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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 11:53 AM
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What's your traveler IQ

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Mine was 104 on the first try. Would have been higher but I had some difficulty with some of the African capitals.
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 02:18 PM
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I tried this one before - it is fun, but I got a little frustrated because map is so small that it is really hard to place the flag accurately. With small countries, I had a hard time getting the flag within the borders of the country - LOL.
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 03:12 PM
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That was fun but it made me feel dumb. Scored 111 and didn't make it past the 10th level. Maybe I'll get an atlas and try again sometime. The world has changed since I last studied.
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 03:19 PM
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I hit a 99 but I agree w/J Correa, + East Timor killed me. The map does need to be bigger. On the middle Eastern ones, how close could you be ?
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 04:38 PM
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Tenth level and a score of 100 here. Totally frustrated by the teensy size of the map on my laptop screen, I was hundreds of km off on places that I definitely knew!
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 04:52 PM
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This is the same or very near as on Trip Advisor - there I've got a score of 125.
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114, I got as high as level 10. I was doing good until I put one county on the wrong side of Africa in the last round.
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 05:06 PM
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I got to Level 12 and 135, whew.
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Old Feb 14th, 2008, 11:20 PM
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128, Level 11 on my first try. Blew it on Cocos Island, Australia.
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Old Feb 15th, 2008, 05:45 AM
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112 on second try - I found it hard to get any closer than 50 km to places that I knew exactly. It's also hard to click on Pacific islands that are not visible on the map - even the general vicinity is bound to be hundreds of kilometers off.
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Old Feb 19th, 2008, 04:36 PM
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100. Africa and the south pacific/indonesia threw me.
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Old Feb 19th, 2008, 05:00 PM
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18202, here. Not too bad but I agree, the map needs to be larger.
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Old Feb 19th, 2008, 06:12 PM
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99, ouch.
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Old Feb 19th, 2008, 06:30 PM
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I usually get to Level 10 - but then those South American central African countries get me!
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Old Feb 19th, 2008, 08:22 PM
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112.
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Old Feb 19th, 2008, 09:12 PM
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112, but the one that got me was Turkmenistan - I knew where it was but spent too long trying to focus on it exactly and was timed out. I would have been better off just clicking on the general area [as I did with reasonable success in West Africa!]
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Old Feb 20th, 2008, 07:32 AM
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106 on tripadvisor. After that, I downloaded a map of Africa and have been studying it this week. I do great on Europe, Carib, USA, Canada but man, Africa sinks me every time on level 10!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sub...es/label.shtml
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Old Feb 20th, 2008, 08:08 AM
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For those who want more practice identifying countries while being timed, try National Geographic's Geospy website. My 7th grader had to identify all 53 African countries in 3 minutes. I did it with him and got up to 51 after a week of trying. He got all 53.

I agree that that map on travelpod is too small, and my mouse-clicking accuracy leaves something to be desired, also. Level 10, 111
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Old Feb 20th, 2008, 08:53 AM
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118.

I probably ruined my score by one timeout and a few completely wrong guesses.
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My final score was 166,845. That was fun!
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