Eliminate countries based on the instruction at the bottom. When you think you are done, click the arrows to move between categories. Eliminate all the countries! WARNING: Sudden death mode is active. If you click a country on the WRONG category... you lose!
Independence from UK refers to its current iteration of independence, and counts the British Empire.
One "debatable" incorrect answer won't cause sudden death.
So after some investigation, I don't think there's any logical reason to think that Singapore is directly on the boundary between the Indian and the Pacific Ocean. There's an entire island to the west that blocks Singapore from the Indian Ocean. I took out the sudden death on that one... but I'm not allowing it as a correct answer. Singapore has other answers anyway. :)
This isn’t something I can change on mobile, unfortunately. I have to change the function via the SVG file’s code. But the three mistakes/debatable answers will be fixed when possible.
Thanks! I might have to make a second one that's not quite as tough. It seems like most people are taking this quiz about 5 or 6 times, and only getting 8/25 on their first attempts!
I got 18 on my first attempt (and am bad at population and flags, basicly the only one I knew for sure were the landlocked countries and apart from 1 country I was relatively sure about mediteranean aswell)
I got it on the 3rd attempt, 2nd time I pressed the final answer in the wrong category...
So I think the quiz is good as it is (which is awesome btw) if even I could get a decent result here.
It's a matter of doing the ones you know for certain first and then go back and forthe between the categories to pick the ones you think are most likely to be true. Some educated guesses can get you far (like I seemed to remember there was an island (in oceania) with a sun in its flag though no idea which island, but I took the plunge and also that arab countries often have a moon)
And currently it is already up to 11 for the average first attempt score. I think perhaps the people that took the quiz first/early might have been hasty with answering aswell? And that now people that are more carefull are starting to take the quiz.
The first couple of days always give skewed scores anyway
Nice job with the quiz, but are you sure about Laos not having a moon on its flag? On the Wikipedia page the name of the flag is translated as "The white moon flag", and severalotherwebsites I checked also say the disc symbolizes the full moon.
I also agree with comments above wrt Singapore and Denmark bordering two oceans.
Still enjoyed the quiz despite the objections though! Hope to see more like it.
Whoops!! I’ll be honest… I switched Laos in after I felt that having another Nordic country was too boring and forgot to check the Laos flag. I’ll have to make some updates when I can access the SVG coding on a computer. Thanks for the heads up!!
I added a caveat that made the instructions too long. Deleted one that wasn’t really needed… I’m pretty sure this won’t be featured any time soon, though.
Croatia also does, I'm afraid, depict the sun or the moon on its flag.
Specifically, the moon: the flag of Croatia incorporates, above the checkered shield, "the historical arms of Croatia, Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, Istria and Slavonia."
That first one on the left, the historical coat of arms of (the region of) Croatia, depicts "A golden six-pointed star (representing the morning star) over a silver crescent moon on a blue shield" (emphasis mine)...
I didn’t see this reply at first, but here you go. A thumbnail I crafted with all ten of my fingers, with accurate flags, to boot. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225007830612836396/1380628087510929469/Free_online_photo_editor_-_Image_editor_with_many_image_editing_functions_2.png?ex=6844919a&is=6843401a&hm=a32978356bc6240cbeaa548871bbffb733c71a84e65c639038c5455d93d302d5&
Ha ha, thanks. I think the capitals elimination was my first sudden death quiz. It's certainly cool to see a new format that probably was in some way influenced by my quizzes. :)
Ugh!!! I've done this a thousand times and I'm getting stalled by "has arctic/antarctic claims"! By the time I get to this one, I only have two options left, neither of which work. Are some of the choices possible for multiple answers? In which case, I don't have an option when I get to this one.
nommed
I got it on the 3rd attempt, 2nd time I pressed the final answer in the wrong category...
So I think the quiz is good as it is (which is awesome btw) if even I could get a decent result here.
It's a matter of doing the ones you know for certain first and then go back and forthe between the categories to pick the ones you think are most likely to be true. Some educated guesses can get you far (like I seemed to remember there was an island (in oceania) with a sun in its flag though no idea which island, but I took the plunge and also that arab countries often have a moon)
The first couple of days always give skewed scores anyway
Your message upon failure is just the best thing ever. Hilarious.
I also agree with comments above wrt Singapore and Denmark bordering two oceans.
Still enjoyed the quiz despite the objections though! Hope to see more like it.
Great quiz otherwise though, some of these were tough!
Croatia also does, I'm afraid, depict the sun or the moon on its flag.
Specifically, the moon: the flag of Croatia incorporates, above the checkered shield, "the historical arms of Croatia, Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, Istria and Slavonia."
That first one on the left, the historical coat of arms of (the region of) Croatia, depicts "A golden six-pointed star (representing the morning star) over a silver crescent moon on a blue shield" (emphasis mine)...
Hell of a good quiz
You can’t prove I didn’t draw all of this myself.