title: 1St Grade Geography: Continents of the World
author:  Baby Professor 
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  [To the people of Bolivia!](Maphead_split_023.html#filepos598204)
  
  > —RONALD REAGAN, OFFERING  
  > A 1982 TOAST—IN BRASILIA
  
  On the very first day of the University of Miami’s spring semester in 1983,
  assistant professor [David Helgren
  sprang](Maphead_split_023.html#filepos598506) a pop quiz in his introductory
  geography classes. He gave each of his 128 students, mostly business and
  liberal arts majors, a blank world map. They were to pinpoint the locations of
  thirty different places, ranging from the obvious (Miami, London, the South
  Pacific) to the then-newsworthy (the USSR, the Falkland Islands) to the
  slightly more exotic (New Guinea, Cairo). They didn’t need to write their
  names on their papers but were instructed to try their best.
  
  Dr. Helgren, a five-year veteran of freshman geography instruction, wasn’t
  expecting the studen