Jun

17th 2008

Test Your Geography for a Good Cause

Filed Under Games | Leave a Comment

Your can test your knowledge of geography and help a good cause at the same time.   Freepoverty.org hosts a geography game that donates 10 cups of water for every correct answer. With progressively harder questions, the game shoots out the names of various locations around the world. Click on the point on the map where you think that location is. The closer you get to the location, the more cups of water you are awarded. Click too far away and no cups are awarded. Donations are provided to agencies such as UNICEF or WaterAid and are underwritten by advertising on the site.

Visit and Play: http://www.freepoverty.com/

May

28th 2008

Weird European Names Quiz

Filed Under Games | Leave a Comment

Spiegel, the German magazine, has fun with some of the weirder names of locations found in Germany and other European cities:

Germany has a string of cities that take one through the entire digestive tract: Essen (eat), Darmstadt (intestine city), and Pforzheim (which is close enough to the German word for “fart” to make it a punch line). But are you familiar with the weirdest town names in Germany and Europe?

Take their quiz to find out how well you know where some of the more strangly named European locations are.

May

28th 2008

Geographical Superlatives

Filed Under Games | Leave a Comment

If you want to check out your smarts on the “most” of trivia relating to geography (longest, biggest, tallest, deepest, etc) then checkout the Geographical Superlatives quiz at Infoplease.  There are other quizzes to try along with a host of other resources relating to geography.

Dec

19th 2007

Annual Geography Quiz

Filed Under Games | Leave a Comment

Each year, the San Francisco Chroncile puts out a Geo Quiz.  The quiz doesn’t test you on rote geography, no naming of capitals (well, maybe one question) are on the list of questions.  The quiz is hard but fun and asks such off the wall questions as which international airport is named after a nun, what two countries that begin with an “A” don’t end with an “a”, which U.S. States allows you to vote absenttee from space, and which Middle Eastern capital was onced named “Philidelphia”? 

Test your geo smarts with this 50 question quiz:

Dec

10th 2007

How Well Do You Know Your World?

Filed Under Education, Games | 1 Comment

A fun way to learn about where places are in the world is to take advantage of the plethora of free geography games on the Internet.  One such game is “How Well Do You Know Your World?”  The object of the game is to accurately locate places on the world map as quickly as possible.  The game starts out easy with major world cities and then progressively becomes harder.  When you click on the map, the distance from your mouse click to the actual location is calculated.  Interesting trivia about the location accompanies each question. 

Aug

05th 2007

Statetris now available for Europe

Filed Under Europe, Games | Leave a Comment

Now you can play the Tetris style game while testing your knowledge of European countries.  Statetris Europe is now up and running from the same creaters of Statetris. 

 

europegame.jpg

 

Jul

29th 2007

The Simpsons: Interactive Map of Springfield

Filed Under Games | Leave a Comment

Created by Jerry Loma and Terry Hogan, this interactive maps highlights sites in the fictional town of Springfield, home of the Simpsons:

Simpson version of ADNDiscover Springfield, where live the Simpsons family; Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa and Maggie. Roll over the places to discover a picture of it. The map of Springfield is based on the Guide to Springfield USA The Simpsons. I made this interactive, the job is not finished, there are allways framegrabs to add and add some functions to the map.

sprinfield.jpg


Next Page →