Wyss' Pieces: Geography 101

This is a new segment entitled "Wyss' Pieces" featured on my campus television show "Concordia Spotlight." In this episode, I wanted to test the geography knowledge of the students at Concordia University in St. Paul. I took a camera around with me and just asked some basic geography questions. This is somewhere in between "Are you smarter than a 5th Grader" and Jay Leno's "Jaywalking." The results were stunning to say the least.
This is now being broadcast on Concordia University's on-campus channel, CTP. Enjoy!
© Andy Wyss

Sample Questions:
What is the world's tallest mountain?
Someone from the Netherlands is what nationality?
How many oceans are there?
What are people from Denmark called?
What is the largest country in South America?
How many Great Lakes are there?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• geography
• world
• knowledge
• jaywalk
• smart
• dumb
• funny
• street
• quiz
• test
• basic
• easy
• global
• comedy
• late
• night
• talkshow
• humor

[javawhz]

seemed staged, I find it hard to believe people are this ignorant!

[wyzz7]

Suprisingly, none of these were staged whatsoever! Real responses from real people

[dirtydan671]

wyss is my hero i wanna grow up to be just like him

[jubjubman24]

Woo! go andy u rock!!!

denmarkian is a cool language!!!!!!!

[mom2moonndweez]

LOVE the collegiate version of Jaywalking! :) Very well done - although it is a bit scary that these are college students that don't know this basic info... :-/

[mercenary9950]

lol! i suck at this stuff but i atleast knew most these

[ChelseaFCforever13]

im from denmark and im ashamed.... lol idiots

[stargenator]

Would it be possible for you post to this to teachertube so I can show this to my students? The school district has a filter that does not allow us to access uTube.

Thanks!

[spiigana]

are they serious?

[1990JonasPoulsen]

Denmarkian :D I almost died, so much was I laughing :D ...By the way they are called Danes ;)

[butterz2butterz2]

thats very bad

[ZephyrPhoenix]

What is the world's tallest mountain? - Everest. Someone from the Netherlands is what nationality? - Dutch. XD I guess people don't equate it to Holland .... How many oceans are there? - Five: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic, Arctic What are people from Denmark called? - Danes. They are Danish ~ What is the largest country in South America? - Brazil and they speak Portugese How many Great Lakes are there? - Five. And Africa is not a country. It is a continent. XD

[MyNaVeZ]

-5 oceans, u forgot the Southern ocean.

-Mountain Rushmore: u forgot jefferson

-Africa was colonised: French is spoken in every colonised country, other languages are local dialects, and portuguese (colonies) and afrikaans (dutch)

and u could look that up.

so americans aren't stupid...

they're also lazy

thanks for conforming not one but two stereotypes

u guys are AWSOME! wooohoo par-tay!

smh

[Limejello10512]

agreed in fact in the US there's evidence that our education system isn't that great. I think it's mostly because of worse systems in the south...I live in NY where we have one of if not the best education system in the world the school I went to was ranked among the top 10 (I think) in the country. I'm just saying the nations of the first world tend to be much better educated than other Nations.