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Countries by a Single Word

Can you guess these countries referred to by a single word?
If multiple countries work, guess the strongest association. Whiners will be forced through a fine mesh.
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Last updated: September 16, 2017
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Word
Answer
Sphinx
Egypt
Poutine
Canada
Magyar
Hungary
Maori
New Zealand
Krakatoa
Indonesia
Provence
France
Cantons
Switzerland
Lemur
Madagascar
Word
Answer
Evita
Argentina
Zulu
South Africa
Qantas
Australia
Kibbutz
Israel
Selassie
Ethiopia
Teardrop
Sri Lanka
Pinoy
Philippines
Word
Answer
Fjord
Norway
Drachma
Greece
Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Genghis
Mongolia
Juventus
Italy
Galapagos
Ecuador
Castro
Cuba
48 Comments
+3
Level 60
Apr 1, 2020
Easier than I expected and pretty fun :)
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Level 74
May 2, 2020
Thanks.
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Level 80
May 2, 2020
Surely it should be yellow box?
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Level 74
May 2, 2020
I don't know how to do that.
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Level 76
May 7, 2021
In Step 1 - Options of the Quiz Editor there's a drop-down box on the right hand side marked Yellow Box that defaults to No - just set that option to Yes
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Level 90
Sep 26, 2022
Definitely.
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Level 53
Oct 23, 2022
Yea i guessed like 80% of them just putting in random countries
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Level 86
Oct 14, 2024
Why? If it's truly a one to one association, it shouldn't be necessary, other than freak round-about connections over the meaning of Magyar and poutine.
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Level 75
Oct 7, 2020
Defo yellow box this baby! It's just an option in the edit section, easy to do.

I've never heard of poutine, then I thought magyar was a kind of syrup, so I tried the Maple Syrup country and got poutine! Fun!

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Level 50
Jun 6, 2022
You're missing out on a lot.
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Level 61
May 7, 2021
How have I never heard of poutine? Wow.

Yes to yellow box.

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Level 74
Jul 24, 2023
Loved this quiz, super idea of a one word descriptor of each country. Thank you so much.
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Level 81
Jul 24, 2023
Great quiz!
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Level 85
Aug 22, 2023
This was fun.
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Level 71
Oct 13, 2024
Took me a hot moment to get Selassie, then I realised his picture is in the thumbnail :P
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Level 70
Oct 13, 2024
Great quiz - amazing how often one word is all we need to think of a country! It would be interesting to do this for more countries or even all of them - I wonder how many have obvious single word associations (other than eg the capital city).
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Level 76
Oct 13, 2024
Kept trying China for Cantons...
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Level 80
Oct 14, 2024
The 's' is carrying lots of weight here..
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Level 61
Oct 25, 2024
Glad I'm not the only one that thought that.
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Level 81
Oct 14, 2024
That was fun--thank you.
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Level 78
Oct 14, 2024
I always associate Selassie with Jamaica because of Rastafarianism. I forgot he was the leader of Ethiopia for a hot second.
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Level 92
Oct 14, 2024
Official whiner here, pointing out that cantons are a prominent feature of many many countries. It's just a French term for political subdivision and would be like saying "District" belongs the US just because Washington DC is widely known. Preparing to be meshed finely.
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Level 80
Oct 14, 2024
There's only one "district" in the US though, even if it might be widely known among international capital districts, plus it's probably best known just as Washington or DC, not as a (or the) "district." I think a better parallel would be if the word was 'states.' My guess is that most people would first think of the US despite lots of other countries having states.
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Level 71
Oct 22, 2024
Yeah, but we want to whine in order to satisfy our craving for being strained with a fine mesh and turned into pure, clear, liquid pedantry.
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Level 73
Oct 14, 2024
one could argue that Monaco is also valid (maybe even more) for Provence since it is considered to be part of it
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Level 70
Oct 17, 2024
The Cote d'Azur and the French Riviera are going to be what Monaco is most heavily associated with.
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Level 67
Oct 25, 2024
And there are plenty of things France is more heavily associated with as well. The point is still valid.
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Level 24
Oct 15, 2024
Canton could also be Luxembourg
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Level 75
Oct 15, 2024
No, please. I can't accept that the word to recognize my country is "Juventus"! (loved by 12 million, hated by the other 48)

;-)

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Level 81
Oct 21, 2024
I thought it was an odd choice, but it still worked - I got the answer instantly - which is the point of the quiz. That said, Italy probably has far more options that would work for this purpose than most countries.
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Level 67
Oct 25, 2024
I thought that's what made it good. You could do "pasta" or "Tuscany" or whatever, but those are so obvious. Italian culture is much better-known that most. It was nice to get a different kind of clue for once. I only knew it because this Italian-American family I knew when I was like 12 was super into Juventus. I don't think I have heard that word in over 25 years.
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Level 67
Oct 25, 2024
As someone who doesn't care about or follow sports, soccer especially so, I thought it might have been some Roman emperor I hadn't heard about before.
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Level 57
Oct 25, 2024
Poutine is a Québécois meal, nor Canadian.
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Level 80
Oct 25, 2024
And Quebec is part of Canada..
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Level 77
Oct 25, 2024
Spoken with confidence by a European?
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Level 58
Oct 25, 2024
Spoken with confidence by someone who knows geography.
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Level 74
Oct 25, 2024
Back in the 1960s Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks put out a little book of humorous photographic portraits, including the dictator "Haile Unlikely" portrayed by Carl Reiner in full military uniform and regalia with Mel Brooks in the background manning the air pump needed to prop up Unlikely. Reiner wrote a tremendous number of books over his career but I haven't been able to locate this one.

Now to the pointless quibbling: just as Zimbabwe was once called Southern Rhodesia, Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia. Neither have cantons, although there is an Italian restaurant named "Da Canton" in Livingstone, Zambia.

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Level 82
Oct 25, 2024
I tried this without my reading glasses on and was really wondering why I should know what country invented "evites".
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Level 69
Oct 25, 2024
Teardrop --> Denmark. Only Denmark.
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Level 80
Oct 27, 2024
Denmark a teardrop? Maybe one that's fallen on the floor
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Level 62
Oct 25, 2024
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Level 50
Oct 25, 2024
Question: How is "teardrop" associated with Sri Lanka?
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Level 54
Oct 26, 2024
Erm, look at the shape of the country on a map/atlas
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Level 55
Oct 25, 2024
Accept Russia for Poutine.
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Level 67
Oct 25, 2024
Lol...I saw "Genghis" and immediately wrote "Khan"
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Level 29
Oct 25, 2024
how is pinoy the least known one??? do yall not see the "pinoy pride!" comments on every single youtube video lol
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Level 54
Oct 26, 2024
We clearly watch very different videos then, as I've never seen it. Pinoy is, I suspect, well known in North America and Philippines, but not much elsewhere.
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Level 70
Oct 25, 2024
A nice easy quiz, but as an Aussie, I'm embarrassed for this clue. No longer the pride of Australia, literally makes the most distrusted list each year...
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