I didn't do so badly -- those little Gulf countries were a pain -- but I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of Libya until I had cleared out enough countries that I found it by process of elimination. I knew all the names it wasn't but that was embarrassing.
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Theodosia - Mar 31, 2003 6:37:33 pm PST #2801 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Penny B. - Mar 31, 2003 6:42:33 pm PST #2802 of 9843
Nobody
I could only fill in the blanks by thinking of who has invaded whom. Precision is not really my forte. In fact, I have to seriously think to map out all the provinces in Canada. Is there a name for this kind of stupidity? I also find it impossible to remember game rules.
Betsy HP - Mar 31, 2003 6:45:37 pm PST #2803 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
The Greek royal family is German, FayJay. Imported for the purpose.
Betsy HP - Mar 31, 2003 6:48:38 pm PST #2804 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
Oops, got it wrong. The Greeks imported a son of the Danish king. King George I of the Hellenes was the son of King Christian IX of Denmark.
Then they married lots and lots of Germans, so it all came to the same thing in the end. In particular, George I married Kaiser Bill's sister.
Trudy Booth - Mar 31, 2003 7:09:02 pm PST #2805 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The breakup of the Soviet Union cost Montessori schools a *fortune* in maps. (They have kids trace around little wooden countries and put them together into paper maps. They used to have one big USSR block. Now, not so much.)
Give the little suckers some markers! Sheesh!
Greeks can get really cheesed off by "the Greek Royal Family". The NYTimes gets nasty letters whenever they describe someone as Greek royalty.
Michele T. - Mar 31, 2003 7:20:53 pm PST #2806 of 9843
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I went to college with a member of the Greek ex-royal family -- she was listed in the school phone book as "Greece, Alexandra."
Betsy HP - Mar 31, 2003 7:22:41 pm PST #2807 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
Cool. I went to school with a Rockefeller, but I never met him.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2003 7:26:23 pm PST #2808 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I knew one of the Rhodes for whom Zimbabwe used to be named.
He was incredibly annoying and smug.
I got the Africa questions on that quiz right, and the -stan ones, like many here, terribly terribly wrong.
Trudy Booth - Mar 31, 2003 7:27:10 pm PST #2809 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I sorta danced with a Vanderbilt. He later killed himself, very sad.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2003 7:29:58 pm PST #2810 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I sorta danced with a Vanderbilt. He later killed himself, very sad.
Let me guess -- the Macarena?