Same... must have typed it more than 10 times. Was so confused. Fortunately after wasting a lot of time on that one I did proceed to put countries again for the rest.
After I saw the answer for "Tallest Average Height" was the Netherlands I was stunned. It took me at least 2 minutes trying to figure out why that was wrong to understand that you wanted the tallest average height of the citizens and not the tallest average elevation, which would put the Netherlands close to the bottom.
To put the "highest military expenditure" in perspective, North Korea spends around 6 billion dollars, and the US, the highest total spender, spends 640 billion dollars!
Africa, America and Oceania (incl PNG) probably have a lot fewer languages spoken. The reason is a lot of those languages are actually dialects, but we haven't done enough research on the languages to determine which ones. Though, since we don't know for sure, let's consider the official estimates correct.
Couldn't think of Egypt either, though I guess it makes sense considering it's a rather large country. The number of landmines per square mile is much higher for countries such as Cambodia and Bosnia.
What is the source for highest people? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Average_height_around_the_world Bosnia is just 'higher' than Netherlands, although I don't really understand the data as Netherlands appears at least 4 times.
Three of those four have been "self-reported" or "estimated". The lower one has been measured accurately. Mexico seems to a tad higher than Bosnia, but that's only central so you can't really rely on that.
Anecdotally, when I was in Bosnia, I do remember that everyone seemed particularly tall! Then again, so have all the Dutch people I've ever known. Maybe because I'm 4' 11". ;-) (Just kidding about that last part! I'm a reasonably-tall-for-woman 5' 7".)
Good quiz, it didnt accept Reykjavik, so I moved on and came back to it at the end.. had 45 seconds left, was trying all the capital cities and it wouldn't work. Quiz timed out and I remembered its' looking for a country name not city! So 19/20 for my stupidity :(
Thank you, smart person, for graciously realizing you had a brain fart, rather than attacking the QM for giving a "wrong" clue, like the dozen other comments in here that did!
There is something very ironic about listing Nauru as the lowest number of international visitors, considering that Australia dumps its refugees there!
Australia is spending over a Billion (1,000,000,000) Dollars yearly on the Refugee problem. The majority of "REFUGEES" come from Iran, why Iranians feel fit to call themselves refugees beggars belief. The average costs of "refugees" paying people smugglers and boat owners is $10,000. Although the media show women and children as refugees, by far the majority of so called refugees are fit and able young men. Any other country that is feeling sorry for these young blokes should speak up, I'm sure Australia wont' mind sending a few thousand.
The trouble is that when these so called 'Refugees' are placed they have to be clothed, fed, medically treated, dentistry, etc. etc. and don't have to work or do anything but lounge around. This seems to suit them fine. I wonder if you arrived in a boat in China or USA or most other countries if you would be kept to the same standard.
Probably not. There are women in the Vatican, some of whom are married. As devout Catholics are less likely to use birth control, the fertility rate of the Vatican could very well be the highest in Europe. But there is no exact data.
When I saw "most islands" I was quite confident because I had recently looked that up. It's Sweden with >200k islands. No other country comes close.
Sadly you wanted to see Indonesia which has less than a tenth of the islands of Sweden. I guess you meant something else. Maybe most inhabited islands or something?
Think its time to correct the islands question after the many comments that have already corrected it. Sweden is far in first with Indonesia in 6th. Here are some sources supporting Sweden being first:
There are even more you can find. I realize that Indonesia has the most inhabited islands but that is not what the question is asking. If that is what is meant by the question it should be explicitly stated.
The question is worded exactly fine.
I knew I was taller than the average (of most countries), but hadnt expected to clear such a high %.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Indonesia
Sadly you wanted to see Indonesia which has less than a tenth of the islands of Sweden. I guess you meant something else. Maybe most inhabited islands or something?
The USA has spends more on their military than the rest of the world combine. It is not North Korea
Most cocoa production - Ivory Coast
Youngest population - Niger
Fastest growing economy - South Sudan
Most capital cities - South Africa
Most World Major Marathon winners - Kenya
Most official languages - Zimbabwe
But nope. Africa is AIDS and landmines. Every time with these quizzes.
WorldAtlas
Statista (with different numbers as World Atlas)
There are even more you can find. I realize that Indonesia has the most inhabited islands but that is not what the question is asking. If that is what is meant by the question it should be explicitly stated.