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OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:30 pm
by LarsMac
BBC News - Americans: Ukraine is in ... Greenland?
I would like to hold onto the hope that a lot of people were just messing with the pollster, but then when I commented about this article at work, only two of them could lay claim to knowing where Ukraine actually is. (of course they are engineers, so what would they know about Geography. [sigh]
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:34 pm
by Wandrin
Sadly, I would tend to think that the poll is somewhat accurate.
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:46 am
by Bruv
The less people know about where Ukraine is located on a map, the more they want the U.S. to intervene militarily.
So education is the saviour of mankind.....................not religion (couldn't resisit)
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:47 am
by YZGI
If they would have posed the question with a Russian accent it might have helped. They're always trying to trick us mericans in them poles. Especially about geometry.
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 3:20 pm
by tude dog
I would like to know more about those who did the survey and what their motives were.
Aw well, that is not all that really important to me.
Far as news goes, the search for Flight 370 is a lot more interesting.
Now with all that said.
I could nail the Ukraine/Brighton Beach on the map any day/night of the week.
Hate to say it, even though I followed the search of Flight 370 I would have been stumped to point out Malaysia on a map.
Just to share,
To me what would be really interesting is to have people fill out a blank map.
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 3:31 pm
by LarsMac
tude dog;1451584 wrote: I would like to know more about those who did the survey and what their motives were.
Aw well, that is not all that really important to me.
Far as news goes, the search for Flight 370 is a lot more interesting.
Now with all that said.
I could nail the Ukraine/Brighton Beach on the map any day/night of the week.
Hate to say it, even though I followed the search of Flight 370 I would have been stumped to point out Malaysia on a map.
Just to share,
To me what would be really interesting is to have people fill out a blank map.
Here is a site that let's you do that
World Geography Games - Let's play and learn about the world
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:03 pm
by AnneBoleyn
I like this game! I got all 50 states in 4 tries! I'm going to play something else! Thanks Lars. And TD, your crack about Brighton Beach did not escape my attention.
OK, I give up. We ARE pretty ignorant, after all.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:07 pm
by AnneBoleyn
South America, 12/12 in one attempt! Wish I scored this well in Forumgarden Trivia!