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Fact	Country	% Correct
The second-largest Portuguese-speaking country by both population and area	Angola	72%
The Arab Spring began in this country in late 2010	Tunisia	72%
The least densely populated country in the world	Mongolia	71%
Dropped from largest to third-largest country in Africa in 2011	Sudan	71%
Over 800 known languages are spoken by its inhabitants.	Papua New Guinea	69%
Clocks at railway stations throughout this country show the time in the capital city, up to eight time zones away	Russia	65%
Its sole official language is Catalan	Andorra	64%
The only African country named after a saint	Sao Tome and Principe	64%
Contains the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia	Georgia	62%
Contains a region called Moldavia, a mountain called Moldoveanu, a river called Moldova, and a monastery called Moldovitsa	Romania	62%
Has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country in the Americas	Mexico	60%
Switzerland's army is composed of Swiss citizens, and this country's is as well	Vatican City	60%
Remote and uninhabited Hans Island is divided between this country and Denmark	Canada	59%
Adopted bitcoin as legal tender a month before its value started to decline precipitously	El Salvador	58%
Inventors of the sauna	Finland	57%
Covers the western half of the only island in the world on which two national capitals can be found	Haiti	57%
Africa's tallest mountain is in this country	Tanzania	57%
The capital of Portugal was in this country between 1807 and 1821	Brazil	55%
Covers the eastern half of the only island in the world on which two national capitals can be found	Dominican Republic	55%
Palau and the Marshall Islands voted against membership of this federation in referendums when it was created in 1978	Federated States of Micronesia	55%
Ironically, gambling or even entering a casino is illegal for its citizens	Monaco	55%
Their Eurovision Song Contest entry of 1974 is widely acclaimed as the greatest ever	Sweden	55%
The only absolute monarchy in Africa	Eswatini	53%
Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain are among the lesser known of the seven constituent parts of this country	United Arab Emirates	53%
The largest living species of tortoise comes from this country	Ecuador	51%
The smallest country in the western hemisphere by both area and population	Saint Kitts and Nevis	51%
Formerly divided into a Communist south and an Arab nationalist North, the country reunited in 1990	Yemen	51%
Its capital was named Titograd from 1946 until 1992	Montenegro	50%
Colloquially referred to by its inhabitants as "The Hexagon"	France	49%
Forced a Ryanair plane to land in its territory in 2021 to abduct a dissident who was flying from Greece to Lithuania	Belarus	48%
The least democratic of the nine countries whose official name include "Democratic"	North Korea	48%
Until 2011, it had the only national flag consisting of a single colour	Libya	47%
The first Warsaw Pact nation to open its border to the west in 1989	Hungary	46%
Renamed its capital in 2019, but reverted to its former name in 2022 after widespread protests	Kazakhstan	46%
Has built a reputation as the best place in the world to make epic fantasy films	New Zealand	46%
Its national anthem, the Marcha Real, has no lyrics	Spain	46%
Even the vaguest criticism of this country's royal family is savagely punished, sometimes with jail sentences of decades	Thailand	46%
The only Arabic-speaking country in the Southern Hemisphere	Comoros	45%
Has the largest population living on islands of any country	Indonesia	45%
Winners of the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956	Switzerland	45%
This major industrialised country's lack of publicly funded healthcare and drug problems in some major cities inspired a hugely acclaimed drama series which ran from 2008 to 2013	United States	45%
Since 1941, this country has used gifts or loans of members of an iconic bear species to bolster diplomatic relations with other countries	China	44%
Its capital was devastated in 2020 by a massive explosion of improperly stored nitrates in its port area	Lebanon	44%
Of the two African countries named after lakes, this one is the smaller country but has the larger lake	Malawi	44%
With the lowest average elevation of any country, rising sea levels are of grave concern here	Maldives	44%
Was united with Egypt from 1958 to 1961 as the United Arab Republic	Syria	44%
Became the second doubly-landlocked country in the world on its independence in 1991	Uzbekistan	44%
The government of this nation targets Gross Domestic Happiness over any purely economic metrics	Bhutan	43%
Of the two African countries named after lakes, this one is the larger country but has the smaller lake	Chad	43%
Anatomically-modern humans originated in what is now this country	Ethiopia	43%
From space, the east and west parts of its capital look distinctly different due to their different street lighting technologies	Germany	43%
Almost two thirds of this country would be submerged at high tide were it not for its extensive network of sea defences	Netherlands	43%
The Darvaza gas crater has been burning since the 1980s in the middle of this country's Karakum Desert	Turkmenistan	43%
A religion which worshipped the Emperor of Ethiopia emerged in this nation in the 1930s	Jamaica	42%
