http://www.sporcle.com/games/mountainranges.php

Can anyone get all of them?

14... but I just got home...

I'd better if I could spell these ranges. 23

Neat quiz. Like Moni I could have done better if I knew how to spell the names.

Only got 12 but then, I guess I can't spell. Cool quiz though!

18 but English is not my language

21 spelling is tuff

I got 35, but I disagree with the test on several of them.

#1. The quiz says the one in Alaska is the Alaska Range. The indicator is not on the Alaska Range, but around the Saint Elias Range.

#2. The Scandinavian Mountains? I always thought this was supposed to be the Kjolen. can anyone from Europe comment?

#3. New Guinea Highlands? To me this should either be the Snowy Range or the local name.

I don't think I'm giving anything away above since I disagree with the answers of the quiz anyway.

Also, the ones in Eastern Russia have several alternate spellings, so it's a hard one. If it were a matching test, it would be more fair.

Anyway, the ones I missed (besides the above):

One of the Russian ranges, I'd never heard of and I wouldn't have gotten it regarless of spelling.

I thought one of them in Africa was the Rwensori, but it wasn't (hint for next person). (I kept thinking they wanted another spelling of Rwensori).

The others were spelling errors for the Russian Ranges.

I got lucky with the Sumatra one and would have gotten it wrong if it weren't for the fact that Sumatra is our next trip and I've been reading up on it.

I think it's generally called Scandinavian Mountains Scott. It's Skanderna or Fjällen in Swedish, in Finnish Köli and in Norwegian Kjølen. Kölen would be a less used name in Swedish. So in English (that website's language) is Scandinavian Mountains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Mountains

So in English (that website's language) is Scandinavian Mountains:

Sounds good, but a lot of English sources use Kjolen as well:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp& ... 4f84435186

That's why a quiz using matching to the map would be fair.

Though I know Apeninos (in Spanish) I didn't know that it has two Ps in English (Appenines) so I was wrong in the game. You are right, it should be ask "match those ranges in the map"

Scott wrote:

So in English (that website's language) is Scandinavian Mountains:

Sounds good, but a lot of English sources use Kjolen as well:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp& ... 4f84435186

They could be using the local name though they are English sites. Anyway, I hope that anyone of our Scandinavian SPers can help us tomorrow. It's very late here in Western Europe.

Nite

Diego Sahagún wrote:

Scott wrote:

So in English (that website's language) is Scandinavian Mountains:

Sounds good, but a lot of English sources use Kjolen as well:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp& ... 4f84435186

They could be using the local name though they are English sites. Anyway, I hope that anyone of our Scandinavian SPers can help us tomorrow. It's very late here in Western Europe.

Nite

In dutch: Scandinavisch Hoogland (translated it would be something like scandinavian high-land)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavisch_Hoogland

Regarding the mountains in Scandinavian:

Something like 80-90 % of the mountains are situated in Norway. The name Skanderne (The Scandes) is practically unknown in Norway. There is only 2 (two) Google references in Norway to Skanderne. You have to be a Geologist to have heared the name.

Skanderne/Skandarne/The Scandes is (from what I gathered) a name used in Sweden for the mountains.

Kjølen is in Norway popularily used as a name for the (lowish) mountains along the border between Norway and Sweden - not the main mountain areas inside Norway or the mountains inside Sweden.

Scandinavian Mountains is probably the only correct name for the mountains in Scandinavia.

Diego,

The most used Swedish name is as you said: Fjällen which is plural of Fjäll being a single mountain. The English Scandinavian Mountains sounds good to me.