these go to 11.

That’s LOCATIONS.  Lesotho, Ohio, California, Argentina, Iceland, Oklahoma, Netherlands, Sudan.  I do it to stay mentally sharp and also because I was subjected to a childhood full of my dad randomly saying a state’s name to me in the middle of a conversation, and I was supposed to answer with the state’s capital, and thus have this notion that geography is important (he still does this).

The person on the phone always seems delighted and impressed that someone with such a young sounding voice knows the names of so many places, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I’m always disappointed.  I mean, maybe it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to find Angola or Uruguay or Yemen on a map, but people should at least know that they exist.