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Random General Knowledge - Countries

We give you 20 random questions that can all be answered with the name of a country. Can you answer them all?
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Last updated: October 14, 2024
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Other than Cyprus, what island country can be found in the Mediterranean Sea?
Malta
What island nation is located about 50 miles south of Sicily?
Malta
What ancient nation was led by pharaohs?
Egypt
Besides France, what is the most common country of birth for French residents?
Algeria
What is known as "The Emerald Isle"?
Ireland
What is the northernmost country that was once a part of the Roman Empire?
United Kingdom
In what country could you be imprisoned for insulting King Vajiralongkorn or his family?
Thailand
In what country did Gandhi fight for civil rights before moving back to India?
South Africa
What country was historically known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
What country has territory on 5 of the world's 13 largest islands?
Indonesia
What is the largest country that borders Suriname?
Brazil
What is the largest country (by area) that touches the Indian Ocean?
Australia
What is the only country of the world that has an emperor?
Japan
Where does the rain stay mainly on the plain?
Spain
What country contains the peninsula of Attica?
Greece
What country offered Albert Einstein its Presidency (a mostly ceremonial role)?
Israel
What country, along with the US, UK, Canada, and Australia is part of the
"Five Eyes" intelligence community?
New Zealand
What country is strongly associated with windmills?
Netherlands
In what present-day country was Joseph Stalin born?
Georgia
Almaty and Beijing were the only two cities to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
In what country would you find Almaty?
Kazakhstan
39 Comments
+17
Level ∞
Oct 14, 2024
Updated! Even using a script this took several hours to complete. I hope you like the result. There are 634 possible questions.
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Level 69
Oct 14, 2024
Germany is not the only country to share a land border with Denmark.

Since 2022 Denmark and Canada share Hans Island

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Level 84
Oct 14, 2024
maybe not counting overseas territories as usual?
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Level 84
Oct 14, 2024
Half of the questions about Portugal, Australia (3x), Russia and NZ (2x)
+13
Level ∞
Oct 14, 2024
Lucky you. It could have been Belgium.. shudder.
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Level 67
Feb 7, 2025
I had Belgium... Why did you even add it?
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Level 91
Oct 14, 2024
I got 3 times Ireland and 2xVietnam. Pretty fresh actully to be able to have the same answer for several questions in a yellow box quiz!
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Level 72
Oct 15, 2024
I got 4 Israel questions.
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Level 54
Feb 6, 2025
they be invading quizzes like they invade other countries. can't wait for the jetpunk-ocide
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Level 84
Oct 14, 2024
So there are 634 questions, and somehow the answer to both of my first two was Monaco. What are the odds?
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Level 79
Oct 14, 2024
There are 200 Monaco questions.
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Level 70
Oct 15, 2024
Must've got really lucky on getting so few Monaco questions
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Level 84
Oct 15, 2024
Out of boredom, I decided to calculate the statistics if this were the case.

Expected number of Monaco questions: ~6

Standard deviation: ± 2 questions

Likelihood of getting no Monaco questions: 0.05%

Likelihood of getting 2 questions: 2%

Likelihood of getting 20 questions: 0.000000009%

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Level 87
Oct 15, 2024
Wouldn't there be 3 expected Monaco questions out of a total of 634? And what is the likelihood of getting the first two questions Monaco?
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Level 84
Oct 15, 2024
I calculated the expected value based on the the fact that there are 20 questions, and we assume 200/634 are Monaco, so: 20*(200/634) = 6.3

The odds of getting the first two to be Monaco in that case would be: (200/634)*(199/633) = 10%

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Level 86
Oct 16, 2024
Dimby is joking: there are in fact a total of 6 different questions about Monaco.
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Level 84
Oct 16, 2024
I knew he was joking. There’s barely enough land in Monaco to put a question per building.
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Level 73
Oct 14, 2024
Just missed Myanmar
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Level 79
Oct 14, 2024
Should've turned left at Thailand.
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Level 81
Oct 14, 2024
I got this question: "What country has the largest population in the Southern Hemisphere?" The quiz claimed the correct answer was Brazil.

Adding up the populations of only the Indonesian provinces that are EXCLUSIVELY in the Southern Hemisphere gives me a figure of about 4 million more than Brazil's total population. Once you take away the population of Brazil living north of the Equator and add in the population south of the Equator in those Indonesian provinces that are divided, Indonesia definitely has more people in the Southern Hemisphere than Brazil.

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Level ∞
Oct 14, 2024
I'll take your word for it.

I changed the question.

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Level 70
Oct 15, 2024
"What Muslim-majority country was communist from 1946–1992?" Surely Kosovo and Bosnia could be valid answers here as much as Albania, given that Yugoslavia's period of communism was the same?
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Level 74
Oct 26, 2024
Kosovo and Bosnia weren't countries from 1946–1992
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Level 84
Oct 15, 2024
What country do famous soccer players Ronaldo and Ronaldinho come from?

Isn't Ronaldo from Portugal and Ronaldinho from Brazil??

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Level 84
Oct 15, 2024
There’s also a Ronaldo from Brazil who is arguably as successful if not more successful than Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Level 70
Oct 19, 2024
I got two Hamlet questions in the same quiz. Are there also Denmark questions which are not related to Hamlet? :-D
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Level 48
Oct 22, 2024
Question 2 (b)
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Level 62
Jan 30, 2025
Got the same question twice:

1. What country's intelligence agency is called the Mossad?

2. What country's intelligence agency is known as Mossad?

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Level 74
Feb 6, 2025
Same, one has 88% correct and one has 81% correct, there is two of the same question
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Level 43
Feb 6, 2025
On mine I had almost in a row:

- Country where you'd find a kibbutz

- Country where Golda Meir was Prime Minister

- Country where Yom Kippur is a holiday

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Level 44
Feb 6, 2025
southafrica should not be the answer for two questions, had me stumped for 2 mins
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Level 43
Feb 6, 2025
it's just chance, the answers change every time. there's not a way for quizmaster to stop double answers
+5
Level 72
Feb 6, 2025
"In what country is Tripoli located?" should include Lebanon as a possible answer in addition to Libya
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Level 50
Feb 6, 2025
Would it be possible to add a note saying countries can appear more than once? It’s a great idea but kinda stumped me as not used to it in other quizzes.
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Level 17
Feb 7, 2025
Ronaldo is NOT from Brazil.
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Level 57
Feb 8, 2025
There is a Ronaldo from Brazil, just not THE Ronaldo
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Level 71
Feb 7, 2025
Why do you say the US has the most tigers? Do baseball players count?

Or is it zoos??? Okay, now I get it.

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Level 67
Feb 7, 2025
I barely know 2 from the US, the most are from India or, surprisingly, Norway
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Level 40
Feb 8, 2025
Repeated answers are a bit of a duck.