I’ve learned something new today, and here it is:  For all the ego I have about being relatively bright, I am a fucking dumbass.

I took this quiz, which challenges you to name as many countries as you can within five minutes.  They have to be real soverein nations and the names have to be spelled correctly.  I am told that the average person gets 58 (out of a possible 195).  I only got 37.  If you want to actually take the quiz, stop reading now…

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 The countries I was able to name were:

United States, Canada, China, France, Russia, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Iraq, Iran, India, Sweden, Argentina, Chile, Norway, Finland, South Korea, North Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Pakistan, Vietnam, Nigeria, Kenya, Mongolia, Venezuela, Haiti, Taiwan, Dominican Republic, Syria, Luxembourg, Kuwait, Ghana, Mozambique

The ones I didn’t get by by gosh should have gotten are:

Italy. United Kingdom. Egypt. Iceland. Ireland. New Zealand. Greece. Denmark. Israel. Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia. Cambodia.

Granted, I took a two-minute phone call while the timer was running, but my heart wasn’t really in that phone call… I was thinking hard about countries.  And I still only got 37.  What the fuck?!?