I have never heard anyone pronounce "Colorado" the way Boba did and I lived there for almost 2 decades. The variety of American accents will never cease to amaze me.
"Washington J.C." took me the Fuck out, holy shit also i remember doing a U.S. geography test back in my 8th grade history class and i was the only person who got all the states AND capitol city names right on the first try. anyone who didn't get 100% had to keep taking it at the start of every class until everyone got it perfect, so i just got to chill for the first like 20 or so minutes of class every day for like more than half the school year
Damn, even got Finland. Funny thing is that due to map projection nations that are North look way bigger than they are in reality. So in real life Finland is a little bit smaller than Germany.
At least in Spain, in school they don't teach us about US States and we know "the big ones" because of Hollywood movies (Texas, Florida, Alaska, Hawaii, California and Nevada) I've just done a quiz and from memory I could name maybe 40 states without placing them
@@Elsneakakaze I don’t think he knows diddly squat about Sudanese (or any other kind of) immigrants in Turkey. He shouldn’t be expected to, not if he doesn’t know a lot about the country. I can assure you that most Turks wouldn’t be able to tell you much about the large Lithuanian diaspora in Ireland either. What’s more likely (and what I think I heard him correct to after) is that he was trying to say “Asian” but slipped up
I'm actually impressed that you use history and language to place countries - most of the time - correctly on the map. maybe its time to play Crusader Kings 3 on stream?
As a Canadian, I was following right along with Boba's logic! Only would have got Finland faster and knew Denmark wasn't landlocked, though I might have struggled more on exactly where next to the UK Ireland is
Props to Zylus for knowing that Finnish is not close to Russian or Swedish. With hungarian and Estonian being the only languages in Europe being of the same language group. Also we are the happies for 2 major reasons, any drunk finnish person is happy and the ones that cannot be drunk tend to kill themselves
As a Minnesotan I can confirm no one knows all the 50 states because boring. Europe on the other hand, interesting, lots of stuff happens, berry cool. But one of my all time favorite American public schools moment was a girl being asked if she could name the 7 continents and her response being: "America, China, Japan, Mexico?" In conclusion, maps hard thinking harder.
As a Wisconsinite I can confirm at least some people know all 50 states. It's useful for history, news stories, and talking to people from elsewhere in the country. Europe is very cool, although the Balkans took some work to learn at first. History isn't even much help, as the borders move so often.
@@nauriironfoot2444 no I said we don't first you're not allowed. Also just for clarification, I know all 50 states and I know where many of them are, but there is a point where it just becomes East Europe and I can't even start to try and figure it all out.
It’s because we had to sweep all the fun stuff under the rug because everyone starts crying whenever you mention the American-Indian wars for some reason.
@@jonathanwells223 Yeah, none of the "fun" stuff is actually that fun anywhere. It's typically all wars and genocides. Bleeding Kansas is an amazing name and a fascinating bit of history, but I wouldn't want to live through it.
@@sevenpolar3483 Well, some of eastern Europe. Utterly useless for learning the former Yugoslavian countries (obviously, because they don't exist yet) and some former USSR countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova), some borders change drastically but the countries are basically still there (Poland, Germany, Finland, Russia) and Czechoslovakia becomes 2 countries later, but fine for the rest.
Did Zylus confuse Liechtenstein and Austria? Austria is about the same size as Switzerland, but further to the east, talking about Switzerland as the bigger of the two doesn't make sense when they are so similar in size (unlike Liechtenstein, which is tiny).
I'm watching this while in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and I had to laugh a lil, most people have a lil issue with what state is what. And don't even get me started on capitols.
Fun fact, the Trojan War being 10 years long is likely not true. The saying is 9 years and then a tenth, it means for a long time. It shows up more than once in the Iliad. It just means that the war was long and hard.
Agreed. I will never understand why knowing about American states is considered as important as knowing about whole countries. Would love to see Americans being forced to find Essex, Holland, Tasmania, Siberia, Shanghai etc on maps.
