Countries that Beat Greece

For each selected category, name any of the countries that ranks higher than Greece.

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First submitted	April 29, 2020
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Rank	Category	Countries
3	Southernmost point on mainland Europe * including territories	Spain \| United Kingdom
5	Greatest number of Orthodox Christians	Russia \| Ethiopia \| Ukraine \| Romania
12	Lowest fertility rate	Singapore \| Taiwan \| South Korea \| Bosnia and Herzegovina \| Poland \| Romania \| Slovenia \| Andorra \| Croatia \| Slovakia \| Japan
5	Country containing the most populous urban area situated on the Mediterranean Sea	Egypt \| Spain \| Italy \| Algeria
4 (t)	Country whose flag has the most stripes	Malaysia \| United States \| Liberia
4	Most populous country whose name begins with G	Germany \| Ghana \| Guatemala
2	European country with the southernmost capital	Malta
5	Easternmost NATO member	United States \| Turkey \| Norway \| Finland \| Romania
9	European country with the highest obesity rate	Malta \| United Kingdom \| Hungary \| Lithuania \| Czech Republic \| Andorra \| Ireland \| Bulgaria
4	Highest olive oil production	Spain \| Morocco \| Turkey
5	European country whose flag has the most white	Finland \| Monaco \| Poland \| Malta
4	Country containing the largest Mediterranean island	Italy \| Cyprus \| France
5	European country with the most islands >10 km² in size	Russia \| Denmark \| Norway \| United Kingdom
2	Highest national debt to GDP ratio (2017)	Japan
4	Poorest country in the EU (2020, PPP)	Bulgaria \| Croatia \| Romania
6	Country producing the most figs^[1]	Turkey \| Egypt \| Morocco \| Iran \| Algeria

Level 75

May 2, 2020

Try the whole series here!

+36

Level 57

May 2, 2020

I did not know that Japan had such a big debt!

+15

Level 81

May 2, 2020

They've spent it better though

Level 91

May 2, 2020

I'm intrigued by the ranking for poorest country - I thought Moldova was one of the poorest, if not the poorest in Europe. Would you have a reference for the source of this data?

+34

Level 75

May 2, 2020

Moldova is not in the EU and therefore is not included

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Level 91

May 2, 2020

I stand corrected. Overlooked the "EU" reference. Thanks.

Level 66

May 5, 2020

Perhaps because in many comments I have seen on this site ( and apparently many people's minds) EU is used synonymous with Europe, incorrectly obviously. Such errors made by others might seep into your sub-conscience, and makes you slip up under pressure

Level 67

Dec 10, 2020

I missed the EU part too, and spent an eternity wildly guessing, before I finally re-read the question!

Level 73

Mar 7, 2021

The EU would love to be thought of as a synonym of Europe!

+22

Level 68

May 2, 2020

Technically the United States is the easternmost NATO member because the Aleutian Islands in Alaska extend into the Eastern Hemisphere. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisopochnoi_Island)

Level 75

May 3, 2020

Common sense would say otherwise

Level 74

May 13, 2020

It'd be a cool thing to include though. It's not as though anybody is going to bother trying it unless they're aware of that fact.

+12

Level 50

May 25, 2020

There you see, once again common sense is wrong.

Level 75

May 25, 2020

Changes are pending to have the U.S. added

Level 85

May 3, 2020

True, but maybe you could add a cleverly-worded qualifier comment to sidestep this inconvenient truth.

+13

Level 66

May 5, 2020

Man .. again... somehow I felt the answers had to be european countries (which actually works out fine for most, besides the figs and debt, and somehow with flag stripes I momentarily did NOT think it needed to be European, but after that I did again.. But it did cost more time than if I had realised there were more possible answers and didnt specifically needed to be a European country... )

I guess I ll never learn haha.

Edit btw figs and debt were the only two I didnt manage to get..(otherwise I would ve gotten figs, but not debt, didn't know that)

Level 75

May 5, 2020

It is never asking just for European countries unless the question specifically says so

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Level 66

May 5, 2020

I know, I never said it did.

Level 75

May 6, 2020

Yet the European reference appears so often that you do get the impression the quiz is called "European countries that beat Greece". Why not just change it to that and take out the global questions? You'd still have a decent quiz.

Level 65

Jun 23, 2020

I also had trouble shifting gears from Europe only to Worldwide, which of course is not the quiz-maker's fault and wholly my own attention span problem.

Level 76

Jun 23, 2020

I did the same thing at first, then remembered I'd just done it on another of these quizzes this week and caught myself in time to finish the quiz.

Level 71

May 11, 2020

That highest national debt to GDP ratio question is very very tricky. It looks like I’m not the only one who struggled with it.

Level 69

May 15, 2020

Lowest fertility rate: What about Vatican?

Level 88

Jun 23, 2020

Data doesn't exist.

Level 90

Jun 23, 2020

But the rate is probably higher than you'd expect. Fertility rate = # children / # women. A 2013 report indicated about 30 women who were Vatican citizens at the time, and though it didn't give a number referenced some children, including the daughter of an electrician, and children of members of the Swiss Guard.

Level 88

Jun 23, 2020

Were those children born in the Vatican?

Level 90

Jul 10, 2020

They don't have to be. The numerator is the # of children, not the # of children born there.

Level 59

Jul 5, 2021

Lowest fertility rate is just incorrect in general.

Off the top of my head Romania, Croatia, Poland, Japan, Slovenia, Slovakia (so basically half the list) shouldn't be there, but Spain, Italy, Malta and Thailand are missing

Level ∞

Jul 5, 2021

Maybe you should post a source instead of just what you think. I'm sure the quiz uses a reputable source.

Level 59

Jul 6, 2021

Eurostat figures for 2019 http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do

Romania 1,77

Slovenia 1,61

Slovakia 1,57

Croatia 1,47

Poland 1,44

GREECE 1,34

Cyprus 1,33

Italy 1,27

Spain 1,23

Malta 1,14

Ukraine 1,14

Japanese Ministry of health, labor and welfare https://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/database/db-hw/populate/dl/E02.pdf - Japan 1,36 in 2019

Seems i was wrong about Thailand, their TFR is currently at 1,4 - I used a faulty source and I apologize, but everything else stands

The quiz probably uses UN or World Bank data which is very unreliable for demographic data

Level 60

Jun 23, 2020

Randomly typed in Japan and got the debt one. I guess I should count myself lucky :)

Level 76

Jun 23, 2020

I typed in Japan for the GDP one, it disappeared from the answer line as it does when one answers correctly, but the answer box for that clue was still blank so I kept trying other answers and after time was up it showed I had missed it, but the answer was Japan. No idea how I managed that, but it's what happened. I must have hit some weird combination of keys on my new laptop that deleted the answer without realizing it. The keyboard is really sensitive. Still, frustrating that I typed the correct answer but didn't get it.

Level 75

Jun 24, 2020

Possibly you entered ctrl+backspace

Level 35

Feb 8, 2021

What about France for the first one. French Guinea. I'm pretty sure is further south than Greece.

Level 23

Feb 25, 2021

It says southernmost point of mainland Europe, not southernmost point of any European country.

Level 71

Jul 2, 2021

Shocked that no one has said anything yet about Cyprus not being included under "European country whose flag has the most white."