2019 News Stories - Name the Country - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
This country's most famous cathedral is seriously damaged in a fire	France	95%
This country rejects a $20 million dollar donation to help stop rainforest fires	Brazil	93%
A teenage climate change activist from this country becomes an international celebrity	Sweden	92%
Jeremy Corbyn vows to resign as Labour Party leader following the party's worst electoral showing since 1935	United Kingdom	90%
The word "North" is added to the official name of the country	North Macedonia	87%
Emperor Akihito abdicates in favor of his son Naruhito	Japan	86%
Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President	Ukraine	83%
Climbing on Uluru is permanently banned	Australia	82%
It has been estimated that over 1 million Uyghur Muslims now live in re-education camps	China	79%
This country wins the FIFA Women's World Cup for the fourth time	United States	78%
The remains of former dictator Francisco Franco are dug up and moved to a different location	Spain	76%
The capital city is renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan	Kazakhstan	74%
More than 25% of people in this country now live in extreme poverty, the highest percentage of any country in the Western Hemisphere	Venezuela	68%
Prime Minister apologizes for multiple past incidents in which he wore black facepaint	Canada	67%
An anti-immigrant zealot attacks a mosque, killing fifty	New Zealand	67%
This country, led by Viktor Orbán, is the first in the EU to be considered only "partly free" according to Freedom House's index	Hungary	55%
This country becomes to the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage	Taiwan	51%
Amid allegations of voter fraud, President Evo Morales is prevented by the military from taking a constitutionally forbidden 4th term in office	Bolivia	45%
The island of Bougainville votes to secede	Papua New Guinea	32%
Protestors burn down many metro stations in protest after fares are raised	Chile	23%