Named after two islands, themselves named after a religious concept and a cash crop	Trinidad and Tobago	42%
Has the second-lowest population of any country, after the Vatican City	Tuvalu	42%
Its heavily indented coastline includes the two largest islands in the Adriatic Sea	Croatia	41%
The United Fruit Company was once the largest private landowner in this country, giving rise to the coining of the term "banana republic"	Guatemala	41%
By 2531, everyone in this country will have the surname "Sato", because by law, married couples must have the same surname	Japan	41%
Its 16-mile coastline makes it the most nearly landlocked nation in Asia	Jordan	41%
The only country which spans both the equator and the international date line	Kiribati	41%
A number of pop stars from this country have had to interrupt their music careers to complete their obligatory military service	South Korea	41%
The film "The Last King of Scotland" is loosely based on the chaotic dictatorship this country experienced in the 1970s	Uganda	41%
Named after an animal product which was once an import export from the region	Ivory Coast	40%
Members of an ethnic group whose name means "East People" make up less than 1% of the population but are internationally renowned for their mountaineering skills	Nepal	40%
Its national flag is the only one in the world to feature a building	Cambodia	39%
Its name comes from the Greek for "Red Sea"	Eritrea	39%
The second highest mountain in Africa shares its name with this country	Kenya	39%
Its flag includes a cross which represents the George Cross awarded to the nation during WWII	Malta	39%
Its name means "of the blackbird" in Serbian	Kosovo	38%
Its two Nobel Prize winners, Derek Walcott and W. Arthur Lewis, give it the world's highest rate of Nobel winners per capita	Saint Lucia	38%
The three-peaked Mount Triglav is considered an emblem of this country	Slovenia	38%
Its capital lies on the island of Guadalcanal, which is named after a village in Spain and means "valley of stalls" in Arabic	Solomon Islands	38%
Formerly an exclave of a country about a thousand miles distant, it became independent after a bloody civil war in 1971	Bangladesh	37%
Defeated their greatest rivals on penalties to win the 2015 Copa América, and did exactly the same thing again in 2016	Chile	37%
A variant of Hindi is an official language in this country, a legacy of Indian labourers brought to the country when it was a colony of the British Empire	Fiji	37%
Produces 25 million tonnes of mango annually, almost half the global total	India	36%
Named after a British naval officer who, after sailing to Australia with the First Fleet, travelled to China charting unknown lands en route	Marshall Islands	36%
Has the most official languages of any country with 37	Bolivia	35%
This country's western neighbour claims jurisdiction over all land west of the Essequibo River, some two thirds of the total area	Guyana	35%
Its capital and residence of its sultans were once on the island of Zanzibar	Oman	35%
Even though women in this country are severely repressed, it was selected unopposed in 2024 to chair the UN Commission on Status of Women	Saudi Arabia	35%
Many nations have fought for their independence; this country's came involuntarily when it was expelled from a confederation in 1965	Singapore	35%
Its capital city is named after the second-largest city in Portugal	Benin	34%
The last country in Europe not to have universal suffrage, with women not being allowed to vote until 1984	Liechtenstein	34%
Seceded peacefully from a larger country in 1993, in what was known as the Velvet Divorce	Slovakia	34%
Seceded from a larger country in 1991, without any of the bloodshed which affected the other seceding nations at the same time	North Macedonia	33%
Was uninhabited until the 1750s, and is named after the finance minister of France at the time of its settlement	Seychelles	33%
The so-called Singing Revolution, which led to the independence of three nations, began in this country in 1988	Estonia	32%
Its namesake hat is actually originally from Ecuador	Panama	32%
Its former province of Kafiristan was the setting for Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King"	Afghanistan	31%
The municipality of Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 individual enclaves, all surrounded by the territory of the country's northern neighbour	Belgium	31%
The only wild hippos outside Africa are found here	Colombia	31%
Named after a river, as is the only country it borders	Gambia	31%
The majority of its territory lies on a large island, but the majority of its population lives in the mainland part of the country	Malaysia	31%
The Festival au Désert, celebrating Tuareg music and culture, was held in the country between 2001 and 2012	Mali	31%
Lies entirely in the Southern Hemisphere, but its northernmost point is only about 2 kilometres south of the equator	Peru	31%
Scores 34 points in Scrabble scoring, the highest of any single-word country	Mozambique	30%
Danish pastries were invented by bakers from this country	Austria	29%
The president from 2018 to 2024 was a former footballer who is the country's all time top goalscorer	Liberia	29%
Site of the first skyscraper to exceed 500m in height	Taiwan	29%
