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Nepal Country Quiz

Can you guess these facts about the country of Nepal?
Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: August 14, 2023
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First submittedOctober 4, 2019
Times taken27,890
Average score70.0%
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Capital city
Kathmandu
Mountain range that covers most of Nepal
Himalayas
The tallest peak in the world
Mount Everest
First people to climb that peak
Edmund Hillary
Tenzing Norgay
Famous major massif in central Nepal and world's 10th highest peak
Annapurna
People from this ethnic group often assist in mountain-climbing expeditions
Sherpa
Religious leader that was born in southern Nepal around 480 B.C.
Buddha
Religion that more than 80% of the population practices
Hinduism
Most popular sport
Cricket
Name of Nepal's currency
Nepalese Rupee
Hairy cattle variety which is adapted to high altitudes (hint: 3 letters long)
Yak
Countries that border Nepal
China
India
Nepal's flag is the only national flag in the world that is not a ...
Rectangle
Type of natural disaster that devastated Nepal in 2015
Earthquake
Term for a Nepalese soldier recruited for the British Army
Gurkha
Mythical creature which is said to inhabit Nepalese mountains
Yeti
As of 2023, the Prime Minister of Nepal belongs to this political party
Maoist
This was abolished in 2008 after the Constituent Assembly elections
Monarchy
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
The amount of new featured quizzes you have gotten in the past few days are both insanely high and well deserved. Good job.
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Level 72
May 18, 2020
That is thanks to the decisions made by Quizmaster. :)
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
It still doesn't happen without great quizzes to begin with!
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Level 92
May 18, 2020
Good job! Really enjoying these!
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Level 67
May 18, 2020
It is debatable that Buddha was born in Lumbini. He may have been born in India. An *around/maybe* caveat for the question would be nice.
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Level 55
May 19, 2020
Widely accepted, including by UNESCO. To say it's "debatable" is a bit like saying it's "debatable" that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Sure, it could be a legend, and no one's got the birth certificate. But it's widely accepted. In Buddha's case, there's consensus on Lumbini but somewhat less clarity around the place where he *grew up* - e.g. the identity of Kapilvastu. The most widely accepted candidate by archaeologists globally is Tilaurakot, in Nepal, which has a full city walls, streets, etc. excavated; there's also a nearby candidate in India, about a 5 minute walk from Nepal's border, though it seems to have been a monastery rather than a city. They're quite close and would presumably have been part of the same territory.
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Level 72
May 21, 2020
Subcontinent birtherism!
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Level 56
Nov 15, 2020
Even Lumbini is in the India-Nepal border.
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Level 67
May 20, 2020
Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first ones to climb Mt. Everest and make it back alive. Mallory and Irvine may have reached the top of the world 29 years later. Their bodies were found in 1999 and nobody knows if they died on the way up or on the way back down...
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Level 70
Jul 7, 2020
*29 years earlier :)
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Level 59
Dec 23, 2020
Yeah, time goes forward. NOT backwards.
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Level 66
May 23, 2020
I wonder what the % that didn't get it put in as an answer instead of rectangle..
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Level 66
May 23, 2020
I seriously do :) Please leave your guesses below :) (unless you just skipped it)
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Level 75
Oct 3, 2020
I tried 'oblong' and 'flag shape' which weren't accepted, but I was trying eccentric answers knowing what the correct answer was. I got it with 'quadrilateral' in the end :)
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Level 60
Aug 28, 2023
After I got it, I was hoping quadrilateral worked and was pleasantly surprised that it did. Trapezoid and parallelogram should too, though.
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Level 62
Jul 5, 2020
Can you Please remove the {} from Annapurna, It makes it look like a British Name Anna.
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Level 79
Jul 13, 2020
Could the Gurkha question be rephrased so that it doesn't sound like past tense?
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Level 80
Jan 10, 2022
I think it's just missing a word. Term for a Nepalese soldier that *is* recruited for the British Army.
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Level 56
Jul 16, 2020
I know almost nothing about Nepal and got an 18/20
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Level 79
Aug 28, 2023
I think that means you know some stuff about Nepal
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Level 89
Aug 19, 2020
Oof. I tried guessing communism for the last question. Then I saw the answer above it after I gave up.
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Level 58
Aug 19, 2020
nepal isnt the only country with a flag that is not a rectangle.

Switzerlands flag is a square not a rectangle.

