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Take The capital City Test

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    13

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    No hard countries in it at all :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭IsaacWunder


    16


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    0

    I tried to the test without looking at the questions though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Ryu Hayabusa


    13


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    15


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    15


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,433 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    15/15, definitely a couple of tricky ones in it though, like the capital city in Australia, Brazil, Belgium and Switzerland.

    (I did get the capital city of Ireland though, kinda helped :D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    I got 15 but I had to guess four of them. Just got lucky, my geography is terrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    58008


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,840 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    I'd be very surprised if anyone got 12 or less on that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Kat97


    15/15 ! All those years of playing board games paid off :p

    Estonia was a tricky one I thought.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    15, thought I was very clever when I did it through facebook, then I seen the results of some ex school mates and realised that everyone seems to get 15 :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    lertsnim wrote: »
    I'd be very surprised if anyone got 12 or less on that.

    Unless you are American. If you score more than 4 and American. You are practically a genius.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    15/15, definitely a couple of tricky ones in it though, like the capital city in Australia, Brazil, Belgium and Switzerland.

    (I did get the capital city of Ireland though, kinda helped :D)

    Thanks you have just ruined the test. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭IrishCule


    I got 13/15 and it doesn't say which ones I got wrong, only I didn't get any wrong.

    Australia - Canberra
    Canada - Ottawa
    Switzerland - Bern
    Brazil - Brasilia
    Turkey - Ankara

    I'm guessing the quiz is badly made and it has 2 of the above wrong. The others I got were:

    Norway - Oslo
    Spain - Madrid
    Greece - Athens
    Belgium - Brussels
    Japan - Tokyo
    Egypt - Cairo
    India - New Delhi
    Finland - Helsinki
    Estonia - Tallinn
    Ireland - Dublin

    None of those answer are wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Couldn't beat the boss at the end. :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    IrishCule wrote: »
    I got 13/15 and it doesn't say which ones I got wrong, only I didn't get any wrong.

    Australia - Canberra
    Canada - Ottawa
    Switzerland - Bern
    Brazil - Brasilia
    Turkey - Ankara

    I'm guessing the quiz is badly made and it has 2 of the above wrong. The others I got were:

    Norway - Oslo
    Spain - Madrid
    Greece - Athens
    Belgium - Brussels
    Japan - Tokyo
    Egypt - Cairo
    India - New Delhi
    Finland - Helsinki
    Estonia - Tallinn
    Ireland - Dublin

    None of those answer are wrong.

    i got 14 but think i have the same answers as you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    14. didn't know the capital of switzerland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    15, thought I was very clever when I did it through facebook, then I seen the results of some ex school mates and realised that everyone seems to get 15 :)

    Me too. Thought I was a right auld brainy box. Not a chance.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    IrishCule wrote: »
    I got 13/15 and it doesn't say which ones I got wrong, only I didn't get any wrong.

    Australia - Canberra
    Canada - Ottawa
    Switzerland - Bern
    Brazil - Brasilia
    Turkey - Ankara

    I'm guessing the quiz is badly made and it has 2 of the above wrong. The others I got were:

    Norway - Oslo
    Spain - Madrid
    Greece - Athens
    Belgium - Brussels
    Japan - Tokyo
    Egypt - Cairo
    India - New Delhi
    Finland - Helsinki
    Estonia - Tallinn
    Ireland - Dublin

    None of those answer are wrong.


    Same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭IrishCule


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    i got 14 but think i have the same answers as you?
    RobertKK wrote: »
    Same.

    Just did it a couple of more times to see and it has the capitols of Brazil and Canada as Rio and Toronto but those are wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Same.

    i redid it with same answers but got 15 this time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭Straylight


    This quiz is much better. You have 12 minutes to name as many capitals as you can out of 196. I got 94.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    15/15

    I wasn't 100% about Canada.

    Vienna
    Rio
    Istanbul

    Is what I answered differently to irishc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Kat97 wrote: »
    15/15 ! All those years of playing board games paid off :p

    Estonia was a tricky one I thought.

    I can recall the Ireland team playing in talinn a good few times


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    IrishCule wrote: »
    I got 13/15 and it doesn't say which ones I got wrong, only I didn't get any wrong.

