Was geography an easy subject for you?

Not so great.

Not at all, My easy subject has always been math.

Ok, I got a question for you. Do not look it up. Which Country East of the Med Sea has only been a country since 1948?

depends on what you mean by geography. if you just mean knowing the locations and names of rivers, cities, etc, then yes. can be memorised in a single evening before a test.
if you include geology and ecology, as it was the case at my school, then it was a bit more complicated.
i got 7/15 in my final exam because i spent all the preparatory time on the first of three questions and had to improvise the answers for the last two on the fly in front of the examiners

No, I suck/ed at it. I fear I always will. Of course I can memorize something and ace a test, but the information doesn’t last long.

Waiting for Dominic.

Israel

@absalom How do you know about me? Who is this? :)

What I experienced of geography was easy, yeah. I’ve never actually taken a class called “Geography”. It was always just a part of another class. So I don’t know much detail about it. Yes, I know you can memorize things in one night before a test, but I’ve had these things memorized for years. And it isn’t just memorizing locations and names of places. I won my middle school’s Geography Bee three years in a row. I have never met anyone with as much locational knowledge as me. Just puttin’ it out there. :D I know this is going to seem like a lot of bragging, and it is, but let’s face it, geography doesn’t get you chicks:

I’m no expert. But I know all the countries and capitals in the world, I know many historical countries and kingdoms and colonies that no longer exist today, I know rivers and islands and peninsulas and mountain ranges and seas and bays and gulfs and deserts and forests and historical continents and supercontinents and even more hidden continents like Zealandia. I know language families, locations of historical tribes, historical regions like Normandy, Fortriu, and Moravia, etc. I know states, provinces, and territories of the United States, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, and Mexico, I know counties of California, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, etc. I also know state routes of California and their locations.

Sorry I had to list it like that. But just to give you an idea…and no, I did not memorize this for a test. I’ve never been tested on 90% of this. This is just stuff I know and the list keeps getting longer.

@steelerspilot

Israel. Didn’t look it up. See if I’m right. :)

I used to spend hours with the encyclopedia, an atlas and National Geographic as a kid.

@PandoraBoxx

For me it actually started with educational placemats. There was a world map one and a United States one. Also one with the presidents, which I also memorized. Those placemats were one of the best things my parents ever got.

I also had an atlas that I would just spend hours looking at at a young age. People always assume that I tried to memorize this stuff. I really didn’t. It just kinda happened.

That was the subject I took in eighth grade that made my teacher call me in after school and tell me reproachfully, “You should be getting an A in this class.” And I, feeling pretty sure of my priorities and giving no thought at all to the feelings of an eighth-grade geography teacher, replied bluntly, “Mr. H—-, I’m not willing to do what it would take to get an A in this class.” I left him staring mournfully down at the textbook on his desk and thinking, no doubt, of the insensitivity of callow youth.

I wish now that I had found a way to put it a little more kindly.

@Jeruba
like “no way, dude”?

I’m better at it now than I was in school, but then, I hated school with a passion, and only found a great love of learning after I got out of that confining prison where I was on par with pond scum.

Similar to @DominicX, the primary school I went to had laminated mats of each continent and also some individual countries for us to memorize names of countries, capitals, major waterways, etc. I loved it! Nowadays I play with sites like freerice.com to poke around and get updated.

Yes, very easy, although I’m not a fan of memorizing all the details. I can’t name all the capitals of African countries for example.