When I'm not obsessing on tennis, I'm playing Sporcle. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sporcle, it's an incredible website loaded with timed quizzes. Billed as "mentally stimulating diversions," the site tests your knowledge of Geography, Entertainment, Science, History, Literature, Sports, Movies, Music, Television, and everything else under the sun. At first, you try to fill in as many answers as you possibly can in hopes of acing the test. Then, if you're eager and determined, you can play the same game over and over again until you have it down cold. I believe they call that learning. Before Sporcle, my base of knowledge in the field of geography was suspect at best. Now, I can name every single country in the world and place it on the map. Not only have I sporcled the World, I've sporcled the Periodic Table, U.S. Presidents, top fast food chains in America, English Alpha Code words, Olympic host cities, and winners of the Tour de France, to name just a few. Tennis is represented by a handful of outstanding lists, none of them particularly easy. For a solid starting test, try to name the players ranked in the Men's Top 50, given only the country of origin:
ATP Men's Top 50
Now, if you're really fired up about sporcling tennis and can spell like a nerdy home-schooled kid, try to fill out the chart of the Women's Top 50:
WTA Women's Top 50
Yeah, that was a bit cruel of me on your first day. But don't give up. Remember, if you put your mind to it, there's nothing in this world you can't do. Class dismissed.
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