At no point did they imply it was a fair or a competition. They're just friends testing each on the things the other knows less about. It's pretty clear Boba knows the European countries are more meaningful to know than us states.
I love Geography and took a class for it in College for a credit, so I know so many countries around the world, but as an American I refuse to acknowledge the entire middle section of the US existing
Have Boba play some Crusader Kings; she'll learn all of the countries, but under all of the wrong names. No joke, I almost wrote Sjælland on a test once in high school, then spent 10 minutes trying to remember it's called Denmark.
Man, I WISH Michigan was famous for fried chicken. But yup, it’s both the mitten and the weird dolphin, with some lake in between and even a fancy bridge. ‘Precciate you pointing us out as distinctive ^_^
Oh, come on, Zylus. Austria in German is "österreich" - which, like, literally means "the Eastern Realm". Think of it as "East-ria" - as that kind of is what its name transliterates to - and then you'll always remember which of the two it is, as the Germans consider it "East" of them.
So I am going to inform a little about Europes smaller nations Europe has a bunch of small countries that are independent and alot of people dont know about. The big country is Switserland, the country that has a similar size to the right of switserland is Austria (they have that very tiny shared border) Then the very small country (which i think Boba was refering too) that borders Switserland, Germany and Austria is Liechtenstein. Between Spain and france right in the middle of the border is Andora And then we have Luxembourg you already guessed this fits on the bordercross between belgium france and germany Then you have a couple more Monaco, San Maria and the Vatican Monaco is close to the southern sea within france And the other two are in Italy, Vatican is in rome, and then San Maria is north east italy Then we have Malta which is a small island south of Italy The Isle of Man which is a Island inbetween Irland and the United Kingdom (which is its own Country and not part of the UK) Also Greenland is not part of Europe but it is terretory of Denmark Then we have another set of islands which is up the far north of Scotland Fareo Islands which are also part of Denmark, tho they are fully independent with their own set of laws rules and trades and such. Those are all the little countries i know off within Europe. I might have missed a few perhaps in eastern europe Also for Similarity sake, Asking the States of America, is kinda if Zylush was asking Boba to name the Provinces of the Netherlands (or any other European country)
Bobs needs to play some Hearts of Iron. Grew my geography knowledge by like 10x. Ohio sucks so bad that several famous Americans went all the way to the goddamn moon to escape it.
boba boba boba... midwest means all the states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Southern Ohio... the Midwest was named before the entirety of the U.S. was formed Oklahoma is kinda southwest
Damn, I always thought those videos of Americans being hopeless at geography were all scripted..... i guess not. But now i know that its not cos they're stupid but that they've genuinely gone through their lives without ever trying to know it. I mean the juxtaposition between Boba flexing her epic Iliad knowledge and then having to think about Ireland XD lol but i know how she feels cos some of those american states i didn't even know existed :P
I appreciate Boba's Floridian arrogance Atlanta makes Georgia a big deal, but we gator-people are so superior as to make our Northern neighbor otherwise irrelevant
as an American I only did slightly better than Zylus lol. even Boba was like "damn idk" states are hard... the borders are fucked up bc of rivers and land claims iirc. also as an Idahoan I think the best way to describe it to people is "the one shaped like a gun" also I've been to Ohio it's boring as fuck. I went to a cool zoo and that was it.
Why do they look like squares is because of arbitrary borders put onto large expanses of land they stole from the indigenous people who live there. On the east coast to Midwest, the borders are divided by natural boundaries like lakes and rivers and mountain ranges. After the Louisiana purchase things just took a turn for the tragedy of the commons.
"do they speak a more similar language to the Russians or the Swedish?" Literally only the Hungarians and they're halfway across the continent. Finno-Ugric is weird
Very impressed by Bobs understanding of Ireland vs Northern Ireland political distinctions There are plenty of British people who don't even understand that properly 😅
I could not see this map at *all* . It'd be nice to see Boba take an actual map test with all the European countries. They're very common (like Gregg's) so it wouldn't be too hard to find Edit: Boba did you just call Georgia Alabama?! Wtf?!?
