Countries by trivia

In its last military engagement in 1866, 80 men left and 81 came back, having experienced no actual fighting but making a friend on their way.

Erta Ale volcano in its Afar Region has had an active lava lake for more than 100 years

The only Central American nation with no Caribbean coastline

Shares its etymology with a district of West London which has several canals

Cyrillic and Latin script are used fully interchangeably in this country

A young Che Guevara witnessed the 1954 CIA-backed coup in this country

The town of Shibam Hadramawt, with its mud-brick buildings up to 30m tall, is known as the Manhattan of the Desert

The television program that has been repeated the most times in this country is a 1962 British comedy sketch that is virtually unknown in the United Kingdom

The home of voodoo

If someone's surname ends in "shvili", they or their forebears almost certainly come from this country

The film Zoolander depicted a plot to assassinate a fictional Prime Minister of this country, and was banned here as a result

Bikini Atoll, nuclear testing site and namesake of swimwear, is part of this country

Has one skyscraper, which gives it the second-highest number of skyscrapers per capita of any nation

Home to more elephants than any other nation

Both this country and the country that it shares a border with are named after rivers

The alcoholic drink Pisco might have been invented in this country, although its neighbour to the south very strongly disputes that

Scores an average of 3.5 points per letter in Scrabble scoring, the highest of any country

Ruled for thousands of years by a monarchy which enthusiastically built pyramids and obelisks

The people of this nation, which occupies one of the largest islands on Earth, descend from emigrants from an even larger island some 5,000 miles away

The only country named after a woman