This is a way to quiz yourself on geography. You can take as many quizzes as you like for free. If a teacher wants to let their student login with a lightning address, they can pay them sats for a good job, either by using a WebLN enabled wallet or a QR code.
Let me know if you'd be interested in other quizzes like this. I'm thinking about doing one of the oceans and continents for younger students or maybe the US states. Not sure... Requests?
i win! i have no pre-college education and it shows.
Time to hit the books with Yakko!
I memorized this song in 8th grade and was quite the hit freshman year.
That’s awesome! You must have gone to a WAY more cool high school than me though. This was definitely dork zone material where I grew up.
I think it made me more of a new-kid spectacle haha but I was able to harness it effectively
I actually got the first one because it was Egypt. Then it asked me where Guinea was and I quit after getting around 10 guesses wrong. I think it should be like 3 guesses and then just show you.
It does! Actually right after three guesses, there’s a pulse around the correct country every time you click. It’s subtle, but maybe I’ll make it stronger in the future. The three countries in Africa with Guinea in the name are actually the ones that were most elusive to me before doing this quiz a few times.
Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are also my kryptonite. I also keep mixing up Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Why are there so many Guineas?
Guinea pigs are cool though.
Your question piqued my interest, so I looked this up. The Guilf of Guinea is the name of the part of the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Gabon to Liberia and Guinea seems to have been used colloquially to refer to the entire West Coast of Africa for some time.
Via https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3450ws/why_are_so_many_countries_called_guinea/:
I believe the Portuguese called that whole area Guinea back in the day. I think it’s also where Papua New Guinea in South America gets its name from; through the tragic migrations of the middle passage.
Papua New Guinea is in Oceania, and the Guyanas in South America are named from an Amerindian term meaning “land of many waters”.
Haha I must have been so far off that I wasn't even looking in that region. Haha
Used to play a ton of these in HS and compete for best times. How hard would it be to fill in the border with a color once you guess correct?
It wouldn’t be hard at all. It would make the whole thing a little heavier though. I’d have to use node js and include node modules, and I kind of think it’s cool that this doesn’t need any of that.
That said, it’s also be easy to put in a timer. It’d be light weight as well. Did you enjoy that aspect of these type of quizzes when you were studying?
Oh ya, always love a timer and leaderboard !
Cool, I may add that to this one or include it on another one soon.
I know it’s a whole different can of worms, but did you see the leaderboard I made for this: https://www.conwaysgameofpacman.xyz
In the final score it would be nice if you list how many I actually clicked correctly on the first try. I know that the overall score is lower because of the failures, but I got some correctly..
Yeah, that makes sense. I’ll try to add that soon.
Awesome! So many countries I didnt know existed before playing.
Sometimes it needed me to click in a particular part of a country and when i clicked elsewhere within the border it didn't recognize it as correct. This seemed to be the case with Somalia, but i dont remember which other ones it was.
Yeah, I haven't really been able to take into account the shape of the countries. I've been able to tweek for size, but shape is a little harder. I'm still brainstorming this.
I see, that explains it. I experienced the same when I was a bit off-center for Algeria. And I outright mis clicked for Togo into Benin instead and it was accepted:
Yeah, that’s a really hard situation. My current checker is a circle, so it’s particularly hard with those two to exclude one and still get most of the country.
@KenyaCoin I know you're an advocate for knowledge of African geography. If you've got a minute, please let me know what you think. Is this helpful?
Love it!!
Just a couple suggestions. A few I clicked on and it said wrong, ... I think because I couldn't tell exactly where to position the "hand" pointer ... at the tip of the pointer finger? In the center? etc.
I had to zoom in to get it to accept my click.
Also, some boundaries seem off. Eg., click northern part of Benin, places the red dot where I clicked, inside Benin, but shows Wrong. Ethiopia same thing -- gotta click in the right part of Ethiopia I guess.
Overall, real cool.
Thanks! Yeah, I've been able to tweek for size, but shape is really hard. You should be good to go with most of them if you aim for the very center, but I'm going to keep thinking of ways to make the checking mechanism link to the actual border in the future.
cool!
I know: Marroco, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, DRC, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa and Madagascar!
Nice! Keep plugging away, and I bet you'll have them all quicker than you think.
Oh my goodness. I might get 2 or 3.
So hear me out. Last night, when I started this, I probably knew more than most, but certainly not all by any stretch. Literally, just from trouble shooting this a few times last night, I now have every single mainland African country’s location memorized. I bet just a couple runs will really solidify the ones that you almost know for sure and give you a general idea on any big names that you don’t know the region of.