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Category Elimination - Countries #1

In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
Also try Randomized Category Elimination and more in this series!
# = the number of answers possible
Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
All data as of February 2022.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: February 4, 2022
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First submittedApril 8, 2019
Times taken158,445
Average score70.0%
Rating4.99
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Green Categories
54
Countries in Africa
✓
22
... ending in A
✓
9
... with a population over 20 million
✓
5
... and a land area of at least 900,000 km²
✓
1
... which is landlocked
Ethiopia
 
Orange Categories
158
One word countries
✓
81
... in Europe or Asia
✓
44
... with fewer than 10 million people
✓
8
... and exactly 6 letters in its capital city
✓
1
... with a land area of over 200,000 km²
Oman
Blue Categories
93
Countries with at least 10 million people
✓
64
... not in Asia
✓
12
... which ends in the letters IA
✓
6
... is exactly 7 letters long
✓
1
... and has the equator passing through it
Somalia
 
Purple Categories
102
Countries starting with a letter before M
✓
24
... in Europe
✓
18
... with less than 10 million people
✓
4
... and a land area less than 20,000 km²
✓
1
... which ends with the letter G
Luxembourg
Lucknowite
+32
Level 43
Apr 8, 2019
Excellent quiz!
joshxgarrett
+34
Level 64
Apr 8, 2019
I really like this one. I would love to see more like it.
Stewart
+23
Level 68
Apr 8, 2019
That's the plan! It takes a long time to make though, so patience is needed. :)
BuilderMan
+1
Level 47
May 21, 2021
thank you for this amazing quiz

I love these types

they make my day better

LouVegas
+1
Level 38
Apr 21, 2022
Lebanon fits all the questions up to last in orange category
Krisik06
+1
Level 36
Apr 7, 2020
Same for Angola LOL
ked2313
+31
Level 62
Apr 8, 2019
UNBELIEVABLE. I SERIOUSLY TYPED OMAN FOR EVERY ANSWER FOR THE YELLOW SECTION.
APHill
+16
Level 73
Apr 8, 2019
I did the same with Luxembourg!
Nathaniel
+10
Level 66
Apr 10, 2019
i did with colombia
SirPhilippines
+3
Level 53
Dec 17, 2020
I did with Angola
SAFETYFIIIRST
+2
Level 50
May 8, 2021
I also did with Angola!
Rade
+2
Level 86
Apr 9, 2019
Me too.
Carry
+1
Level 63
Apr 9, 2019
Me too. Lucky guess. Really great quiz!
Shadywyvern
+1
Level 73
Apr 10, 2019
Same!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
May 24, 2019
well if you did t for the first answer, no reason to switch to another answer is there.
alexh32
+1
Level 57
May 27, 2019
I started with Yemen and moved over to Oman after the second answer crazy
MeowNeow
+2
Level 31
Jul 24, 2019
I typed Oman the whole way too!
RyanSem
+1
Level 38
Sep 30, 2019
Did the same with Angola!
Yanni47
+1
Level 73
Aug 7, 2020
The first two countries I each had after the second clue respectively.
lfhsf
+1
Level 50
Jan 1, 2021
me too
Speere
+1
Level 47
Mar 26, 2022
I did Oman the whole way too!
BuilderMan
+1
Level 47
May 21, 2021
thank you that helped so much
zebulon
+1
Level 35
Mar 1, 2022
Nigeria worked for the first word of every single category, and the next couple for a few of them.
Juniper11
+1
Level 26
Mar 29, 2022
Yep I did the same word for the first section of every category too. Until it said ‘countries in Europe or Asia’
DaffyDucktheWizard
+1
Level 61
Apr 8, 2019
India and China did not count for over 20 million
Stewart
+13
Level 68
Apr 8, 2019
India and China are not in Africa.

In each group, you need to find a valid answer to the current category and every category above it within that group.

In your case you were looking for "Countries in Africa ending in A with a population over 20 million".

Juniper11
+1
Level 26
Mar 29, 2022
And if you’re scrolling through the comments looking for the answer like I do sometimes, then here you go.

It’s Ethiopia.

