Eliminate Countries #1 - The Americas

Guess any valid country in the Americas which corresponds to each clue. Each country will be used only once. When you get to the bottom, guess the one country in the Americas which hasn't been used yet.

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First submitted	March 2, 2021
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Countries in the Americas
Eliminate...	Country/Countries
Country where Mount Denali is located	United States
Country where Machu Picchu is located	Peru
Country that hosted the 2016 Olympics	Brazil
The two southernmost countries in Central America	Costa Rica \| Panama
The only country that shares a border with Haiti	Dominican Republic
8th largest island country in the world	Cuba
South American country that borders Panama	Colombia
The country with Oaxaca as a subdivision	Mexico
Country that owns the Galapagos Islands	Ecuador
Country where the city Halifax is located	Canada
Countries that share Tierra del Fuego	Chile \| Argentina
Countries that border El Salvador	Guatemala \| Honduras
Country where Managua Lake is located	Nicaragua
Landlocked country which borders Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil	Paraguay
Central American country that ONLY borders the Pacific Ocean	El Salvador
Country with a flag that has a purple parrot on it	Dominica
Country where Maracaibo is located	Venezuela
Island nation without red, white, or blue on their flag	Jamaica
Country that ONLY borders Brazil and Argentina	Uruguay
The only Dutch speaking country	Suriname
Country with the capital Bridgetown	Barbados
Country with the capital Nassau	Bahamas
Country that is landlocked after a border dispute with Chile	Bolivia
Smallest country in the Americas	St. Kitts and Nevis
Countries with a capital that contains “Port”	Haiti \| Trinidad and Tobago
The remaining countries located in the Lesser Antilles	Antigua and Barbuda \| Grenada \| St. Lucia \| St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Country with the capital Belmopan	Belize
What is the final country?	Guyana

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Level 71

Mar 2, 2021

good quiz

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Level 84

Mar 2, 2021

Nice twist on elimination quizzes! Nominated and look forward to more...

Level 54

Mar 2, 2021

Thanks! I’ll be making the next ones soon. Be sure to try the states elimination quiz in the series as well!

+10

Level 65

Oct 3, 2021

I literally thought it might be guyana before starting the quiz and it was!

Level 77

Sep 6, 2023

You can say that same sentence without the word "literally"

+11

Level 76

Sep 18, 2023

You can say THAT same sentence with nothing but an angry glare and it would get the point across

Level 68

Oct 10, 2023

There's nothing wrong with using words correctly.

Level 57

Oct 10, 2023

There's nothing wrong with using words non-traditionally, but in a way that people still understand.

Level 51

Oct 3, 2021

Bolivia borders both Argentina and Brazil

Level 54

Oct 3, 2021

Thanks for the feedback. I specified the clue so it only fits Uruguay.

Level 68

Oct 3, 2021

You spelled Colombia wrong :( Columbia is a university or a province in Canada (amongst other things). But the country that borders Panama is definitely called Colombia. Great quizz otherwise.

Level 54

Oct 3, 2021

Fixed. Thanks for catching that

Level 87

Sep 7, 2023

Technically a "quiz" not a "quizz".

Level 52

Nov 9, 2023

the geography lesson following the correction is appreciated!

Level 42

Jan 18, 2024

Columbia is also the capital of South Carolina.

Level 84

Oct 3, 2021

Good stuff! Nom-ed.

Level 68

Dec 27, 2021

I wish I had read the instructions. I was guessing countries of the whole world...

Level 65

May 3, 2022

quiz is pretty good, just needs a little cleaning up. You use periods on some hints but not others, you could specify the only "dutch speaking country" in the Americas, you unecassarily capitalize some words (Largest Island Country -+ largest island country)

you could also say "Country where the galapagos islands are located" to stick with the same grammar as the first two

idk maybe im just being really nitpicky lol

its a great quiz though, nominated

Level 77

Sep 6, 2023

I'm the same way with intricacies like that. I'm just surprised to see that coming from you, when you start your sentences without capital letters, use run-on sentences, randomly capitalize "Country", and don't end your sentences with periods.

Level 52

Nov 9, 2023

bro

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Level 59

May 3, 2022

I'm sorry, but I don't find this to be a good quiz. The clues do not build upon each other, so there is no reason why I should not be able to see one clue until I've answered the previous one. Also, some of the clues are really obscure. I'm supposed to know that Cuba is the 8th largest island country, and not the 7th or the 9th? Come on!

