Countries that Beat Canada

For each selected category, name any of the countries that rank higher than Canada. Good luck!

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Rank	Category	Answer
2	Largest surface area	Russia
2	Most-visited by American tourists	Mexico
7	Lowest population density	Mongolia \| Namibia \| Australia \| Iceland \| Suriname \| Guyana
5	Most wheat production (2020)	China \| India \| Russia \| United States
5	Highest life expectancy (2023)	Monaco \| Singapore \| Japan \| San Marino
9	Most gold medals per capita at the 2022 Winter Olympics	Norway \| Slovenia \| Austria \| Sweden \| Switzerland \| Finland \| Netherlands \| Estonia
4	Most proven oil reserves	Venezuela \| Saudi Arabia \| Iran
3	Largest country as a percentage of the continent on which it lies	Australia \| Brazil
10	Coldest capital city (guess the country not the capital!)	Mongolia \| Kazakhstan \| Iceland \| Norway \| Russia \| Finland \| Estonia \| Lithuania \| Latvia
4	Greatest land area with a desert or tundra biome	Australia \| Algeria \| Saudi Arabia
2	Northernmost point on land (including overseas territories)	Denmark
4	Earliest legalization of same sex marriage	Netherlands \| Belgium \| Spain
5 (t)	Shortest name of any country in the Americas	Cuba \| Peru \| Chile \| Haiti
5	Lowest human exposure to air pollution (2017)	Finland \| Brunei \| New Zealand \| Sweden
10	Most skyscrapers per capita (2023)	Monaco \| United Arab Emirates \| Singapore \| Qatar \| Panama \| Bahrain \| South Korea \| Australia \| Kuwait
4	Most recent country to host the Winter Olympics	China \| South Korea \| Russia
4 (t)	Most A's in its name	Antigua and Barbuda \| Madagascar \| Saudi Arabia
4	Most populous member of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (not including France)	Egypt \| Vietnam \| D. R. Congo
8	Westernmost point on land	Fiji \| Russia \| United States \| New Zealand \| Tonga \| Kiribati \| Samoa
4	Earliest celebration of New Years in the Americas	Brazil \| Argentina \| Uruguay

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95 Comments

+21

Level 87

Apr 22, 2020

Certainly Australia is the largest country as a percentage of the "ontinent" on which it lies. But I'm wondering why Mongolia isn't one of the lowest countries for pollution exposure. It's a huge territory with a nomadic base, virtually no manufacturing, and only mining.

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Level 78

Apr 22, 2020

I think that dust from deserts is also counted in air pollution.

Level 60

Apr 22, 2020

Yes.

Level 76

Jul 18, 2022

I'm thinking that there have to be small island countries, primarily in the Pacific, that have to qualify there as well.

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Level ∞

Apr 22, 2020

Fixed the misspelling. Mongolia probably also gets a lot of pollution from China.

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Level 76

Apr 28, 2020

As much fun as it is to blame others, Mongolia has pretty much generated their problem all on their own. Here's an eye opening story. Although it's from 2017, things haven't exactly changed for the better.

One quotation: "80 percent of all pollution in Ulaanbaatar is caused by ger stoves, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). ... and the organization predicts the situation will worsen over the next 10 years."

+30

Level ∞

Apr 28, 2020

Interesting. I retract my statement. That actually makes more sense.

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Level 76

Apr 22, 2020

Ulaanbaatar is also a VERY polluted city (a quick Google search shows it was worse than Delhi and Beijing in 2016), and 1/3 of the country lives there

Level 70

May 25, 2020

Mongolia is probably one of the highest.

Level 78

Jul 31, 2020

I wonder about the island nations in the pacific. I would have guessed that Kiribati, Tuvalu or the Marshall Islands have less pollution than Sweden or New Zealand.

Level 85

Apr 22, 2020

In the "Largest country as a percentage..." question, continent is misspelled.

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Level 84

Apr 22, 2020

Chile is misspelled in "Shortest name of any country in the Americas"

(Moral of the story: Never create a quiz while hungry :P)

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Level ∞

Apr 22, 2020

Mmmm... Chile.

Level 72

Apr 22, 2020

nice questions :) an extra 30 seconds wouldn't hurt. I still needed 5 more questions and had time for one, saw franco.. and westernmost flashing by so had a quick wild guess and actually got those right without time to think about it. But yea, not time to guess the others or read the questions properly.

Was surprised iceland wasnt on the lowest airpolution, maybe they use a lot of snowmobiles?

Level 84

Apr 23, 2020

Iceland is directly behind Canada with pretty much the same score.

