Two-Word Countries

Oh my God, I forgot the United States. Wow. I live there.

For some reason on these geography quizzes, I always start thinking of obscure countries and forget the easy ones like UK and the US.

You know you're in deep when you take a JetPunk quiz that uses another JetPunk quiz as its only source.

I think this is the first quiz I've ever seen on Jetpunk where the United States is the least guessed answer.

Out of interest, what would have to happen for Jetpunk to change the standard name of a country? e.g. Czech Republic to Czechia

I would say USA should not count as it is in fact four words: United States of America.

I remember there being a lot of discussion on this quiz previously, it appears those comments have been deleted.

I agree on the USA. It’s just not two words. But the QM seems happy with his decision, and it’s his quiz.

The Czech Republic is another arguable one, its official name is now Czechia, but I get that Jetpunk still refers to it by its older name.

I do not agree with USA. The fact that you can't enter "US", but "USA" instead... should already tell that it's a more than 2 words country.

If anything, I would reveal the answer from beginning, so that people don't have to guess it to avoid this problem.

bosnia and herzegovina

the gambia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

central african republic

st kitts and nevis

Trinidad and Tobago

the list goes on on how many you missed

Can I complain just to get that Belgian secret police action?

And if not, that is my complaint :)

Lurking in a sofa was a verb in a cape costing rice a whopping czech in the republic of dominica while republicans in the east were called timorels in the subdivision of salvador while they were on the equator in guinea (bissau) but the coast looked ivory and their baby was named marshall on the new islands of zealand north and another named korea north, while their brother was named macedonia, they had a christian named lucia and ate san marino tuna while they saw the arabs calling a lion named sierra along with king solomon which was also on the islands but at the south was africa and korea while most people forgot sudan, but lakes were on sri and people there were united in their kingdom but some were in their states in the city of vatican

Czechia shouldn't be included anymore

Oh no, not the Belgian secret police!

I tried reading the comments but I don't understand what the issue was. If the quiz uses the names as they're spelled on the Countries of the World quiz then there shouldn't be any arguments, no? Sounds nitpicky unless someone's new to Jetpunk and doesn't know the conventions yet.

Not even trying to get the Belgian secret police after me, but 100% “The Gambia” should be allowed. It’s like a “North Macedonia” situation.

United States OF AMERICA - that's 4 words, not 2. It's USA, not just US

At the risk of being investigated by the Belgian secret police (and at the risk of contributing to this quiz's dramatic history), I think it would be worthwhile to note in the caveats that standard type-ins (e.g., nz, ksa, macedonia) are not accepted. (Though I was surprised that simply 'vatican' was accepted.)

It's also a bit odd that a caveat is "Names are as they appear in the Countries of the World quiz", but that the answers displayed in this quiz include Côte d'Ivoire, Cabo Verde, and Timor-Leste.

Ok, send the Belgians over.

Why can't I use type-ins? (USA, UK, DPRK, etc.)

Fun Facts: In the UN, Vietnam is actually spelt Viet Nam (which is also how it is spelt in Vietnamese). The United Kingdom's Full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ans the "Kitts" in "Saint Kitts and Nevis" is short for "Christopher"

WHY DID I TYPE OLD ZEALAND

complainers will WHAT!?