulf of Maine, could you at least accept the Bay of Fundy as a type-in for it? Although imo it's weird to have it at all when you don't have the Philippine Sea, the Bass Strait, or the Persian Gulf, for example.
Also, is it possible to make the red bit of volcanoes also go green once you've guessed them? It's a bit annoying especially when a volcano is overlapping another thing.
I also kind of second the comment about Svalbard. I get that you're only looking for Spitsbergen, but you did do the Falklands and Guadeloupe, so it's a bit inconsistent.
For type-ins, could you accept literally anything shorter than Great Dividing Range and Great Australian Bight? And also Heilongjiang for the Amur would be nice.
I love the way you did cities here. If I went, "well, it can't be a capital and it's around here so the most likely city is [x]", that was the correct answer every single time. Felt like it was my fault if I didn't know the answer.
Also you are thinking about Spitsbergen only from one direction: if you typed Falklands, Guadeloupe, then Svalbard rather than Spitsbergen. But what about if you typed Spitsbergen, then went to type Basse-Terre, for example? Because there is no way to know that the quiz wants the Falklands and Guadeloupe combined until you type the individual islands.
That's why the inconsistency is awkward. It isn't quiz-breaking, because there's plenty of time to try again with the other name, but avoiding awkwardness is good when possible. It would also work to allow Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre as type-ins for Guadeloupe, to solve the problem from the other angle.
Volcanos light up entirely green now.
I included gulf of Maine while other seas/straits might be more prominent cause theres not much going on in that area in terms of bodies of water while in southeast Asia/Oceania theres already loads of answers.
I feel like Bay of Fundy is too small of a subset for a type-in.
Added Heilong River as type-in.
I can see how it seems inconsistent with the islands but also nowhere in the quiz a group of islands is highlighted that requires its individual islands as answers. I added Archipelago in the category designation to make it clearer.
Thanks again for the feedback!!
Adding missing dots requires adding the position data of every dot. Maybe I get to it at some point but its a lot of work with that many answers.
Anyway, one of the best quiz on Jetpunk, I really enjoyed it.
The official capital of Sri Lanka is:
Sri jayawardenpura-kotte.