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Central Asia A-Z - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 411 times
155 since last reset
- The average score is 16 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| F | Persian name for the "Persian language" | Farsi | 89%
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| A | Inland sea nearly destroyed by Soviet irrigation during the 1960s | Aral Sea | 87%
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| C | The Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages are primarily written in this alphabet | Cyrillic | 87%
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| B | The most famous fictional Kazakhstani (in the western world) | Borat | 83%
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| D | The name of this national capital means "Monday" | Dushanbe | 83%
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| U | Kazakhstan is the world's leading producer of this type of radioactive metal | Uranium | 83%
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| I | Former full name of Afghanistan: _______ Republic of Afghanistan | Islamic | 82%
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| L | The "snowy" type of this big cat is the national animal of Afghanistan | Leopard | 81%
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| H | Mountain range that covers the entire central Afghanistan | {Hindu} Kush | 72%
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| Y | Turkic term for a portable dwelling, it appears on the Kyrgyz flag | Yurt | 72%
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| E | Uzbekistan has 4 and Tajikistan 2 of these in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan has 1 and Kyrgyzstan 1 as well in Uzbekistan of this type of enclosed territory | Enclave | 70%
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| S | Persian term that referred to the King of Afghanistan (and Iran as well) | Shah | 68%
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| P | More than half of Afghanistan's population belong to this ethnic group | Pashtuns | 62%
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| R | What are Syr Darya, Amu Darya and Helmand? | Rivers | 59%
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| W | The region of Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan contains the largest forest of this type of nut-bearing tree | Walnut | 59%
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| Z | Iranian religion that once was widely practiced among the people in the region | Zoroastrianism | 59%
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| T | This "lame" ruler conquered most of Central Asia, killing 5% of the world's population | Timur | 52%
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| V | Name of the spaceflight that launched Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961 from Kazakhstan (hint: Russian for east, you can find it in an "easterly" Russian city's name) | {Vostok} 1 | 48%
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| J | Major "abad" both in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan | Jalalabad | 45%
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| O | Kyrgyzstan's second largest city whose name is only three letters long | Osh | 42%
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| X | Chinese region that borders Central Asian countries | Xinjiang | 42%
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| Q | Sinicized empire in Central Asia between 1124–1218 (hint: the answer rhymes with the first name of a famous Palin and a Delevingne) | {Qara} Khitai | 39%
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| G | Main culture and official language of the Kingdom of Bactria, that once controlled vast areas of Central Asia | Greek | 31%
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| M | Currency of Turkmenistan | Manat | 27%
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| K | Last name of the Afghan president between 2002–2014 | Karzai | 24%
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| N | The "new year" that all the Central Asian countries celebrate in March | Nowruz | 19%
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