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Most Difficult (Least Guessed) Question for Each Country - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 36 times
- The average score is 31 of 198
Answer Stats
| Country | Least guessed question | Answer | % Correct |
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| United States | Highest mountain | Denali | 57%
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| Brazil | Waterfalls on the Argentina border | {Iguazu} Falls | 53%
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| Canada | Viking settlement established around 1000 A.D. | {Vin}land | 53%
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| South Africa | Longest river | Orange | 50%
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| Ukraine | Protests that happened in 2004 after vote-rigging and the poisoning of a Presidential candidate | {Orange} Revolution | 50%
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| Estonia | According to Hemingway, at least two Estonians can be found in every one of these places | Port | 50%
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| Colombia | Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" | Gabriel García Márquez | 43%
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| Belize | Giant marine sinkhole that is a popular scuba destination | Great {Blue} Hole | 43%
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| Spain | Red spice that flavors paella | Saffron | 43%
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| North Korea | The year in which the men's football (soccer) team first appeared in the World Cup | 1966 | 40%
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| Andorra | One of two co-princes of Andorra | {Bishop} of Urgell | 40%
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| Belarus | The national animal of Belarus is the wisent, also known as the ... | European {Bison} | 40%
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| Germany | Longest rivers | Elbe | 37%
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| Greece | Island - Odysseus's home | Ithaca | 37%
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| Denmark | Famous existential philosopher | Søren Kierkegaard | 37%
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| Cyprus | What is the nickname for the UN buffer zone that separates the two parts of the country? | {Green} Line | 33%
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| Bulgaria | Southern Bulgaria is part of this ancient region starting with T | Thrace | 33%
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| Argentina | Argentinian style of barbecue | Asado | 30%
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| Antigua and Barbuda | Last name of father/son leaders Vere and Lester | Bird | 30%
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| Nepal | This was abolished in 2008 after the Constituent Assembly elections | Monarchy | 30%
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| Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan has 400 of these "volcanoes", the most of any country (note: they are not actual volcanoes) | {Mud} Volcanoes | 30%
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| Iceland | The Alþingi, founded in 930 A.D. is said to be the world's oldest ______, at least 200 years older than England's | Parliament | 30%
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| Japan | Main islands | Shikoku | 30%
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| Cambodia | That temple complex is located this city, with initials SR | Siem Reap | 30%
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| Malta | Most populous municipality | St. {Paul}'s Bay | 30%
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| Chile | War in which Bolivia lost its coastline to Chile | War of the {Pacific} | 30%
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| Zimbabwe | National symbol | Zimbabwe {Bird} | 30%
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| Togo | Among the African countries, Togo has the highest percentage of population who follow this type "ism" religion | {Anim}ism | 27%
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| Tanzania | Historic language of Zanzibar | Arabic | 27%
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| Georgia | Largest Georgian city on that sea | Batumi | 27%
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| Kazakhstan | Holiday celebrated on January 7 | Christmas | 27%
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| Cape Verde | Currency of Cape Verde | Escudo | 27%
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| Portugal | Former currency | Escudo | 27%
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| Sweden | Gulf between Sweden and Finland | Gulf of {Bothnia} | 27%
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| Sudan | Biggest city by that sea | Port Sudan | 27%
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| United Arab Emirates | Third-most populous city | Sharjah | 27%
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| Australia | What you won't find in South Australia's Nullarbor Plain | Trees | 27%
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| Iraq | Former U.S. prison where detainees were abused | Abu Ghraib | 23%
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| Sri Lanka | Chain of island and shallow waters connecting India and Sri Lanka | {Adam}'s Bridge | 23%
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| Peru | Former President who rid the country of the guerrilla Shining Path, but was convicted of human rights abuses and fled to Japan | Alberto Fujimori | 23%
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| Cameroon | Largest type of frog, found mostly in Cameroon (hint: a Bible character) | {Goliath} Frog | 23%
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| Barbados | Fruit discovered by accident in Barbados that is a cross of an orange and a pomelo | Grapefruit | 23%
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| Nigeria | Largest ethnic groups | Hausa | 23%
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| Hungary | Hungarian-American mathematician considered to be one of the most intelligent people of all-time | John von {Neumann} | 23%
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| Greenland | Large bovid which lives in northern Greenland | {Musk}ox | 23%
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| Malawi | Former name of Malawi | {Nyasa}land | 23%
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| China | What were the four "Great Inventions" of ancient China? | Printing | 23%
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| Vietnam | River that flows through the capital | Red | 23%
