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People by Country #1

Guess the countries that these notable people are/were from.
Guess the modern day country, even if it didn't exist when the person was alive
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Last updated: May 1, 2018
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First submittedDecember 23, 2012
Times taken34,306
Average score62.5%
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Person
Country
Yao Ming
China
Oscar Wilde
Ireland
Björk
Iceland
Idi Amin
Uganda
Victor Hugo
France
Justin Bieber
Canada
Oksana Baiul
Ukraine
Greta Garbo
Sweden
Person
Country
Augusto Pinochet
Chile
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Hans Christian Andersen
Denmark
Lech Wałęsa
Poland
Christopher Columbus
Italy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austria
Manuel Noriega
Panama
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Person
Country
Desmond Tutu
South Africa
Emily Dickinson
United States
King Leonidas
Greece
Charo
Spain
Mustafa Atatürk
Turkey
Didier Drogba
Ivory Coast
Vasco da Gama
Portugal
Cyrus the Great
Iran
26 Comments
+6
Level 81
Jan 10, 2013
People don't know about Cyrus the Virus?
+1
Level 85
Jan 13, 2015
From Con Air?
+2
Level 78
Oct 8, 2017
I know! I am really surprised that so many people forgot that Iran is also PERSIA.
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Level 26
Jan 11, 2013
I think 100% would've gotten Yao Ming if it wasn't for the quiz description.
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Level 81
Feb 5, 2013
So you think 2% of the people are trying to type in Bolivia over and over again for 4 minutes and can't figure out that this is a wrong answer?
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Level 59
Oct 8, 2017
Who said 4 minutes? Please stick to your normal intellectual comments please, thanks.
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Level 81
Oct 8, 2017
sigh
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2014
If you're gonna put the diactirics on Márquez and Atatürk, you might as well put them on Wałęsa too.
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Level 30
Feb 10, 2015
I concur.
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Level ∞
Apr 27, 2017
Give them an inch... :)
+4
Level 75
Jan 10, 2015
There's no other Spaniard but Charo? I'm from Spain and I've never heard about her - had to google it.
+14
Level 73
Feb 14, 2017
Don't complain - look at Canada's representative
+2
Level 44
Oct 8, 2017
Yeah... Why did they have to choose him?!
+1
Level 89
Feb 1, 2019
Straight from years of blaming Canada for Celine Dion to Justin Bieber. Before that at least it was the MacKenzie Brothers.
+3
Level 55
Oct 8, 2017
cuchi cuchi (sp?)
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Level 69
Jan 10, 2015
Leonidas was also a quite famous football player from Brazil. He was top scorer in the 1938 World Cup.
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Level ∞
Apr 27, 2017
Changed it to "King Leonidas"
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Level 69
Oct 9, 2017
cheers qm
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Level 73
Sep 6, 2016
Never heard of Baiul or Charo.
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Level 89
Feb 1, 2019
Well, are you in for a 1970s treat when you google.
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Level 75
Aug 24, 2019
Oh wow, you managed to choose 4 women out of 24.
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Level 56
Jan 21, 2020
1st world problems
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Level 71
Mar 23, 2020
Which one changed sex? How do you know anyway?
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Level 79
Oct 27, 2022
I would have preferred to see Mustafa Kemal.
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Level 53
Aug 27, 2023
There are many more important Canadians than J.B.
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Level 71
Mar 15, 2024
Atatürk was born in Thessaloniki so if this quiz uses modern day countries, shouldn't Greece also be seen as the right answer?