Frischluftfanatiker
+1
Level 69
Apr 8, 2019
Awesome!
roleybob
+4
Level 75
Apr 9, 2019
I'm going to go for one of Mal's Golden Nitpick Awards - "with fewer than 10 million people" and similarly "with a Capital City of 7 letters or fewer"

Good quiz though

Stewart
+2
Level 68
Apr 9, 2019
Fixed! Less vs Fewer is always a tricky one to get correct. (Waiting approval)
tshalla
+1
Level 73
Apr 9, 2019
Shouldn't Bhutan (Thimpu) work up to the capital-with-exactly-six-letters line? Bhutan is one word; in Asia; fewer than 10 million; Thimpu has six letters. (I can imagine, by the way, how easy it would be to omit a possible answer when making this quiz.)
QRU
+2
Level 74
Apr 10, 2019
It's actually spelled Thimphu.
roleybob
+1
Level 75
May 24, 2019
I wasn't really expecting you to bother correcting it, was just a very slow day in the office!
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
@roleybob, I wanted to make the quiz as accurate as possible! Generally my grammar is pretty darn good, but sometimes little things trip me up. I felt it was necessary to fix it in this case. (although as Sean said, in the case of people both are valid, so it wasn't necessary to change both)
roleybob
+2
Level 75
Jun 23, 2019
I'd always been taught that if it's quantifiable use fewer, if it's not use less, therefore fewer people, not less people.

Could be wrong though

AlexThirkell
+1
Level 71
Feb 9, 2021
All of these are valid singular/plurals, with separate meanings:

person/persons

people/peoples

person/people

English can be extremely annoying sometimes...

samiamco
+2
Level 71
Apr 9, 2019
Very cool quiz, Stewart! Any chance of a bit more time though?
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 9, 2019
With an average of 15/20, and 7.9% of people getting 100%, I think the time is okay for now. You can see from the stats that there's a nice bell curve, leaning towards the top, meaning that the time is nicely placed.
MayaB
+3
Level 71
Apr 9, 2019
Awesome idea! Maybe another 60-90 seconds would make it a tad easier. The way it is, I left the most specific answer in each category for the end so I don't waste time during the quiz, but I didn't have time to go back to them.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 9, 2019
Read the reply above. Though I have decided to add an extra 40 seconds to give 1 minute per group.
Yosherax
+1
Level 66
Apr 9, 2019
Very cool idea!
bananacake
+1
Level 43
Apr 9, 2019
Very nice quiz! I'm annoyed as i got all of them correct except for Luxembourg with the capital ending with G question.
iuvas
+1
Level 91
Apr 9, 2019
VERY nice quiz!!!

great idea, thank you so much, i enjoyed greatly

Tokky
+1
Level 59
Apr 9, 2019
One of my new favourites!
ytzcn
+1
Level 66
Apr 9, 2019
Great idea, perfect quiz!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Apr 9, 2019
I got 9 and 0 points.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Apr 9, 2019
If you got lucky and thought of the narrowest answer in the first 1 or 2 broadest answers for each category this would be super easy. If you have to jump around for every answer it's time consuming. I ran out of time.
shinboy
+1
Level 68
Apr 9, 2019
Easily one of my favorite quizzes, please make more!
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 9, 2019
Thanks so much! Lucky for you there is now a Countries #2!
P3
+1
Level 35
Apr 9, 2019
Bolivia has a population greater than 10 million, is not in Asia, has a capital with seven letters or less, and ends in 'ia' but is not accepted for the second-to-last question in category 2
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Apr 9, 2019
Sorry about that, I missed Bolivia due to the discrepancy between whether La Paz or Sucre is the capital! I have now fixed this, just waiting approval :)
P3
+1
Level 35
Apr 10, 2019
And wouldja look at that, I forgot about Bolivia for category 3 on that one.
derjohnny
+1
Level 27
May 26, 2019
It's the same with Czechia I believe. :x
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 26, 2019
Czechia is not included in that since we use Czech Republic as the JetPunk name, despite its official short name being Czechia.

However if we don't use a standard (in this case the Countries of the World quiz) then there's a debate for many other countries as to what should and shouldn't count.

Souhitya345
+1
Level 70
Apr 9, 2019
One of the greatest quiz I have ever played!!!
Kaheli
+1
Level 69
Apr 9, 2019
This is amazing, thank you!
kenpo17
+1
Level 67
Apr 9, 2019
Cool idea! It took a few moments to understand the directions, and I nearly got stuck on the capitals questions (cities are not one of my strong points), but I eventually made it through.
MikolajSzkutnik
+1
Level 69
Apr 9, 2019
Great idea!
theperiodictable
+2
Level 47
Apr 9, 2019
this is one of the best quizzes i have ever taken THANK YOU I LOVE IT SO MUCH! must have been hard to make !!!!
semidog
+2
Level 67
Apr 9, 2019
One of the best quizzes on Jetpunk! Thank you very much. Looking forward to many more in this format
vindem
+1
Level 66
Apr 10, 2019
AMAZING!
benzeller
+1
Level 63
Apr 10, 2019
Awesome quiz! Can't wait for more!
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 10, 2019
Thank you! (And to all others above as well)

There is already a sequel here: Countries #2

I have others planned as well, but they take a long time to make!