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| United Kingdom | Longest river | River Severn | 23%
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| Ivory Coast | Tree sap product that is one of the Ivory Coast's most important exports | Rubber | 23%
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| Liechtenstein | Most populous municipality | Schaan | 23%
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| Uzbekistan | Warlord born in the city of Shahrisabz in 1336 whose conquests killed an estimated 5% of the world population | Timur | 23%
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| Kuwait | "W" word that refers to a landform of a dry riverbed | Wadi | 23%
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| Ireland | City where famous crystal was made | Waterford | 23%
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| Netherlands | Scientist who was the first to see single-cell organisms | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 20%
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| Lesotho | Lesotho's colonial name | {Basuto}land | 20%
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| Croatia | Roman emperor who built a palace in Split | Diocletian | 20%
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| Algeria | Two-letter country code | DZ | 20%
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| Taiwan | Taiwanese company that makes iPhones in China | {Fox}conn | 20%
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| Switzerland | Fictional woman who personifies Switzerland | Helvetia | 20%
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| Malaysia | Malaysian city just north of Singapore | Johor Bahru | 20%
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| Djibouti | Ancient kingdom said to exist around Djibouti before 1000 B.C. * hint: starts with P | Land of {Punt} | 20%
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| Somalia | What ancient kingdom around northern Somalia was an essential trading partner of ancient Egypt? | Land of {Punt} | 20%
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| India | Most common first languages | Marathi | 20%
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| France | Woman who "personifies" France | Marianne | 20%
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| Kenya | 1952–1960 revolt against that country | {Mau} {Mau} Uprising | 20%
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| D.R. Congo | Who was dictator of the country during that period? | Mobutu Sese Seko | 20%
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| North Macedonia | One of the most populous cities in Europe in the year 1000 A.D., which shares its name with the lake on which it lies | Ohrid | 20%
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| Russia | Metal boiler for making tea | Samovar | 20%
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| Niger | Empire that ruled the region c. 1464–1591 | {Song}hai | 20%
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| South Korea | Self-proclaimed religious messiah who died in 2012 | Sun Myung {Moon} | 20%
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| Saint Lucia | Island chain that Saint Lucia is part of | {Windward} Islands | 20%
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| Israel | The two Israelis who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat in 1994 (name either) | Yitzhak Rabin / Shimon Peres | 20%
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| Angola | Group of people that displaced the original San and Khoi populations in the first millenium B.C. | Bantu | 17%
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| Brunei | Full name of the country | Brunei {Darussalam} | 17%
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| Mexico | Richest man | Carlos Slim | 17%
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| Paraguay | Second largest city, found near Iguazu Falls | Ciudad del {Este} | 17%
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| Guinea | Largest ethnic group (starts with F) | Fula | 17%
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| Dominica | Dominica's Boiling Lake is the second-largest of these in the world | Hot Spring | 17%
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| Monaco | The royal family | House of {Grimaldi} | 17%
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| Egypt | What ancient Egyptian has been called history's first architect and doctor? | Imhotep | 17%
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| Morocco | K word that refers to a fortress or keep | Kasbah | 17%
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| Moldova | Currency of Moldova | Leu | 17%
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| Bahrain | Tiny man-made island shared by Bahrain and that country | Passport Island | 17%
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| Belgium | Painter who will tell you what a pipe isn't | René Magritte | 17%
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| Tajikistan | Term for the struggle between Great Britain and Russia for control of this area during the 19th century | The Great {Game} | 17%
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| Guatemala | Ancient city of the Mayas also called Yax Mutal | Tikal | 17%
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| Iran | Mountain range starting with Z | Zagros | 17%
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| Vatican City | Official residence of the pope | {Apostolic} Palace | 13%
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| Trinidad and Tobago | Most populous municipality | {Chag}uanas | 13%
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| Qatar | Traditional sailing vessel whose name starts with "D" | Dhow | 13%
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| Madagascar | Gigantic bird that weighed five times as much as an ostrich (driven to extinction by 1200 AD) | {Elephant} Bird | 13%
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| Kiribati | Type of bird that appears on the flag of Kiribati (hint: a type of ship) | {Frigate}bird | 13%
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| Saudi Arabia | Bordering seas and gulfs | Gulf of {Aqaba} | 13%
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| Haiti | Haiti's first democratically-elected President, in 1991 | Jean-Bertrand {Aristide} | 13%
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| Indonesia | Supervolcano that erupted 74,000 years ago, nearly causing humans to become extinct | Lake {Toba} | 13%
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| Sierra Leone | Currency of Sierra Leone | Leone | 13%
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| Slovakia | Slovak-born woman who won 5 Grand Slam titles | Martina Hingis | 13%