"the Washington DC of Italy but for Jesus" is the best definition of the Vatican I've ever heard
Washington JC
I have never heard anyone pronounce "Colorado" the way Boba did and I lived there for almost 2 decades. The variety of American accents will never cease to amaze me.
Accents are created by a combination of distance and isolation from other communities. America has had a lot of both.
Yeah "Cowl-ur-ado" is a new one for me. I mostly have only heard "Cahl-er-ado".
@@JaingSkirata I say Call-uh-rad-O and I’m a born and raised Colorado kid
@@JaingSkirata I pronounce it the same as SquishyUshi, as a Texan, but the one you mentioned is the other way I've heard it.
Definitely have never heard that one before, I wonder if it's a Florida thing or a Boba thing lol
I love how Boba uses art, history and closeness of language to identify countries on the map...
Totally. Her geography trivia knowledge is poor, but her problem solving skills make up for it.
"Poland must be somewhere close for Germany to get to." She does have a point^^
"Washington J.C." took me the Fuck out, holy shit
also i remember doing a U.S. geography test back in my 8th grade history class and i was the only person who got all the states AND capitol city names right on the first try. anyone who didn't get 100% had to keep taking it at the start of every class until everyone got it perfect, so i just got to chill for the first like 20 or so minutes of class every day for like more than half the school year
Damn, even got Finland. Funny thing is that due to map projection nations that are North look way bigger than they are in reality. So in real life Finland is a little bit smaller than Germany.
Minnesota: Hat
Iowa: Face
Missouri: Jacket
Arkansas: Pants
Louisiana: Boots
Tennessee: Platter
Kentucky: Fried Chicken!
The Great Chef of the Midwest
Okay but Tennessee is sticking out of their crotch lol
Me, a Swede: Boba is doing pretty well, actually
Boba: Sweden is more a fat circle
Me: ... :(
Rhythian would love to hear about the fat circle.
...if it helps, I always describe Sweden as a flaccid penis, so maybe a fat circle is an improvement? (Finland is the balls, ofc)
You pointed a bit too high for Luxembourg, but it’s already impressive that you knew it’s in between Belgium and Germany.
Honestly well done
Impressive??
At least in Spain, in school they don't teach us about US States and we know "the big ones" because of Hollywood movies (Texas, Florida, Alaska, Hawaii, California and Nevada)
I've just done a quiz and from memory I could name maybe 40 states without placing them
Does anywhere teach US states other than the US
Yeah and for comparison we also didn't learn German or Austrian states for example. Countries, capitals, yes, but not the subparts.
By 'the big ones' do you mean importance/population or physical size?
@@ryankunst668 The most common settings in Hollywood films, I forgot New York in my original comment
I lost faith in Zylus when he said "Turkey is a part of the African continent"
He got confused because of all the sudanese migrants that live in turkey
@@Elsneakakaze I don’t think he knows diddly squat about Sudanese (or any other kind of) immigrants in Turkey. He shouldn’t be expected to, not if he doesn’t know a lot about the country. I can assure you that most Turks wouldn’t be able to tell you much about the large Lithuanian diaspora in Ireland either. What’s more likely (and what I think I heard him correct to after) is that he was trying to say “Asian” but slipped up
@@jordinagel1184 it was a joke about how turkey is a shithole full of 13%ers
Watching this with a solid understanding of both European and American geography. Double the PAIN xD
Someone's proud of their self.
Yeah but honestly most streamers would do a lot worse. They did well actually.
@@panner11 I can't speak for Europeans, but I know most Americans would do worse than Zylus did.
As a map nerd it's fun getting excited when they figure things out!
Fun fact about Finland, Finnish is actually a completely different language group to Swedish or Norwegian and don't share common roots
Weirdly it is closer to Hungarian.
Suomi is one of the comparatively few languages in Europe which is almost wholly unrelated to any other.
It's surprisingly similar to Basque, actually, from the France/Spain border region. Not sure anyone knows why.
