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What Countries would never say (Spoiler: Controversial)

These countries would never use the following sentences. Can you guess which countries are meant?
Note: It IS controversial, but if your country is in the quiz, please don't go bananas!
Quiz by Gassu
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Last updated: January 6, 2019
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First submittedMay 11, 2018
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Controversial Saying
Country that would
NEVER say this:
"Of course, Nikola Tesla was Croatian and Kosovo is fully independent"
Serbia
"Boy, I love our Haka but seriously, Australia's rugby is better"
New Zealand
"The Falklands belong to the United Kingdom"
Argentina
"King Leopold II of Belgium was the best ruler we ever had! He absolutely didn't exploit us!"
D.R. Congo
"Hi, we're the nation who lost against a bunch of Emus"
Australia
"We did start both World Wars"
Austria
"Our relations with our neighbor, the U.K., are unproblematically"
Ireland
"We had no problem in overcoming that 1-7 defeat against Germany"
Brazil
"We should allow the Kurds the right of a nation and recognize Cyprus"
Turkey
"Chewing gum? We are absolutely tolerant in this topic!"
Singapore
"Iran is no threat to us and Palestine should be our neighbor"
Israel
"Of course will we give Mr. Puigdemont and Catalonia the right of self-determination"
Spain
"Taiwan is justifiably independent and we respect other claims in the South China Sea"
China
"We should regulate the sale of guns and stop intervening in the Middle East because we want oil"
United States
"This country is called Macedonia? Sure, we don't have a problem with it"
Greece
23 Comments
+11
Level 75
May 11, 2018
This is great!
+7
Level 65
May 11, 2018
Great one! More of these!
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Level 76
May 11, 2018
Brilliant; world peace would probably break out if these countries weaved these lines into their national anthems. (Title tweak suggestion: What These Countries Haven't Said But Damn Well Should)
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Level 70
May 11, 2018
Wait so you as a Kiwi want that New Zealand admits that Australia's rugby is better?
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Level 76
May 14, 2018
I guess I'm more in tune with the wonderful anthem that was used at the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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Level 49
May 11, 2018
Our relationship with our neighbour, the UK are unproblemativally doesn't make sense grammatically or at all - it's Northern Ireland that has had some troubles and that is a different country to Ireland. Northern Ireland is PART of the UK and is not our neighbour! Or at least part of GB. You can't refer to 'Northern Ireland' as 'Ireland'.
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Level 70
May 11, 2018
The Irish (Rep. of Ireland) don‘t like the British mainly due to British suppression in the past, which eventually led to the Troubles. Their relations have never been unproblematically, I mean Michael Higgins was the first Irish president to visit the U.K. and that was four years ago! It‘s obvious that N. Ireland is part of the U.K. but the Republic of Ireland and the U.K. have special, sometimes problematic relations.
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Level 74
Apr 17, 2024
I agree. Just change unproblematically to unproblematic. That is the correct spelling here.
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Level 59
Apr 17, 2024
Also the Irish would not spell neighbour like that.
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Level 78
May 11, 2018
Oh man, this was fun :)
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Level 70
May 11, 2018
Wow, didn‘t think I‘d get such a positive feedback since it‘s such a controversial issue! Thank you all!
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Level 74
Apr 17, 2024
It's not controversial when it's clear that you're having a laugh and pointing out each country's worst nightmare in a funny way :)
+2
Level 51
Nov 19, 2018
Best quiz ever!
+1
Level 49
Jul 28, 2022
Only missed Brazil
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Level 72
Apr 17, 2024
Yeah, this one was fun. I chuckled at every single one of them!
+1
Level 75
Apr 17, 2024
I dont get the one about Australia.. lost what to emus?
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Level 73
Apr 17, 2024
It's a reference to the Emu War
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Level 44
Apr 17, 2024
Hate to tell you but those of us who know about the Emu War think it is hilarious and are more than happy to tell people about it.

We boast about it.

We revel in it.

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Level 62
Apr 17, 2024
Great quiz idea!
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Level 85
Apr 17, 2024
No English-speaking nation would say "Our relations with our neighbor, the U.K., are unproblematically". For Ireland to be the correct answer, the statement would have to be, "Our relations with our neighbor, the U.K., are unproblematic." Therefore, I submit that the correct answer to this question is Spain.
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Level 61
Apr 29, 2024
Maybe I'm missing the point, but while I agree that as it is any English-speaking nation should work since they would never say said statement, Spain isn't an English-speaking nation.
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Level 88
Sep 27, 2024
He meant that although Ireland has problematic relations with the UK, they would never say that the relations are “unproblematically” if they misspoke because it is grammatically incorrect in English and they are a native-English-speaking country. Spain, on the other hand, which is a neighbor of UK (in Gibraltar) and has a problematic relationship with them, might say “unproblematically” if they misspoke because they don’t speak English well, hence Spain should be the right answer ;-).
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Level 78
Jul 9, 2024
Amazing quiz that should absolutely get featured, but also there is a grammatical error in one of the questions: "unproblematically" should be "unproblematic".