Level 77

May 3, 2022

So you didn't guess Cuba because you thought it might be the 7th or 9th largest instead? You know you can just guess things without penalty, right? Just guess the biggest island country you can think of, man. What a silly gripe.

Level 60

Jun 12, 2022

Not that you can't guess Cuba, but I personally have a problem with the clue because it's rather uncreative. Furthermore, as previously states, there's no building upon other clues.

Level 72

Sep 4, 2023

I agree. I've really enjoyed past versions of these quizzes, so I was excited for this one, but it did not meet the standard. All those seem to have series of clues where each (except for perhaps the first few) function as "the only country remaining." This is interesting because it makes you remember what countries have come up already and think about what countries have in common. By not doing any of that, as well as sometimes eliminating multiple at once, this quiz just felt lazy, uninspired, and not worth the time to take it.

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Level 81

May 3, 2022

Conceptually ok, but I'm not wild about having questions where a whole bunch of countries are crammed in at once. (Looking at you, "remaining countries located in the Lesser Antilles.")

It just feels... clunky and uninspired. Would be much better if there were 35 questions, and each one only eliminated a single country.

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Level 77

May 3, 2022

I think the thematic issue is that you have some questions about specific countries to eliminate them, and others are grouped. I like the quiz, but I think it might be even better to either do the continents separately and eliminate countries one at a time, or maybe try to eliminate a couple countries every time. So instead of having separate questions about Canada, Mexico, and the USA, you could eliminate all three with "Countries who once belonged to NAFTA". Just my two cents (probably worth less than that, though!).

Level 50

May 3, 2022

Solid advice there.

Level 77

Oct 4, 2022

Just to expand on that... it was much more satisfying knocking out several countries at a time.

Level 54

Oct 4, 2022

It makes no sense for the question about paraguay to say "the OTHER landlocked country" when bolivia wasn't even mentioned before.

Level 72

Oct 4, 2022

I enjoyed this quiz, thank you.

Level 75

May 21, 2023

I enjoyed that, nominated

Level 60

May 29, 2023

Besides the gripes above, I also don't love the format because you can take a random country and try it in each box, because it's guaranteed to be in one of them. If you keep doing this, you can easily get all of the answers without reading a single clue. Granted, this is more of an exploit, but this format feels conducive to guessing.

It's an interesting idea nonetheless and I respect the innovation.

Level 66

Sep 5, 2023

A bit misleading to state the country "only borders the Pacific Ocean". That makes me think it's an island country in the Pacific. The country borders the Pacific, but it also borders other countries.

Level 80

Sep 5, 2023

I can see what you mean, but I immediately understood the clue, and there's only one interpretation if you know the general geography.

Level 77

Sep 6, 2023

There are no island countries in the Pacific, within the Americas.

Level 67

Oct 10, 2023

To me that clue is just plain wrong. The country borders the Ocean AND two other countries, so as it is spelled, the clue is wrong, even if you know that there aren't Pacific island countries in the Americas.

Level 77

Sep 6, 2023

5 stars from me. Maybe the quiz has changed since the above comments, but I saw on issues with clues "building upon each other." I was able to answer them all with little to no effort.

Level 60

Oct 14, 2023

It hasn't. The reason why people say the clues don't build on each other is because in most quizzes like this, when answering a question, you have to consider the previous answers. Here, all except the last answer can be answered independently. For example, there is only one country with the capital of Nassau.

Level 67

Sep 13, 2023

4:41 used, I actually got Guyana pretty early on and I was stuck on Venezuela for a while

Level 48

Oct 10, 2023

I got Dominica with a single second left

Level 51

Oct 11, 2023

What is the remaining country? Oh yes the most forgettable one

Level 52

Oct 11, 2023

the hint "Central American country that ONLY borders the Pacific Ocean" is really confusing to me, i thought it meant that it didn't border any countries.

Level 66

Oct 12, 2023

why is France NOT accepted as the last answer? It's clearly missing on the list

Level 60

Oct 14, 2023

"The Americas"

Level 42

Jan 18, 2024

Maricaibo is supposed to be Maricaribo