Name Ireland’s counties
This is doing the rounds. Have a go and give your result (remember cheaters never prosper)
You’ve ten minutes to get all 32.
I got them with 5.54 remaining
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8:38 remaining
The map makes it alot easier!
I await the Gaelige version.
Flying along-but stalled at the last-friggin’ Longford!
Even I got Longford!
Carlow, bloomn 5 mins to get carlow.
6 1/2 minutes remaining. I was stuck for a while on Longford and Kilkenny.
Longford is the stumper according to the results table but being lucky enough to have been in Granard during a school exchange (I always have luck like that) I have the county’s claim to fame driven into my brain – they make Pat’s Pan.
Damned Carlow and Roscommon – I had the rest inside of 3 minutes.
Ah – bollocks – I didn’t notice the map. I was typing them into excel!
on principle I refused to continue when “Londonderry” came up
on principle I refused to continue when “Londonderry” came up
So you got stuck on some of the counties in the Free State then?
Fin….if you had an iota of history in your ‘principled’ brain…you would know that there has never been a County Derry…it is Londonderry and prior to that it was Coleraine….anyone using ‘Derry’ as a county name is short on historical knowledge…e.g. the GAA
Fin…is one of these ‘oirshmen’ who are not getting a haircut til’ ‘Oireland’s free’…. it probably is free….the EU would give away for nothing at the minute !!
longford laois carlow down
Come on bhoys, ashamed that you got stuck on Longford. Isn’t that where yer cute hure of a former Teashap Albert Reynolds comes from? The old rogue still owes me money from when I played in a danceband and he left us all 50 quid short of what he’d agreed to pay us for a dance in the Midlands….ah well bejeppers….we not get it now bhoys.
I only got six of them and Dublin… then the timer ran out. wtf.
Two minutes for first 31 then stared at Cavan for five minutes.
Counties are of course quite literally an imperialist imposition, and as a result I refuse to take this test.
Fin….if you had an iota of history in your ‘principled’ brain…you would know that there has never been a County Derry…it is Londonderry and prior to that it was Coleraine….anyone using ‘Derry’ as a county name is short on historical knowledge…e.g. the GAA
actually William, Coleraine, and parts of Donegal, Antrim and Tyrone. Anyway, my heads stuffed full of history thats why its Co.Derry to me
incidently Willie were you chatting to anyone famous recently, you’ve not name dropped for a while
Archie, been at the Wackybaccy again or have you been celebrating the Oirsh win today.
Counites are a bougeois construct; in the new left ireland, they will not be recognised, and there will be prizes for those that can forget them the quickest (like with Sinn Fein taking power in N.Ireland and the troubles).
Got all 32 with 4:35 remaining.
8:52 remaining, despite typing like I had gloves on…
I got offaly close to naming them all.
6.17…….(at third attempt…)
Second attempt, 9:04 remaining, beat that you slugs!
Doesn’t count second time round, Sammy!
There’s one for England as well. Much harder.
It’s based on the old counties of which there are 39. With six minutes remaining I’m stuck on number 39 which is the the old one which is not Cumberland but is now part of Cumbria.
F**k it. Westmoreland. Just like my old commander back in Nam.
I look forward to seeing the Scottish and Welsh versions.
Sudden thought. Surely there is a US version of this game!
Oh dear. Nerd time!
The original 13 colonies Picador..I was doing OK but can’t spell Connecticut or MAssachussetts….
Done with 6.14 remaining on the clock I was flying along, no problem with those boring old midlands counties oddly enough, I would have been hard pressed to locate them but I could remember the names. Tipperary was a continous spelling error.
The one that held me up for almost a minute I knew was one of the “K”s but I couldn’t think of it, then I remembered it was in a song and the words of “Carrickfergus” came to me ‘…and in Kilkenny, it is reported’.
Funny how the old brain works.
I’ll bet you everyone started with Derry.
8:35 remaining.
Roscommon was the only one I had to think a little bit about…
dewi,
Do you have a link for that American one?
Some of those Amero-Indian names are hard to spell alright. But probably not a patch on the Welsh equivalent!
The English ones take an eternity to type, particularly those with -shire on the end.
