Clue | Country | % Correct |
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Its name means "Equator" | Ecuador | 96%
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Has the highest average elevation of any country in the world, slightly higher than nearby Nepal | Bhutan | 82%
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Split from the Czech Republic in 1992 | Slovakia | 81%
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Of all the former Yugoslav republics, it has by far the most coastline | Croatia | 78%
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Has four letters, two of which are O | Togo | 78%
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Consisting of 26 atolls, this country in the Indian Ocean has the lowest average elevation in the world | Maldives | 73%
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Has the lowest record high temperature of any country, just 30.5 °C (86.9 °F) | Iceland | 70%
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Country where you could encounter an orangutan or Komodo dragon in the wild | Indonesia | 69%
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The southernmost of the three "Baltic States" | Lithuania | 65%
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Its name has all five vowels plus a Z and a Q for good measure | Mozambique | 65%
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Add "ia" to get the name of its southern neighbor | Niger | 62%
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Its name means "Black Mountain" | Montenegro | 61%
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Was once a British colony called Southern Rhodesia | Zimbabwe | 60%
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Its northern and southern halves were united in 1975 | Vietnam | 59%
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Home to the city of Timbuktu | Mali | 57%
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The second most common birth country for Major League Baseball players | Dominican Republic | 36%
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Named for one of the largest lakes in northern Africa | Chad | 35%
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The world's second largest island is a "new" version of this African country | Guinea | 35%
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The last country in the world to be permanently settled when, in 1756, a French sea captain laid a stone of possession on the island of Mahé | Seychelles | 31%
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Named for a product which is now illegal to export | Ivory Coast | 23%
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