Level 77

Apr 24, 2020

Who would've thunk it...Egypt is a member of the francophone community. Seems silly.

Level 71

Jul 18, 2022

I mean it is kinda weird. The French never directly colonized Egypt the way the British did, and a quick Google search tells me that English is more widely spoken than French. If they are part of the Francophonie that's understable--many countries are part of both (the Francophonie and the Commonwealth)--but I find it head-scratching that Egypt is not part of the Commonwealth.

Level 66

Dec 17, 2023

I think it's similar to Mozambique being in the Commonwealth

Level 60

May 6, 2020

Congrats on your first featured English quiz! :)

Level 55

May 6, 2020

Thanks a lot!!!

Level 77

May 14, 2020

The official name for Canada is Dominion of Canada. Not sure what Jet Punk's take is on this, but you might want to put a caveat in the description for that clue.

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Level 55

May 15, 2020

I don't think it's necessary...

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Level 75

Aug 3, 2020

As a Canadian citizen, nobody refers to Canada as the Dominion of Canada

Level 20

May 14, 2021

No its not

Level 53

May 4, 2022

Dominion doesnt even have an a

Level 69

Jul 18, 2022

Dominion of Canada was never ever ever official. The founding statutes coined "Dominion" as a generic but the name of the dominion was and is "Canada," pure and simple. Analogue: Do our southern neighbours refer to the Republic of the United States of America? Nope.

Level 43

Dec 17, 2023

Dominion of Canada, as opposed to what? Canada is only understood to mean one place.

Level 81

May 25, 2020

The USA is both further west and further east (celebrates New Years earlier) than Canada. Aleutian Islands.

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Level 71

May 25, 2020

But that's not how time zones work. The international date line bends to accomodate for Alaska's awkward shape and the Aleutian Islands are in GMT -10. It would be hugely inconvenient if part of Alaska was a whole day ahead of the rest.

Level 81

May 25, 2020

yeah you're right nevermind

Level 38

Jul 18, 2022

hahahahahah

Level 43

Dec 17, 2023

Guam celebrates New Year's before Canada, and Guam is part of the United States. I would say Guam is more a part of the U.S. than Greenland is of Denmark...

Level 68

May 25, 2020

I'm surprised Iceland wasn't on the list for lowest pollution. They have no power plants, and no manufacturing except for limited aluminum processing,which our guide told us is very green. Unless he was lying...

Level 51

May 25, 2020

Probably similar to Mongolia - a highly urbanised population and cities are never good for clean air.

Level 75

Aug 3, 2020

Probably not? Iceland has less people than Molgola and they also live on one of the world's best reserves of thermal energy

Level 89

Aug 19, 2022

Maybe volcanic activity is to blame? In any case, I tried Iceland too. Tough question; it was the only question I missed.

Level 36

May 25, 2020

The time given is too short. One can't even think.

Level 53

May 4, 2022

Yeah one cant think there are many people than can on this quiz/ most people.

Level 74

May 25, 2020

Fantastic quiz!

Level 55

May 25, 2020

Thanks! You can try the French version, which is a bit different.

Level 50

May 25, 2020

This was HARD

Level 56

May 26, 2020

Suprised by Brunei having low air pollution exposure. Anyone knows why?

Level 50

Jul 18, 2022

If I had to guess it's because they're in the middle of a jungle with limited manufacturing cooking etc. because of the low population of Borneo

Level 53

May 27, 2020

Largest country as a percentage of the

continent on which it lies

i thought this meant that i have to type the percentage or something lmao

Level 64

May 28, 2020

Great quiz! I felt like I was doing very well, but I ran out of time. Could use another minute or 30 seconds.

Level 55

May 28, 2020

Thanks! I think you're right and I'll try to add a bit time.

Level 66

May 28, 2020

Nice one. Thank you.

Level 81

May 29, 2020

Great moose picture.

Level 55

May 29, 2020

Thanks?

Level 72

Jun 15, 2020

What does the (t) mean? Also, USA doesn't count as a shorter country name?

Level 55

Jun 15, 2020

Abreviation are not counting, and (t) means that several countries have the same rank.

Level 73

Aug 7, 2020

I don't understand... how does Saudi Arabia have a greater land area with a desert or tundra biome than either Canada or Russia? Russia is 8 times larger than Saudi Arabia. I guess Russia has a lot of taiga or steppe and actually doesn't have much tundra, but this is still quite surprising to me.

Level 44

Jan 20, 2021

On this quiz you just have to keep guessing Australia!

Level 55

Jan 20, 2021

Australia is just 4 answers. Do you find it's too much?

