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Historical countries that no longer exist - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 264 times
- The average score is 16 of 29
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| This US state was at first an independent country (1836-46) | Republic of Texas | 91%
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| German kingdom that created Germany in 1871 (1701-1918, was still a kingdom within the empire) | Prussia | 84%
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| Dissolved into 15 countries including Russia and countries in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe (1922-91) | Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | 82%
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| Dissolved into Turkey and many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (ca. 1299-1922) | Ottoman Empire | 80%
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| Dissolved to form several countries in the Balkans, including Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia (1918/29-92) | Yugoslavia | 77%
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| De-facto independent of China (1912-51) [has had a government in exile in India since 1959] | Tibet | 75%
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| One of the Austro-Hungarian successor states, dissolved peacefully into two states (1918-92) | Czechoslovakia | 70%
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| Congo during the dictatorship of Mobutu (1971-1997) | Zaire | 69%
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| One of two countries (itself an island) that merged to form Tanzania (1856-1964) | Zanzibar | 69%
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| The southern states that broke away from the USA (1861-65) | Confederate States of America | 68%
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| Union of an empire and a kingdom, also known as The Dual Monarchy (1867-1918) | Austria-Hungary | 67%
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| Japanese puppet state located in Northeast China (1932-45) | Manchukuo | 66%
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| Preceded Zimbabwe (1965-79) | Rhodesia | 63%
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| Communist state, abolished in peaceful reunification (1949-90) | East Germany (German Democratic Republic) | 61%
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| One of two countries that united and became Romania in 1881 (1330-1859) | Wallachia | 55%
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| Unsuccessful separatist state in Russia (1991-2000) | Chechnya (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) | 53%
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| Communist state, succeeded British colony of Aden, one of two countries that merged into one (1967-90) | South Yemen (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) | 53%
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| One of two Boer republics that was conquered by the British to later form South Africa in 1910 (1854-1902) | Orange Free State | 51%
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| Founded in a rebellion and overthrew the Yemeni monarchy in 1970 (1962-90) | North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic) | 48%
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| Anti-communist state, abolished when conquered (1955-75) | South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) | 46%
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| One of two countries that united and became Romania in 1881 (1346-1859) | Moldavia | 45%
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| Short-lived union between Egypt and Syria under the Egyptian president Nasser (1958-61) | United Arab Republic | 43%
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| One of two countries that merged to form Tanzania (1961-64) | Tanganyika | 42%
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| One of two Boer republics that was conquered by the British to later form South Africa in 1910 (1852-1902) | Transvaal (formally South African Republic) | 36%
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| Short-lived separatist state in Nigeria (1967-70) | Biafra | 33%
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| Former name of United Arab Emirates as a British protectorate (1820-1971) | Trucial States | 24%
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| Short-lived separatist state in the Congo (1960-63) | Katanga | 15%
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| Successor state from the Ottoman Empire located south of Saudi Arabia (1918-70) | Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen | 7%
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| Short-lived separatist state in the Congo (1960-62) | South Kasai | 6%
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