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Asia: strange but true - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 104 times
- The average score is 20 of 47
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Women here are banned from cycling; Ayatollah Khamenei issued an fatwa declaring that it exposes society to corruption. | Iran | 85%
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| In 2019, a Chennai man with two wives was whacked with sandals by them and their relatives for trying to acquire a third one. | India | 80%
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| As this country was inhabited by tent-dwelling nomads, it had a mobile capital city which moved location 25 times in the 1600s and 1700s. | Mongolia | 73%
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| In this country of over 100 active volcanoes, divorces are skyrocketing in Purbalingga because of men's addiction to pigeon racing. | Indonesia | 69%
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| A man was arrested in 2018 for performing black magic at the sacred Kabah site. | Saudi Arabia | 68%
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| Travel chaos ensued on this tea-growing island after a rat was found on one of the national airline's flights. | Sri Lanka | 68%
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In 2018 in Hyderabad, Sindh, a boy faked his own kidnapping to try and extort 2 million rupees from his parents. | Pakistan | 64%
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| This Himalayan nation has a ritual of sky burials, where the dead are left out on mountainsides for wild animals. | Nepal | 63%
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| In 2016, President Duterte promised to execute so many people and throw their bodies in the sea, that the fish would grow fat. | Philippines | 63%
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| This city-state has a Sandcrawler building, named after and made to resemble a vehicle from Star Wars. | Singapore | 61%
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| A woman from this federation of oil-rich states divorced her husband after he refused to pay for anything on their honeymoon. | UAE | 61%
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| The only carbon-negative country, it was isolated from the world until 1974 and didn't have TV until the 1990s. | Bhutan | 58%
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| Formerly controlled by France, this small Syrian neighbour was created as a Christian state. | Lebanon | 58%
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| Ottoman Grand Viziers who were due to be executed by strangulation could escape their fate if they beat the palace gardener in a foot race. | Turkey | 58%
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| This island nation has the lowest highest hill of any country. | The Maldives | 56%
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| Ho Van Lang spent 40 years living in isolation with his father in the jungle here, and did not know that women existed. | Vietnam | 56%
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| The president of this young country was critically injured by an assassination attempt in 2008. | East Timor | 54%
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| This Caspian Sea nation has the world's biggest landlocked exclave, Nakhchivan. | Azerbaijan | 53%
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| It is illegal to have Christmas decorations in public in this sultanate, and you can be stoned to death for homosexuality. | Brunei | 53%
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| Michael Jackson lived in this island kingdom and recorded music with the king's son. | Bahrain | 47%
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| Cans of fresh air can be purchased in this huge coal-burning country. | China | 47%
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| A man on the Indian Ocean island of Socotra was born in a cave, and still lives in it. | Yemen | 44%
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| The Al Shahaniya track in this oil-rich peninsula holds a race where robots ride camels. | Qatar | 41%
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| Until 1970, the Sultan made it illegal to play football, wear sunglasses or speak to anyone for over 15 minutes. Slavery was legal, though. | Oman | 39%
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| The population here decreased by a fifth due to the war. It has a number of abandoned Byzantine towns. | Syria | 39%
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| This nation in Indochina is the most bombed nation on Earth, and has 80 million still unexploded. | Laos | 37%
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| This country, known as Sakartvelo by locals, has a word which can be transliterated as "gwprzkwnit". | Georgia | 34%
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| In this Middle Eastern kingdom, it is courteous to refuse a meal three times, but accept it the fourth time you're asked. | Jordan | 34%
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| Women of the Kayan tribe, in this war-torn dictatorship, wear brass coils around their necks to lengthen them. | Myanmar | 34%
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| A woman from this small Gulf state divorced her husband because of his Playstation obsession. | Kuwait | 32%
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| This equatorial nation has the world's largest flower, up to a metre across. | Malaysia | 32%
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| In 2009, an entire family, including a two-year-old child, was sentenced to life imprisonment because a Bible was discovered in their possession. | North Korea | 31%
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| 7,000 people die every year from snake bites in this low-lying country. | Bangladesh | 29%
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| This is the country which is furthest from any ocean. In 2024, a girl here was found to have a three-foot long hair growing inside her skull. | Kyrgyzstan | 29%
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| One man from Trang province starts his day with a glass of crocodile blood mixed with rice liquor. | Thailand | 29%
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| This huge country has a caterpillar fungus which is considered so valuable, it is used as a local currency. | Kazakhstan | 27%
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| This country's dictator of the 1990s banned the word for "bread" and ordered it to be replaced by his mother's name. | Turkmenistan | 27%
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| Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat is thought to be the oldest in the world. | Armenia | 24%
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| Khim Hang, a woman from this country, married a cow after saying it kissed her and followed her upstairs. | Cambodia | 24%
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| In Hsinchu in 2020, a 3-year-old carried away by a kite survived with only minor bruises. | Taiwan | 24%
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| The national sport is buzkashi, where horse-mounted players try to get a goat carcass into the goal. | Afghanistan | 22%
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| A sorcerer here sells beads for up to $1000, claiming that they have the power to stop bullets. The country's name means "fertile". | Iraq | 20%
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| Citizens of this mountainous state are fined 4 months' wages if they have a birthday party outwith their home. | Tajikistan | 20%
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| Ranked the world's fifth-happiest country, this R&D hub has the highest percentage of start-ups and engineers of any country. | Israel | 19%
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| In 2024, a woman in this economic powerhouse was charged with riding a motorised suitcase without a licence. | Japan | 19%
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| Loud music is played in road tunnels here, to keep drivers awake. | South Korea | 17%
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| Riding motorcycles and having a beard are both illegal in this central Asian country's capital. | Uzbekistan | 12%
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