Name a Valid Country #2

Name any of the countries that belongs in each selected category.

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Name a country ...	#	Answer
that starts with Z	2	Zambia \| Zimbabwe
that is by law a one-party Marxist state	4	China \| Cuba \| Laos \| Vietnam
that has territory within 100 miles of the U.S. but doesn't border it	3	Bahamas \| Cuba \| Russia
whose name ends in L	5	Brazil \| Israel \| Nepal \| Portugal \| Senegal
that is an island nation in the Mediterranean Sea	2	Cyprus \| Malta
that is an island nation in the Indian Ocean	6	Comoros \| Madagascar \| Maldives \| Mauritius \| Seychelles \| Sri Lanka
that was once part of Yugoslavia	7	Bosnia and Herzegovina \| Croatia \| Kosovo \| Montenegro \| North Macedonia \| Serbia \| Slovenia
that borders Costa Rica	2	Nicaragua \| Panama
where baseball is the most popular spectator sport	8	Cuba \| Dominican Republic \| Japan \| Nicaragua \| Panama \| South Korea \| Taiwan \| Venezuela
whose name ends in Y	8	Germany \| Hungary \| Italy \| Norway \| Paraguay \| Turkey \| Uruguay \| Vatican City
whose flag features the Southern Cross	5	Australia \| Brazil \| New Zealand \| Papua New Guinea \| Samoa
that uses the Peso	8	Argentina \| Chile \| Colombia \| Cuba \| Dominican Republic \| Mexico \| Philippines \| Uruguay
whose name has only one syllable	5	Chad \| France \| Greece \| Laos \| Spain
that the Mekong River flows through	6	Cambodia \| China \| Laos \| Myanmar \| Thailand \| Vietnam
on the Ionian Sea	3	Albania \| Greece \| Italy
with an eagle on its flag	9	Albania \| Egypt \| Kazakhstan \| Mexico \| Moldova \| Montenegro \| Serbia \| Zambia \| Zimbabwe
that has at least 100 million Muslims	6	Bangladesh \| Egypt \| India \| Indonesia \| Nigeria \| Pakistan
bordering the Persian Gulf	8	Bahrain \| Iran \| Iraq \| Kuwait \| Oman \| Qatar \| Saudi Arabia \| United Arab Emirates
that had deaths from Ebola in 2014	5	D.R. Congo \| Guinea \| Liberia \| Nigeria \| Sierra Leone
with Buddhism as an official religion	7	Bhutan \| Cambodia \| Indonesia \| Laos \| Myanmar \| Sri Lanka \| Thailand

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86 Comments

+15

Level 63

Jan 15, 2019

nice follow up

Level 76

Jan 15, 2019

Thanks!

Level 39

Jan 26, 2019

Great quiz

Level 66

Jan 26, 2019

I love this series! It'd be great to have fewer options in future questions, I think I did this quiz in 20 seconds.

Level 69

Apr 8, 2019

But the ones with the fewest options were the easiest generally.

Level 97

Jan 28, 2019

Loads of fun, thank you

Level 73

Jan 30, 2019

Thanks for the series. Fun stuff.

Level 36

Jan 30, 2019

Great idea!

Level 63

Feb 22, 2019

Fun quiz series.

Level 68

Apr 6, 2019

Great quiz, thanks

Level 62

Apr 6, 2019

20/20. Nice quiz! It was really fun, and I was surprised that I got them all. Now I need to try the first one.

Level 75

Apr 6, 2019

Fun, fun, fun. Thanks

Level 18

Apr 6, 2019

Fun quiz. The only one I didn't get was "eagle on the flag".

Thanks.

Level 45

Apr 6, 2019

I would argue Laos has two syllables, at least in the UK we pronounce is a "Lay-os"

Level 58

Apr 9, 2019

I've never heard it called Lay-os - it's pronounced like 'louse' as far as I understand it. (100% brit!)

