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Fact	Country	% Correct
Dropped from largest to third-largest country in Africa in 2011	Sudan	82%
The Arab Spring began in this country in late 2010	Tunisia	82%
The second-largest Portuguese-speaking country by both population and area	Angola	76%
The least densely populated country in the world	Mongolia	76%
Switzerland's army is composed of Swiss citizens, and this country's is as well	Vatican City	76%
Its sole official language is Catalan	Andorra	71%
Over 800 known languages are spoken by its inhabitants.	Papua New Guinea	71%
The only Arabic-speaking country in the Southern Hemisphere	Comoros	65%
Adopted bitcoin as legal tender a month before its value started to decline precipitously	El Salvador	65%
Inventors of the sauna	Finland	65%
With the lowest average elevation of any country, rising sea levels are of grave concern here	Maldives	65%
Its capital was named Titograd from 1946 until 1992	Montenegro	65%
Africa's tallest mountain is in this country	Tanzania	65%
Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain are among the lesser known of the seven constituent parts of this country	United Arab Emirates	65%
The capital of Portugal was in this country between 1807 and 1821	Brazil	59%
Palau and the Marshall Islands voted against membership of this federation in referendums when it was created in 1978	Federated States of Micronesia	59%
Colloquially referred to by its inhabitants as "The Hexagon"	France	59%
Contains the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia	Georgia	59%
Covers the western half of the only island in the world on which two national capitals can be found	Haiti	59%
Has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country in the Americas	Mexico	59%
Ironically, gambling or even entering a casino is illegal for its citizens	Monaco	59%
Contains a region called Moldavia, a mountain called Moldoveanu, a river called Moldova, and a monastery called Moldovitsa	Romania	59%
Clocks at railway stations throughout this country show the time in the capital city, up to eight time zones away	Russia	59%
The only African country named after a saint	Sao Tome and Principe	59%
Formerly divided into a Communist south and an Arab nationalist North, the country reunited in 1990	Yemen	59%
Formerly an exclave of a country about a thousand miles distant, it became independent after a bloody civil war in 1971	Bangladesh	53%
Forced a Ryanair plane to land in its territory in 2021 to abduct a dissident who was flying from Greece to Lithuania	Belarus	53%
Covers the eastern half of the only island in the world on which two national capitals can be found	Dominican Republic	53%
The largest living species of tortoise comes from this country	Ecuador	53%
Its name comes from the Greek for "Red Sea"	Eritrea	53%
The only absolute monarchy in Africa	Eswatini	53%
Has the largest population living on islands of any country	Indonesia	53%
Its name means "of the blackbird" in Serbian	Kosovo	53%
Its capital was devastated in 2020 by a massive explosion of improperly stored nitrates in its port area	Lebanon	53%
Their Eurovision Song Contest entry of 1974 is widely acclaimed as the greatest ever	Sweden	53%
Winners of the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956	Switzerland	53%
Was united with Egypt from 1958 to 1961 as the United Arab Republic	Syria	53%
The Darvaza gas crater has been burning since the 1980s in the middle of this country's Karakum Desert	Turkmenistan	53%
The government of this nation targets Gross Domestic Happiness over any purely economic metrics	Bhutan	47%
Has the most official languages of any country with 37	Bolivia	47%
Remote and uninhabited Hans Island is divided between this country and Denmark	Canada	47%
Of the two African countries named after lakes, this one is the larger country but has the smaller lake	Chad	47%
Anatomically-modern humans originated in what is now this country	Ethiopia	47%
Contains the world's largest artificial lake by surface area, formed by the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River	Ghana	47%
A religion which worshipped the Emperor of Ethiopia emerged in this nation in the 1930s	Jamaica	47%
Its 16-mile coastline makes it the most nearly landlocked nation in Asia	Jordan	47%
The second highest mountain in Africa shares its name with this country	Kenya	47%
The only country which spans both the equator and the international date line	Kiribati	47%
Until 2011, it had the only national flag consisting of a single colour	Libya	47%
Almost two thirds of this country would be submerged at high tide were it not for its extensive network of sea defences	Netherlands	47%
The least democratic of the nine countries whose official name include "Democratic"	North Korea	47%
The smallest country in the western hemisphere by both area and population	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47%
The three-peaked Mount Triglav is considered an emblem of this country	Slovenia	47%
Its capital lies on the island of Guadalcanal, which is named after a village in Spain and means "valley of stalls" in Arabic	Solomon Islands	47%
Even the vaguest criticism of this country's royal family is savagely punished, sometimes with jail sentences of decades	Thailand	47%
