Those of you who begin each day with my Morning Coffee page are already familiar with the Geography Zone challenge. Thanks to DSTB you will now see a new geography quiz in the list, National Geographic's GeoBee. This is a tough one, not only because it covers more than locations (natural resources, culture, and religion for example), but because the questions are not always multiple choice. Not only is it necessary to come up with the answer on one's own, which is much more difficult than merely choosing, but spelling counts. I mis-spelled "Montpelier." :(
Gambate!I'm glad I saw your other comment before this post, or you would have prevented me from misspelling the same city. For the 3 GeoBee quizzes I tried, I found about 1/4 of the questions really easy, about 1/4 really hard (no clue), and the rest in the middle ("I *should* know that").
Tried one, 9 out of 10. I had a slight advantage because all the questions (except one) were about Europe or Asia. The one I missed I missed because I didn't know what the question meant: "The Cook Islands are to New Zealand what the Faroe Islands are to WHAT?" Is that an economic, geographic, or political "are to?" I was confused.
I'm feeling better today, having gotten eight out of ten. I agree with Peter about the general distribution of difficulty, but this one seemed easier overall. I'll admit, though, that I got the first question right only because I did today's Crickler first. :)
I did a little better today, but got one wrong that I felt I should have gotten correct. I wrote "Republic of Ireland" to one of the questions and got it wrong because the answer was simply, Ireland. Well, this is how you learn something new. I looked it up on wikipedia and there it says: "Officially, the term Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the description of the State but Ireland is its name."
Yes that's the trouble with machine-scored fill-in-the-blank answers. A real teacher would have recognized the essential correctness of your answer.
Hey! I scored my first 100%! Interestingly, that involved recognizing one important typo in a question, getting marked "correct" for typing an answer totally different from the answer given (but which I believe to be equivalent), and cheating just slightly by checking to make sure I had spelled a certain country correctly (I had).
If we took the same test, I misspelled that same country ("y" instead of "i," because most other languages spell it that way), got angry over the program not accepting my answer, and ended with 80% (the first question was a 50-50 guess for me). I'm not sure, however, which typo you're referring to.
Yep, that was the country. Question 4 is the one where they accepted my totally different but apparently equivalent answer. The typo was in "On which continent did Simolr lead a revolution...." Was there another?
I don't remember question 4, unfortunately. As for the typo, I caught the same one, and no others, but I got the answer right even without being able to remember at that moment that it was Simon Bolivar. The question was obvious enough.
Today's GeoBee is for you, Janet. :)
Don't miss today's quiz. I have a little trouble with the site -- sometimes there's a new quiz, sometimes not; maybe I'm checking it too early in the day, I don't know. But this is the one where the first question is about Navassa Island.
As always, some questions are easy and some are hard, but there are two questions in particular that are especially for us, and even Jonathan might be able to figure them out.
7/10 - this is my first time playing it. Jonathan is upstairs right now but I can ask him the two relevant questions when he comes back. My score would have been 6/10 but I searched some things in Google maps. I couldn't remember the name of the island that Haiti and the Dominican Republic are one, but I even had to look that up on Google.
I feel a bit better reading joyful's comment, because I had answered "Haiti" to that question and wondered why that was wrong. The first two I failed, but the rest went well, helped along by a bit of inside knowledge...
I was asking Tommy about that island question. I knew the answer partly because we have been studying explorers. He thought that perhaps the ship in "Treasure Island" had used that name and I was wondering if it had been used in "Peter Duck".
8/10, but my answer to question 10 was different than what they had and I still got it right. Since the quiz is so sensitive, I am guessing there is a glitch and I could have put anything in and gotten it correct. I still think my answer was valid though.
Nope. I just put in "origin" and got it wrong. Although it is often overly sensitive, I've noticed that sometimes it recognizes other valid responses. Congratulations! It's quite an accomplishment to do as well as Stephan on a geography question. Kind of like taking Jimmy on in history. :)
Ya-hoo! 100% two days in a row! (Needless to say I'm writing because that's newsworthy; you don't hear much about the other days.) I'll admit there was a lot of luck along with some intelligent guessing on the one about the island off the horn of Africa.
That same island kept me at 90%. There always seems to be an island in my way...
First time ever 100%!
Congratulations! I was saved on this one only because we have a friend who is from Cayman Brac.