Level 76

Apr 9, 2019

The 's' is actually silent

Level 75

Sep 17, 2019

French people like to drop the 's' in 'Laos', but I would trust the Laotians to tell us how to pronounce it, and they pronounce the 's'.

Level 70

Aug 24, 2023

French people absolutely do not drop the S in Laos! We do pronounce it as two syllables, though: Lah-os.

Level 67

Feb 2, 2024

I trust the Laotians too, and they literally don't

Level 67

Feb 2, 2024

For a more informative response: Laotians didn't call it Laos, they called it ລາວ (pronounced "LAU") which got transliterated by the French who colonized them as LaoS because the French are weird with silent letters. English speakers got confused and pronounced the S, but Laotians never pronounced the S.

Level 43

Nov 18, 2024

I do agree with you but this time in french this S is not silent. We pronounce it loud and clear haha. It's La-oS with the a pronounce in french haha

Level 69

Sep 18, 2020

Laotians? They are definently called Lao people

Level 59

Dec 8, 2020

I think Lao = The Lao people group found within Indochina and surrounding area, and Laotian = A person from Laos.

Level 45

Feb 22, 2024

Lotion

Level 51

Apr 2, 2025

In German it has two syllables too. It is pronounced La-os. But ok, there are some other countries that gave me the point anyway :-)

Level 34

Apr 18, 2025

France, ironically

Level 17

Apr 6, 2019

27 seconds left!

Level 71

Apr 7, 2019

I will never understand the logic of the syllables in English...

Level 60

Jul 12, 2022

Same. I'm a French native and France would be Fran-ce so 2 syllables.

Level 68

Jul 13, 2022

I'm a brazilian and the only one that made sense was Chad. Spain maybe, the rest NFW.

Level 67

Feb 2, 2024

In (US) English, the last E in "France" and "Greece" is silent, and "ao" is a diphthong.

Level 36

Jul 17, 2024

As a German I say exactly the same :-)

Level 66

Apr 7, 2019

Like that, thanks

Level 51

Apr 8, 2019

Shouldn't Mali be included in the Ebola deaths question? It was my first thought simply since I focused on that area, but it didn't take it. But it apparently did have 6 deaths. Not many granted, but it took my answer of Nigeria, and they only had 8...

Level 58

Apr 9, 2019

Good quiz

Level 68

Jun 3, 2019

The question on the Red Sea is in the first quiz

Level 65

Aug 20, 2019

I didn't get the 2 questions with "ends in L" and "ends in Y", never thought of looking at the answers from other questions containing loads of those answer though. lol

Level 75

Sep 17, 2019

It should be 'has a currency called the Peso' rather than 'uses the Peso' - it's not as if they're the same currency or anything

Level 64

Jan 27, 2020

what about british indian ocean territory?

Level 76

Jan 27, 2020

What do you mean? What about the British Indian Ocean Territory?

Level 76

Feb 14, 2020

Also try The Hard Edition and the Easy Edition!

Level 68

Feb 15, 2020

I think Qatar is missing from the answers to the question "bordering the Persian Gulf"

Level 76

Feb 15, 2020

Ok, about to fix that

Level 23

Feb 16, 2020

Samoa is less than 100 miles away from American Samoa(USA territory)

Level 59

Dec 8, 2020

That is true! Samoa is only 50 miles away from AS, so if that is true, Puerto Rico is also 70 miles away from the Dominican Rep. These need to be added or the question needs to be reworded.

Level 67

Feb 2, 2024

Territories are standardly excluded, but I agree it should be mentioned or included

Level 30

Apr 2, 2020

How is Laos one syllable? Where I am from, it's definitely pronounced with two syllables.

Level 76

Apr 2, 2020

Because the S is silent. It is properly pronounced the same way as 'loud' without the D.

Level 60

Jan 30, 2021

If the s is silent, it will still get 2 syllables:

La-o

Level 80

Apr 22, 2021

Except it's not La-o. Like it was said earlier, it's pronounced the same as loud without the "d".