We need more Yogs Geography tests like this, c'mon!
I'm actually impressed that you use history and language to place countries - most of the time - correctly on the map. maybe its time to play Crusader Kings 3 on stream?
As a bit of a map game and geography nerd it's so fun watching when even Zylus is having trouble identifying where some countries are
As a Canadian, I was following right along with Boba's logic! Only would have got Finland faster and knew Denmark wasn't landlocked, though I might have struggled more on exactly where next to the UK Ireland is
Props to Zylus for knowing that Finnish is not close to Russian or Swedish. With hungarian and Estonian being the only languages in Europe being of the same language group. Also we are the happies for 2 major reasons, any drunk finnish person is happy and the ones that cannot be drunk tend to kill themselves
Honestly, impressive geography knowledge from the both of you! This was fun to play along with :)
As a Minnesotan I can confirm no one knows all the 50 states because boring. Europe on the other hand, interesting, lots of stuff happens, berry cool. But one of my all time favorite American public schools moment was a girl being asked if she could name the 7 continents and her response being: "America, China, Japan, Mexico?" In conclusion, maps hard thinking harder.
As a Wisconsinite I can confirm at least some people know all 50 states. It's useful for history, news stories, and talking to people from elsewhere in the country. Europe is very cool, although the Balkans took some work to learn at first. History isn't even much help, as the borders move so often.
I do...
@@nauriironfoot2444 no I said we don't first you're not allowed. Also just for clarification, I know all 50 states and I know where many of them are, but there is a point where it just becomes East Europe and I can't even start to try and figure it all out.
It’s because we had to sweep all the fun stuff under the rug because everyone starts crying whenever you mention the American-Indian wars for some reason.
@@jonathanwells223 Yeah, none of the "fun" stuff is actually that fun anywhere. It's typically all wars and genocides. Bleeding Kansas is an amazing name and a fascinating bit of history, but I wouldn't want to live through it.
After watching Alex the Rambler and playing a ton of Hoi4 I actually have learning a lot about European geography.
HoI4 seems like it would be good for western Europe but bad for eastern Europe
@@sevenpolar3483 Well, some of eastern Europe. Utterly useless for learning the former Yugoslavian countries (obviously, because they don't exist yet) and some former USSR countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova), some borders change drastically but the countries are basically still there (Poland, Germany, Finland, Russia) and Czechoslovakia becomes 2 countries later, but fine for the rest.
Couldn't find Denmark on a map. -10 friendship points
Jeg er ikke sur, bare skuffet..
Did Zylus confuse Liechtenstein and Austria? Austria is about the same size as Switzerland, but further to the east, talking about Switzerland as the bigger of the two doesn't make sense when they are so similar in size (unlike Liechtenstein, which is tiny).
I think he forgot about Liechtenstein. Don't blame him honestly, I'm surprised Boba knows about it.
I kinda like that she really messed up with Denmark. It's kinda fun being the underdog of Scandinavia
I'm watching this while in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and I had to laugh a lil, most people have a lil issue with what state is what. And don't even get me started on capitols.
I hereby nominate Boba as the ambassador for the United States. If anyone can fix our world image, it's her.
I've never heard of the Vatican being described as the 'Washington D.C. inside of Italy, but for Jesus."
"There are so many places that arent andorra"
The videogameboy
Boba calling Georgia Alabama hurt.
seems like youd have fun with worldle!
Perkele, Suomi mainittu
I know two of those three words and I'm proud of myself
Thanks to your metal bands =D
Mousey in the background heckling Zylus, that was delightful!
Washington JC made me laugh that was perfect.
Fun fact, the Trojan War being 10 years long is likely not true. The saying is 9 years and then a tenth, it means for a long time. It shows up more than once in the Iliad. It just means that the war was long and hard.
I always like to ask people if they know Washington D.C. or New York City since most everyone has at least heard of those, as Zylus said from movies.
Not a fair fight. She didn't have to identify Holland in the Netherlands
Agreed. I will never understand why knowing about American states is considered as important as knowing about whole countries.