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Level 67
Aug 19, 2020
A rectangle needs two sets of parallel lines and four right angles. A square is just a particular type of rectangle in which all four sides have the same length.
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Level 56
Aug 19, 2020
The flags of both Switzerland and Vatican City are square in shape. As above, though - squares are rectangles!
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Level 60
Aug 19, 2020
Squares are rectangles. Do your research before commenting, please.
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Level 67
Nov 10, 2020
Or you could just answer them helpfully, like above, rather than getting on a high horse, hey?
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Level 57
Dec 15, 2020
Surely he could, but mizu needed that.
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Level 79
Aug 28, 2023
A high horse? Knowing that all squares are rectangles is more of a short donkey
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Level 53
May 9, 2022
Have you ever tried putting 2 square together a rectangle but 2 triangles or whatever Nepal is, isnt a rectangular shape. A square still is a rectangle. Just a different type.
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Level 70
Aug 19, 2020
It didn't help that most of the royal family was massacred in 2001.
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Level 72
Aug 23, 2020
Well, it probably did help, as monarchy was abolished soon after.
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Level 60
Aug 19, 2020
Maybe accept Meh-Teh for the Yeti question.
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Level 60
Aug 28, 2023
Meh-Teh should be accepted.
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Level 71
Aug 19, 2020
I feel like the thumbnail kind of gives away the answer to the flag question...
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Level 67
Aug 19, 2020
As a kid, I always thought it was a rectangle, but the right half of the flag was white.
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Level 72
Aug 23, 2020
It doesn't help at all. The clue doesn't ask you to name the shape of Nepal's flag. It asks which shape it's not. Unless you thought all the other world flags were double-triangle-shaped, it doesn't really narrow it down, now does it?
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Level 57
Dec 15, 2020
The question doesn't mention shape at all, so it's definitely a clue.
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Level 78
Aug 19, 2020
Nepal’s biggest party is communist? They’re never counted as a communist country. Is there some weird loophole where the party doesn’t win?
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Level 59
Dec 23, 2020
The Communist Party is in power but the country is not communist.
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Level 57
Jun 16, 2021
Nepal is a multi-party country with the Communists currently the ruling party.
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Level ∞
Aug 14, 2023
As far as I know, Nepal is the only country in history that has maintained democratic elections while being run by communists.
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Level 66
Nov 24, 2023
San Marino also had a democratically elected Communist government, but only between 1945 and 1957.
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Level 64
Sep 1, 2020
is cricket really more popular than climbing the everest?
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Level 57
Dec 15, 2020
Only foreigners climb everest as a sport.
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Level 72
Feb 6, 2023
The Sherpas believe that Mount Everest is sacred.
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Level 79
Aug 28, 2023
Less than 1000 people summit Everest every year, and a good chunk of those are from the Tibetan side. In a country of 30 million, cricket is by far more popular than climbing Everest.
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Level 49
Sep 15, 2020
Finally something for me
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Level 75
Oct 3, 2020
This was easy! I always try to guess the answers I imagine will be on the quiz before looking at the clues, and I got well over half of them before scrolling down on this one.
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Level 66
Dec 3, 2020
Please allow commie for communist.
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Level 57
Dec 15, 2020
lol
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Level 72
Jan 30, 2021
I think alternate spellings of "Buddha" should be accepted, as in many other quizzes (Budah, Buddah, etc., even Buda as in many languages.).
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Level 79
Aug 28, 2023
I don't think any of those are acceptable spellings, they just seem like different ways to misspell Buddha. What languages use 'Buda'?
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Level 61
Mar 13, 2021
The correct answer should be 'Quadrilateral', not 'Rectangle', as the swiss flag is a square and I believe the Vatican flag is also a square.
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Level 54
Apr 17, 2021
Squares are rectangles
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Level 79
Nov 30, 2021
Or "pointless" ;-)

That's a perfect comeback for when we jokingly call them ''Pointpoints".

Patrick Star pointypointypoint

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Level 79
Aug 28, 2023
Great reference, great show
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Level 60
Aug 28, 2023
Quadrilateral is accepted anyhow, but keto989 is right in that rectangle is correct.
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Level 76
Aug 19, 2021
i think technically speaking, everest is the highest peak on earth, not the tallest (that would be mauna kea). tallest refers to length bottom to top, whereas highest just refers to elevation eg above sea level. part of mauna kea is submerged, which is why they are different. i know the answer is clearly everest but it’s as well to be accurate
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Level 39
Jan 23, 2022
Switzerlands Flag And The Vaticans Are Not Rectangular
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Level 64
Apr 11, 2022
+1, Switzerland's flag is 1:1. Vaticans is also not rectangle
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Level 80
Sep 17, 2022
I don’t think you guys realize this but squares are rectangles.
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Level 38
Jun 6, 2022
As an Bangladeshi, Nepal is like cheap version of Switzerland to us. Very good place for honeymoon 😅
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Level 66
Nov 5, 2022
Don't you just love it when you give up and whisper monarchy out loud because of the last question and then IT'S THE ANSWER