Yeah, it's a cool but little known fact. They gained independence around the time of the American Revolution but joined the US pretty soon after the end of the war. I remember learning this from my APUSH teacher who asked a trivia question about the 4 states that were once independent (the others being California, Texas, and Hawaii).
Clarification: I just took another JetPunk quiz and (according to Quizmaster) it turns out California wasn't really an independent country. I guess my teacher was wrong on that one.
Is Vinland also known as Vindalanda or did I make that up? Tried every spelling I could think of for that! Also is there any chance of accepting Vietkong instead of Cong?
This quiz goes by last names (and it's the right way to do it, as opposed to all the "Musical acts by letter" quizzes that go by first names, for some reason - which always messes with my head).
Whereas going by surnames confuses me to the point that I’ve learnt to just skip the people questions. Any non-mononymic person whose name I’ve stored is stored by first name-(other names)-surname, never by surname first.
I first tried Viet Minh, then VC, and finally got the right answer. The Viet Minh did join with the VC in South Vietnam, so even though Viet Cong is the obvious answer, please think about accepting those others, too?