(played with 9 year olds)
What country do we live in?
-Ohio!
No, what country
-(different kid) Ohio!
That's still not the answer.
-(yet a third kid) Ohio!
That's a state. What country do we live in?
-Alabama?
Noooo
-(smug kid, waiting as he sees his peers be wrong, says with condescension) Columbus
What? No. That's a city
South America!
That's a continent. What country do we live in?
Ohio?
this is a true story.
This is why the 9th grade proficiency test had a question asking this very same thing.
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