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Countries that Beat Greece

For each selected category, name any of the countries that ranks higher than Greece.
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First submittedApril 29, 2020
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Average score78.6%
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Rank
Category
Countries
5
Most populous country whose name begins with G
Germany | Ghana | Guatemala | Guinea
4 (t)
Country whose flag has the most stripes
Malaysia | United States | Liberia
5
Greatest number of Orthodox Christians
Russia | Ethiopia | Ukraine | Romania
3
Southernmost point on mainland Europe
* including territories
Spain | United Kingdom
2
European country with the southernmost capital
Malta
5
NATO member with the easternmost point
by longitude
United States | Turkey | Norway |
Finland | Romania
3
Highest olive oil production
Spain | Italy
5
European country whose flag has the most white
Finland | Monaco | Poland | Malta
4
Country containing the largest Mediterranean island
Italy | Cyprus | France
3
European country with the greatest
number of inhabited islands
Sweden | Finland
7
Most populous capital city starting with A
* urban area population
Ghana | Jordan | Turkey |
Ethiopia | Algeria
10
Greatest % population loss (2010–2024)
Marshall Islands | Ukraine |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Moldova |
Latvia | North Macedonia | Croatia |
Bulgaria | Tuvalu
2
Highest national debt to GDP ratio (2022)
Japan
2
Poorest country in the EU (2024, PPP)
Bulgaria
44 Comments
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Level 76
May 2, 2020
Try the whole series here!
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Level 56
May 2, 2020
I did not know that Japan had such a big debt!
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Level 84
May 2, 2020
They've spent it better though
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Level 59
Sep 25, 2024
But did they, really? Subsidizing giant corporation and social support for elderly. Neither is an outright waste or fraud, but neither drives competitiveness on a world market or economic growth.
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Level 95
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?
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Level 76
May 2, 2020
Moldova is not in the EU and therefore is not included
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Level 95
May 2, 2020
I stand corrected. Overlooked the "EU" reference. Thanks.
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Level 73
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
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Level 70
Dec 10, 2020
I missed the EU part too, and spent an eternity wildly guessing, before I finally re-read the question!
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Level 74
Mar 7, 2021
The EU would love to be thought of as a synonym of Europe!
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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)
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Level 76
May 3, 2020
Common sense would say otherwise
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Level 77
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.
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Level 49
May 25, 2020
There you see, once again common sense is wrong.
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Level 76
May 25, 2020
Changes are pending to have the U.S. added
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Level 89
May 3, 2020
True, but maybe you could add a cleverly-worded qualifier comment to sidestep this inconvenient truth.
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Level 73
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)

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Level 76
May 5, 2020
It is never asking just for European countries unless the question specifically says so
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Level 73
May 5, 2020
I know, I never said it did.
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Level 78
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.
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Level 67
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.
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Level 75
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.
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Level 73
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.
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Level 73
Sep 6, 2024
Four years later and it still stumped me, and surprised me.
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Level 63
Sep 27, 2024
Somehow I got that one fairly easily. The greatest population loss by % was far harder for me, even with 9 choices.
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Level 60
Jun 23, 2020
Randomly typed in Japan and got the debt one. I guess I should count myself lucky :)
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Level 75
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.
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Level 76
Jun 24, 2020
Possibly you entered ctrl+backspace
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Level 34
Feb 8, 2021
What about France for the first one. French Guinea. I'm pretty sure is further south than Greece.
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Level 33
Feb 25, 2021
It says southernmost point of mainland Europe, not southernmost point of any European country.
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Level 84
Aug 28, 2024
There is no such place as French Guinea.
+4
Level 67
Aug 30, 2024
Bro's living in 1958
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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."
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Level 66
Feb 23, 2022
Its Jetpunk, for some reason the Yanks love saying Cyprus is Asia for some reason...
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Level 69
Dec 29, 2022
although i agree that cyprus is in europe i don't get why you said for some reason twice
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Level 65
Feb 8, 2023
lmao
+2
Level 62
Mar 3, 2022
You should update % of white on flag to include Afghanistan.
+3
Level 70
May 3, 2022
N O
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2024
Afghanistan is my favourite European country.
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Level 68
Apr 29, 2023
Please update for Finland joining NATO, otherwise, nice quiz!
+2
Level ∞
Apr 30, 2023
Updated
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Level 50
Jan 30, 2025
Where is Abuja? Abuja has a higher population than Athens.
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Level 67
Feb 20, 2025
In the capital one, it says that it's seventh but there are only 5 answers
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Level 50
Apr 13, 2025
How is Netherlands not an answer to: "Most populous capital city starting with A"