Sillie, i believe Tom meant to say that despite he got Namibia as he tried to guess it by writing every country around South Africa (as that is the given clue to get it), he couldn't get Russia, the most self evident answer to the USSR former countries. He didn't think, by any mean, that he would have guessed up Russia by writing down the South Africa's neighbors.
I can't believe I missed Palau, it made all the headlines. Remember the celebrations, all 50 Palauians asking themselves "what's happening? We're what now?"
North Yemen and South Yemen, I think. I couldn't think of Yemen or Palau, even though I almost guessed Palau because I was guessing Pacific island countries for the UN trust one.
I would guess it is because people tend to think about the old USSR as Russia and see the other former Soviet states as splitting from Russia rather than gaining independence together with it.
Please don't. Republic of Macedonia should work except that then you'd have to go and re-do all quizzes with countries as answers to accept the full official names... and that would be very dumb and unnecessary. If you then also accepted "FYROM".. you'd have to go and change every quiz with countries as answers to accept names that other people gave those countries out of spite. Or if you just wanted to make a special exception in this one case that would be okay as long as you also accepted "Former Ottoman Republic of Greece" and "FORoG" as a type-in for "Greece."
Serbia? Wasn't it Serbian nationals that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand? So was Serbia an independent nation, then lost their independence to Austria-Hungary during WWI, only to regain it later?
Serbia was an independent state in 1914 (freed itself from Turkey in the 19th C), and the assassination was carried out in the cause of Bosnia - then under Austrian rule - joining with Serbia. This was a popular cause among Bosnian Serbs, less so among the Croatian and Muslim populations.
World War I intervenes and, as part of Wilson's do-gooding, a new country of Yugoslavia ("South Slavs) was formed around Serbia, which dominated it in the way England dominates the UK. Fast Forward to the 1990s and Yugoslavia messily breaks up, leaving just Serbia and Montenegro calling themselves "Yugoslavia", then "Serbia and Montenegro" then finally just Serbia when Montenegro breaks away.
I'm from Serbia and i feel proud when you guys talk about us :) .
Serbia lost their independence to Austria-Hungary for only a month while Serbian soldiers were in Albania and Macedonia. After ww1 Yugoslavia mas made, and Serbia gains it's independence at 2006.
This site follows the American version of the list of countries. Hence the ambiguous choice to accept Taiwan and Kosovo (both states of limited recognition) and the Vatican (UN observer), but not Palestine, which technically has exactly the same status as the Vatican.
All these gazillions of quiz questions with Czech Republic as the answer are going to have to be changed/amended to Czechia, since that's what those crazy Bohemians have gone and renamed themselves.
Maybe Kosovo it's in the independent countries of the right board because Kosovo was independent after that Yugoslavia was "breaking" (2008) so Kosovo was independent in an other period that all others countries former Yugoslavia. (very sorry for my English ;) )
Peut-être que le Kosovo devrait être dans les pays du tableau de droite car le Kosovo a été indépendant après que la Yougoslavie soit disloquée (2008) donc le Kosovo a été indépendant à une autre période que tous les autres pays de l'ex-Yougoslavie.
Kosovo was a part of the territory of Yugoslavia, even though it didn't directly declare it's independence at the same time as other, but neither did Montenegro.
I only got Palau because I learned how Ngerulmud was founded, and I only got Yemen because of the "Countries of the World" song from Animaniacs, where it mentions "both Yemens"
i KNOW there are smart people here HOWEVER Geography i happen to know a decent amount of , there is NO possible way that getting 27th percentile my first try is a representation of what i know statistically this is skewed by repetitive test taking by people who get on here and pose that they know more than they actually do going in to the test first time , some will call me a sore loser but i most assuredly am correct , i am off to score very high my second time and return to brag
yeah you sound a bit sore. This was a pretty easy quiz for a geography nerd. If you only managed 27th percentile that probably means you missed 5 on your first try. But the 24 in the 2 left columns are all give-aways given the hints.. and the 6 in the right column aren't exactly impossible.
Yeah...you're wrong. As kal said, the hints make this a very easy quiz. Most people know what states comprised the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
Secondly, not everyone takes a test repeatedly to "pose that they know more than they actually do." Some people take the tests repeatedly to (gasp!) *actually learn things and commit them to memory.* Don't project your ego problems onto everyone else.
Not to split hairs, but I do not believe Palau was a UN Trust - it was a "free association" with the United States though an independent republic since 1981. Completely independent in 1994, yes, so to be technically correct it ought to say independent from the US, not the UN.
What about them? - The quiz says "... 1990 or later". India became independent of the Brtitish Raj in 1946 or 1947. Pakistan became independent of India at around the same time. As for Vietnam, that
Yes, when I think about it, West Germany was also the ‘Federal Republic of Germany’ with the same flag so it’s obvious it’s just grown a bit since they knocked the wall down
I am genuinely surprised at how few get Russia. I mean, I understand the confusion, but I would have thought once you had just one Soviet country left to guess, you'd eventually puzzle it out. Palau's exceptionally low guess rate, on the other hand, makes sense.
September 17, 1991: The Marshall Islands was part of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands (administered by the United States) and gained independence as a former colony. On this date, Micronesia, previously known as the Caroline Islands, also became independent from the United States.
The source can be found here: https://www.thoughtco.com/new-countries-of-the-world-1433444
It's when they became independent, not when they became a member of the UN. If it was by UN membership, Kosovo wouldn't count since they aren't a UN member, not even an observer like the Vatican or Palestine.
Kosovo (and you could probably say Montenegro as well) got their independence separately from the collapse of Yugoslavia. Obviously they are former Yugoslav countries, but their independence wasn't exactly a part of the collapse of Yugoslavia and took place over a decade later.
Serbia was an independent state in 1914 (freed itself from Turkey in the 19th C), and the assassination was carried out in the cause of Bosnia - then under Austrian rule - joining with Serbia. This was a popular cause among Bosnian Serbs, less so among the Croatian and Muslim populations.
World War I intervenes and, as part of Wilson's do-gooding, a new country of Yugoslavia ("South Slavs) was formed around Serbia, which dominated it in the way England dominates the UK. Fast Forward to the 1990s and Yugoslavia messily breaks up, leaving just Serbia and Montenegro calling themselves "Yugoslavia", then "Serbia and Montenegro" then finally just Serbia when Montenegro breaks away.
Serbia lost their independence to Austria-Hungary for only a month while Serbian soldiers were in Albania and Macedonia. After ww1 Yugoslavia mas made, and Serbia gains it's independence at 2006.
Also, if Kosovo is on the list, shouldn´t other, simular ones, be aswell? Looking mostly at South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Somaliland ect.
Peut-être que le Kosovo devrait être dans les pays du tableau de droite car le Kosovo a été indépendant après que la Yougoslavie soit disloquée (2008) donc le Kosovo a été indépendant à une autre période que tous les autres pays de l'ex-Yougoslavie.
Secondly, not everyone takes a test repeatedly to "pose that they know more than they actually do." Some people take the tests repeatedly to (gasp!) *actually learn things and commit them to memory.* Don't project your ego problems onto everyone else.
country's reunification occurred in 1975.
The source can be found here: https://www.thoughtco.com/new-countries-of-the-world-1433444