| Clue | Country | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Known as the "Land of the Rising Sun" | Japan | 97%
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| Connected via bridge to Sweden | Denmark | 86%
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| The Māori people were its original inhabitants | New Zealand | 86%
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| Cities include Kraków, Wrocław, and Łódź | Poland | 86%
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| Located about 60 km south of Sicily | Malta | 85%
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| Known in its national language as Österreich | Austria | 77%
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| The largest lake in this Central American country has a population of freshwater sharks | Nicaragua | 66%
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| Island nation located northwest of Madagascar | Comoros | 64%
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| Its capital, Brazzaville, is just across the river from Kinshasa | Rep. of the Congo | 64%
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| Fought a war in the 1860s against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in which as much as 90% of the adult male population died | Paraguay | 63%
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| Central Asian country called "The Graveyard of Empires" | Afghanistan | 62%
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| This tiny African country lies on either side of the equator, but not on it | Equatorial Guinea | 62%
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| Where Eva Peron lived | Argentina | 60%
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| The third-smallest country in Asia (after Maldives and Singapore) | Bahrain | 48%
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| The government in Ouagadougou has been toppled by coups in 1966, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987, and twice in 2022 | Burkina Faso | 43%
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| The easternmost country in the EU | Cyprus | 42%
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| Its third largest city, Samarkand, was conquered by both Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan | Uzbekistan | 32%
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| Despite being a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, it has its own monarch (Tupou VI) | Tonga | 29%
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| Where the steel drum, calypso music, and the limbo come from | Trinidad and Tobago | 27%
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| The last country to have a tsar (1946) | Bulgaria | 19%
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