Stats: 100 Country Trivia Questions of Varying Difficulty

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%	Question	Answer	% Correct
100	What is the capital city of the United States?	Washington D.C.	99%
99	On what river do the vast majority of Egyptians live?	Nile	97%
96	Who is the current president of Russia?	Vladimir Putin	97%
98	What is the currency of the United Kingdom?	Pound Sterling	96%
97	What is the main export of Qatar?	Oil / natural gas	90%
93	What Turkish empire was dissolved in 1923?	Ottoman Empire	88%
90	What is the most sacred animal in hinduism?	Cow	87%
92	What French museum is the most visited in the world?	Musée du Louvre	87%
94	What is the German word for Germany?	Deutschland	86%
91	What nickname is often used when referring to Japan?	Land of the {Rising} {Sun}	84%
89	What British islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982?	Falkland Islands	77%
84	Who was the first leader of communist China?	Mao Zedong	77%
86	What is Sweden's all-time bestselling musical act?	ABBA	76%
83	What dog breed is named for a Mexican state?	Chihuahua	76%
95	What major falls are located on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border?	{Victoria} Falls	75%
79	What peninsula comprises both Spain and Portugal?	Iberia	74%
85	What germanic language is mainly spoken in South Africa?	Afrikaans	73%
88	What is the most populous city in Quebec?	Montreal	73%
82	What greek island was home to the Minoan civilisation?	Crete	72%
73	What ice cream ingredient is Madagascar's top export?	Vanilla	69%
87	What was the DR Congo known as, from 1971 to 1997?	Zaire	67%
78	What colombian drug lord was "worth $30 billion"?	Pablo Escobar	66%
76	What Korean martial art is an Olympic sport?	Taekwondo	66%
81	What religious leader was born in southern Nepal around 480 BC?	Buddha	64%
72	What dictator was born in Georgia as Ioseb Besarionis dzе Djugashvili?	Joseph Stalin	60%
71	What is Italy's tallest volcano?	Mount Etna	60%
80	What dictator killed 20% of Cambodia's population in the 1970s?	Pol Pot	60%
77	What ballroom dance in 3/4 time is emblematic of Vienna?	Waltz	60%
56	What was the profession of the current Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky prior to his election in 2019?	Comedian	59%
70	What word is defined as the support of a Jewish state in the Holy Land?	{Zion}ism	57%
68	Who is Switzerland's most famous tennis player?	Roger Federer	53%
75	What is Ireland's main airline company?	Ryanair	52%
74	Who is undoubtedly Denmark's most famous fairy tale writer?	Hans Christian Andersen	51%
67	What major river forms the border between Thailand and Laos?	Mekong	49%
62	What stinky fruit is banned in Singapore's subway?	Durian	46%
63	Who was the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland?	{Erik} the Red	45%
69	What type of tree is depicted on the flag of Lebanon?	Cedar	44%
51	What famous resort town is located at the eastern tip of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic?	Punta {Cana}	44%
66	What is the word for a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses, like Panama for instance?	Isthmus	43%
48	What is the act of throwing someone out of a window called? (It famously happened in Prague in 1419 and 1618)	Defenestration	39%
60	What infamous dictator was known as "The Butcher of Uganda"?	Idi Amin	39%
65	What 2006 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio tackles the issue of diamond trade during the civil war in Sierra Leone?	Blood Diamond	38%
58	What neozelandese mountain climber became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953?	Edmund Hillary	38%
45	What ruler of the Mali Empire is often (inaccurately) said to be the richest person in history?	Mansa {Musa}	38%
50	What is the national gemstone of Australia?	Opal	36%
59	What is the most populous city in the Philippines?	{Quezon} City	35%
61	What region of Sudan has known a genocide in the 21st century?	Darfur	34%
55	What legendary sailor of the seven seas was said to live in Iraq?	Sinbad	33%
57	What conquistador invaded the Inca Empire?	Francisco Pizarro	32%
53	What strait separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland Chile?	Strait of {Magellan}	30%
52	Who has been the President of Belarus since 1994?	Alexander Lukashenko	28%
36	What holiday does Kazakhstan celebrate on January 7?	Christmas	28%
