EU Countries Quiz

Got them all.

Got'em all, too. Cyprus was a total guess.

I am Austrian and got them all. Literally almost forgot our neighbor, Hungary! *facepalm*

gotta catch em all

forgot Malta

Actually didn't knew about Cyprus. But easy enough, I'm norwegian (and proud over not being a part of EU).

Norway is in the Schengen area however and complies with most EU laws allowing free trade and movement of people. So, can't escape it completley ;)

23/27, not bad

All but 5. Missed portugal

Got them all, Bulagria stumped me for a moment though...

I got them all on the first try! Whoop whoop :)

is cyprus even in Europe?

In a purely geographical sense, no. However with its ethnic-Greek population (at least in the Republic of Cyprus; the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not in the EU) it is considered by many to be 'culturally' European.

It's further west than Ukraine, and about on the same latitude as Malta or the southern tip of Greece. What pure geographical laws dictate that Cyprus isn't in Europe?

@Kalbahamut: That Cyprus is closer to the Asian mainland than to the European mainland, most notably.

That's not a geographical law and if I wanted to I could name all sorts of accepted conventions that defy it.

you're just making bold, confident pronouncements as if your words carry some authority when in reality you don't even know what you're talking about, like most people do. Deal with it. It's not "very much" in Asia any more than the Greek island of Kos is very much in Asia, or the Aleutian or Hawaiian islands are very much in Asia, or Malta is very much in Africa, or East Timor is very much in Oceania. Alaska is on the same tectonic plate as Asia. DEAL WITH IT!! ::grimace:: human are so irritating. Why not just admit that it's arbitrary, or that you don't really know? instead you have to commit full force to some bit of geography trivia, wrap your ego up in said commitment, and then get condescending about it?

Indeed

Only missed Portugal

Missed Italy cos I'm strange.

SAME

24/27 Missed Hungary and Slovakia. I tried to spell Luxembourg a few times but I guess I was unsuccessful.

100% on first try with 2 seconds left. Just got Luxembourg- didn't think it would be on.

100 % with 2:10 left I'm from Europe though

In a few years time you can take the UK of that list!

Yeah but in the mean time lets add Croatia.

In a few months' time now! ;)

Possibly

I think you should update the quiz. Croatia is now part of the EU (since July 1st). :-)

it's there now.

Wow, this was quick. :)

27/28 Missed Malta.. it was not very difficult even for those who do not reside in the continent of Europe.

Damn- forgot the Baltic States

100% and 1.28 min left. I'm a true European citizen :D.

For those who like to cheat: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom

For those that don't like to cheat: Australia, Paris, South Carolina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Botswana, Ganymede, and Yugoslavia.

thanks, i would've missed ganymede if it wasnt for you

Only got Cyprus because of everyone complaining that it doesn't belong in Asia in the countries of the world quiz because it's in the EU. Other than people whining, i never would have gotten it.

I missed italy -I'll never forgive myself

I am from China and got them all, but I still like france

got them all on one try

Missed portugal greece and slovenia.

Got them all first time, but I'm from Europe so that was kind of a given. Took me so long to remember Czech Republic, just went from my mind but got there in the end.

aaah missed out poland. oops

Cyprus was one of the last ones I had left to fill, but, luckily, I remembered it because of all of the arguments about it on this site.

I can't believe I missed Spain. aarrgghhhh.

I missed Cyprus.

Might as well be called name nearly every country in West Europe. Anyways, 28/28 with 3 minutes left.

Norway, Iceland. Plus if it was just Western Europe then no Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia or Slovenia. So no. It might as well not have been called nearly every country in Western Europe.

I forgot Andorra and Monaco, potentially Lichtenstein, San Marino and the Vatican

I missed Germany, lol :D

Got them all

only missed about 10 or 11

25/28 Missed portugal, spain + romania. angry

Latvia is now with €

100% {although in a few tries} with 2:03 left, Slovakia was the last one I got but stumped me a bit because I was thinking in the French area.

The EU and the Euro have nothing to do with continental borders.

That is like saying IF China had a culture similar to South America China would be in South America

Greece won't be in the list in some weeks

why?

How many actually?

159 weeks gone, still hasn't happened..

215 now...

Montenegro is not in EU, but they use Euro :D

So do Kosovo, Monaco, Vatican City and San Marino. Not to mention Zimbabwe along with a number of other currencies.

@JCBCFC You're wrong.

yeah but slovakia is the common name

the name Slovak Republic is only used very rarely

That would be like accepting Kingdom of Spain, Hellenic Republic, and French Republic. It's just too much work, and nobody uses those.

SPOILERS: Knowing that all the mini countries are excluded almost led me to leave out Luxembourg - but that is one of the original founders, being one of the three small ones grouped by the name "Benelux" (Belgium and the Netherlands).

I was stuck at the end by what could be between Croatia and the Czech Republic. I thought of Cyprus but then I thought because of 'Cy-' that it would've been the last C (as Syria beats out Switzerland for being the last S), Then I realised that 'Cz-' beats everything. Cyprus it was.

It pays to have a command of the alphabet.

missed cyprus and malta......completely forgot about them

3:10 left

I got them all 2:19 left and I am from Egypt. It doesn't really matter at all from where anyone is. It is either study or general knowledge and in my case it is knowledge.

3:22 left

Omfg I missed France XD Cyprus as well, but it's disputed.

It is undesputedly in the EU, there is no question about that. Cyprus being in Europe is more controversial though

I forgot Germany...

This is the second quiz today where the only one I miss is Poland. I get a country which isn't even in Europe but can't get Poland?? I am ashamed

I even tried tiny city states like Andorra and San Marino in which being in the EU would make no sense at all.

I know right! I am even Polish blood but miss Poland for a while! It's like I get Western Europe, then scan all across Southern Europe, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe, and completely forget about Poland until near the end.

