Thanks to piggynose's post and link, have been on youtube and found this.
( I love how easy it is to get sidetracked!)
It makes you wonder what kids are taught in some schools.
https://youtu.be/BxeZbuTCcMY
No offence meant to America as a nation, there are equally unknowledgable people all over the world.
Just some of the recorded responses were incredibly surprising.
Obviously only the worst were edited in.
I think most Brits know more about the USA than they did.They didn't know who won the Civil War, recognise their former recent President (Ronald Reagan), The National bird. A sparrow???
I do hope that any relief aid for the Venetians who may be suffering from their recent flooding is not being dispatched to Venezuela by our generous but hapless folk in the US of A. :-)
Canary42, strictly speaking, Colorado is a border state since it has borders with Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico...Being very pedantic obviously:)