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Eliminate Countries #1 - The Americas

Guess any valid country in the Americas which corresponds to each clue. Each country will be used only once. When you get to the bottom, guess the one country in the Americas which hasn't been used yet.
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Last updated: July 13, 2023
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First submittedMarch 2, 2021
Times taken31,662
Average score75.0%
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Countries in the Americas
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Country/Countries
Country where Mount Denali is located
United States
Country where Machu Picchu is located
Peru
Country that hosted the 2016 Olympics
Brazil
The two southernmost countries in Central America
Costa Rica | Panama
The only country that shares a border with Haiti
Dominican Republic
8th largest island country in the world
Cuba
South American country that borders Panama
Colombia
The country with Oaxaca as a subdivision
Mexico
Country that owns the Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
Country where the city Halifax is located
Canada
Countries that share Tierra del Fuego
Chile | Argentina
Countries that border El Salvador
Guatemala | Honduras
Country where Managua Lake is located
Nicaragua
Landlocked country which borders Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil
Paraguay
Central American country that ONLY borders the Pacific Ocean
El Salvador
Country with a flag that has a purple parrot on it
Dominica
Country where Maracaibo is located
Venezuela
Island nation without red, white, or blue on their flag
Jamaica
Country that ONLY borders Brazil and Argentina
Uruguay
The only Dutch speaking country
Suriname
Country with the capital Bridgetown
Barbados
Country with the capital Nassau
Bahamas
Country that is landlocked after a border dispute with Chile
Bolivia
Smallest country in the Americas
St. Kitts and Nevis
Countries with a capital that contains “Port”
Haiti | Trinidad and Tobago
The remaining countries located in the Lesser Antilles
Antigua and Barbuda | Grenada |
St. Lucia | St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
Country with the capital Belmopan
Belize
What is the final country?
Guyana
49 Comments
+13
Level 71
Mar 2, 2021
good quiz
+14
Level 86
Mar 2, 2021
Nice twist on elimination quizzes! Nominated and look forward to more...
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Level 53
Mar 2, 2021
Thanks! I’ll be making the next ones soon. Be sure to try the states elimination quiz in the series as well!
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Level 66
Oct 3, 2021
I literally thought it might be guyana before starting the quiz and it was!
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2023
You can say that same sentence without the word "literally"
+15
Level 79
Sep 18, 2023
You can say THAT same sentence with nothing but an angry glare and it would get the point across
+5
Level 70
Oct 10, 2023
There's nothing wrong with using words correctly.
+8
Level 62
Oct 10, 2023
There's nothing wrong with using words non-traditionally, but in a way that people still understand.
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Level 51
Oct 3, 2021
Bolivia borders both Argentina and Brazil
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Level 53
Oct 3, 2021
Thanks for the feedback. I specified the clue so it only fits Uruguay.
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Level 70
Oct 3, 2021
You spelled Colombia wrong :( Columbia is a university or a province in Canada (amongst other things). But the country that borders Panama is definitely called Colombia. Great quizz otherwise.
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Level 53
Oct 3, 2021
Fixed. Thanks for catching that
+4
Level 88
Sep 7, 2023
Technically a "quiz" not a "quizz".
+1
Level 62
Mar 1, 2025
Muphry's law strikes again!
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Level 51
Nov 9, 2023
the geography lesson following the correction is appreciated!
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Level 44
Jan 18, 2024
Columbia is also the capital of South Carolina.
+1
Level 87
Oct 3, 2021
Good stuff! Nom-ed.
+4
Level 68
Dec 27, 2021
I wish I had read the instructions. I was guessing countries of the whole world...
+7
Level 66
May 3, 2022
quiz is pretty good, just needs a little cleaning up. You use periods on some hints but not others, you could specify the only "dutch speaking country" in the Americas, you unecassarily capitalize some words (Largest Island Country -+ largest island country)

you could also say "Country where the galapagos islands are located" to stick with the same grammar as the first two