Nathaniel
+1
Level 66
Apr 10, 2019
great quiz, really enjoyed
NoirOnyx
+2
Level 46
Apr 10, 2019
Funny how Oman was the least guessed country. For that category, all my answers were Oman. It was the first thing that came to mind and I was like "oh, it works for this one.. and this one.. this too" and so on.
redsplat
+1
Level 75
Apr 11, 2019
Sweet quiz.
TRIPMITCH33
+1
Level 70
Apr 17, 2019
Libreville is also the capital of Gabon. That means there are two countries for Africa capitals. Luanda & Libreville.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 17, 2019
It must satisfy all categories above it. Since Gabon does not end with an "A" then it would not count.
Eliotbliss
+1
Level 72
Apr 17, 2019
More please!
Algernon
+1
Level 70
Apr 22, 2019
Great quiz. Tricky too.

But, the capital of Luxembourg is Luxembourg City. That, obviously ends in a "Y". Maybe add a line in the intro saying you don't count the 'city' bit. Great quiz otherwise

Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 22, 2019
We use the names as featured in the JetPunk World Capitals quiz, there it is presented as "Luxembourg" and so is done as such here. (For comparison, Mexico and Panama both include "city" in their answer to that quiz)
Yanni47
+1
Level 73
Aug 7, 2020
So should Luxembourg. In this case, JetPunk clearly got it wrong.
gavtheman
+1
Level 64
May 17, 2019
Vatican City doesn’t work for the second to last clue for the last category
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 17, 2019
It must satisfy every clue before it in that category. Since Vatican City doesn't start with a letter between A and L, it is invalid.
Njo
+1
Level 64
May 24, 2019
Dublin or Vienna didn’t count for capital with exactly six letters
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
They are, you have to name their country not the Capital itself!
Julotek
+1
Level 57
May 24, 2019
Vatican was not accepted in the 3rd question of the yellow part.

I think it should.

Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
On JetPunk, "Vatican" is considered to be "Vatican City" and thus is not counted as a one-word country.
5teveB
+1
Level 56
May 24, 2019
Gah! For some reason I didn't realise you could put the same answer more than once, so I didn't get the final answer in any category because I'd already given it.
jackimo14
+1
Level 52
May 24, 2019
Lovely quiz - really fun format, quite unusual
tarand
+1
Level 24
May 24, 2019
great quiz! hope you do more like this!
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
Thanks so much! And, luckily for you, I have made more and will continue to do so (they just take a long time to make). The full series can be found here: Category Elimination

Currently there's only 3 Countries ones and a U.S. States version. I plan on making more though!

Halehandros
+1
Level 22
May 24, 2019
Nice job, great idea for a quiz!
Greenland
+1
Level 50
May 24, 2019
This is a great quiz

I think it would be even better if you got most points for the last answer in each category - which is obviously the hardest

Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
Thanks! Sadly, there would be no way for me to implement this. Although, if you don't get any of the last categories you only end up with 3 points thanks to the way points work on JetPunk. So I guess you could argue that the last answers are worth 2 points :)
benjaminmarker
+1
Level 69
May 24, 2019
Shouldn't Czechia work for ending with "IA"?
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
Though its short name is officially Czechia, we still use Czech Republic here on JetPunk. Until it updates on the Countries of the World quiz, it'll stay as Czech Republic here.
kolya
+1
Level 44
May 25, 2019
It already counts as Czechia on the Countries of the World quiz.
makalanis
+1
Level 46
May 24, 2019
It's been a while since I've been impressed with a quiz on here! This one was excellent!!
Georgecrandy
+1
Level 56
May 24, 2019
Amazing quiz Stewart I really liked it
Tummykong
+1
Level 67
May 24, 2019
Clever quiz.
Saundeep
+1
Level 47
May 24, 2019
Amazing quiz, but cannot help noticing Macedonia doesn't work for the penultimate criteria for yellow. Or is that because it is FYR?
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 24, 2019
"Macedonia" officially changed its short name to "North Macedonia", which we adopted to using on JetPunk, thus is not a one-word country satisfying the first of yellow :)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
May 24, 2019
yes like many said before me, a very nice quiz! :) on to the others .....*fly aways, with cape flapping behind*
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Jan 5, 2020
Apparently when writing that comment I havent had much sleep... *flies away
unknown2000
+2
Level 49
May 24, 2019
What a great quiz, I really like the idea! I thought it was quite easy, but then I saw the last ones...
AlbinoTurtle06
+1
Level 31
May 24, 2019
100% with 3:21 left.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 59
May 24, 2019
Interesting quiz.
dsaved
+2
Level 65
May 24, 2019
Great Quiz, I hope it will become a long series.
Ishaan7
+1
Level 59
May 24, 2019
Brilliant quiz! Hope there are many more to come in this series!
oranje
+1
Level 61
May 24, 2019
Doh! i kept typing capital names instead of the country to advance.
lucd13
+1
Level 68
May 25, 2019
This is a quiz that actually makes one think! Bravo! Can't wait to see a whole series of these. 👏
ElmoSkaterBoy
+1
Level 60
May 25, 2019
The elimination concept is really nice. The questions could be a bit more interesting - I personally get very turned off by questions about the number of letters in a name
ander217
+6
Level 77
May 25, 2019
If they ever clone your brain, I'd like one, please, since mine seems to be wearing out. You are scarily amazing. Another awesome quiz.
Pandora49
+1
Level 54
May 6, 2020
What?!
obmeb
+1
Level 60
May 26, 2019
mechanism didn't work for me -- wouldn't it work just as well with open suggestion instead of single boxes -- I couldn't switch.
aleqsandresmama
+1
Level 39
May 27, 2019
Nice quizzz. Tryed China for the last one and didn't work.
YellowJacket
+1
Level 75
May 27, 2019
This was great. How long did this take to make?
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 27, 2019
A long while
viniaj
+1
Level 68
May 31, 2019
Excellent quiz!!! Someone please give an Oscar to the brilliant guy who came up with this idea!!!

We want more, sir! :D

Quizzer6794
+1
Level 64
May 31, 2019
Great quiz! Thanks for the mention :)
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Jun 21, 2019
That was a really cool quiz!
Shade9099
+1
Level 66
Jun 25, 2019
Umm....Canadia?
Cu5t4rd
+1
Level 53
Jul 24, 2019
Really fun quiz. Got 19/20. Struggled on Angola and Oman but a lucky guess got Angola.
MeowNeow
+1
Level 31
Jul 24, 2019
Guessed Oman all the way down.
mihirskulkarni
+1
Level 58
Aug 13, 2019
Amazing quiz!
Michel
+1
Level 43
Aug 19, 2019
SUPER QUIZ
mightythor
+1
Level 66
Sep 17, 2019
Got stuck because I was thinking one syllable at first instead of one word.
RVN
+3
Level 27
Nov 8, 2019
"Between A and L" suggest to me that countries that start with those letters do not count. But Luxembourg was the correct answer. Please fix.
Rogemann
+1
Level 29
May 20, 2021
same here. I was really scratching my head over that one and was disappointed that it was in fact not a country starting with a letter *between* A and L
whiterook1
+1
Level 48
Nov 16, 2019
Really loved the format of this!
FlabberBapper
+2
Level 69
Jan 3, 2020
Congrats on the most upvoted quiz of 2019, Stewart!
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 3, 2020
Thank you Mr. Flabber, it means the world to have your congratulations! :)
ooftownroad
+2
Level 48
Jan 9, 2020
i typed angola all the way through
RyanTheT
+1
Level 45
Mar 1, 2020
I typed Oman all the way through lol
NordicBoi
+1
Level 26
Mar 10, 2020
More time tho :/
BestNotes
+1
Level 52
Apr 7, 2020
Why is not Zambia with capital city Lusaka accepted?
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 7, 2020
Zambia's land area is below the 1 million required in the previous clue
topazstar
+1
Level 43
Apr 19, 2020
I doubt it's a huge problem but Luxembourg's capital is Luxembourg City so maybe expand the hint so it's G or Y
brianbohn
+3
Level 91
Jun 9, 2020
Countries that begin with a letter "between A and L" cannot begin with an A or an L, as letters 'between' A and L would be B to K.
lmball2
+1
Level 33
Jul 13, 2020
Need more time plz! Great quiz!
turnbacktwo
+1
Level 38
Oct 20, 2020
Shout out the 9 percent who didn't get a one word country
gkmaster
+1
Level 37
Dec 19, 2020
For the last one you could of put Federated States of Micronesia
KeranofthePakes
+1
Level 50
Jan 17, 2021
For the second question on the last one, Micronesia should be a valid answer
turnbacktwo
+1
Level 38
Jan 20, 2021
Tanzania should not work for the fourth category. It's capital has 8 letters.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Jan 20, 2021
It's capital is Dodoma
thailand
+1
Level 41
Feb 17, 2021
i didnt understand the quiz but awesome
Megan123
+1
Level 15
Feb 27, 2021
Wow. I don't think I'd ever have the patience to make a quiz like tgis. It's fabulous!
thegoatisgoaty
+1
Level 65
May 2, 2021
How do you make it show the check mark
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 2, 2021
In step 2, put all of your answers separated by "|", then in step 3 change the typeins to be "custom", then go back to step 2 and you can replace the answer text to be a check mark without affecting typeins.
Renex
+1
Level 45
May 3, 2021
Ethiopia should be included for having land area of at least 1,000,000 km²
moonshot
+1
Level 48
May 18, 2021
very nice quiz! i'm just curious how you put the check mark in the answer column but still include all the correct answers..