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| Italy | Tallest mountain | Monte Bianco | 13%
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| Fiji | City with the most tourists and the largest airport | Nadi | 13%
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| Namibia | Group of islands named for the birds that inhabit them | {Penguin} Islands | 13%
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| Bolivia | City at an elevation of 4090 meters, site of the richest vein of silver ever discovered | Potosí | 13%
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| Samoa | The two main islands of Samoa (name either) | Savai'i / Upolu | 13%
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| Senegal | Largest ethnic group hint: starts with W | Wolof | 13%
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| Ghana | Ethnic group to which 47.5% of the population belongs | Akan | 10%
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| Eritrea | Ancient kingdom that covered most of the territory of Eritrea from 100–940 AD | Aksum | 10%
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| Ethiopia | City in Ethiopia that was the center of an empire that lasted from 100–940 AD | Aksum | 10%
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| Syria | Minority branch of Islam to which the ruling class of Syria belongs (starts with A) | {Alawite}s | 10%
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| Liberia | Brutal warlord convicted of crimes against humanity by the Hague in 2012 | Charles {Taylor} | 10%
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| Turkmenistan | Meaning of the capital's name | City of {Love} | 10%
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| Burundi | Burundi's two biggest exports | Coffee | 10%
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| Maldives | Official language | Dhivehi | 10%
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| San Marino | Largest settlement | Dogana | 10%
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| Yemen | Cool-looking trees of Yemen's largest island | {Dragon}'s Blood Tree | 10%
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| Mozambique | Mozambique-born footballer known as the "Black Panther" | Eusébio | 10%
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| Equatorial Guinea | Largest ethnic group (hint: starts with F) | Fang | 10%
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| Luxembourg | Current monarch | Henri | 10%
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| Republic of the Congo | Ethnic group of half the population | Kongo | 10%
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| Thailand | Name for the capital in Thai (short version) | Krung Thep | 10%
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| Rwanda | Great Lake that Rwanda borders | Lake Kivu | 10%
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| Ecuador | Type of iguana found only on those islands | {Marine} iguana | 10%
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| Libya | "M" word that refers to the old part of a town in North African countries | Medina | 10%
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| Bahamas | Largest island | North {Andros} | 10%
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| Mauritania | Meaning of capital's name | Place of the {Winds} | 10%
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| Botswana | Currency of Botswana | Pula | 10%
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| Oman | Monarch of Oman, 1970-2020 | Qaboos | 10%
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| Dominican Republic | Dictator nicknamed "El Jefe" who the capital was once named for | Rafael Trujillo | 10%
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| Chad | One third of the population belong to this ethnic group (hint: also a common English girl's name) | Sara | 10%
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| East Timor | Official languages | Tetum | 10%
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| Tonga | Main island of Tonga | Tonga{tapu} | 10%
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| Jamaica | Neighborhood in the capital known as the birthplace of that genre | {Trench}town | 10%
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| Cuba | Most famous cabaret and nightclub (hint: starts with T) | Tropicana | 10%
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| Myanmar | U.N. Secretary General, 1961-71 | U {Thant} | 10%
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| Czech Republic | Writer who served as President from 1993 to 2003 | Václav Havel | 10%
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| Zambia | Name one of Zambia's five most-spoken native languages | Bemba | Nyanja | Tonga | Lozi | Chewa | 7%
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| Tunisia | Northernmost point on the African mainland (a female name) | Cape {Angela} | 7%
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| Costa Rica | Pacific island sometimes called the southernmost point in North America | Cocos Island | 7%
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| Benin | Beninese-American actor who starred in "Blood Diamond" and "Gladiator" | Djimon Hounsou | 7%
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| Tuvalu | Former name of Tuvalu | {Ellice} Islands | 7%
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| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Former British fort overlooking the capital, named after the wife of King George III | Fort {Charlotte} | 7%
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| Austria | Tallest mountain | Grossglockner | 7%
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| Singapore | Term for an open-air food court | {Hawker} Centre | 7%
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| Palestine | Most populous city in the territory controlled by the PNA | Hebron | 7%
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| Pakistan | National flower (Hint: it's white) | Jasmine | 7%
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| Vanuatu | Vanuatu's second most populous city and that island's main city | {Lugan}ville | 7%
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| Lebanon | Largest Christian denomination in Lebanon | {Maronite} Church | 7%
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| Romania | Last king of Romania, forced to abdicate by the Soviets in 1947, but who lived for 70 years after | Michael | 7%
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| Papua New Guinea | Highest mountain | Mount Wilhelm | 7%
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| Eswatini | Current absolute monarch of Eswatini | {Mswati} III | 7%