Has the second-lowest population of any country, after the Vatican City	Tuvalu	47%
Its former province of Kafiristan was the setting for Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King"	Afghanistan	41%
Its national flag is the only one in the world to feature a building	Cambodia	41%
Since 1941, this country has used gifts or loans of members of an iconic bear species to bolster diplomatic relations with other countries	China	41%
Its heavily indented coastline includes the two largest islands in the Adriatic Sea	Croatia	41%
The original source of halloumi cheese	Cyprus	41%
A variant of Hindi is an official language in this country, a legacy of Indian labourers brought to the country when it was a colony of the British Empire	Fiji	41%
The United Fruit Company was once the largest private landowner in this country, giving rise to the coining of the term "banana republic"	Guatemala	41%
This country's western neighbour claims jurisdiction over all land west of the Essequibo River, some two thirds of the total area	Guyana	41%
By 2531, everyone in this country will have the surname "Sato", because by law, married couples must have the same surname	Japan	41%
The Festival au Désert, celebrating Tuareg music and culture, was held in the country between 2001 and 2012	Mali	41%
Named after a British naval officer who, after sailing to Australia with the First Fleet, travelled to China charting unknown lands en route	Marshall Islands	41%
Has built a reputation as the best place in the world to make epic fantasy films	New Zealand	41%
Its capital and residence of its sultans were once on the island of Zanzibar	Oman	41%
Its two Nobel Prize winners, Derek Walcott and W. Arthur Lewis, give it the world's highest rate of Nobel winners per capita	Saint Lucia	41%
Was uninhabited until the 1750s, and is named after the finance minister of France at the time of its settlement	Seychelles	41%
Its national anthem, the Marcha Real, has no lyrics	Spain	41%
Site of the first skyscraper to exceed 500m in height	Taiwan	41%
Has an average elevation of over 3,000m, thanks to the Pamir Mountains which cover much of its territory	Tajikistan	41%
Named after two islands, themselves named after a religious concept and a cash crop	Trinidad and Tobago	41%
The film "The Last King of Scotland" is loosely based on the chaotic dictatorship this country experienced in the 1970s	Uganda	41%
This major industrialised country's lack of publicly funded healthcare and drug problems in some major cities inspired a hugely acclaimed drama series which ran from 2008 to 2013	United States	41%
Became the second doubly-landlocked country in the world on its independence in 1991	Uzbekistan	41%
Known to its own inhabitants as Hayastan	Armenia	35%
The municipality of Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 individual enclaves, all surrounded by the territory of the country's northern neighbour	Belgium	35%
Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared this country to be an empire in 1966, with himself as emperor	Central African Republic	35%
The so-called Singing Revolution, which led to the independence of three nations, began in this country in 1988	Estonia	35%
Named after a river, as is the only country it borders	Gambia	35%
The Bissagos archipelago supports a highly diverse ecosystem and was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1996	Guinea-Bissau	35%
Roads in this country have occasionally been constructed with significant detours in order to avoid disturbing elves	Iceland	35%
Named after an animal product which was once an import export from the region	Ivory Coast	35%
Renamed its capital in 2019, but reverted to its former name in 2022 after widespread protests	Kazakhstan	35%
Sometimes known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" due to its high average elevation	Lesotho	35%
The last country in Europe not to have universal suffrage, with women not being allowed to vote until 1984	Liechtenstein	35%
Of the two African countries named after lakes, this one is the smaller country but has the larger lake	Malawi	35%
Members of an ethnic group whose name means "East People" make up less than 1% of the population but are internationally renowned for their mountaineering skills	Nepal	35%
In 1974, the playing of this country's Eurovision Song Contest entry on national radio was used as a signal to initiate a coup against the country's fascist dictatorship	Portugal	35%
A number of pop stars from this country have had to interrupt their music careers to complete their obligatory military service	South Korea	35%
Near-constant thunderstorms over the mouth of this country's Catatumbo River produce about 5,000 lightning strikes a day	Venezuela	35%
Defeated their greatest rivals on penalties to win the 2015 Copa América, and did exactly the same thing again in 2016	Chile	29%
The first Warsaw Pact nation to open its border to the west in 1989	Hungary	29%
Produces 25 million tonnes of mango annually, almost half the global total	India	29%
Its national anthem mentions Poland, and the national anthem of Poland mentions this country	Italy	29%
The president from 2018 to 2024 was a former footballer who is the country's all time top goalscorer	Liberia	29%
Its capital sits at the confluence of the Alzette and Petrusse rivers	Luxembourg	29%
