| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas | Brazil | 94%
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| The world's oldest tennis tournament, the Wimbledon championships, first occurred in 1877 | United Kingdom | 92%
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| The most populous democracy in the world | India | 91%
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| It is sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north | Mongolia | 90%
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| Is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund | Sweden | 90%
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| Officially the Republic of China | Taiwan | 89%
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| One of only two landlocked countries in South America (the other is Bolivia) | Paraguay | 85%
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| The three medieval principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania | Romania | 82%
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| Has remained a close partner with the Czech Republic | Slovakia | 80%
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| In 2016, it overtook South Africa and became Africa's second largest economy (after Nigeria) | Egypt | 79%
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| The only landlocked country in Southeast Asia | Laos | 77%
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| Most of the country is dominated by the fertile Ganges-Brahmaputra delta | Bangladesh | 73%
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| Has 17,504 islands scattered over both sides of the equator, with about 6,000 of them inhabited | Indonesia | 71%
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| During Tết, many people from the major cities will return to their villages for family reunions and praying for dead ancestors | Vietnam | 71%
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| It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire | D.R. Congo | 68%
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| Most of the areas below sea level, known as polders, are the result of land reclamation | Netherlands | 68%
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| The Petronas Towers are the tallest twin-towers in the world | Malaysia | 63%
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| In about 1000 AD, the Norse built a small encampment that only lasted a few years at L'Anse aux Meadows | Canada | 59%
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| This represented a state of hyperinflation, and the central bank introduced a new 100 trillion dollar note | Zimbabwe | 58%
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| On 15 July 2016, an unsuccessful coup attempt tried to oust the government | Turkey | 39%
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