Only 86. I suck. I literally forgot about Poland.

Yeah, I remembered Poland in the final 30 seconds or so, but had entered Latvia and Estonia within the first minute. Weird.

I also knew the names of a few former Russian republics, but had a hell of a time spelling them. Kyrgyzstan, anyone?

81, I such worse.

ou forgot:Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Azerbaijan,Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin,
Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso,Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Ivory Coast,
Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan,
Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar,
Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique,
Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands,
Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Republic of the Congo,
Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands,
Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine,
Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia,
Zimbabwe,

Named so far:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Australia,
Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Chad,
Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt,
Eritrea, Estonia, Fiji, France, Georgia,
Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, India,
Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos,
Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania,
Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro,
Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Russia,
Serbia, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria,
Tajikistan, Thailand, The Bahamas, Togo, Tunisia,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay,
Vietnam,

I got 97. Here is my list:

95 countries remain

You forgot:Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia,
Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus,
Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana,
Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde,
Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti,
Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea,
Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hungary, Ivory Coast, Kenya,
Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liechtenstein,
Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta,
Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova,
Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru,
New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea,
Palau, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe,
Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea,
Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, The Bahamas,
Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan,
Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Named so far:
Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh,
Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia,
Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Costa Rica,
Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia,
Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece,
Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan,
Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia,
Libya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali,
Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal,
Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama,
Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia,
Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland,
Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela,
Vietnam, Yemen,

I had started to write Armenia when the time expired.

CM threw me by saying we needed full names. What do you mean by that?

My girlfriend had her phone on hold on speakerphone and the tv, so I worked under distractions.

I felt pretty bad as CM crushed me. Felt better when I saw I beat Jon May, as I think he is damn smart.

Full names like Democratic Republic of the Congo.

yeah, but you didn't need to put Federal Republic of Germany. And North Korea sufficed as a county.

that's just because there's two congos right now.

A team I cobbled together from the department (an international relations scholar, a comparative politics scholar, and myself) could only get to 147 in the ten minutes allotted.

I'd be curious to see the 45 countries your expert team missed. The Maldives?

84. I can't believe I forgot Djibouti.

I can't believe I still have the worst score. If it wasn't obvious that taking the test again would give totally non-representative results, I'd be memorizing that list.

82. FanTent still has the worst score, albeit by one point. Does it matter that I had to look up how to spell Kazakhstan?

I can do all 192 in 6 minutes 5 seconds. The secret is visualizing the globe in your mind and following the same path throughout to ensure you get each and every country each time. The biggest mental barrier is completing the feat the first time, probably like Roger Bannister's breaking the 4 minute mile barrier in the early 1950s. Once you do that, it's easy to improve on the time until you get quite fast at it.