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Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 653
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 3:36 pm: |     |
For those of you who are as geography-impaired as I, there's a fun place to learn at: http://www.maps.com/games/
I'm not going to reveal my scores... 
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
(Unregistered Guest)
visitor
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 4:05 pm: | |
I took the weekly Geoquiz, and found it quite challenging. I scored 5 out of 7, and a blurb at the bottom told me that I could've helped the Titanic avoid that iceberg!
Great site, Thalion...definitely one to explore in more depth (as I search for certain wrecked boats off the coast of Canada). |
Matt
storyteller
Username: Matt
Post Number: 43
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 4:06 pm: | |
Whoops, that was me above...forgot to log in.
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" - from Dr. Strangelove |
Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 654
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 4:18 pm: | |
Hehe, Matt, I could avoid the iceberg, too.
But pure horror for me is the North America jigsaw puzzle - not that I have any problems with Canada's provinces and territories - but when it comes to Alabama, or Kentucky, or... I get a constant plonk, plonk... I'm learning, though.
The only one I'm really good at is Alienz...
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Don
storyteller
Username: Don
Post Number: 232
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 8:05 pm: | |
What a great site!
I particularly liked the USA jigsaw. I tried turning the borders on, but it became just pattern recognition, which I guess it also is with it off, but more challenging.
What disturbed me was that I didn't recognise some of the names of the US states from their two letter acronyms!
Don
take what you want and pay for it |
Miisa
storyteller
Username: Miisa
Post Number: 269
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 11:33 am: | |
The USA jigsaw was fun, but after putting the easy ones in it was pretty easy to figure out the rest. The "Find-it" for USA and Canada was more challenging, though with the little ones it was easy to make a mistake because of pointing the cursor slightly wrong. But also a few real mistakes, I must admit.
The Europe "Find-it" caught me by surprise, I'm not sure I got a single of the former Yugoslavian states right on the first try! 
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Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 655
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 12:55 pm: | |
I mixed it up in my post above, I got the plonks in the 'Find it' game. I'm pretty hopeless at that, but it is a good exercise, I think.
But that site has more to offer. Did anyone check out the 'Themes maps' and 'World themes'? There are great maps about population, literacy, climate zones, vegetation, religions and so on, and so on... I will put it up as a featured link I think - maybe on the paleoenvironment, or maybe on Science? Or Clash? I'd like to add the link to that great statistic site you posted on AB, Miisa... maybe Clash would be the place for it, what do you think?
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Miisa
storyteller
Username: Miisa
Post Number: 270
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 6:39 pm: | |
I think the reference part of that site needs to have a link to it somewhere, maybe science is the best place. As for the statistics one, I'd say the "Debater's Resources" in Clash, perhaps? Or both in both?
I must admit to having spent hours in the statistics place, just surfing from one stat to the next...
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Cavebear
storyteller
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 676
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 11:31 pm: | |
Neat site! I got all the United States (no borders), 6 of 7 on the weekly trivia (I thought the Nobel prize was based in Sweden), 9 of 10 in the Continents quiz, etc. Lot of fun.
I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken about that. |
Miisa
storyteller
Username: Miisa
Post Number: 271
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 8:55 am: | |
I thought the Nobel prize was based in Sweden
Trick question; they are, except for the peace prize |
Cavebear
storyteller
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 677
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 1:43 pm: | |
Ooh, *that* was evil!
I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken about that. |
Scott
storyteller
Username: Scott
Post Number: 250
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 6:28 am: | |
That's a great site Thal. I tried the map quizzes (Africa, SE Asia and Continents and got perfect scores - but I am a geography buff - I always pick it in Trival Pursuit! - and they were fairly easy. Back to try more - just what I need something else to take up my time. I have no willpower! LOL!
Scott
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