Its flag includes a cross which represents the George Cross awarded to the nation during WWII	Malta	29%
Named after a desert which may be the world's oldest, having been arid for at least 55 million years	Namibia	29%
Seceded from a larger country in 1991, without any of the bloodshed which affected the other seceding nations at the same time	North Macedonia	29%
Lies entirely in the Southern Hemisphere, but its northernmost point is only about 2 kilometres south of the equator	Peru	29%
Many nations have fought for their independence; this country's came involuntarily when it was expelled from a confederation in 1965	Singapore	29%
Seceded peacefully from a larger country in 1993, in what was known as the Velvet Divorce	Slovakia	29%
The Dinka people of this country are renowned for their height, averaging just under six feet tall.	South Sudan	29%
The smallest of the eight countries which straddle the Prime Meridian	Togo	29%
The highest peak in this country is called Boggy Peak, but was named Mount Obama from 2008-2016	Antigua and Barbuda	24%
An unexplained seismic disturbance occurred in 1993 on land owned by a Japanese cult in this country's vast and remote west	Australia	24%
Has the third highest GDP per capita in the Americas, after the USA and Canada	Bahamas	24%
A hurricane devasted its former capital in 1961, leading to the construction ten years later of a new inland capital	Belize	24%
Its capital city is named after the second-largest city in Portugal	Benin	24%
Ćevapi, a dish of grilled meat and vegetables, is considerd the national dish of this country	Bosnia and Herzegovina	24%
The most democratic country of mainland Africa, according to the 2023 Democracy Index	Botswana	24%
The crater lake Nyos released a massive cloud of CO2 gas in 1986, killing hundreds of people who lived nearby	Cameroon	24%
The only country whose name includes a colour	Cape Verde	24%
The only wild hippos outside Africa are found here	Colombia	24%
Former president Oscar Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for brokering peace accords which ended years of regional turmoil	Costa Rica	24%
Che Guevara fought in this country in the 1960s alongside Laurent Kabila, who became the country's president decades later	Democratic Republic of the Congo	24%
The majority of its territory lies on a large island, but the majority of its population lives in the mainland part of the country	Malaysia	24%
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was heard on this country's Rodrigues Island, some 3,000 miles away from the volcano	Mauritius	24%
Medjool dates, known as the "fruit of kings", originated in this country	Morocco	24%
Scores 34 points in Scrabble scoring, the highest of any single-word country	Mozambique	24%
The only country in the world with no official capital city	Nauru	24%
Its namesake hat is actually originally from Ecuador	Panama	24%
Due to the seafaring skills of its inhabitants, the archipelago to which this nation belongs was known historically as the Navigator Islands	Samoa	24%
Its first-level subdivisions are called "Castles"	San Marino	24%
Even though women in this country are severely repressed, it was selected unopposed in 2024 to chair the UN Commission on Status of Women	Saudi Arabia	24%
97.4% of its territory is covered by forest, the highest proportion of any country	Suriname	24%
Has the smallest population of all the countries to reach a football World Cup final	Uruguay	24%
The Shkumbin River divides this country into two regions which speak different dialects of its language	Albania	18%
This country, its capital, and the island it is on, all have different names but all start with the same letter	Brunei	18%
A province, a university, a newspaper and a baseball team in this country are named Granma, after a yacht which was named for its owner's grandmother	Cuba	18%
This country's Lake Assal is the lowest point in Africa, 155m below sea level	Djibouti	18%
Three rivers after which other countries are named rise in its Fouta Djallon highlands	Guinea	18%
The town of Muff is close to the northern coast, but its diving club exists purely for the sake of double entendre	Ireland	18%
Has "Democractic" in its full official name, but was ranked only 159th out of 167 in the 2023 Democracy Index	Laos	18%
From 1569 until 1772, formed a commonwealth with its southern neighbour which was one of Europe's largest and most prosperous nations	Lithuania	18%
The cities of León and Granada are historically fierce rivals, with the country's capital chosen for its compromise location between the two	Nicaragua	18%
The city of Agadez has been an important trade and transport crossroads for centuries	Niger	18%
Thanks largely to power from the Itaipu Dam, this country's 100% renewable energy sector is one of the world's largest energy exporters	Paraguay	18%
A gel of starch and sugar flavoured with rose water is a signature sweet of this country	Turkey	18%
The official national sport is Pato, a horseback sport combining elements of polo and basketball	Argentina	12%
Danish pastries were invented by bakers from this country	Austria	12%
Has the capital city with the lowest elevation, about 30 metres below sea level	Azerbaijan	12%
This island nation is colloquially referred to as "Bim" by its inhabitants	Barbados	12%
