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Category Elimination - Countries #5

In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
# = the number of answers possible
Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
All data as of February 2022.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: February 10, 2022
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First submittedSeptember 29, 2019
Times taken105,914
Average score70.0%
Rating4.67
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Green Categories
38
Countries that start with a vowel
21
... with blue on their national flag
15
... which are not landlocked
6
... with a population of at least 20 million
1
... and which is smaller than 500,000 km²
United
Kingdom
 
Orange Categories
151
Countries not in Europe
67
... without green on their national flag
40
... not containing the letter E
7
... whose capital lies south of the equator
1
... and which has no coastline
Botswana
Blue Categories
99
Countries with a max. elevation over 2.5km
83
... with one word in its name
42
... with less than 1,000 km of coastline
5
... with a population below 1 million
1
... and has green and black on its national flag
Guyana
 
Purple Categories
87
Countries with pop. density over 100 per km²
40
... that contain the letter E
26
... not in Asia
5
... which are landlocked
1
... and start with a vowel
Ethiopia
+40
Level 43
Sep 30, 2019
Dang i love these kind of quizzes
+1
Level 17
Feb 9, 2020
me to
+2
Level 20
May 18, 2020
yeah
+1
Level 23
Apr 13, 2023
Too*
+1
Level 53
Dec 14, 2023
two*
+1
Level 55
Mar 28, 2024
three*
+1
Level 63
Apr 3, 2021
same
+2
Level 19
Mar 2, 2022
Yessir
+13
Level 65
Sep 30, 2019
Ukraine also works for the green category. I was typing Ukraine when it filled in the United Kingdom when I had typed uk.
+9
Level 68
Sep 30, 2019
That's just how typeins work. Ukraine is of course a valid answer, but it's not easy to type in since "UK" gets matched as valid first.
+1
Level 75
Oct 3, 2019
I think that you should change the last clue so that there aren't two end answers
+25
Level 68
Oct 3, 2019
There aren't two end answers anyway! Ukraine is at 579,000km2 land area, so does not satisfy the last clue. By "valid answer" in my previous comment, I was referring to the first 4 clues, not the final answer.
+1
Level 49
Sep 2, 2020
jetpunk should fix that, it really annoys me all the time
+10
Level 59
May 16, 2021
I feel like people would be more annoyed by not being able to use UK...
+3
Level 48
Feb 5, 2022
If UK isn't the answer then you get to type in Ukraine, and if it is you get the answer anyways.
+3
Level 58
Sep 15, 2022
you save a whole half second
+1
Level 65
Oct 1, 2019
Damn, missed Nauru and Montenegro. Good Quiz!
+2
Level 66
Oct 1, 2019
I think you missed a country that passes no green in the flag, and also should pass south of the equator (but was denied).
+6
Level 60
Oct 2, 2019
A bit cheap saying Montenegro has green on it's flag, but great quizzes!
+5
Level 68
Oct 3, 2019
It does have green though, after all this is the 5th one in a series, gotta make it challenging! Glad you enjoyed them anyway :)
+2
Level 76
Dec 18, 2019
For the one that says the answer is Montenegro, isn't Guyana also a valid answer? Max elevation is 2772 metres, Guyana is 1 word, capital is north of the equator, only like 700.000 inhabitants and it has red and green in its flag.. Or am I missing something really obvious?
+6
Level 68
Dec 18, 2019
Okay, had a look at this and no idea how this slipped my spreadsheet... Both Guyana and Montenegro were valid for Red and Green.

After going back to the spreadsheet, it seems the only way to distinguish one (along with separating from the other 10 answers valid for the 4th clue), is to change it to Guyana, and have the clue be Green and White.

Thanks so much for noticing this!

+2
Level 76
Dec 20, 2019
You're welcome! I love these quizzes :)
+2
Level 75
Oct 3, 2019
These are the best!
+1
Level 43
Oct 4, 2019
I got so close on the purple category by putting Zimbabwe for everything.
+1
Level 20
May 18, 2020
that happens to me too
+1
Level 70
Nov 22, 2019
Nauru is just barely south of the equator.
+6
Level 62
Nov 27, 2019
Cool.
+3
Level 73
Nov 27, 2019
Can this quiz be counted for points sometime in the future?
+3
Level 42
Jan 11, 2020
Feel I should let you know that it does now
+5
Level 72
Dec 2, 2019
I do like these quizes but the only time I have got the fifth answer, in any of them, is when my answer to the fourth question has also been the correct answer for the fifth. I just seem to blank. Which is not annoying in the slightest. QM, can you make sure, next time, you pick a final answer that is the same as whatever I pick for my fourth answer!? Cheers! Lol
+3
Level 63
Dec 3, 2019
For all 4 categories #5 was the only one I didn't get. It's easy when you answer #1 and that also answers #2 and so on. But it get's harder when you're down the line and have to think of a new country that fits all statements above while still being set on what you just answered before.
+1
Level 70
Dec 3, 2019
For the yellow box, question #1 is redundant as these countries will be ruled out by question #4 anyway. Just said.
+4
Level 68
Dec 3, 2019
That is indeed correct, although you won't know the 4th clue until you've already guessed the first one :)
+1
Level 60
Sep 26, 2021
In addition, it literally says ‘Orange Category’.
+1
Level 58
Jan 9, 2020
For three of these, the answer I started with turned out to be the final answer. Very strange - but did make it easy.
+1
Level 45
Jan 9, 2020
i had that for the uk one
+1
Level 43
Jan 9, 2020
Mongolia should work for the 3rd clue of the purple category, but it only works for the first 2
+3
Level 68
Jan 9, 2020
Mongolia does not contain the letter E!
+2
Level 69
May 8, 2020
Math is hard
+1
Level 74
Jan 10, 2020
I'm sooo proud of getting Nauru. At last knowing Yaren was useful.
+3
Level 71
Jan 10, 2020
Damn, I think Guyana has been the hardest one in this whole series. I got super excited when I entered Sierra Leone then remembered it has to be one word (I'm guessing because of Sierra Leone)
+1
Level 60
Sep 26, 2021
Yeah, a feeble 2% got it — especially impressive considering the fact that it’s on JetPunk.
+1
Level 78
Jan 10, 2020
So happy for the Nauru one I’d just gone around trying to find capitals with five letters and thought maybe Oceania then Yaren popped inTo my head. I got the UK one kinda by luck though despite living there as I was going to type Ukraine for some reason. Great quiz keep em coming
+1
Level 42
Jan 11, 2020
You're missing a number/hash symbol for the green category (not that it's important)
+1
Level 31
Jan 26, 2020
Montenegro?
+2
Level 48
Feb 14, 2020
Nauru technically doesn't even have a capital
+1
Level 22
Mar 18, 2020
can you do another but i that is australia
+1
Level 64
Jan 7, 2021
It's called Oceania and not enough countries.