    Australia - Canberra
    Canada - Ottawa
    Switzerland - Bern
    Brazil - Brasilia
    Turkey - Ankara

    I'm guessing the quiz is badly made and it has 2 of the above wrong. The others I got were:

    Norway - Oslo
    Spain - Madrid
    Greece - Athens
    Belgium - Brussels
    Japan - Tokyo
    Egypt - Cairo
    India - New Delhi
    Finland - Helsinki
    Estonia - Tallinn
    Ireland - Dublin

    None of those answer are wrong.

    Same answers as yourself and got 13. Puzzled which ones were wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,433 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    IrishCule wrote: »
    Just did it a couple of more times to see and it has the capitols of Brazil and Canada as Rio and Toronto but those are wrong.


    I got Brazil and Canada and answered Brasilia and Ottawa and still got 15/15?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    15 out of 15. I'm a living atlas.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    IrishCule wrote: »
    Just did it a couple of more times to see and it has the capitols of Brazil and Canada as Rio and Toronto but those are wrong.

    Yeah, chose those second time round and got 15. I'm confused.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭IrishCule


    I got Brazil and Canada and answered Brasilia and Ottawa and still got 15/15?


    I have no idea then, I went through it about 3 times just to make sure but it kept giving me 13/15. Changed Brazil and Canada and got 15/15.

    Other quiz is much better anyway got 116, think I could have gotten around 10 more with more time. Oceania is deadly, only got New Zealand and Australia there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    14/15 - Im a true metropolitan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭fuerte1976


    likewise !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    15/15.

    You'd want to be seriously thick to get less than 12. As for Americans, they wouldnt even know have those countries existed as they havent bombed them recently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Same answers as yourself and got 13. Puzzled which ones were wrong.
    Are you running Noscript? I got them all right and it said 13. allowed all scripts and it changed to 15


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    In one of the other tests, I will apparently get married at 42!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    13


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    Straylight wrote: »
    This quiz is much better. You have 12 minutes to name as many capitals as you can out of 196. I got 94.

    That's a fun quiz. I got 195/196. I knew Mauritius' capital started with Port but couldn't recall the second word. And I got 15/15 on the OP's quiz - that one was painfully easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭Straylight


    That's a fun quiz. I got 195/196. I knew Mauritius' capital started with Port but couldn't recall the second word. And I got 15/15 on the OP's quiz - that one was painfully easy.

    That's impressive. Even if I knew them all I wouldn't have been able to type them that fast. As it was there were a few I knew but just couldn't get the spelling right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    That original test was ridiculous. I got them all right but only got 14/15. I blame the website or my computer, if the problem is related to the thing The Backwards Man mentioned.

    One of the selections for India was Bombay, which had its name changed to Mumbai 19 years ago. :rolleyes:
    Charlie19 wrote: »
    15/15

    I wasn't 100% about Canada.

    Vienna
    Rio
    Istanbul

    Is what I answered differently to irishc.

    Are you saying that you picked Vienna, the capital of Austria, as the capital of Switzerland and still got 15/15?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    That's a fun quiz. I got 195/196.


    :eek::eek::eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Straylight wrote: »
    This quiz is much better. You have 12 minutes to name as many capitals as you can out of 196. I got 94.

    90


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    Straylight wrote: »
    That's impressive. Even if I knew them all I wouldn't have been able to type them that fast. As it was there were a few I knew but just couldn't get the spelling right.

    I honed my skills on sporcle many years ago. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    There is something definitely wrong with the test.
    I got 15 correct earlier.... Then started again and asked the wife to do it... I was sniggering as she answered at least 6 wrong .... Result 15/15
    Might be that I never restarted properly but I cant see that being the case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    14. didn't know the capital of switzerland

    IN fairness, neither did the quiz. It's Bern, but you need to answer Zurich to get 15 out of 15

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭FameHungry


    13


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    I got 15 but I'm pretty sure I got them all right [EDIT - just checked, actually a couple were wrong but the right answers weren't there], though there were a couple of tricky ones in there. But I don't trust the website, I did a few other tests and they were all completely wrong... such as...
    jester77 wrote: »
    In one of the other tests, I will apparently get married at 42!

    I'm going to get married at my current age apparently, which scares the shit out of me considering I'm currently happily single...unless Scarlet Johansson or Mila Kunis propose to me in the next 10 months. Which, let's face it, is quite likely to happen. :cool: Isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    15. These are basic. I think that most 11 year olds would know them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    15 too easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Easy test is easy.


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