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We give you 20 random questions that can all be answered with the name of a country. Can you answer them all?
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The questions change every time you play!
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What country was responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
over Lockerbie, Scotland?
Libya
What country does Pippi Longstocking come from?
Sweden
What country uses the Złoty as its currency?
Poland
In what country would you find Annapurna?
Nepal
What tiny Carribean island nation did the U.S. invade in 1983?
Grenada
What country's leader, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated in 1981 two years
after signing a peace treaty with Israel?
Egypt
What island nation is located about 50 miles south of Sicily?
Malta
What country is home to the most different species of cacti?
Mexico
What country has taken in the most Syrian refugees?
Turkey
In 1493 Pope Alexander VI divided the New World, giving half of it to Spain.
Which country received the other half?
Portugal
What country is also known as Burma?
Myanmar
What is the most populous country that is located entirely on islands?
Indonesia
Which country fought two wars in order to maintain control of Chechnya?
Russia
What island was known to the ancient Romans as Hibernia?
Ireland
In what country was Elon Musk born?
South Africa
Mogadishu is the capital of which African country?
Somalia
What country traditionally produces port wine?
Portugal
What country is the largest oil producer in Africa?
Nigeria
What country did the Von Trapp family flee to?
Switzerland
Starting in Hong Kong and digging directly through the center of the Earth,
in what country would you emerge?
Argentina
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40 Comments
Quizmaster
+19
Level ∞
Oct 14, 2024
Updated! Even using a script this took several hours to complete. I hope you like the result. There are 634 possible questions.
dogmeat
+8
Level 69
Oct 14, 2024
Germany is not the only country to share a land border with Denmark.

Since 2022 Denmark and Canada share Hans Island

Djilas
+7
Level 86
Oct 14, 2024
maybe not counting overseas territories as usual?
Djilas
+3
Level 86
Oct 14, 2024
Half of the questions about Portugal, Australia (3x), Russia and NZ (2x)
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Oct 14, 2024
Lucky you. It could have been Belgium.. shudder.
Thisisreal
+6
Level 91
Oct 14, 2024
I got 3 times Ireland and 2xVietnam. Pretty fresh actully to be able to have the same answer for several questions in a yellow box quiz!
Liam315
+1
Level 72
Oct 15, 2024
I got 4 Israel questions.
UnohanaYachiru
+3
Level 58
Feb 6, 2025
they be invading quizzes like they invade other countries. can't wait for the jetpunk-ocide
AlmostAGenius
+4
Level 90
Oct 14, 2024
So there are 634 questions, and somehow the answer to both of my first two was Monaco. What are the odds?
Dimby
+4
Level 83
Oct 14, 2024
There are 200 Monaco questions.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Oct 15, 2024
Must've got really lucky on getting so few Monaco questions
AlmostAGenius
+2
Level 90
Oct 15, 2024
Out of boredom, I decided to calculate the statistics if this were the case.

Expected number of Monaco questions: ~6

Standard deviation: ± 2 questions

Likelihood of getting no Monaco questions: 0.05%

Likelihood of getting 2 questions: 2%

Likelihood of getting 20 questions: 0.000000009%

interopia
+2
Level 90
Oct 15, 2024
Wouldn't there be 3 expected Monaco questions out of a total of 634? And what is the likelihood of getting the first two questions Monaco?
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 90
Oct 15, 2024
I calculated the expected value based on the the fact that there are 20 questions, and we assume 200/634 are Monaco, so: 20*(200/634) = 6.3

The odds of getting the first two to be Monaco in that case would be: (200/634)*(199/633) = 10%

AbiA
+1
Level 88
Oct 16, 2024
Dimby is joking: there are in fact a total of 6 different questions about Monaco.
AlmostAGenius
+4
Level 90
Oct 16, 2024
I knew he was joking. There’s barely enough land in Monaco to put a question per building.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Oct 14, 2024
Just missed Myanmar
RobNobody
+5
Level 80
Oct 14, 2024
Should've turned left at Thailand.
Findlay
+4
Level 80
Oct 14, 2024
I got this question: "What country has the largest population in the Southern Hemisphere?" The quiz claimed the correct answer was Brazil.

Adding up the populations of only the Indonesian provinces that are EXCLUSIVELY in the Southern Hemisphere gives me a figure of about 4 million more than Brazil's total population. Once you take away the population of Brazil living north of the Equator and add in the population south of the Equator in those Indonesian provinces that are divided, Indonesia definitely has more people in the Southern Hemisphere than Brazil.

Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Oct 14, 2024
I'll take your word for it.

I changed the question.

Dml123
+2
Level 71
Oct 15, 2024
"What Muslim-majority country was communist from 1946–1992?" Surely Kosovo and Bosnia could be valid answers here as much as Albania, given that Yugoslavia's period of communism was the same?
Pharley
+1
Level 75
Oct 26, 2024
Kosovo and Bosnia weren't countries from 1946–1992
norianai
+1
Level 87
Oct 15, 2024
What country do famous soccer players Ronaldo and Ronaldinho come from?

Isn't Ronaldo from Portugal and Ronaldinho from Brazil??

AlmostAGenius
+5
Level 90
Oct 15, 2024
There’s also a Ronaldo from Brazil who is arguably as successful if not more successful than Cristiano Ronaldo.
TheLastFish
+1
Level 71
Oct 19, 2024
I got two Hamlet questions in the same quiz. Are there also Denmark questions which are not related to Hamlet? :-D
ruftytufty2
+2
Level 59
Oct 22, 2024
Question 2 (b)
Farigiraf2
+2
Level 68
Jan 30, 2025
Got the same question twice:

1. What country's intelligence agency is called the Mossad?

2. What country's intelligence agency is known as Mossad?

Americas
+1
Level 74
Feb 6, 2025
Same, one has 88% correct and one has 81% correct, there is two of the same question
JamesMawgan
+2
Level 44
Feb 6, 2025
On mine I had almost in a row:

- Country where you'd find a kibbutz

- Country where Golda Meir was Prime Minister

- Country where Yom Kippur is a holiday

SRM03ACE
+1
Level 48
Feb 6, 2025
southafrica should not be the answer for two questions, had me stumped for 2 mins
09nerd4world
+1
Level 43
Feb 6, 2025
it's just chance, the answers change every time. there's not a way for quizmaster to stop double answers
NotBNH
+6
Level 74
Feb 6, 2025
"In what country is Tripoli located?" should include Lebanon as a possible answer in addition to Libya
jeltel3
+1
Level 66
Jan 23, 2026
Exactly, can it be changed, so that Lebanon is also an answer?
citizenofpanem
+1
Level 59
Feb 6, 2025
Would it be possible to add a note saying countries can appear more than once? It’s a great idea but kinda stumped me as not used to it in other quizzes.
Apostolia
+1
Level 33
Feb 7, 2025
Ronaldo is NOT from Brazil.
shrekcena
+1
Level 60
Feb 8, 2025
There is a Ronaldo from Brazil, just not THE Ronaldo
CrazyBug
+1
Level 71
Feb 7, 2025
Why do you say the US has the most tigers? Do baseball players count?

Or is it zoos??? Okay, now I get it.

MarkovVeliki
+2
Level 41
Feb 8, 2025
Repeated answers are a bit of a duck.
Thomiqq
+1
Level 48
Jun 23, 2025
Isn't there a Tripoli in Lebanon?
jwilliams301112
+1
Level 65
Jan 6, 2026
Only three answers as Nepal?? Need more!
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