Has an average elevation of over 3,000m, thanks to the Pamir Mountains which cover much of its territory	Tajikistan	29%
Has the smallest population of all the countries to reach a football World Cup final	Uruguay	29%
Has the third highest GDP per capita in the Americas, after the USA and Canada	Bahamas	28%
The most democratic country of mainland Africa, according to the 2023 Democracy Index	Botswana	28%
Roads in this country have occasionally been constructed with significant detours in order to avoid disturbing elves	Iceland	28%
The smallest of the eight countries which straddle the Prime Meridian	Togo	28%
Contains the world's largest artificial lake by surface area, formed by the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River	Ghana	27%
In 1974, the playing of this country's Eurovision Song Contest entry on national radio was used as a signal to initiate a coup against the country's fascist dictatorship	Portugal	27%
Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared this country to be an empire in 1966, with himself as emperor	Central African Republic	25%
Its capital sits at the confluence of the Alzette and Petrusse rivers	Luxembourg	25%
Named after a desert which may be the world's oldest, having been arid for at least 55 million years	Namibia	25%
Near-constant thunderstorms over the mouth of this country's Catatumbo River produce about 5,000 lightning strikes a day	Venezuela	25%
The Dinka people of this country are renowned for their height, averaging just under six feet tall.	South Sudan	24%
The 15-year-long Bush War eventually led to this country's independence from colonial rule in 1980	Zimbabwe	24%
Known to its own inhabitants as Hayastan	Armenia	23%
The only country whose name includes a colour of the rainbow	Cape Verde	23%
The original source of halloumi cheese	Cyprus	23%
The chemical elements magnesium and manganese are both named after an ancient region of this country	Greece	23%
From 1569 until 1772, formed a commonwealth with its southern neighbour which was one of Europe's largest and most prosperous nations	Lithuania	23%
Medjool dates, known as the "fruit of kings", originated in this country	Morocco	23%
The only country in the world with no official capital city	Nauru	23%
Thanks largely to power from the Itaipu Dam, this country's 100% renewable energy sector is one of the world's largest energy exporters	Paraguay	23%
Due to the seafaring skills of its inhabitants, the archipelago to which this nation belongs was known historically as the Navigator Islands	Samoa	23%
Two variants of its name are in use; which one you use is seen as a politicised choice	Myanmar	22%
The cities of León and Granada are historically fierce rivals, with the country's capital chosen for its compromise location between the two	Nicaragua	22%
A hurricane devasted its former capital in 1961, leading to the construction ten years later of a new inland capital	Belize	21%
Three rivers after which other countries are named rise in its Fouta Djallon highlands	Guinea	21%
Legendary firefighter Red Adair spent much of 1991 extinguishing burning oil wells in this country	Kuwait	21%
A gel of starch and sugar flavoured with rose water is a signature sweet of this country	Turkey	21%
Once commonly referred to using a definite article, a usage now considered archaic and disrespectful	Ukraine	21%
An unexplained seismic disturbance occurred in 1993 on land owned by a Japanese cult in this country's vast and remote west	Australia	20%
Ćevapi, a dish of grilled meat and vegetables, is considerd the national dish of this country	Bosnia and Herzegovina	20%
Che Guevara fought in this country in the 1960s alongside Laurent Kabila, who became the country's president decades later	Democratic Republic of the Congo	20%
Sometimes known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" due to its high average elevation	Lesotho	20%
This country's Lake Assal is the lowest point in Africa, 155m below sea level	Djibouti	19%
The Bissagos archipelago supports a highly diverse ecosystem and was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1996	Guinea-Bissau	19%
97.4% of its territory is covered by forest, the highest proportion of any country	Suriname	19%
Has the capital city with the lowest elevation, about 30 metres below sea level	Azerbaijan	18%
Its national anthem mentions Poland, and the national anthem of Poland mentions this country	Italy	18%
Its name means "Land of the Pure" and also forms an acronym based on the names of five regions	Pakistan	18%
The annual Exit Festival, hosted in the northern part of this country, is one of Europe's largest	Serbia	18%
Site of the largest volcanic eruption of the last 100 years	Philippines	17%
Its first-level subdivisions are called "Castles"	San Marino	17%
The highest peak in this country is called Boggy Peak, but was named Mount Obama from 2008-2016	Antigua and Barbuda	16%
The official national sport is Pato, a horseback sport combining elements of polo and basketball	Argentina	16%
This nation is the world's second largest exporter of nutmeg and features a nutmeg fruit on its flag	Grenada	16%
The city of Agadez has been an important trade and transport crossroads for centuries	Niger	16%
Its name means "The two seas" in Arabic	Bahrain	15%
This island nation is colloquially referred to as "Bim" by its inhabitants	Barbados	15%
