us geography to foreigners

[controlthebleeding]

score 88.2 - avg error 16miles - time 311 sec

the other us map, i got it quickly but for some reason it wouldn't allow me to drop MAINE on it, so i lost

the asian/middle east map was rather easy. actually it was easier than placing the states on the map. sad huh?

[kyle]

I'm sweet at geography.

I learned really young that no one in America knows American geography either. I was in Detroit for a hockey tournament wearing my Tonawanda Lightning stuff. Fair enough, people were like "oh, where's that?"

"It's a suburb of Buffalo."

*blank stare*

"..Buffalo, NY..."

"Oh! How often do you get to the city?"

"Um.. I mean, it's 10 seconds away...."

"I love Central Park, do you go there much?"

"Uh... Buffalo is the next biggest city in the state, and it's actually 7 hours away from NYC... have you seen a map before?"

Allow me to play Devil's advocate here...

You had to know you were egging them on a bit when you said "the city" is 10 seconds away. You know what they meant when they said "the city", the whole world refers to NYC that way. So even though Buffalo is a large city in it's own right, people know NY for NYC and that's what they're going to ask about.

I get your point, but a part of you was fucking with those people.

[mcm1610]

No, I was like 8 years old and assumed people knew Buffalo was a city. If you are talking about a suburb and mention the city it's a suburb of, I normally assume the next time someone references "the city" it's "the city" we had talked about already.