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| Federated States of Micronesia | Largest island by area | Pohnpei | 7%
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| Gabon | Second most populous city in Gabon | Port-{Gentil} | 7%
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| Palau | UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of two hundred small, forested islands | {Rock} Islands | 7%
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| Mauritius | Second largest island | Rodrigues | 7%
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| Afghanistan | Which poet was born in 1207 in the city of Balkh and now, according to some, is the best-selling poet of all time in the United States? | Rumi | 7%
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| Philippines | Largest islands | Samar | 7%
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| Central African Republic | Official languages | Sango | 7%
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| El Salvador | Second largest city (hint: a saint) | Santa Ana | 7%
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | River that forms the northern border | Sava | 7%
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| Serbia | The capital is built on the confluence of these two rivers | Sava | 7%
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| Latvia | Series of events that led to the independence of Latvia and two of its neighbors | {Singing} Revolution | 7%
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| Norway | 3x Olympic figure skating champion | Sonja Henie | 7%
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| Venezuela | "T" word that refers to the table-top mountains of southeastern Venezuela | Tepui | 7%
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| Turkey | What does wearing a nazar amulet supposedly protect you from? | The Evil Eye | 7%
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| Mongolia | Currency of Mongolia | Tögrög | 7%
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| Panama | What Spanish explorer discovered the Pacific coast of the Americas, and is today the namesake of Panama's currency? | Vasco Nunez de Balboa | 7%
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| Marshall Islands | Unincorporated territory of the United States claimed by the Marshall Islands, site of a WWII battle | {Wake} Island | 7%
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| Guinea-Bissau | National independence hero assassinated in 1973 | Amílcar Cabral | 3%
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| Poland | Wild cattle that went extinct in 1627 | Aurochs | 3%
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| São Tomé and Príncipe | Currency of São Tomé and Príncipe | Dobra | 3%
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| Lithuania | In addition to an Easter Bunny, Lithuania has an Easter _____ who delivers eggs | Granny | 3%
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| Mali | "G" word that refers to a West African bard or storyteller | Griot | 3%
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| Guyana | Guyana and its neighbors are situated on this part of the Earth's crust | Guiana {Shield} | 3%
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| Montenegro | Largest lake in Southern Europe | Lake Skadar | 3%
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| Laos | Meat salad considered to be the unofficial national dish of Laos | Larb | 3%
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| Burkina Faso | Most-spoken native language (hint: starts with M) | Mossi | 3%
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| Finland | Long-distance runner and 12-time Olympic medalist | Paavo Nurmi | 3%
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| Nauru | Former name of Nauru | {Pleasant} Island | 3%
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| Bhutan | Former capital until 1955 | Punakha | 3%
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| Jordan | Current queen consort | Queen Rania | 3%
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| Grenada | Another name for the above question: "Holiday period which Grenada celebrates in August, unlike other countries which celebrate it before Lent" | {Spice}mas | 3%
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| South Sudan | Vast swamplands that stymied early efforts to find the source of White Nile | Sudd | 3%
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| Bangladesh | Currency of Bangladesh | Taka | 3%
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| Gambia | Gambia is known by this name | The {Smiling} Coast | 3%
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| Slovenia | Currency before Euro | Tolar | 3%
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| Nicaragua | River forming much of Nicaragua's northern border | Coco River | 0%
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| Kosovo | Kingdom whose territory encompassed modern-day Kosovo before it was conquered by Rome in 28 BC | Dardania | 0%
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| Kyrgyzstan | Epic poem that tells of the formation of the Kyrgyz people - thought to be more than 1,000 years old and 20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey | Epic of {Manas} | 0%
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| Seychelles | "Benevolent dictator" who led Seychelles from 1977–2004 | France-Albert René | 0%
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| Honduras | Ocean gulfs that Honduras borders | Gulf of {Fonseca} | 0%
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| Uganda | Leader of that group | Joseph Kony | 0%
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| Albania | Deepest and oldest lake in Southern Europe, a UNESCO site | Lake Ohrid | 0%
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| Armenia | Lake which makes up about 4% of Armenia's surface area | Lake Sevan | 0%
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| Solomon Islands | Most-spoken language | Pijin | 0%
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| Comoros | These make up 40% of Comorian exports | Spices | 0%
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| Suriname | River on which the capital is located | Suriname | 0%
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| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Shallow channel between the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis | The {Narrows} | 0%
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| Uruguay | River that forms Uruguay's western border | Uruguay River | 0%
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| New Zealand | Longest river | Waikato River | 0%
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