Level 15

Jun 30, 2020

Not bad... for not bordering the US, should really state "within 100 miles but no LAND border with the US". Also good test-making skills: too many of the answers can be teased out by getting other answers right. Like country that ends with "y" (I didn't remember, but I just looked at the other answers and sure enough).

Level 63

Jul 5, 2020

Indonesia also has Buddishm as an official religion

Level 69

Sep 18, 2020

No. It is nearly 100% islamic

Level 88

Jul 24, 2021

Indonesia is about 87% muslim and does have 6 official religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism. You're going to get fact-checked on a quiz site and it only takes 30 seconds to confirm that what you post is correct.

Level 76

Sep 18, 2020

Actually, Indonesia has more Muslims than any other country.

Level 77

Apr 14, 2021

20/20 my pals 8)

Level 80

Apr 22, 2021

I answered Kosovo for the former Yugoslavian question just to show my support of their independence from Serbia.

Level 60

Nov 5, 2021

I'm sure they really appreciate it

Level 63

May 30, 2021

Including dependencies, both of the US and of other nations, we would have Dominican Republic and UK (British Virgin islands) which are within 100 mi from Puerto Rico, and Netherlands (Saba is at ~90 mi from USVI) and France (St. Martin is just short of 100 mi from USVI). In the Pacific American Samoa is less then 100 mi far from Samoa.

Level 69

Jul 31, 2021

Good quiz. For the second question, am I the only one who entered "North Korea", and was surprised that it wasn't a valid answer?

Level 60

Aug 19, 2021

Great quiz. What a shame so many countries have baseball as the biggest spectator sport! Feel very sorry for them.

Level 71

Aug 21, 2021

This might be needlessly nitpicky, but couldn't you say that, because of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba technically borders the United States?

Level 86

Aug 21, 2021

Guantanamo Bay isn't technically US territory. It's Cuban territory used under long-term LEASE by the US - since 1903. The US sends a rent check every year, but the Castro government has never deposited it - except "accidentally" in 1959.

Level 54

Aug 21, 2021

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Iran's flag depict an eagle?

Level 79

Aug 21, 2021

Nope! It's the phrase "there is no God except Allah" in Arabic script, highly stylized to look like four crescents and a sword making the shape of a tulip.

Level 74

Aug 21, 2021

Cool stuff

Level 74

Aug 21, 2021

1:44 remaining, I love these types of quizzes

Level 39

Aug 22, 2021

How did I missed my country lol

Level 23

Aug 11, 2022

Southern Cross? Isn't it the Union Jack?

Level 67

Sep 20, 2022

Level 56

Jul 27, 2023

What does that question even mean??

Level 67

Feb 2, 2024

It's a constellation

Level 67

Sep 20, 2022

The day Jetpunk stops accepting Burma as a valid answer is the day i stop getting 5 points on quizzes

Level 52

Jan 9, 2023

Nice quizz, but I have criticism:

I think France is with 2 syllables: Fran-ce. Isn't it?

Level 74

Feb 15, 2023

The 'ce' at the end of "France" is just an 's' sound so it can't be a syllable on its own.

Level 67

Feb 2, 2024

That E is silent in English

Level 59

Apr 25, 2023

Honestly it'd probably be good to replace the "syllable" question. Different sources consider 1 syllable (How Many Syllables .com) or 2 (wordhelp .com).

Level 66

Aug 29, 2023

I disagree. France is only multi-syllabic in non-English languages. The link you gave for two syllables (wordhelp.com) disagrees with you stating that France has only one syllable and gives no alternate pronunciation with two.

Level 54

Jun 10, 2023

i had no idea the southern crosshad something to do with stars

Level 50

Jul 18, 2023

Got them all! Wasn't sure about Ionian sea but thought of Ionic columns so I guessed Greece. Guessed Australia for southern cross correctly too.

Level 58

Aug 28, 2023

Nicht einfach!!!

Level 40

Sep 2, 2023

Should Poland be added to the flag question? The alternate form of the Polish flag containing the white Eagle is also official.