It’s always an amazing experience to see people who have mastered a memorization of various aspects of geography. Here are some examples of geography whizzes.
Rote Geography Mastered at 23 Months Old
For a little balance after all the incoherent lack of geography education explanations and exposure to people who don’t know if the world is flat, I present to you “Lily: The World Map Master Baby Genius”. I think the little dance she does on the bed helps her geography acumen.
Lily was profiled on KSL News based out of Utah in August. For the past six months she’s been locating countries around the world on a wall map and can consistently identify about 50 countries.
Chinese Geography Teacher Draws a Map of the World from Memory on a Blackboard in Four Minutes
Around the World in Four Minutes.
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Move over Al Franken, Boming Wang, a junior high school teacher at the Yingcai Junior High School in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, an autonomous region in China, starts off his geography lessons by drawing a map of the world on his blackboard.
Along the way, Wang talks about different countries as he draws them. After four minutes, the class is presented with a map of the world.
Developing this skill involves many hours of study by Boming who has a globe on his desk which he uses to study the world’s landform in order to perfect his chalk cartography. “I cannot even count how many times I spin the globe every day,” Wang notes.
The endless studying of geography seems to be paying off since, unlike many commercial map makers, Wang seems to remember to add New Zealand to his world map.
Wang’s inspiration was one of his own middle school teachers who frequently drew maps as part of his teaching. “I see drawing as a more direct and engaging way to expose students to geography. They also like teachers who can draw interesting things, which makes them like the class even more,” said Wang, who was an art major in college.
Watch the video about Boming Wang’s world map after the reference section.
Source:
Geography teacher draws world map in four minutes – Ecns.cn
Al Franken’s Geotrick
A little known skill of Al Franken is the ability to draw from memory a map of the 48 contiguous states in under two minutes. Captured on video during a 1987 appearance on the David Letterman Show, Al Franken has repeatedly demonstrated his skill including at a 2007 SD 29 and Dodge County DFL Joint Fundraiser during which he also cracked jokes and answered questions (see video below).
Apparently Al Franken developed this talent as the result of a lost bar bet:
First, I have to tell you that the fifty state strategy is actually a 48 state strategy, and it is not an election strategy, but rather, a strategy for remembering the names of all fifty states. This stems from a bar bet Franken made some years ago in which he claimed to be able to name all fifty states. When he got to the end, the count was only 49, and there was no way to remember which state he had accidentally skipped. So he decided to learn how to draw a map of all 48 states so he could keep track.