Harry,
I started with my own county which is Antrim, then moved on to the one over the way which is Down. Derry I believe was number my three.
Did you read the comments on the game itself? Pathetic!!
Original colonies There you go Picador
Fin: Ball not man
Diolch dewi.
A bit of a challenge in one minute, what with spelling issues. I got only ten before the time expired though if I may say so myself I do know the names of all 50 states. God bless America. Home of the Brave, Land of the Free (!)
On a separate note: I have heard that Welsh spelling is entirely consistent so assuming one knew the system spelling the names of the Welsh counties should be easy. theoretically of course.
The names of Welsh counties are easy to spell….in Welsh,,,English versions not quite as straightfoward…..I missed Huntingdonshire on the English one but got all US states!!
Picador, try the ‘name the Asian (and middle Eastern) states’ I actually did quite well but the -stans (and East Timor of all places) tripped me up.
Don’t do ‘name the countries of Europe’, you’ll only get annoyed; too many silly places included as nations and the map isn’t accurate.
The Irish one was easy except for Londonderry which was ‘automatically ‘ corrected .
The English one was a challenge . I got about half right first time . And when I looked at the completed map the ones I got were either in the south,south east or around London and in the North -Yorkshire , Lancs and Cheshire .Westmorland was easy as was Cumberland (two streets in Dublin also Buckingham ) But I did get Rutland and Durham on the first run.
But overall ‘middle England ‘ seems to have disappeared from my geographical memory ? Is it still there ?
6mins. Longford’s a ballox
Got the Northern Ireland counties and 9 from the ROI – think I need to brush up on my international geography
I got 31/39 in the English counties but I ran out of time
8.03 remaining. Couldn’t think of Kildare of all places. And I had mitigating circumstances in that I’m very hungover.
USA
“Got all 32 with 4:35 remaining”
Balls USA, you don´t know your Cork from your Londonderry air.
Stared at Ofally for 5 minutes myself.
Couldn’t remember Offaly and Kilkenny
Got the English counties in 5:02 but it wouldn’t let me enter Monmouthshire, Dewi -)! Got 25/32 of the Irish counties (missed Armagh, Sligo, Mayo, Longford, Laois, Limerick and Louth which I can’t believe as I have been to Drogheda on at least three occasions!) which on the face of it is quite poor but I don’t think is too bad for a foreigner. I reckon a Scottish or Welsh version would be harder still as I think most non-Scots/Welsh would struggle to tell you the number of counties in those countries let alone their names.
Blow it out your ass Dr Who.
Try picking on Sammy Morse who claims to have typed all 32 counties into the computer with 9:04 remaining. The game only offers 10 minutes to complete, so he is claiming to have typed them all in 56 seconds. IMHO this is physically impossible.
For everyone else out there here is the USA version. I got 43 of 50 then ran out of time. I couldn’t spell Massacheucets (sp?) and went blank on the others.
I will give the US one to my students this week for a fun task.
Yes USA Sammy is full of shit, although I have recently just lost the best temp in Chiswick from the Tardis, so maybe theres a vacancy for Sammy. Errrrr or perhaps not.
Got all the USA states btw although I did google to get a few of the spellings.
Try the US Presidents, I can get all back to the start of the 20th century, then the first few and then only a few in between.
The countries of the world is a killer, you only get 15 minutes which is impossible unless of course you are Sammy Morse.
Some tips for the English counties:
1) Remember the Saxom mentality that gave us “South West Africa”, “Northern Province” etc. Think like that and you get Sussex, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northumberland, Westmoreland.
And Phil – I’m.from Monmouthshire so get lost!
2) Think of translations from Brythonic – Cornwall, Devon, Kent, Somerset, Cumberland, Yorkshire.
3) Miners strike – Notts, Derby, Leicester, Durham.
4) Railway lines – Hants, Berks
5) Cricket – Worcs, Warwick,Lancs,Surrey.
6) Universities – Oxon and Camb
7) And then guess the rest…
USA much harder.
46/50 before time ran out. Forgot Utah, Missouri, Ohio and New Jersey.
England: Only 17/39!
Countries of Europe: 42/47