Fictional Characters by Country #2

Can you name the countries where these fictional characters were born?
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Give the modern day country, even if it didn't exist at the time
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Last updated: December 19, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 16, 2014
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Average score47.6%
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Character
Country
Hansel and Gretel
Germany
Super Mario
Italy
Crocodile Dundee
Australia
Dudley Do-Right
Canada
Heidi
Switzerland
Sherlock Holmes
United Kingdom
Achilles
Greece
Paddington Bear
Peru
Pippi Longstocking
Sweden
Inspector Clouseau
France
Fyodor Karamazov
Russia
Bart Simpson
United States
Zwarte Piet
Spain
Brüno
Austria
Molly Malone
Ireland
Aladdin
China
Bender
Mexico
Keyser Söze
Turkey
Tony Montana
Cuba
Sinbad the Sailor
Iraq
Hermes Conrad
Jamaica
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Level 90
Mar 13, 2014
If that clue for Aladdin is accurate, you just blew my mind. 1001 Arabian Nights was set in China?! Learn something new every day on this site.
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Level 20
Dec 13, 2018
lol he just don't want us to win
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Level 84
Mar 4, 2020
"Some of the stories commonly associated with The Nights, in particular "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", were not part of The Nights in its original Arabic versions but were added to the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators."
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Level 68
Mar 13, 2014
Aladdin is from the fictional place of Agrabah, and if anything, is made to appear Persian, which is in modern-day Iran. I do not find a single source that even suggests a Chinese link.
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Level 51
Sep 30, 2015
that's just in the disney movie
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Level 51
Mar 22, 2017
To be fair to ADeljaj, Disney's Aladdin is also a famous fictional character. The question ought to specify which story he's from, or accept both answers.
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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2014
"Once upon a time, in a far city of Cathay, there dwelt a poor tailor who had an only son named Aladdin". Consider your minds blown.
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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2014
By the way, Cathay = China.
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Level 86
Apr 28, 2014
I started my search with Saudi Arabia, moving on to Iran and North Africa. I would have never guessed China.
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Level 67
Sep 22, 2021
Same. Gave up with India and Egypt.
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Level 43
Apr 6, 2014
Wow. Since all the modern retellings of Aladdin leave out the Cathay/China link, I never realized that, but here it is (courtesy of Wikipedia, and cited there): "Although Aladdin is a Middle Eastern tale, the story is set in China, and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese. ... a deliberately exotic setting is in any case a common storytelling device." It sounds like the lack of Chinese names or culture can be explained by the fact that lots of old folk tales are given "exotic" settings for the sake of interest, but then any details that would be associated with that settings are ignored. I doubt the original writer of Aladdin knew all that much about Cathay, except that it's a place far away from him.
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Level 60
Jul 1, 2014
Or her...since the original 1001 tales was supposedly told by Scheherezade, a woman...
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Level 76
Jul 11, 2019
I think the story appears middle eastern because it is set in China but written by a middle-eastern person who knew nothing about China.
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Level 48
Apr 20, 2014
Bender Bending Rodriguez
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Level 66
Apr 28, 2014
Yep -- the two from "Futurama" actually helped my score!
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Level 72
Jul 24, 2018
Too Futurama-centric.
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Level 82
Apr 28, 2014
I guess it depends on which Aladdin you are talking about. The one from the Disney movie that most are more familiar with is definitely NOT Chinese. From the singing about Arabian Nights, to the Arabic mythology (djinni), to the flying carpets and sultans, to the guy's name (Al aDin) which is Arabic, everything about the story screams Arabia. Possibly Syria, Iraq, Turkey or Iran, would be a bit of a stretch but possible. But definitely not China. Only in the original tale, perhaps. But then the original tale was badly told. Or it was like Hamlet which is supposed to be Denmark but really isn't, or MASH which is supposed to be Korea but is really Vietnam.
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Level 42
May 3, 2015
Doesn't the play's title Hamlet, Prince of Denmark give it away?
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Level 76
Sep 5, 2018
I mean, maybe, but if the question was "What country was Hamlet from?" or "Where did MASH take place?" the answer wouldn't be the UK or Vietnam. Yes, the Disney version took place in some version of Arabia, but the original story from 1001 Arabian Nights was explicitly set in China.
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Level 82
May 12, 2019
right. so, like I said, depends on which Aladdin you're talking about.
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2015
I'm pretty disappointed that the Futurama characters don't have higher percentages. Get cultured people!
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Level 36
Aug 25, 2015
Aladdin...was not Chinese.
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Level 76
Jul 11, 2019
The original story of Aladdin was written in Arabia but set in China.
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Level 70
Aug 31, 2015
Pretty sad that the USA is represented by Bart Simpson.
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Level 72
Mar 4, 2020
He's a fictional character on a show that has been going for 30 years, seems like a good choice to me.
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Level 48
Feb 16, 2016
If we are going back to the origin of Aladdin, you would have to go back to Herodotus' Amasis which inspired the story
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Level 63
Jan 20, 2017
Molly Malone fictional? I won't have it!
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Level 61
Jun 10, 2017
Alladin was certainly not set in china
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Level 46
Jun 14, 2017
Wasn't Mario born in Brooklyn?
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Level 55
Aug 27, 2017
How is Mario from Italy. The character is supposed to be Italian AMERICAN but in every incarnation I have ever heard of he was from Brooklyn. He was, of course, created in Japan (as Jumpman).
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Level 34
Mar 7, 2018
Aladdin in CHINA?!
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Level 71
May 13, 2018
I'm surprised Spongebob Squarepants wasn't on this quiz or the previous one, as that'd be an interesting bit of trivia to include from a geographical point of view (he's probably the most famous character from the Marshall Islands).
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Level 37
Nov 30, 2018
"Zwarte Piet" is the Dutch name for St. Nicholas (Sinterklaas') Moorish helper. St. Nicholas may have originated in Spain, but saying that Zwarte Piet did is more than a bit confusing.
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Level 70
Jun 11, 2021
Agreed, also the origional St Nicholas was from Turkey
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Level 87
Dec 11, 2022
Could not agree more, Zwarte Piet is as Dutch as it gets
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Level 34
Jan 31, 2019
Aladdin is a Chinese fairytale set in modern-day Persia.
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Level 93
Jul 15, 2019
wrong way round. Aladdin is almost certainly added later to the Arabian nights collection (via a French writer IIRC) and so placed in the Arabian nights collection but based storywise in China even though the description of the setting is wildly inaccurate. There are however a large number of muslims in northwest China (Xinjiang) which does give some sense to the original tale whether the writer knew about that or not.
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Level 66
Feb 21, 2019
I guessed every Arabic, Turkic and Persian country. And it was China...
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Level 88
Jan 22, 2020
Anyone start a thread about Aladdin yet?
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Level 67
Nov 10, 2021
I've known Aladdin to technically be from China for a while, but I still don't agree lol
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Level 82
Mar 21, 2022
It's a story about China told by Arabs who knew nothing about China. So seems an awful lot like Arabia.
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Level 34
Oct 29, 2022
Honestly i’d count Mario as being from a fictional country at this point. Or The USA because of the show and the old movie.
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Level 19
Oct 18, 2023
sorry im thinking of where paddington could possibly take place other than london and england?
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Level 72
Mar 28, 2024
Paddington Bear was born in Peru.