I feel like this is one of the ones many Americans would actually know simply because of how fuck huge Mercator projections make it look. Maybe I’m giving my compatriots too much credit, idk.
I once saw a video of Americans being asked to put a pin in where they believed they were (it were a bunch of street interviews), the question was like ‘we are in city x, do you know where that is?’ and whether they could put a pin in a blank map. Obv the people who got it right werent funny enough to show, but if was unbelievable to watch one after the other put a pin in Brazil or the middle of China. I think they get confused bc on tv is mostly maps of the US / the region and not the world.
Yeah I believe it. My friends think I’m a wizard because I play multiple geography games every day so I can tell most nations (many island nations still fuck me up) simply by their outline.
We were rained in at a bachelor party one time playing one of the games to pass some time and my buddy, whose wife is Costa Rican said “All I know is that’s not Costa Rica, we visit every year”. It was Costa Rica. We don’t let him live that one down.
For those street interviews, they interview a whole bunch of people and only use the funniest and stupidest clips, peppered in with a couple that aren’t as bad. They’re meant to be funny. Otherwise they wouldn’t be interesting.
I feel like this is one of the ones many Americans would actually know simply because of how fuck huge Mercator projections make it look. Maybe I’m giving my compatriots too much credit, idk.
I once saw a video of Americans being asked to put a pin in where they believed they were (it were a bunch of street interviews), the question was like ‘we are in city x, do you know where that is?’ and whether they could put a pin in a blank map. Obv the people who got it right werent funny enough to show, but if was unbelievable to watch one after the other put a pin in Brazil or the middle of China. I think they get confused bc on tv is mostly maps of the US / the region and not the world.
Yeah I believe it. My friends think I’m a wizard because I play multiple geography games every day so I can tell most nations (many island nations still fuck me up) simply by their outline.
We were rained in at a bachelor party one time playing one of the games to pass some time and my buddy, whose wife is Costa Rican said “All I know is that’s not Costa Rica, we visit every year”. It was Costa Rica. We don’t let him live that one down.
It’s also the result of being put on the spot with a microphone in your face. Like that girl who couldn’t name “a woman”
For those street interviews, they interview a whole bunch of people and only use the funniest and stupidest clips, peppered in with a couple that aren’t as bad. They’re meant to be funny. Otherwise they wouldn’t be interesting.