The Panafrican Film and Television Festival, held biennially in this country's capital, is Africa's largest film festival	Burkina Faso	12%
From space, the east and west parts of its capital look distinctly different due to their different street lighting technologies	Germany	12%
The chemical elements magnesium and manganese are both named after an ancient region of this country	Greece	12%
The world's largest exporter of dates	Israel	12%
Legendary firefighter Red Adair spent much of 1991 extinguishing burning oil wells in this country	Kuwait	12%
The Epic of Manas relates the story of this country's national hero over the course of some half a million lines of text	Kyrgyzstan	12%
Most male names in this country end in "s"; most female names end in either "a" or "e"	Latvia	12%
Two variants of its name are in use; which one you use is seen as a politicised choice	Myanmar	12%
Its name means "Land of the Pure" and also forms an acronym based on the names of five regions	Pakistan	12%
With an aspect ratio of 11:28, its national flag is the only one with a width more than twice its height	Qatar	12%
The island of Mustique, which cultivates an air of exclusivity and wealth, is part of this country	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12%
The annual Exit Festival, hosted in the northern part of this country, is one of Europe's largest	Serbia	12%
In 2022, a massive volcanic eruption in this country generated the loudest sound ever recorded.	Tonga	12%
Once commonly referred to using a definite article, a usage now considered archaic and disrespectful	Ukraine	12%
Was subject to joint colonial rule by France and the United Kingdom until its independence in 1980	Vanuatu	12%
Large numbers of people emigrated from this country by sea between the late 1970s and early 1990s	Vietnam	12%
Mines in this country's Copperbelt province produce about 4 per cent of the world's copper	Zambia	12%
The 15-year-long Bush War eventually led to this country's independence from colonial rule in 1980	Zimbabwe	12%
Its capital's name means "The Islands" in Arabic	Algeria	6%
Its name means "The two seas" in Arabic	Bahrain	6%
Jogging was outlawed in 2014 because the paranoid president feared that people were having subversive discussions while running	Burundi	6%
Due to frequent confusion with a much larger and more populous country nearby, it has been proposed that this country could change its name to "Waitukubuli"	Dominica	6%
Has the shortest people of any country at an average of 5'3" for men and 5'0" for women	East Timor	6%
Its capital city has the same etymology as another African capital city about 1700 miles away	Gabon	6%
This nation is the world's second largest exporter of nutmeg and features a nutmeg fruit on its flag	Grenada	6%
Scarlet Macaw Day is marked on June 28th annually to celebrate the country's national bird	Honduras	6%
Has a Levenshtein distance of 1 to a neighbouring country to the west	Iran	6%
Has a Levenshtein distance of 1 to a neighbouring country to the east	Iraq	6%
"Dundee United" is a slang term for an idiot in this country	Nigeria	6%
Its national broadcaster has pioneered "Slow TV", starting with a live broadcast of a seven-hour train journey in 2009	Norway	6%
In this country's Jellyfish Lake, millions of the creatures migrate daily from one side to the other	Palau	6%
Site of the largest volcanic eruption of the last 100 years	Philippines	6%
Perhaps surprisingly, only one person from this country has ever started on pole position in a Formula One Grand Prix	Poland	6%
In 2012, the capital city was rocked by a huge explosion caused when an arms depot caught fire	Republic of the Congo	6%
Its capital is located on a geographical feature after which an island nation 400 miles to the west takes its name	Senegal	6%
Its capital is the origin of the name of a large island about 1000 miles to the south	Somalia	6%
Its name means "Resplendent Island"	Sri Lanka	6%
Despite football being the most popular sport in this country, its national football team has not played since 1965	United Kingdom	6%
The oldest and wisest of the Wombles is named after this country	Bulgaria	0%
There are not enough Cs in a set of English Scrabble letters to spell its name, although it would fit on the board	Czech Republic	0%
Once controlled India's Nicobar Islands, ceding control to the British Empire in 1868	Denmark	0%
The site of the prototypical "Lessepsian migration", a phenomenon in which two previously entirely separate ecosystems are joined artificially	Egypt	0%
Olympic legend Eric the Eel is from here	Equatorial Guinea	0%
This island nation's name is derived from the name of a coastal capital about a thousand miles to the north	Madagascar	0%
Named after a province of the Roman Empire which was actually considerably further north than the country's present-day boundaries	Mauritania	0%
Since the year 2000, its national football league has been won 21 times by a club which officially comes from a different country	Moldova	0%
Banned plastic bags in 2008 and confiscates them from anyone found to be carrying them on entry	Rwanda	0%
Its capital was founded in 1787 by formerly enslaved people sent from London	Sierra Leone	0%
The Bang Bang Club was a group of four photographers who documented this country's violent transition to democracy in the 1990s	South Africa	0%