Jimmy Kimmel Asked A Stupidly Simple Geography Question, And These People Still Managed To Fail

My thoughts exactly. Since when has "hilarious" become synonymous with "sad" or "tragic"? (Although, I do admit my geography is not the best either)

Years ago, I knew a very beautiful dietician. One weekend she was downtown clubbing and Oprah was in town (as part of a lawsuit she was facing after some uninformed comments she'd made about Mad Cow Disease). Anyway, they wanted to do a piece about how stupid the "big hair girls" of Texas were. So they were catching pretty girls and asking them simple questions. This girl I knew gave intelligent answers, and they made it clear to her that this WASN'T what they wanted. So she immediately gave them what they wanted. She gave ditzy airhead answers to amuse some imaginary audience, hoping to see herself on TV. I have her hell about that afterward, but she didn't especially care. It had all been a lark. And apparently her own ditzy answers hadn't been stupid enough, because they didn't use her answers. Other people managed to outdo her. It was made into a competition, where the only stupidest answers survived. Keep that in mind, as you see these "regular people are so stupid."

There’s another Kimmel video where he asked people about their opinion on North Korea and everyone was giving really passionate responses. When asked where NK is, they didn’t know

I’m 13 and even I know the simple continents/countries. That’s not even much to boast about. The cringe in this is unbelievable

I wonder how many people they actually asked before they came up with these - I truly hope it was more than 10

It’s hilarious for me since I’m laughing at them

I can't help but wonder if they questioned 100 people and only showed the dumbest ones, plus the smart kid. Surely most could at least find the US, Canada and Mexico. But hey, if you want to make your whole country look stupid just for laughs, this is how you do it.

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Well... on the other hand, if you would ask Europeans about the location of the 51 (?) states of the US. I wonder how many will have those correct. I know I wouldn't get much further than Florida and Texas.

That's what I noticed too, it truly teaches a lesson. Sadly, where I live, we're taught that the USA believes to be above anyone else. This kind of post only reassures this belief, which is sad (and stereotyped I suppose)

...North America is also shown bigger than it actually is on U.S school maps.So many times, whenever I say "Australia is a big place" ,I've had Americans say "Texas is really big though"...Yeah Australia is about the same size as Nth America ,not Texas lol https://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/mind-boggling-australian-maps?utm_term=.rrmwAOoWqm#.fbQx6rlG37

And if you gave intelligent answers, they wouldn't have used you, because it would have rebutted the "people are stupid" narrative.

The worst thing was that one of the people who couldnt even vaguely locate a single country in the world admitted she was a college graduate

I thought the same thing. Every map I've ever seen has the North/South American continents on the left, this one had it on the right. Clearly meant to throw people off, but jeez folks, take a minute to look at the damn map and you should be able to at least pick out a few countries. I don't expect everyone to know Belgium from the Netherlands (unless you live in one of them), but at least point to the right general area of the correct continent. Poor public schooling is no excuse. The internet exists, log out of Facebook and open Google Earth once in a while.

That's not an excuse. The map is the same. Do they need a special map to locate other countries?

In my state, there is no geography class except to learn about your own state in elementary school. When I was in high school, I somehow came to realize that I thought Africa was Russia. We were in the midst of the Cold War, for crying out loud, but I didn't even know where Russia was. I didn't know that I didn't know until that point. Then I bought myself a globe and taught myself geography.

Looks like a standard world map to me.

Every country in the world makes maps that are specifically their country-centric. its the nature of humanity to put yourself in the middle. Consider what view point you have right now, everything is around you from your viewpoint. I do agree, however, change that view point and people become lost. Has the map been turned upside down with Australia at the top and Canada at the bottom, I am not sure many of those people could have identified continents let alone countries.

we are mostly using maps with Europe in the centre (in central Europe) and first thing I noticed was that this map is "weird" for me, but anyway, I thought that people know like shapes of continets or something, or at least find USA on the map, when you are from USA, I mean, it is pretty big. But still, I hope that they put there just most intresting people for TV :D

The map is the one used in Australia that has Australia as the centre of the world ;)

Since the first maps were made in Europe, they are always Europe centred.

Um isn't the center a bit to the west from Africa- where the equator and greenwich meridian intersect? It would be really odd to see a map with North and South America in the center.

Don't judge every individual in a population by the actions of a few idiots.

Criminalgirl.. That's the worst in it, they DON'T know where their space is, they know nothing, they just are 😐

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two dead in france over a soccer game celebration. ::shakes head:: judging hard here too.

True. I was so glad he was there at the end. Like an antidote. Not strong enough but still.