Late at night, when my wife is safely tucked up in bed, I sneak into my office and turn on the computer. I spend ages in front of the screen, mesmerised, panting with exertion. To my wife’s disgust — when she checks my browser history — I am almost always sporcling. ‘I married someone who wastes his life away doing THAT,’ she says with utter contempt. ‘I think I would rather it’s porn.’
It’s not porn. I’ve never really been porn-inclined, not even when I was 15 and magazines like Hustler were doing the rounds. Instead, I get my kicks out of nerdish geography quizzes on the US website, Sporcle. That’s why I can name all 196 countries in the world, right off, this minute, if you want. Anyway, I share this information with you because of one quiz which caught my attention here. See if you can do it. It’s not hard. But it’s the position of the UK which frightens me. Why are we so low down? Below South Korea? And, for Christ’s sake, Spain? Is it a conjob? The figures all come from the UN, so I suppose it could be. Let me know what you think.
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