AUSTRALIA IS A COUNTRY

+1
Level 69
May 8, 2020
I love it when I guess a random country early on and it carries through so you don't have to search the world map in your head. I put Ethiopia three times for the fourth category and it makes it a lot easier when you just get lucky with an early choice
+3
Level 28
Jun 4, 2020
Great quiz :D I still get sad every time I see anything about a flag on one of these because despite being a geography nerd, I don't really care about flags at all and don't know very many of them.
+1
Level 95
Sep 13, 2020
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat 27 seconds!! 3:33 to spare!!!
+1
Level 39
Feb 15, 2021
weak i did it in 19 seconds
+3
Level 68
Feb 21, 2021
I really don't wanna sound picky but technically Nauru is no correct answer as Nauru has no offical capital, Yaren is only the island's biggest city and often considered its capital. But great quiz otherwise :)
+1
Level 59
Mar 2, 2021
nauru capital is nauru so thats cHEAP
+2
Level 57
Mar 22, 2021
Nauru´s Capital is Yaren, not Nauru.
+1
Level 60
Sep 26, 2021
Technically they have no capital.
+1
Level 35
Mar 20, 2021
Ever had that day where you have 2 minutes to spell a country and you just can’t spell it? Ethiopia: Etheopia, Ethiopea, etheopea (again and again and again)
+1
Level 57
Mar 22, 2021
For the yellow category, Should Kiribati and Palau be excepted?
+1
Level 55
Apr 21, 2021
no, look at the last clue
+1
Level 60
Sep 26, 2021
It literally says orange category :/
+2
Level 39
Mar 30, 2021
tried to write ukraine in green category and accepted as uk i finished all green category easily😆😆
+1
Level 52
Jun 2, 2021
Cyprus worked for "countries not in Europe ..." I can feel the tension already ...
+1
Level 23
Aug 3, 2021
got almost all only three missing (last parts) got ethiopia.
+1
Level 56
Jan 31, 2022
in the purple section i wrote niger, but it wasn't right even if it should be
+1
Level 68
Jan 31, 2022
Niger worked for me, up until the final clue where it doesn't work because it does not start with a vowel.
+2
Level 38
Mar 18, 2022
a density? lol a density of what
+1
Level 68
Mar 18, 2022
Clarified thanks
+1
Level 46
Apr 19, 2022
shouldn't paraguay be a valid answer on the orange section, final answer?
+1
Level 68
Apr 19, 2022
Paraguay's flag has green on it.
+1
Level 69
Sep 15, 2022
Yeah, I thought that too but a close examination of Paraguay's flag indeed shows there's a small amount of green there.
+1
Level 28
May 22, 2022
me in the first one wanting to put ukraine but the first two letters are uk so ended up doing it:)
+1
Level 58
Sep 14, 2022
One of the few who got Botswana, great quiz!
+2
Level 61
Sep 15, 2022
Weirdly got Botswana at the top with Countries not in Europe
+2
Level 67
Sep 15, 2022
If you type 'kraine' and then prepend a 'U', you can get Ukraine instead of UK.
+1
Level 67
Jun 6, 2023
16/20, missed each final country
+1
Level 54
Sep 23, 2023
Ethiopia definitely starts with a vowel but United Kingdom does not. Vowels are always about sounds and not letters.

And I think U is perhaps the only letter among the five letters taught to us at kindergarten level as vowels (a, e, i, o, u) that does not begin with a vowel sound.

Examples:

I head a Unit (not an Unit) in army/ company.

I am a European (not an European).

He has got an M.Phil. degree.

It is an FM band radio.

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Level 22
Jan 18, 2024
Does United Kingdom start with a vowel? I don't think so. Though U is a vowel letter, the word United is pronounced beginning with /j/, which is a consonant.