idk maybe im just being really nitpicky lol

its a great quiz though, nominated

+3
Level 82
Sep 6, 2023
I'm the same way with intricacies like that. I'm just surprised to see that coming from you, when you start your sentences without capital letters, use run-on sentences, randomly capitalize "Country", and don't end your sentences with periods.
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Level 51
Nov 9, 2023
bro
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Level 65
May 3, 2022
I'm sorry, but I don't find this to be a good quiz. The clues do not build upon each other, so there is no reason why I should not be able to see one clue until I've answered the previous one. Also, some of the clues are really obscure. I'm supposed to know that Cuba is the 8th largest island country, and not the 7th or the 9th? Come on!
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Level 79
May 3, 2022
So you didn't guess Cuba because you thought it might be the 7th or 9th largest instead? You know you can just guess things without penalty, right? Just guess the biggest island country you can think of, man. What a silly gripe.
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Level 62
Jun 12, 2022
Not that you can't guess Cuba, but I personally have a problem with the clue because it's rather uncreative. Furthermore, as previously states, there's no building upon other clues.
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Level 72
Sep 4, 2023
I agree. I've really enjoyed past versions of these quizzes, so I was excited for this one, but it did not meet the standard. All those seem to have series of clues where each (except for perhaps the first few) function as "the only country remaining." This is interesting because it makes you remember what countries have come up already and think about what countries have in common. By not doing any of that, as well as sometimes eliminating multiple at once, this quiz just felt lazy, uninspired, and not worth the time to take it.
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Level 84
May 3, 2022
Conceptually ok, but I'm not wild about having questions where a whole bunch of countries are crammed in at once. (Looking at you, "remaining countries located in the Lesser Antilles.")

It just feels... clunky and uninspired. Would be much better if there were 35 questions, and each one only eliminated a single country.

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Level 79
May 3, 2022
I think the thematic issue is that you have some questions about specific countries to eliminate them, and others are grouped. I like the quiz, but I think it might be even better to either do the continents separately and eliminate countries one at a time, or maybe try to eliminate a couple countries every time. So instead of having separate questions about Canada, Mexico, and the USA, you could eliminate all three with "Countries who once belonged to NAFTA". Just my two cents (probably worth less than that, though!).
+1
Level 50
May 3, 2022
Solid advice there.
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Level 79
Oct 4, 2022
Just to expand on that... it was much more satisfying knocking out several countries at a time.
+4
Level 54
Oct 4, 2022
It makes no sense for the question about paraguay to say "the OTHER landlocked country" when bolivia wasn't even mentioned before.
+1
Level 75
Oct 4, 2022
I enjoyed this quiz, thank you.
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Level 75
May 21, 2023
I enjoyed that, nominated
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Level 62
May 29, 2023
Besides the gripes above, I also don't love the format because you can take a random country and try it in each box, because it's guaranteed to be in one of them. If you keep doing this, you can easily get all of the answers without reading a single clue. Granted, this is more of an exploit, but this format feels conducive to guessing.

It's an interesting idea nonetheless and I respect the innovation.

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Level 69
Sep 5, 2023
A bit misleading to state the country "only borders the Pacific Ocean". That makes me think it's an island country in the Pacific. The country borders the Pacific, but it also borders other countries.
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Level 82
Sep 5, 2023
I can see what you mean, but I immediately understood the clue, and there's only one interpretation if you know the general geography.
+2
Level 82
Sep 6, 2023
There are no island countries in the Pacific, within the Americas.
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Level 69
Oct 10, 2023
To me that clue is just plain wrong. The country borders the Ocean AND two other countries, so as it is spelled, the clue is wrong, even if you know that there aren't Pacific island countries in the Americas.
+1
Level 82
Sep 6, 2023
5 stars from me. Maybe the quiz has changed since the above comments, but I saw on issues with clues "building upon each other." I was able to answer them all with little to no effort.
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Level 62
Oct 14, 2023
It hasn't. The reason why people say the clues don't build on each other is because in most quizzes like this, when answering a question, you have to consider the previous answers. Here, all except the last answer can be answered independently. For example, there is only one country with the capital of Nassau.
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Level 73
Sep 13, 2023
4:41 used, I actually got Guyana pretty early on and I was stuck on Venezuela for a while
+1
Level 53
Oct 10, 2023
I got Dominica with a single second left
+1
Level 55
Oct 11, 2023
What is the remaining country? Oh yes the most forgettable one
+5
Level 54
Oct 11, 2023
the hint "Central American country that ONLY borders the Pacific Ocean" is really confusing to me, i thought it meant that it didn't border any countries.
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Level 67
Oct 12, 2023
why is France NOT accepted as the last answer? It's clearly missing on the list
+1
Level 62
Oct 14, 2023
"The Americas"
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Level 44
Jan 18, 2024
Maricaibo is supposed to be Maricaribo
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Level 60
May 2, 2024
how to make the answer appear after the question is complete?
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Level 60
May 3, 2024
let me restate that.

How to make a question invisible until the previous question is answered correctly?

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Level 46
Feb 26, 2025
wdym by "only borders" the pacific ocean el salvador borders honduras and guatemala