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metalzebra
+1
Level 28
May 19, 2021
I see multiple posts about people using Oman on here...

but here's mine.

I couldn't figure out the answer to orange, so when I had five seconds left I randomly tried Oman while consciously thinking that it wouldn't work, I don't even know what the capital of Oman is. It worked :)

BSDM
+1
Level 24
Jul 30, 2021
I feel like i cheated because for the third option i just started with oman then put oman in 5 times...
mehe
+2
Level 44
Aug 4, 2021
Am I the only one who thought I couldn't use Luxembourg because the question said BETWEEN a and l?
GeoWizAlbania
+1
Level 34
Sep 17, 2021
Got Oman on the first try, missed the other 3 final answers though. Good quiz!
Mfundo
+1
Level 37
Oct 7, 2021
Thank you for this amazing quiz
EFBirdie
+2
Level 37
Nov 18, 2021
with the green ones, you can put south africa for the first four questions lol

great quiz

KJ30
+1
Level 52
Jan 20, 2022
Stewart, can you teach me how to make the 'categories' into two rows? I'm struggling to do so when I am trying to make a elimination quiz myself: it appears to line up in one single row instead of two while I was designing grid. This is the preview of the quiz: https://www.jetpunk.com/create-quiz/1475822/preview
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 20, 2022
So, fundamentally, the structure of the design grid is as follows:

You have a "block" which is like a table, this is as tall as it needs to be, and you can only place tables next to each (not above or below).

Inside a "block" you have rows and columns forming cells.

This means, what you want to do, is to move the blue and white categories under the green and red. This can be done by, adding a row to the bottom of the green and red, and then dragging each row of the blue categories to the bottom of the green, and then each row of the white to the bottom of the red.

You will then have to recreate the headers (labelling "white" and "blue" categories) and then perhaps add a single row with "borders" style = 0 (to add a spacer as I have above).

KJ30
+1
Level 52
Jan 21, 2022
cheers stewart
lucienchardon
+2
Level 37
Jan 22, 2022
guessed oman for all of category orange, lets goo
cmr0
+1
Level 55
Mar 1, 2022
great quiz!
Naiad
+1
Level 44
Mar 1, 2022
this one's nice, 5/5
justanerd
+1
Level 34
Mar 4, 2022
I was like "oman how am i gonna do this" then I thought of using the meme.
MfundoNkambule
+1
Level 28
Mar 25, 2022
A great quiz indeed
Desmond2309
+1
Level 33
May 17, 2022
Three things. One, I went with Oman and Luxembourg for first try. Second, you should make more in this series. Great Quiz! 3. Am I the only one who sees MfundoNkambule's comment? Because it said March 25, and today is the 17th (or 16th depends where you are). Which is like in the future, or is there a feature where you can set the time.
Stewart
+2
Level 68
May 17, 2022
There is a whole series! Check the caveat under the description.

March 25th is in the past, today is May 17th. You cannot set the time of a comment, but they could be from a previous year.

Masonplays
+1
Level 25
May 21, 2022
Great quiz I randomly put Oman and it was right I was not thinking that the capital muscat
Davideboss
+1
Level 28
May 22, 2022
orange categories: europe or asia, fewer than 10 m, people 6 letters capital city, why not Bhutan (capital city Thimpu)??
Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 22, 2022
Thimphu, not Thimpu :)
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