Prepare to remove the UK if they vote leave tomorrow. And from all other EU quizzes

The UK voted out! Fix :)

Got another couple years to go yet!

... so now you'll have to deal with comments saying "Oi! UK is still in!". There's no sign at this stage of UK's official notice to leave, and whenever that happens, there'll still be a two-year wait while UK deserves its place in this quiz. (PS, as a Briton by birth, it's good to see UK reclaiming its nationhood!)

Who cares if people complain. Empirically the UK is still in the EU and will be for a while yet.

Oi! UK is still in!

uk just left EU so if you could fix that? :)

UK have not left the EU, but I see you amongst several others purposely searched for this quiz the day after the referendum just to make this comment. Even if they have left - which they haven't so I believe the answer should still remain - shame on Quizmaster for not updating it in a matter of hours, when he was probably in bed due to living in a different time zone.

Good thing the UK left the EU, hopefully a domino effect will follow.

Czechia doesn't work. If you accept removing UK when cabinet HASN'T ratified that decision, how come we're not counting Czechia's name change even though cabinet HAS ratified that?!

My point exactly.

Um, y'all realize that the UK is still part of the EU, right? It voted to leave, which will happen in about 2 years.

It will not happen. The referendum is not binding and it is in the UK's interests not to leave the EU.

We haven't left the EU yet so it should still be a regular answer in the quiz.

Well very novel - but the UK is still technically a member of the EU for a couple of years to come.

They should make UK an answer but when you enter it it says 'United Kingdom (leaving)' as technically we are still in but it will tell people who don't know the UK will leave.

Possibly to be replaced by Scotland?

@Stein, that just isn't true. Scotland voted to remain by 62% of the vote.

@Stein's comment is deleted now but it said that the majority of Scotland voted to leave and then used it to make a point about someone being wrong about something. It is easy to check that the basis of this argument was wrong.

Or/And Northern Ireland

Greatest decision the UK has ever made. Leaving the rotting corpse known as the EU is a huge step forward.

I agree! People in the remain campaign seem all so short sighted. They don't seem to realise that the EU is slowly dying and the only way to save it is to make the members integrate further. Something which I don't believe the UK wants. For me its nothing about immigration. It's all about re aligning ourselves away from Europe and positioning ourselves to get the best out of the rest of world. It's not going to be an easy few years, but in 20+ years time we will look back at this referendum and be thankful that we left when we did.

Further integration did nothing to help the United States. Which is why in the 20th century the country was one of the poorest and weakest in the world. Also, it's why, for example, the Philippines is doing so much better than, say, Hawaii. Everyone knows that trade, commerce, immigration and cooperation lead to economic death.

Haha, if you say that to the Leave camp they will totally agree with you and not see the sarcasm there.

^ seriously? All our support from other countries, gone. We've lost £350 billion and counting. stock market, fallen dramatically. I'm going on a trip soon, and it cost me £20 more to buy the same amount of euros. And all for what? The freedom of the UK? Nah... And the migrant crisis? that's something that hasn't changed... I don't oppose others opinions, but surely leaving was a bad idea...

You're actually a total buffoon if you think the stock market drop is a tragedy. It happens all the time, in fact it has happened 8 times in the last year.

I agree fully. Even though the media is writing it in 9 out of 10 stories as if the UK had already left, they have not. I don't really believe they will leave.

Yes, agreed on this. Nothing's definite yet (and probably never will be...)

The UK will not leave the EU anytime soon. I doubt the PM will activate the exit clause in the near or medium future.

It was activated just over 6 months after this comment.

dammit Malta!

I Missed Spain. I will never forgive myself

UK should be an answer (even if it fills as UK 'potentially leaving'). We remain an EU state, and will do so for years to come even in the worst case scenario that we do finally leave.

Lol, not really. Plus they've only been part of the EU since 2013.

Croatia uses Kuna - or at least, it was doing in September when I was in Zadar...

I went in August, and they still use Kuna.

This was really easy why are people saying they missed Spain and Germany????

To all those complaining one way or the other about the U.K.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_I2rfApYk

The information in that video was accurate at the time it was made (though things were starting to change by the time you wrote your comment). The predictions were wildly inaccurate.

26/27, somehow forgot Germany.

The UK still might not leave!

I got all without hesitation, but I was missing one in the end... took me half a minute of thinking which one I'm missing. GERMANY! :D Still finished with 2:25 remaining.

If you know your European countries, this one shouldn't be too hard as you can just keep typing in countries and hoping that they're on there... I was surprised that some weren't on there (e.g. Norway)

It isn't part of the Customs Union.

I'm an idiot. I almost forgot FRANCE. and I had every other one. but I got it though.

ABC Islands are Aruba, Bonaire, Curicao, right?

Got all of them first try. Didn't know all of them first but just guessed ones most probable to be in the EU.

100 % yay

forgot greece and bulgaria

March 2016- Referendum.

No it was in June.

Bit loose with the facts there Cao. Around 27% of the overall population voted to leave, but that includes everyone down to babies. Of registered voters around 37% voted to leave (and turnout was 72% which is very high for a UK vote).

Also, where are the polls that show remain would win by a "significant margin" now (or at any point since the referendum)? I'd be interested as I haven't seen anything that gives remain more than a slim victory, and that was the case with most polls before the vote too. The country's opinion is still on a knife edge as far as I can tell. Wish that wasn't the case, but it appears to be.

Polling since the referendum (and before it) can be found here. Mostly it shows a small lead for remain (but so did the polling beforehand, which was wrong).

Ugh forgot Malta! Didn't even know it had joined the EU xD

Then you didn't forget it, you just didn't think of it.

Brexit....tell me about it

Great quiz btw