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Countries that Beat a Random Country

For each category, name any country that ranks higher than the randomly selected country.
The country changes every time you play! Currently at 14 different countries!
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by HinesBrothers
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Last updated: January 26, 2024
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First submittedJune 5, 2020
Times taken29,050
Average score75.0%
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New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand
4
Southernmost country
* Excluding islands of European countries
Chile | Argentina | Australia
3
Largest producer of kiwifruit
China | Italy
2
Most peaceful country (Source)
Iceland
6
Most confirmed shark attacks since 1580
United States | Australia | South Africa | Brazil
6
Country with the highest point on an island
Indonesia | Papua New Guinea |
United States | Taiwan | Japan
2
Country with the most sheep per capita
Mongolia
2
Country with the most cows per capita
Uruguay
6
Most rugby players per capita
Tonga | Fiji | Samoa | Malta |
United Kingdom
3
Least populous country with the
Union Jack on its flag
Tuvalu | Fiji
6
Largest country entirely on islands
Indonesia | Madagascar | Papua New Guinea |
Japan | Philippines
4
Country geographically closest to Australia
Papua New Guinea | Indonesia | East Timor
3 (t)
Most times hosting or co-hosting the
Cricket World Cup through 2031
England | India
3
Most species of wild penguins
Australia | Chile
5
Easternmost point on land
Fiji | Russia | Tuvalu | United States
2
Country with the most Australian tourists
China
8
Country whose flag has the most blue
F. S. Micronesia | Kazakhstan | Nauru |
Somalia | Kosovo | St. Lucia | Palau
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Level 75
Jun 5, 2020
One out of every fourteen times, you will get the same country as the previous time. When that happens, remember that you can just reload the page again.
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Level ∞
Jan 22, 2024
This quiz was featured via the nominations process. It is so extensive that it would take multiple days of work to verify everything so I will trust in the quizmaker (HinesBrothers) to handle any problems.
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Level 75
Jan 25, 2024
As the Quizmaster noted, it's not practical to fact-check everything, so much of these answers have not been updated since 2020 or so. Please let me know if any of the answers are out of date or incorrect.
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Level 77
Jun 6, 2020
Not that it matters, but how do you know what the country is?
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Level 75
Jun 6, 2020
The header bar above the rows
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Level 54
Dec 19, 2020
Excellent quiz! I can't imagine I've missed it. But the most important is that I finally discovered it. Thanks for this very nice quiz, and nominated, of course!
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Level 67
Jun 18, 2021
Hey HinesBrothers, do you mind if I make a version of this with the 24 state quizzes that I've made?
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Level 75
Dec 31, 2023
Go ahead, sorry for late reply
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Level 48
Jan 30, 2024
late? more like next century.
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Level 37
Jan 8, 2022
The quiz doesn’t work. After I answer the first one it doesn’t highlight anything and I can’t answer anything
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Level 50
Apr 8, 2022
Same
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Level 71
Jan 8, 2022
Same thing here. It stopped for me after the fourth. There was no yellow box and no country
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Level 61
Jan 10, 2022
There's a couple of issues with the quiz; The yellow box disappears after first question so you can only answer the questions in the given order and are stuck if there's one you don't know. The counter doesn't work so you can't see how many correct answers you have. Finally, sometimes the number to the left indicates the position of the given country and sometimes how many is in front (so if it says 3 it seems arbitrary if there is 2 or 3 possible answers).
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Level 50
Mar 29, 2022
Love the Quiz! Just one suggestion, for the North Korea version the question "Least recognized JetPunk country" is a bit confusing, maybe "least internationally recognized" or least politically recognized" would be clearer? I got there in the end, but spent a lot of time guessing countries that people might not recognize on a map-quiz.
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Level 75
Mar 29, 2022
That's a quite reasonable suggestion, thank you for your feedback! It has been changed to something else that's more clear.
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Level 55
Mar 29, 2022
Lol. Japan is correct for eight out of a possible 16 answers for the South Korean quiz.
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Level 51
Mar 30, 2022
excellent and creative quiz, but im suprised that japan has less business corruption than switzerland
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Level 87
Jan 27, 2024
What, all those secret banks with their numbered accounts and nazi loot?
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Level 51
Feb 24, 2024
That's the point, isn't it? If all that dodgy stuff is legal who needs to break the law?
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Level 69
Jul 24, 2022
I'm from Poland and the random country I got was Poland.
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Level 72
Jul 24, 2022
I would kind of prefer *not* to know which country it is. I don't suppose there's an easy way to hide that unless you click on it or something?