The world's largest exporter of dates	Israel	15%
The island of Mustique, which cultivates an air of exclusivity and wealth, is part of this country	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	15%
Large numbers of people emigrated from this country by sea between the late 1970s and early 1990s	Vietnam	15%
This country, its capital, and the island it is on, all have different names but all start with the same letter	Brunei	14%
A province, a university, a newspaper and a baseball team in this country are named Granma, after a yacht which was named for its owner's grandmother	Cuba	14%
The crater lake Nyos released a massive cloud of CO2 gas in 1986, killing hundreds of people who lived nearby	Cameroon	13%
Olympic legend Eric the Eel is from here	Equatorial Guinea	13%
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was heard on this country's Rodrigues Island, some 3,000 miles away from the volcano	Mauritius	13%
In this country's Jellyfish Lake, millions of the creatures migrate daily from one side to the other	Palau	13%
In 2022, a massive volcanic eruption in this country generated the loudest sound ever recorded.	Tonga	13%
Was subject to joint colonial rule by France and the United Kingdom until its independence in 1980	Vanuatu	13%
Its capital's name means "The Islands" in Arabic	Algeria	12%
The oldest and wisest of the Wombles is named after this country	Bulgaria	12%
Former president Oscar Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for brokering peace accords which ended years of regional turmoil	Costa Rica	12%
Has the shortest people of any country at an average of 5'3" for men and 5'0" for women	East Timor	12%
The town of Muff is close to the northern coast, but its diving club exists purely for the sake of double entendre	Ireland	12%
Named after a province of the Roman Empire which was actually considerably further north than the country's present-day boundaries	Mauritania	12%
Since the year 2000, its national football league has been won 21 times by a club which comes from a de facto independent breakaway state	Moldova	12%
Its name means "Resplendent Island"	Sri Lanka	12%
Due to frequent confusion with a much larger and more populous country nearby, it has been proposed that this country could change its name to "Waitukubuli"	Dominica	11%
Has a Levenshtein distance of 1 to a neighbouring country to the west	Iran	11%
With an aspect ratio of 11:28, its national flag is the only one with a width more than twice its height	Qatar	11%
The Shkumbin River divides this country into two regions which speak different dialects of its language	Albania	10%
There are not enough Cs in a set of English Scrabble letters to spell its name, although it would fit on the board	Czech Republic	10%
The Epic of Manas relates the story of this country's national hero over the course of some half a million lines of text	Kyrgyzstan	10%
Its national broadcaster has pioneered "Slow TV", starting with a live broadcast of a seven-hour train journey in 2009	Norway	10%
Its capital was founded in 1787 by formerly enslaved people sent from London	Sierra Leone	10%
Despite football being the most popular sport in this country, its national football team has not played since 1965	United Kingdom	10%
Once controlled India's Nicobar Islands, ceding control to the British Empire in 1868	Denmark	9%
Has a Levenshtein distance of 1 to a neighbouring country to the east	Iraq	9%
Most male names in this country end in "s"; most female names end in either "a" or "e"	Latvia	9%
"Dundee United" is a slang term for an idiot in this country	Nigeria	9%
Perhaps surprisingly, only one person from this country has ever started on pole position in a Formula One Grand Prix	Poland	9%
The site of the prototypical "Lessepsian migration", a phenomenon in which two previously entirely separate ecosystems are joined artificially	Egypt	8%
Has "Democractic" in its full official name, but was ranked only 159th out of 167 in the 2023 Democracy Index	Laos	8%
Mines in this country's Copperbelt province produce about 4 per cent of the world's copper	Zambia	8%
Its capital city has the same etymology as another African capital city about 1700 miles away	Gabon	7%
Scarlet Macaw Day is marked on June 28th annually to celebrate the country's national bird	Honduras	7%
Its capital is the origin of the name of a large island about 1000 miles to the south	Somalia	7%
The Panafrican Film and Television Festival, held biennially in this country's capital, is Africa's largest film festival	Burkina Faso	6%
Banned plastic bags in 2008 and confiscates them from anyone found to be carrying them on entry	Rwanda	6%
The Bang Bang Club was a group of four photographers who documented this country's violent transition to democracy in the 1990s	South Africa	6%
Jogging was outlawed in 2014 because the paranoid president feared that people were having subversive discussions while running	Burundi	5%
This island nation's name is derived from the name of a coastal capital about a thousand miles to the north	Madagascar	5%
Its capital is located on a geographical feature after which an island nation 400 miles to the west takes its name	Senegal	5%
In 2012, the capital city was rocked by a huge explosion caused when an arms depot caught fire	Republic of the Congo	4%

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