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Cameroon Country Quiz

Can you guess these factors about the country of Cameroon?
Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: July 17, 2022
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First submittedAugust 20, 2019
Times taken17,587
Average score75.0%
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Capital city
Yaounde
Most populous city
Douala
Gulf that Cameroon borders
Gulf of Guinea
Large, but shallow lake, that the far north of Cameroon shares with
three other countries
Lake Chad
Official languages
English
French
Put on your thinking cap... What is the tallest mountain in Cameroon?
Mount Cameroon
Most populous country that Cameroon borders
Nigeria
Largest type of frog, found mostly in Cameroon (hint: a Bible character)
Goliath Frog
Country that colonized Cameroon from 1884–1916, calling it Kamerun
Germany
Like nearby Ivory Coast and Ghana, Cameroon is a top 5 producer of this bean
Cocoa
Cameroon won the gold medal at this team sport at the 2000 Olympics
Football
37 Comments
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Level 86
May 18, 2020
The word "lake" or similar is missing from the clue for Lake Chad.
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Level 79
May 18, 2020
I was just about to comment this exact same thing.
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Level ∞
May 19, 2020
This has been fixed, sorry about that.
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Level 89
May 19, 2020
I don't get the forced country quizzes. Some, like the American one, are full of information. If the quizzes are going to be so bare bone why make them? There is plenty of information to be added, like how the French tricked the Cameroonians into shooting up the American embassy or the Anglophone Crisis or the Bakassi conflict or Paul Biya.
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Level 74
May 19, 2020
They are meant to be easy starting points for Jetpunk newbies.
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Level 89
May 19, 2020
It's not like they don't get the answers. Besides, we literally just featured every subdivision of Asia on a map, I don't think that is exactly newbie (or anyone) material.
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Level 74
May 20, 2020
There are quizzes for beginner and quizzes for advanced jetpunkers (like the Asian one). And even if they get the answer, there has to be a certain amount of direct reward at the beginning, to get people get hooked on the side.
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Level ∞
May 22, 2020
This quiz is not for "newbies". The average person in the world would be lucky to guess more than 3. Recalibrate your expectations.

I think this is an example of a "purity spiral" that reduces the size of the audience by alienating outlying members.

It's the same thing that happened when I was an engineering student at university. The first test would come out and 30% of people would get C's or lower. They would drop the class. The next test would come out and a new cohort would get C's and drop, etc... The result was a distilled "pure" batch of engineers who employers like Microsoft could hire without worry.

That's not what we are going for on JetPunk. We are trying to grow the audience, not shrink it.

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Level 63
Jan 11, 2022
Thank you, you have done well in this. I don't even remember how or when I stumbled onto Jetpunk, but it has been years, and it all started with Countries of the World. I think my first time I might have gotten 35 or so. And I discovered an obsession with learning geography.

Now, years later, I manage a social media team that livestreams every week, and it feels like Jetpunk has all been some kind of training! Especially when I can announce, "We have someone watching in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines!" and knowing where to locate it on a map so I can stick a pin in it, while my team just blinks at me or furrows their eyebrows.

I guess I just wanted to say thank you to Jetpunk for helping me discover a passion I didn't know I had. Your labor of love that goes into all of the quizzes is very much appreciated.

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Level 74
May 19, 2020
I agree with you KanzazKyote. They’re fun to do if they are well made and filled with interesting facts, but the last two about Cameroon and Ivory Coast are really dull with only 12-13 basic questions...
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Level 74
Apr 6, 2021
Then don't do them... see, easy solution
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Level 72
May 27, 2020
They are not reports or papers. It is not about giving the most interesting facts about a country. It is no fun if you get 0 answers correct, the argument "but you get the answers afterwards anyway" does not have any value. That would just basically make it a one sided presentation.

A few interesting facts with a higher difficulty level is fine, it is nice to learn a few interesting things (like someone else on another quiz suggested, something about the oldest/biggest tree in the world, forgot the country, pretty sure it was in africa) but very obscure, uninteresting historical facts, that noone is gonna get (or remember afterwards) is not gonna make the quiz better.

