What country do you always seem to forget?

[mdalloway]

We all have them: the country that your brain simply doesn't believe exists. Or tries to suppress memories of.

Which one is yours? Do you have multiple examples?

For me, I always seem to forget --get this-- Germany. Which is really bad, considering two of my profs are German, and I used to live with Germans. The other bad one for me is Fiji. Sure, I can easily name the rest of the South Pacific, but beautiful, popular Fiji? *poof*

[googlebird]

I know exactly what you are describing. For me it's not a country, but a musician. I can hear a song...I can picture his face... and I always think to my self...that's that guy that I can never think of his name...but I know exactly who he is! For me it's Phil Collins. I'm surprised I thought of it just now.

[Norwegian_dude]

My brain like to forget Malawi, Burkina Faso and Taiwan. Also, about half of the times, I get the pacific countries right. Otherwise, it's always Samoa or Tuvalu to blame.

[Quizmaster91]

My forgotten country WAS Sierra Leone, but as of late I remember it as the country I always forgot... Its place has been taken by Brunei or Cape Verde. For the pacific countries, it's mostly Tonga or Samoa that slips my brain, if any are.

[Geo1]

According to my stats page one of the countries that I've missed the most is Mexico. I have no idea why.

For country quizzes that aren't 'Countries of the World' I sometimes forget Nauru, Cape Verde, Barbados, and the UAE.

But I never, never, forget Kyrgyzstan.

[Derek Pharr]

Comoros...I have no idea why, but even in trying to remember my most forgotten country I had a hard time thinking of it.

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[Daniel Hodgson]

I always forget Togo and cape Verde, however there are probably others that I am forgetting for obvious reasons...

[BanjoZebra]

Malawi. Stupid Malawi.

[SproutCM]

I hadn't played the countries of the world quiz since 2009, and I had played it like 4 times, and I had always missed some random smattering of 5-10 countries. So, when the badge came out, I took it 4 more times, once a day, until I got them all.  On day 3, with 5.5 minutes left, I had ONE country missing, and I couldn't figure out which little crap country I had missed.

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I had not typed in Russia.

[triplet_3]

Always Burkina Faso, without fail, as well as a few others that I've forgotten. ;)

[Ubbiebubbie]

It's always Bulgaria.

Always.

[Rob Patchen]

I'm with Banjo Zebra. All the Ms are hard (Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Malta), but especially Malawi.

[RobPro]

More recently I have been forgetting Liberia and Angola.

[Nanners]

Canada. I always forget about Canada.

[The_Architect]

Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde and Nauru. I have done the countries quiz a thousand times and have gotten all but those 3 2/3 of the time.

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:58:40 PM UTC-4, mdalloway wrote:

[Colmar]

 Philippines! I always group China/Taiwan/Koreas/Japan and I group Laos/Vietnam/Thailand/Malaysia/Cambodia/Singapore/Indonesia/Brunei. It's far enough to not naturally be transitioned into but close enough to not stick out in my mental map!

[wasteoflawtime]

GASP!!!!  I forget the Philippines, too!  Colmar, you just made me feel a lot better.  The second I saw this thread, I knew my answer was the Philippines.  It just refuses to come to mind.  Perhaps it's because I use the same grouping method when I'm answering quizzes.  Hadn't thought of that.  

[Maphead]

Lebanon, Moldova, Malawi, Madagascar, any of the countries that just seem wedged in between others. And, Madagascar. Hmm.

[Ellix]

From recent memory, countries that are more easily lost in the fray are: Tuvalu, Samoa, Czech Republic, Armenia, Cyprus, Kosovo, Cape Verde.

According to Sporcle stats, my most missed are: Afghanistan, The Gambia, Thailand, Australia, Dominica, Uganda, Lesotho, Canada

This greatly confuses me, since I'm pretty sure most of the countries on that list are ones that I've *never* missed. 

[Fusty]

Was searching for a thread like this! Malawi, North Korea, South Korea and Japan (those 3 because of the way I do it, through central Asia, to south and then out into southeast.)

[Caramba]

Seychelles. Also, because it's not in the same order as the stamp catalogs, "Republic of the Congo" if I'm doing an alphabetical quiz. Everywhere else just calls them both Congo.

[iglew]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:51:47 AM UTC-7, Caramba wrote:

Seychelles. Also, because it's not in the same order as the stamp catalogs, "Republic of the Congo" if I'm doing an alphabetical quiz. Everywhere else just calls them both Congo.

Everywhere else makes more sense.  I've never cared for the Sporcle convention on Congos.  Normally it makes no difference, but if they quiz requires them to be alphabetical or refers to what letter they start with, then it's silly that "Republic of the Congo" starts with R.  

[Esvadude]

Guinea. Not Equatorial Guinea, not Guinea-Bissau, but stupid little Guinea.

[puckett86]

How can you forget Guinea but not Guinea-Bissau? Wouldn't you get Guinea just by trying to type Guinea-Bissau?