To me, that would make it a lot more interesting and different from the "normal" countries that beat [x] quizzes.

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Level 75
Oct 7, 2022
Thank you for your feedback. I'll consider it if a few more people voice the same opinion.
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Level 75
Feb 15, 2023
It's a great idea, but I think you should keep this and also add a "Countries that Beat a Mystery Country" version!
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Level 76
Dec 26, 2023
yes same opinion for me - it would be nice to also have to guess the random country!
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Level 75
May 8, 2023
Qatar for most recent World Cup.
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Level 77
Jan 21, 2024
There's a bug where a random country is the title of the columns
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Level 79
Jan 22, 2024
Not a bug, that's the country getting beaten in all of the questions
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Level 75
Jan 25, 2024
That is correct, that is the country that the possible answers are "beating"
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Level 62
Feb 24, 2024
r/whoooosh
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Level 72
Jan 22, 2024
For Egypt, on the Nile river basin question, the rank displayed is 3 but there are 3 countries that beat it.
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Level 75
Jan 25, 2024
Fixed
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Level 87
Jan 22, 2024
This quiz asks for countries, and has no note that a country may no longer exist. In most Jetpunk cases, that means only modern-day countries. So for a question for Germany, I answered "Russia", but the correct answer was the Soviet Union.
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Level 72
Jan 24, 2024
Same here, maybe that could be put in the instructions?
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Level 75
Jan 25, 2024
Only 2/16 countries have the Soviet Union as an answer in a situation where Russia would be incorrect. I thus do not think that it is a relevant enough point to add a caveat, but I will accept Russia from now on in those situations.
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Level 63
Jan 26, 2024
For Poland, one answer (about the treaty of Warsaw) only accepts countries that no longer exist.
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Level 83
Jan 22, 2024
“Containing the populous urban area beginning with F” is missing the word “most”.

Also “consuming” is misspelt in “Top per-person beef cosuming country”.

Thanks for a fun quiz.

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Level 75
Jan 25, 2024
Fixed, thanks
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Level 80
Jan 26, 2024
finland is now in nato
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Level 75
Jan 26, 2024
Thanks
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Level 70
Jan 27, 2024
On this quiz, it says that New Zealand has the second most cows per capita, but on the separate Countries that beat New Zealand quizzes, it says New Zealand is third
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Level 54
Feb 24, 2024
Also, the new Zealand is no. 4 on global peace index.
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Level 55
Feb 24, 2024
I had North Korea, it really does surprise me that they are supposedly more violent then for example Iran who stakes its entire economy to support terrorist groups abroad while also oppressing it’s own people in various ways, Israel who are violently colonizing their neighbours, mexico are suffering humongous internal conflict with a very high death toll. I know that data is not rapidly available for north korea but to assume that they have a more violent country than any of these I just mentioned and many more seems odd.
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Level 20
Feb 24, 2024
"Most peaceful country not in the EU"

How can Switzerland possibly be less peaceful than Japan (but also more peaceful than, say, Federated Republics of Micronesia) ??

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Level 59
Feb 24, 2024
No Afghanistan for flag with most white?
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Level 54
Feb 24, 2024
Global piece index ranks Palestine above Israel. Strange!
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Level 34
Feb 26, 2024
What "most venomous animal" did you use? I'm pretty sure it's not Brazilian.