Level 43

Mar 25, 2021

Hi Baptiste! I know that I shouldn't say here, but can you see your "Create/Edit Quiz" page, please?

Level 39

Apr 30, 2021

Wonderful quiz!

Level 54

May 25, 2021

Sorry but shouldn't Bangladesh be considered a more populous country with only 2 border

Level 55

May 25, 2021

The question is for only one border, not too or more, so Bangladesh isn't include.

Level 39

Jun 30, 2021

Baptistegorce, I created a quiz in French. Could you check if I have any mistakes? Quiz

Level 39

Jun 30, 2021

(I'm asking you this because you are the only French I know on this site)

Level 39

Jun 30, 2021

Thank you!

Level 67

Sep 12, 2021

Doesn't Guatamala have more A's in its name?

Level 37

Oct 5, 2021

its guatEmala...

Level 23

Oct 2, 2021

Dear Baptiste, the translations of the names in my blog was: a) Orca (Orcinus orca), b) Ray turtle (Astrochelys radiata), c) Madagascar urania (Chrysiridia rhipheus) d) Citrine (yellow quartz).

Level 55

Oct 2, 2021

Thank you! I actually almost understood all of them searching in an online Polish-French dictionnary. But it's a kind attention. Hoping you will succeed in blogging!

Level 23

Oct 3, 2021

Thanks. Your quizzes are great too!

Level 23

Oct 2, 2021

Just fyi :)

Level 76

Nov 16, 2021

Something has to be wrong with the answers to "Lowest human exposure to air pollution". In the quiz "Countries that Beat Australia", the highest scoring countries for the exact same question are Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Sweden, New Zealand, Estonia and Australia itself.

Level 55

Nov 16, 2021

I used the most recent data of the world bank of data, in 2017. Maybe QM data are outdated, I can't know, but I just checked mine, and they seem to be completely correct.

Level 61

Feb 22, 2022

Why aren't the United States of America not included in the countries with the most As?

Level 50

Apr 7, 2022

Only 3 A's in United States of America.

Level 62

Nov 27, 2023

4 if you count the Oakland A's

Level 74

Feb 25, 2022

This needs updating after this year's Winter Olympics in China! Thanks for the quiz.

Level 55

Mar 1, 2022

Sorry for the delay. It should be fixed now.

Level 68

Jul 18, 2022

But now Canada's rank for that question should be 4 right? Great quiz too! Good range of questions

Level 55

Jul 18, 2022

True. It should be fixed in a few hours. And thank you very much!

Level 68

Jul 18, 2022

👍

Level 56

Apr 4, 2022

Are you sure that none of the Pacific Islands should be included in the air pollution question? Thanks.

Level 55

Apr 5, 2022

Completely sure. Check the data of the corresponding quiz, if you want. Some Pacifioc island countries are well ranked, but not as high as Canada. Remember that it's human exposure, so it also partially depends of the area and population of the concerned country.

Level 89

Jul 20, 2022

It also probably depends on the use of fuels for heating and cooking. Traditional low-tech wood-burning methods would likely create more air pollution in these countries than the methods used in more heavily populated, more developed countries.

Level 53

May 4, 2022

Canada is still more northern than Greenland

Level 55

May 4, 2022

False. Kaffeklubben Island, which is "part" of Greenland, is more northern than the whole Canadian territory.

Level 57

Dec 17, 2023

What could possibly be a less appropriate name for an island that has never been inhabited? It's like calling Jerusalem "New Australian Mountain Village" or something

Level 69

May 10, 2022

Great quiz! For the A's one, I couldn't get Antananarivo out of my head, and somehow didn't even think of the country it's in!

Level 55

May 10, 2022

Haha! Fun fact. Thanks for sharing it and for the compliment!

Level 73

Jun 13, 2022

This will need to be updated soon because Canada is going to share a land border with Denmark on Hans Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island#Resolution

Level 53

Oct 21, 2022

Canada is more northern than Greenland.

Level 55

Oct 22, 2022

Just read three comments above.

Level 80

Dec 13, 2023

Iceland didn't work for the third one.

Level 55

Dec 13, 2023

Fixed, thanks!

Level 63

Dec 26, 2023

Nice quiz dude, keep going.

Level 55

Dec 26, 2023

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Level 38

Feb 11, 2024

Albania has the same amount of A's as Canada as does the USA (United States of America)

Level 55

Feb 12, 2024

Yeah, that's what there is a "(t)" in the rank cell (for "tie"). But they can't of course be valid answer since they don't beat but just equal Canada.

Level 20

Mar 11, 2024

western most point on land is a bit tricky as I don't know of any official west pole, but it was a fun quiz!

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