[beforever]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:56:21 PM UTC+1, puckett86 wrote:

How can you forget Guinea but not Guinea-Bissau? Wouldn't you get Guinea just by trying to type Guinea-Bissau?

^Hah!

Back when I was still learning them in 2009, I used to always forget Taiwan, Suriname, Belize, Jordan and The Gambia... mainly due to issues with remembering the particular order I chose to go through them in. Suriname and Taiwan tripped my up the most.

[Spacemaniac]

I always forget Sierra Leone!

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[Esvadude]

Hm, that's a very good point puckett86. You have discovered my web of lies.

[Rackie]

Kenya, I always forget Kenya for some reason.

[Daniel Hodgson]

One time, before I had ever gotten a perfect, I gottem all except Mozambique. If that wasn't bad enough, the try right after, I forgot only South Africa. That really sucked.

On Jul 30, 2013 4:24 PM, "Rackie" <rac...@symphony-rats.co.uk> wrote:

Kenya, I always forget Kenya for some reason.

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[naqwerty3]

I have a history with missing a few countries. Sometimes I'll get some but miss the others. My top five would probably be:
1. São Tomé and Principe
2. Georgia
3. Serbia
4. Spain (Sporclitis)
5. Greece/Philippines

[zaphenath]

Greenland.  Oh, wait . . .

[brocko]

Belize, Azerbaijan, Tuvalu. 

I find once I've visited a country then I never forget it... It would be quite interesting to find out which countries all us Sporclers have actually visited. I mean, we type them out often enough... Needless to say I have never been to any of the above 3 countries...

[Happydude Hemmings]

Pakistan. I just don't group it with the stans and then miss it.

[Usmcfunkymunky]

I always forget Montenegro.

[Aurora Illumina]

I really have no idea why... but Chad always comes to me late. It's not like the rest of Africa escapes me, it's just that one country that's usually one of the last ones I think about.

[TheCleverone]

Switzerland. I don't know why, but Switzerland. Or once the UK, which is shambolic, considering that I am British!

[Ulkomaalainen]

Apart from when I forget part of my mental path of going from one place to another - it's the Philippines here, too. But even worse are any US cities quizzes and Charlotte.

[Bombay Sapphire]

Saint Lucia seems to be my stumbling block… probably because it's not Saint (something) and (something else).

[RedBengalTiger (Funnyfavorer101)]

I always forget Turkmenistan. I know it should be firmly hammered into my brain by now, being a -stan and all, but somehow or other, I never seem to remember it.

[Spacemaniac]

If I may change mine, It seems that now I always forget... Ecuador!

I've had so many facepalms over it.

On Oct 28, 2013, at 6:38, "RedBengalTiger (Funnyfavorer101)" <silver...@gmail.com> wrote:

I always forget Turkmenistan. I know it should be firmly hammered into my brain by now, being a -stan and all, but somehow or other, I never seem to remember it.

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[zaphenath]

Florin.

 

Or Bialya.

 

[Droxnar]

Me: (counting off) Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Palau...um...um...frelling hell, what am I forgetting?

Nauru. Every. Single. Time.

[Hullabaloo]

It's never the same country, but more often than not it's a glaringly obvious country. Particularly in the Countries of the World quiz. I guess I focus on trying to make sure I have all the smaller/obscure island nations that I neglect to think of other ones. I remember missing the likes of Pakistan, Greece, Ukraine in the past.

[Mic747]

For me it's Denmark, especially due to Dreenland, which causes it's inclusion in a lot of quizzes. I usually tick off the European islands, then go Scandinavia (NSF) russia and then down from baltics to balkan., picking up Western-europe later, but forgetting Denmark.

But I also remember getting 196/197 on countries of the world and being unable to figure out the last. It turned out to be China. My head ached for the rest of the day.

[Mic747]

I mean Greenland of course, oops.

[solyaris]

For me it's usually Bangladesh. Probably it's because my mind can't find a regional category for it. I tend to go from the Hinduist countries (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan) to the Asian Southeast. I can't fit Bangladesh in either, since it's a Muslim country but separated from the Muslim part of Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei). If it kept its original name of East Pakistan then I could fit it with the -stans, but now there's no solid geo-cultural bond with those countries.

[KansasJayhawk]

Peru and Saudi Arabia for me.

[mxc_takeshi]

One I DON'T forget is Kyrgyzstan. ;)

I can recall forgetting Croatia several times; the Balkans were tricky for me. 

[hellofromUK]

There are known knowns; there are countries we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are countries that we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are countries we do not know we don't know.

[iglew]

The unremembered Country, whose name

No Sporcler recalls, Puzzles the will,

And makes us rather name those lands we know,

Than try for others that we know not of.

[aussiejess]

This is referring to ALL geography quizzes, by the way. Not just the Countries of the World quiz.

But I always seem to miss the likes of Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Dominica, Dominican Republic.

For a time I kept forgetting St Lucia. I remember it now because there is an electronica band with that name, and I like their music haha...