These sovereign countries have disappeared from the world map since 1950 for a variety of reasons - merger, dissolution, partition, conquest. From the clues, identify them.
Excludes the Bantustans of South Africa.
Excludes cases of regime change where national boundaries remained unchanged.
An example of the above is the disappearance of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom in 1952.
In 2 cases, areas of a country declared UDI, but were subsequently reincorporated.
How could I have forgotten Czechoslovakia?! Will correct - thanks. I wrestled with West Germany, but officially East Germany was merged into the continuing Federal Republic (FRG), so I decided to omit West Germany.
Question to Quizmaster. Is there a way to avoid losing the % correct score when a line is added to a quiz? This quiz has been taken 60 times in a few days, but from %ages it appears only to have been tried 3 times, because I added a couple of lines after first posting. It seems to me that it should retain the earlier % correct score for the ORIGINAL lines. Inserting a new line is different to CHANGING a previously incorrect answer.