Countries by trivia

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Fact	Country
The last major landmass to be discovered and settled, some time in the 1300s.	New Zealand
Both the women's and the men's world record for the marathon are held by athletes from this country	Kenya
The film Zoolander depicted a plot to assassinate a fictional Prime Minister of this country, and was banned here as a result	Malaysia
Thor Heyerdahl claimed that the Norse gods of the Aesir came from this country, partly because its first two syllables sound similar to "Aesir"	Azerbaijan
King Sobhuza II ruled it for 82 years, 254 days - the longest verified reign of any monarch	Eswatini
Abolished its monarchy in 1946, although the last king was elected Prime Minister some 55 years later	Bulgaria
Shares its etymology with a district of West London which has several canals	Venezuela
A desert irrigation project at Al-Kufrah is easily visible from space	Libya
You can spend this country's money in Singapore and vice versa	Brunei
Has the highest lowest point of any country at 1400m above sea level	Lesotho

Fact	Country
Very frequently confused with a similarly-named country to its south	Slovakia
Ruled between 1967 and 2023 by a family whose surname is almost an anagram of the country's name	Gabon
The only country outside Africa where cheetahs live in the wild	Iran
Shares its name with the fourth-largest city in its neighbouring country to the east.	Benin
Home of the dodo until 1662	Mauritius
Formed in 1968 from the union of two countries, a large mainland territory and an offshore island	Tanzania
More than three-quarters of the population is male	Qatar
Its name is 90 per cent consonants	Kyrgyzstan
According to the quiz on world countries, this is the least known country in the world.	Sao Tome and Principe
The town of Shibam Hadramawt, with its mud-brick buildings up to 30m tall, is known as the Manhattan of the Desert	Yemen

2 Comments

Level 66

Sep 7, 2021

More time please, perhaps double

Level 81

Sep 8, 2021

I think 8 minutes might be too generous for 20 questions but I increased it to 6 minutes. If anyone else should complain I'll increase it some more :)

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