Statistics for 2022 News Stories - Name the Country

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Clue	Country	% Correct
Russia invades this country	Ukraine	100%
Hundreds of millions of people are forced to remain at home for weeks at a time as this country maintains its strict "Covid Zero" policy until December	China	94%
Violent protests occur after morality police beat a young woman to death for wearing an improper hijab	Iran	94%
This country hosts the FIFA World Cup	Qatar	92%
... and this country wins it	Argentina	90%
This African country passes Brazil to become the 6th most populous in the world	Nigeria	87%
China is angered when U.S. leader Nancy Pelosi visits this island nation	Taiwan	86%
Lula da Silva is elected President	Brazil	82%
This country has three different Prime Ministers and two different monarchs	United Kingdom	81%
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated	Japan	80%
Canada and _____ end their border dispute, agreeing to split Hans Island	Denmark	79%
This country wins 37 medals at the Winter Olympics, the most of any country and adding to its all-time lead	Norway	67%
This African country surpasses 100 million in population	D. R. Congo	66%
A convoy of truckers travels across the country to protest Covid mandates	Canada	65%
158 people are killed by a crowd crush during Halloween street festivities	South Korea	58%
Inflation surges to over 80% as the value of the Lira crashes	Turkey	56%
President Pedro Castillo is deposed after attempting to dissolve Congress	Peru	45%
Over 1,739 people die in flooding due to heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers	Pakistan	43%