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I'd accept that it's not a test of intelligence, more a question of awareness, but I'd still expect a university student to manage more than 1 African country, and she got that largely on the fact she looked for the southern most and decided that must South Africa. Egypt's normally taught in schools, and it's not as if Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Libya, Morocco, Eritrea, and Algeria were out of the news at the time. The fact that she only managed half a dozen Western European countries too was a bit of a concern, hence why I wondered if the same exercise was repeated on the streets of the UK, whether it wouldn't take too long before we found enough indigenious eejits to come out with stuff similar to the Americans.

Personally, I'm prepared to forgive the guy who started listing respective states as being in the axis of evil, as I thought I detected something of a twinkle in his eye, that suggested he knew he was wrong, but was having a laugh etc

<blockquote data-quote="Warbler" data-source="post: 2110480" data-attributes="member: 65228">I&#039;d accept that it&#039;s not a test of intelligence, more a question of awareness, but I&#039;d still expect a university student to manage more than 1 African country, and she got that largely on the fact she looked for the southern most and decided that must South Africa. Egypt&#039;s normally taught in schools, and it&#039;s not as if Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Libya, Morocco, Eritrea, and Algeria were out of the news at the time. The fact that she only managed half a dozen Western European countries too was a bit of a concern, hence why I wondered if the same exercise was repeated on the streets of the UK, whether it wouldn&#039;t take too long before we found enough indigenious eejits to come out with stuff similar to the Americans. Personally, I&#039;m prepared to forgive the guy who started listing respective states as being in the axis of evil, as I thought I detected something of a twinkle in his eye, that suggested he knew he was wrong, but was having a laugh etc</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbler, post: 2110480, member: 65228"] I'd accept that it's not a test of intelligence, more a question of awareness, but I'd still expect a university student to manage more than 1 African country, and she got that largely on the fact she looked for the southern most and decided that must South Africa. Egypt's normally taught in schools, and it's not as if Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Libya, Morocco, Eritrea, and Algeria were out of the news at the time. The fact that she only managed half a dozen Western European countries too was a bit of a concern, hence why I wondered if the same exercise was repeated on the streets of the UK, whether it wouldn't take too long before we found enough indigenious eejits to come out with stuff similar to the Americans. Personally, I'm prepared to forgive the guy who started listing respective states as being in the axis of evil, as I thought I detected something of a twinkle in his eye, that suggested he knew he was wrong, but was having a laugh etc [/QUOTE]

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