3 Wrong 93%. I haven't studied Latin America since 6th grade geography.

nullorchis (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:49 pm Your score

29

Correct

13

Wrong

69%

You answered 29 of 42 questions correctly for a total score of 69%.

74% average score. But did they cheat? I did not. But I think the history, and sports questions tripped me. Don't do well in history and sports.

What an extensive test. Very challenging. And once taken, helps build one's knowledge base.

Having been to many countries in S. and C. America I can tell you it is HUGE. And very ignored by America.

In spite of the unrest reported by the news, people are friendly, and havae the same wants, needs, hopes, dreams anyone does.

Just sad that their political people and corporations take MORE advantage of them than in America.

Think America has a rough wild terrain ? HA. Think HOT, HUMID, MOLD, BUGS. And dry, dusty, parched, cold. It's like Alaska and Florida all wrapped up in one.

Not much in the way of mid-west terrain though. Except for the jungles that have been leveled and replaced with sugar cane. Lots of that. Easy to see from the air.

What part of South America did you miss? Argentina and section of Southwest Brasil could double for Kansas or, moving West where you can see the Rockies, Eastern Colorado. (Substitute the Andes for the Rockies) It's tempting to see the swampy equatorial part as representative of the whole continent; National Geographic has virtually sold us that idea but it's not particularly accurate. And it is indeed a big continent, largely unknown, overlooked by the Nortenos but it is there. The first time I flew non-stop from New York to Buenos Aires, about 1965, it was the longest flight Pan Am had and it was made clear for a period of about four hours we would be out of contact with anything or anyone; if we went down......In general Americans are just damn dumb about geography; I was born in Cape Town, South Africa and trying to explain where that is can be like cutting whale blubber with manicure scissors; After a long, civil, battle with someone who wanted to know where that was I let it go as being a "sunny suburb of Kansas City".

I put down Walker as having taken over Nicaragua instead of Honduras, the bay islands as part of Belize rather than Honduras, the "football war" between O Brazil and Argentina rather than El Salvador and Honduras. I know nothing of Honduras. And then I missed the "second largest" as being Columbia rather than Argentina. Wasn't sure whether it was by land size or population or both. Mexico is the second largest by population but often not included due to confusion in quizzes about "South America" (if Mexico is in South America) "Latin America", "Iberian America" and"Hispano America". (Latin America includes Francophone countries, provinces and territories and Iberian America includes Brazil)

A few I had to guess at. One of them was Cuba being called "El Cocodrilio". I had never heard that before but one choice was only half an island, the other was French speaking and the other was more tiny and more populated per square mile. -Wasn't quite sure about Angel Falls and a few others too.