| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The smallest country in the world | V | 100%
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| Country which colonised Brazil | P | 85%
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| Where Transylvania is | R | 85%
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| Former Yugoslav country, its capital city is Zagreb | C | 83%
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| Home of pop band ABBA and the latest country to join NATO | S | 80%
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| Home of car manufacturers BMW, VW and Audi | G | 79%
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| Landlocked country bordering Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania | B | 73%
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| Traditionally neutral mountainous country, full of nazi gold (allegedly) | S | 73%
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| Country which once possessed the largest empire in world history | U | 73%
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| Where the Eiffel Tower is located, or (according to Groundskeeper Willie) “cheese eating surrender monkeys” | F | 71%
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| Home of waffles, chocolate shells and Tintin | B | 70%
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| Fought the Winter War against the Soviet Union | F | 70%
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| Location of the world’s earliest democracy | G | 70%
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| Suffered a “potato famine “ in the 19th Century | I | 70%
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| Tiny Principality nestled in the Pyrenees mountains | A | 68%
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| It’s capital city, on the banks of the Danube, was formed from the merger of the older cities of Buda and Pest | H | 68%
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| Mediterranean island, whose inhabitants speak a language in the Semitic family | M | 68%
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| Contains the Jutland peninsula at the entrance to the Baltic Sea | D | 65%
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| Small landlocked country, ruled by a Grand Duke | L | 64%
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| Think tulips, windmills and clogs | N | 64%
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| Country which lies on the Adriatic Sea, between Italy and Croatia | S | 64%
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| Where you will find the Gulf of Riga | L | 62%
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| Country whose name translates to English as “Black Mountain” | M | 62%
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| Country which fought a brutal civil war just before WW2 | S | 62%
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| The capital city of this country is where Archduke Frank Ferdinand was assassinated, precipitating WW1 | B | 61%
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| Baltic state on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland | E | 61%
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| Principality and tax haven on the French Riviera | M | 59%
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| Birthplace of Mozart and Hitler | A | 56%
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| Home of Novak Djokovic, winner of a record 24 tennis Grand Slams | S | 55%
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| Microstate entirely surrounded by Italy, claims to be the world’s oldest republic | S | 55%
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| The UK’s adversary in the Cod Wars | I | 53%
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| Eastern half of the country once known as Czechoslovakia | S | 53%
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| Where you will find the World Heritage Site and seaport of Odessa | U | 53%
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| Current name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | N | 52%
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| Largest country in the world | R | 52%
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| Home of polar explorer and first man to reach both North and South Poles, Roald Amundsen | N | 50%
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| Double-landlocked microstate sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria | L | 47%
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| Baltic state which used to be in a commonwealth with Poland | L | 44%
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| Western half of the country where Martina Navratilova was born | C | 42%
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| Ethnic Albanian state which broke away from Serbia and declared independence in 2008 | K | 42%
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| Country with an unrecognised breakaway state called Transnistria | M | 42%
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| Where the medieval European Renaissance began | I | 36%
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| Black Sea country whose largest port city is Varna | B | 35%
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| Country once ruled by King Zog | A | 32%
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