Population
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Clue
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Country
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1,000
|
Home to St. Peter's Basilica
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Vatican City
|
11,000
|
Formerly known as the Ellice islands
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Tuvalu
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13,000
|
61% of adults are obese, the highest rate in the world
|
Nauru
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18,000
|
Home to Jellyfish Lake, where the jellyfish have evolved to lose their stingers
|
Palau
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34,000
|
Claims to be the world's oldest republic, founded in 301 AD
|
San Marino
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36,000
|
Known as the "Billionaires' Playground"
|
Monaco
|
40,000
|
One of the only two double landlocked countries
|
Liechtenstein
|
42,000
|
Country that Bikini Atoll is part of
|
Marshall Islands
|
48,000
|
The smallest country in the Caribbean
|
St. Kitts and Nevis
|
73,000
|
Home to the worlds second largest hot spring, called Boiling Lake
|
Dominica
|
80,000
|
Led by two co-princes, one of whom is the President of France
|
Andorra
|
94,000
|
Its two main islands are Spanish for "ancient" and "bearded"
|
Antigua and Barbuda
|
104,000
|
Its capital city is Kingstown
|
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
|
108,000
|
The richest country in Africa
|
Seychelles
|
108,000
|
Has the nickname "The Friendly Islands," as dubbed by Captain James Cook
|
Tonga
|
115,000
|
Consists of 607 islands with a total land area of only 702 square kilometers
|
F. S. Micronesia
|
126,000
|
Known as the "Spice Island of the Caribbean"
|
Grenada
|
134,000
|
Its biggest island is called Christmas Island
|
Kiribati
|
180,000
|
The only island in the world that contains a drive-in volcano
|
St. Lucia
|
226,000
|
Known as the "Cradle of Polynesia"
|
Samoa
|
232,000
|
Consists of two islands in the Gulf of Guinea
|
São Tomé and Príncipe
|
282,000
|
Known as the "Land of the Flying Fish"
|
Barbados
|
334,000
|
117 different languages are spoken on this Melanesian archipelago
|
Vanuatu
|
375,000
|
Known as the "Land of Fire and Ice"
|
Iceland
|
410,000
|
The "Blue Hole" is a popular scuba spot off this country's coast
|
Belize
|
413,000
|
The closest country to Florida
|
Bahamas
|
452,000
|
One of two countries ruled by a Sultan
|
Brunei
|
522,000
|
Has an average elevation of just 1.5 meters, the lowest of any country
|
Maldives
|
535,000
|
Nazis tried, but failed, to take these islands from the British in WWII
|
Malta
|
598,000
|
Uninhabited until settled by the Portuguese in the 1400s
|
Cape Verde
|
622,000
|
The smallest independent country in South America
|
Suriname
|
626,000
|
Name translates into "Black Mountain" in Spanish.
|
Montenegro
|
654,000
|
Seat of the highest court in the European Union
|
Luxembourg
|
738,000
|
Where the Battle of Guadalcanal happened in 1942 and 1943
|
Solomon Islands
|
786,000
|
Home to the highest un-climbed mountain in the world
|
Bhutan
|
813,000
|
The only English-speaking South American country
|
Guyana
|
850,000
|
Many of its citizens flee to the nearby French island of Mayotte
|
Comoros
|
935,000
|
One of seven countries with a J in its name
|
Fiji
|
This is also why there's that nonsense "rule" against splitting infinitives. In Latin, infinitives are one word and literally can't be split, but in English they are two words (to speak, to run, etc.), which allows us to easily split the words up without obscuring the meaning.
Still, nowadays Italian language has got the "negro" word, but its meaning became exactly equal to the English "n" word.
2. Can you please explain what "double landlocked" means? I googled it after the quiz but it would've been nice to know during it.
Kidding, kidding...
"Since then [independence in 1975], it has experienced more than 20 coups or attempted coups, with various heads of state assassinated. Along with this constant political instability, it has the worst income inequality of any nation, with a Gini coefficient over 60%, and ranks in the worst quartile on the Human Development Index."
Yikes.