Would love to see Americans being forced to find Essex, Holland, Tasmania, Siberia, Shanghai etc on maps.
At no point did they imply it was a fair or a competition. They're just friends testing each on the things the other knows less about. It's pretty clear Boba knows the European countries are more meaningful to know than us states.
Boba actually did very well. I was rooting for her every step.
I love Geography and took a class for it in College for a credit, so I know so many countries around the world, but as an American I refuse to acknowledge the entire middle section of the US existing
Have Boba play some Crusader Kings; she'll learn all of the countries, but under all of the wrong names. No joke, I almost wrote Sjælland on a test once in high school, then spent 10 minutes trying to remember it's called Denmark.
Don't you hate when you don't remember the modern name for the Holy Roman Empire?
@@Mercure250 (it's actually Germany, but don't worry about it)
Man, I WISH Michigan was famous for fried chicken. But yup, it’s both the mitten and the weird dolphin, with some lake in between and even a fancy bridge. ‘Precciate you pointing us out as distinctive ^_^
if you go to seterra you can have clickety clicks and pictures of flags to guess!
Anyone else feel acknowledged when they got close to your state or said your state?
No just me?
Ok…
Has no one ever played a paradox game before? Am I just a god for knowing the names of places?
Oh, come on, Zylus. Austria in German is "österreich" - which, like, literally means "the Eastern Realm". Think of it as "East-ria" - as that kind of is what its name transliterates to - and then you'll always remember which of the two it is, as the Germans consider it "East" of them.
So I am going to inform a little about Europes smaller nations
Europe has a bunch of small countries that are independent and alot of people dont know about.
The big country is Switserland, the country that has a similar size to the right of switserland is Austria (they have that very tiny shared border)
Then the very small country (which i think Boba was refering too) that borders Switserland, Germany and Austria is Liechtenstein.
Between Spain and france right in the middle of the border is Andora
And then we have Luxembourg you already guessed this fits on the bordercross between belgium france and germany
Then you have a couple more Monaco, San Maria and the Vatican
Monaco is close to the southern sea within france
And the other two are in Italy, Vatican is in rome, and then San Maria is north east italy
Then we have Malta which is a small island south of Italy
The Isle of Man which is a Island inbetween Irland and the United Kingdom (which is its own Country and not part of the UK)
Also Greenland is not part of Europe but it is terretory of Denmark
Then we have another set of islands which is up the far north of Scotland
Fareo Islands which are also part of Denmark, tho they are fully independent with their own set of laws rules and trades and such.
Those are all the little countries i know off within Europe. I might have missed a few perhaps in eastern europe
Also for Similarity sake,
Asking the States of America, is kinda if Zylush was asking Boba to name the Provinces of the Netherlands
(or any other European country)
As a Colorado girl I was so happy when Boba asked Zylus to do the squares
It’s really not fair since Wyoming isn’t real.
Bobs needs to play some Hearts of Iron. Grew my geography knowledge by like 10x.
Ohio sucks so bad that several famous Americans went all the way to the goddamn moon to escape it.
What's so wrong with Ohio that people want to leave the planet
I dont know . You should know states but provinces of USA ? Its like comparing two diferent things here
Finland speak both Finnish and Swedish. Finnish is it's own language, but the Baltic countries have a similar language.
rip georgia, getting called alabama is almost as bad as getting called mississippi
somehow boba got switzerland right and then pointed to austria anyways lol
boba boba boba... midwest means all the states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Southern Ohio... the Midwest was named before the entirety of the U.S. was formed
Oklahoma is kinda southwest
You did fine boba! I knew a girl in high school who thought Norway was a US state. She was cute by not very bright.
I get Luxemburg and Liechtenstein confused
just a tip, finland has swedish as second official language
I as a person from Czechia a neighbor to Slovakia am surprised by Zylus calling us eastern Europe because we are central Europe.
Damn, I always thought those videos of Americans being hopeless at geography were all scripted.....
i guess not.