46	Who established Taiwan after fleeing mainland China in 1949?	Chiang Kai-shek	26%
54	What major city in Senegal shares its name with a city in Missouri?	Saint-Louis	26%
44	What slogan appears on the Brazilian flag?	{Ordem} e Progresso	25%
64	What acronym was North Macedonia also known as until 2019?	FYROM	24%
47	What region of northern Tanzania is known for its wildebeest migration?	Serengeti	24%
40	What is the largest island in Yemen?	Socotra	23%
42	What hungarian piano virtuoso composed "Hungarian Rhapsody"?	Franz Liszt	20%
39	What former footballer is currently the president of Liberia?	George Weah	20%
38	What is the most commonly spoken mother tongue in Jamaica?	Jamaican {Patois}	20%
41	What Cuban dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?	Fulgencio Batista	19%
49	What island of the Solomon Islands was the site of a WWII battle?	Guadalcanal	19%
25	What region of Papua New Guinea overwhelmingly voted to become independent in 2019?	Bougainville	18%
35	Major ocean bay in Venezuela, incorrectly called a "lake"	Maracaibo	17%
31	What city, technically the second-biggest in Moldova, is the capital of the breakaway state of Transnistria?	Tiraspol	17%
43	What is the main ethnic group of Laponia?	Sámi	16%
28	What word, starting with J, is the official ideology of North Korea?	Juche	15%
32	What river do the Paraguay and Uruguay rivers both join?	Paraná	15%
34	Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution?	Toussaint Louverture	15%
33	What warlord born in Uzbekistan in 1336 has led conquests which have killed an estimated 5% of the world's population?	Timur	14%
23	What mountain in Ecuador is the tallest in the world, if measured from the center of the Earth?	Chimborazo	13%
30	What was the colonial name of Benin?	Dahomey	12%
27	What belgian painter said that a representation of a pipe isn't a pipe?	René Magritte	12%
37	What radical socialist party ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990?	Sandinista	12%
19	What is the biggest port on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia?	Dammam	11%
26	What tributary of the Danube flows through Belgrade in Serbia and forms parts of the border between Bosnia and Croatia?	Sava	11%
20	What mountain range, starting with Z, spans across Iran?	Zagros	11%
22	What is the two-letter country code for Algeria?	DZ	10%
24	What supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago in Indonesia, nearly causing humans to become extinct?	Lake {Toba}	10%
29	What Mozambique-born footballer was known as the "Black Panther"?	Eusébio	9%
16	What Ethiopian city was the center of an empire from 100 to 940 AD?	Aksum	8%
18	What ancient kingdom located in northern Somalia was an essential trading partner of ancient Egypt?	Land of {Punt}	8%
9	On what island does Nassau (the capital of the Bahamas) lie?	New Providence	8%
13	What european species of wild cattle went extinct in Poland in 1627?	Aurochs	7%
17	What white flower is a national symbol of Pakistan?	Jasmine	6%
12	What is the currency of Mongolia?	Tögrög	6%
11	What is the name of the Palace in which the Pope resides?	{Apostolic} Palace	5%
21	What does Honduras mean in spanish?	Depths	5%
4	What tiny man-made island is shared by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia?	Passport Island	5%
8	What Formula 1 pilot died during the qualifications of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, just one day before Ayrton Senna?	Roland Ratzenberger	5%
3	What part of Earth's crust comprises Guyana and its neighbours?	Guyana {Shield}	4%
15	What norwegian figure skater won 3 gold medals at the Olympics?	Sonja Henie	4%
14	What female name is given to the northernmost point in mainland Africa, located in Tunisia?	Cape {Angela}	3%
7	What is the most populous city in Trinidad-and-Tobago?	Chaguanas	3%
10	Who delivers eggs in Lithuania, in addition to the Easter Bunny?	Easter Granny	3%
6	What city was the capital of Bhutan until 1955?	Punakha	2%
5	What archipelago consisting of two hundred small forested islands is the only UNESCO World Heritage of Palau?	{Rock} Islands	2%
2	What is the name given to the carnival that takes place in Grenada?	{Spice}mas	2%
1	What kingdom encompassed the territory of modern-day Kosovo before it was conquered by the Roman Empire in 28 BC?	Dardania	1%

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