It should either be gettable (though that does not mean a 100%, currency is gettable, but I definitely won't get them all), interesting, or a good fact to learn (like the lake chad, embarissingly I had no idea)

Not obscure boring forgettable facts just because they happen to be true (btw speaking in gene

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Level 74
Jun 13, 2020
I think it is just about giving the most interesting facts about countries!! Otherwise where’s the fun? I don’t think people are willing to take any quiz with dull answers. It is not about « getting as many answers as possible », but rather the « learning new interesting facts about countries I’ve just known the name so far. Wow now I’m more enlightened! »

I’m not saying the quizzes should be impossible, sure the capital city, currency, bordering countries... etc are necessary basics, but it wouldn’t hurt to add for example that the sultan of Brunei hired M. Jackson to do a concert there without attending it himself!

I mean come on. Only 12 questions about a rich country such as Cameroon? You could easily add more answers like balafon, Adamoua, some ethnic groups, Samuel Eto’o... etc.

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Level 91
Aug 22, 2020
This reminds me of something I've wondered about whenever I make quizzes about the U.S. Presidents. Do I make them super easy so that everybody can get a good score or do I fill them with information that only the most hardcore President buffs would answer?

I feel that if I did either approach they wouldn't make for very entertaining quizzes, so I try to balance out the difficulties as much as I can. But sometimes, they don't always play out depending on what the quiz topic is. For example, my quiz on James K. Polk ended up with a lot of the answers being states because he spent much of his time in office acquiring more land for the country.

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Level 75
May 19, 2020
Would you be so kind to accept cacao for cocoa? It's a common spelling (even in English)
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Level 74
May 21, 2020
Agreed, the bean is cacao.
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Level ∞
May 22, 2020
Cacoa will work now.
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Level 71
Aug 24, 2020
Hum. I'm not sure if QM is trolling or not on this one...
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Level 73
Jan 27, 2021
I'm not sure either :P But at any rate, cacao works now.
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Level 88
May 19, 2020
I agree with one previous comment, that Paul Biya has been there long enough to deserve a clue (longest-serving president in Africa).
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Level 73
May 26, 2020
Reads 7th question, thinks “WTAF?” Gives up and moves on. Sees answer and face palms.

Very sneaky QM lol

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Level 72
May 27, 2020
I think you mean the 6th question? Or else I fail to see what is sneaky about Nigeria. (I think maybe you accidentally counted the answers.)
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Level 76
Aug 22, 2020
It was a long shot, I guess - I was hoping for a Roger Milla question.
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Level 61
Aug 22, 2020
Cameroon deserves more than 12 questions
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Level 50
Sep 19, 2022
You could try some questions on Ambazonia
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Level 69
Aug 22, 2020
Due to some peculiar circumstances I once attended a wedding in Cameroon - that was definitely a memorable trip, so this quiz is special for me. Happy to get all the answers.

If Quizmaster ever looks for trivia to expand the quiz, maybe add one about a limnic eruption? Cameroon is one of only two countries where one was recorded (the other being DR Congo). And Paul Biya's long reign might be worth a question. Or Samuel Eto'o. But those are just suggestions, I like the quiz as it is.

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Level 76
Aug 22, 2020
Regarding the complaints about this quiz being too short, where are the questions asking for currency, as well as all of the bordering coutries? The previous country quizzes include both of those questions, and this one feels incomplete without them.
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Level 81
Aug 22, 2020
fine without them
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Level 59
Aug 22, 2020
I think the bordering countries question is replaced by the most populous bordering country. As for currency, I don’t know.
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Level 83
Nov 20, 2020
Crunchy frog.
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Level 24
Feb 4, 2021
I am from Cameroon Love the quiz!
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Level 63
Feb 8, 2022
33% of people didn't put their thinking caps on...
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Level 62
Feb 18, 2023
12/12 and from UK
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Level 81
Nov 6, 2023
Gave up when Jesus Frog wasn't the answer
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Level 75
Feb 4, 2024
11/12, only didn’t get Douala.
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Level 61
Oct 8, 2024
A question about the anglophone region and paul biya could help make this quiz less "forced" as a user said
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Level 57
Oct 10, 2024
Well, when I started working through these country quizes I did not expect Cameroon to be my first 100% score!