But now i know that its not cos they're stupid but that they've genuinely gone through their lives without ever trying to know it.
I mean the juxtaposition between Boba flexing her epic Iliad knowledge and then having to think about Ireland XD
lol but i know how she feels cos some of those american states i didn't even know existed :P
Turkey is like Russia, it's partly on the European plate and partly on the Asian plate. It crosses the boundary, so it qualifies as both.
I can never not respond to someone saying Colorado with "IM A GIRAFFE" after the vine
An American knows geography more than me. The world is passing me by.
the yogscast duo we never knew we needed
As someone who lives in Georgia, can confirm, no one lives here
You need to play more Paradox map games! Then you'll learn it all :P Well, in various periods of time, which may not be correct now!
boba trying to speedrun world war 3 over here
wth is up with that map btw? Why is Belgium not touching the sea XD
everyone remembers the alamo but no one knows oklahoma
Denmark is the biggest one in Scandinavia. Because Greenland.
I appreciate Boba's Floridian arrogance
Atlanta makes Georgia a big deal, but we gator-people are so superior as to make our Northern neighbor otherwise irrelevant
21:17 I do... :(
Well done, Bobs. I commend you!
as an American I only did slightly better than Zylus lol. even Boba was like "damn idk" states are hard... the borders are fucked up bc of rivers and land claims iirc. also as an Idahoan I think the best way to describe it to people is "the one shaped like a gun"
also I've been to Ohio it's boring as fuck. I went to a cool zoo and that was it.
This was much fun. :D
As an American who knew where all the European countries were does that mean I’m too smart for America and can move to Europe?
*cries in Danish
I only knew most of these because I've played hundreds of hours of Hearts of Iron IV.
Holland has no chocolate worth mentioning though.
You heard it here first. Jesus DC is The Vatican.
Man the resolution on that map sucks. Clearly Boba needs to play some Paradox Games to really nail down Europe though
I think most Europeans knows more states in America than American's know country's in Europe
The worst part of this video is that Boba knows less American states than she does countries in Europe.
Okay woooow, boba Alabama and Georgia being the same? Georgia has a Lil more class than Alabama, we're not THAT far gone
Why do they look like squares is because of arbitrary borders put onto large expanses of land they stole from the indigenous people who live there. On the east coast to Midwest, the borders are divided by natural boundaries like lakes and rivers and mountain ranges. After the Louisiana purchase things just took a turn for the tragedy of the commons.
"do they speak a more similar language to the Russians or the Swedish?"
Literally only the Hungarians and they're halfway across the continent. Finno-Ugric is weird
Also, well done for getting the facts right about which country holds power over where on the island of Ireland
Just more proof that Boba is really British 😊
There's nothing more painful than an American doing geography.
Saying that though, Boba did surprisingly well
"something that speaks a similar language" not even remotely close
The only state I know is Idaho lol
no offence but I'm not sure Zylus should be teaching this class
Why there be squares everywhere?
Euro-style straight lines in foreign lands, see africa.....
I hate being an Ohioan and knowing Zylus is right :(
Getting Georgia and Alabama mixed up is both funny and insulting as a native Georgian 😂🤣
Ohio is a little milquetoast, but it's got some lovely areas.
Could have been worse zylus could have been Indiana.
Very impressed by Bobs understanding of Ireland vs Northern Ireland political distinctions
There are plenty of British people who don't even understand that properly 😅
Boba still a goated qt patootie
How is boba this bad at USA and that good at europe.
i was born in the wrong country
I take offense to that Georgia/Alabama comment
Ohio is definitely a place, that's for sure
You are mispronouncing Colorado. You are pronouncing the Col part like the Cal in California. It's pronounced call (as in a phone call).
I could not see this map at *all* . It'd be nice to see Boba take an actual map test with all the European countries. They're very common (like Gregg's) so it wouldn't be too hard to find
Edit: Boba did you just call Georgia Alabama?! Wtf?!?
Denmark was incredibly blobby - Funen melted into Jutland and Bornholm is barely visible.