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Category Elimination - Countries #4

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 submittedMay 26, 2019
Times taken140,114
Average score75.0%
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Green Categories
74
Countries with fewer people than Ireland
60
... with a smaller land area than Ireland
11
... in the Americas
5
... ending with the letter A
1
... and a maximum elevation over 2000m
Jamaica
 
Orange Categories
145
Countries with white on their national flag
53
... with fewer than 5 million people
13
... that are in Europe
5
... with black on their national flag
1
... and start with a vowel
Estonia
Blue Categories
157
Countries whose capital is north of the equator
35
... which are landlocked
17
... have a minimum elevation below 100m
6
... have a land area less than 50,000 km²
1
... that lie outside Europe
Bhutan
 
Purple Categories
93
Countries in Asia or Europe
43
... with blue on their national flag
22
... have a land area over 100,000 km²
6
... with a population of more than 50 million
1
... and has no land borders
Philippines
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Level 60
May 28, 2019
Got all except Jamaica. Thank you for this great series
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Level 37
Jun 29, 2021
Me too :D
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Level 60
Jul 23, 2021
Got all except Estonia and the one before it. I am bad with flayggs. I can’t even spell it right!
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Level 36
Jun 27, 2022
why does some answers not work? like for ending with the letter A I put guatemala and it didnt work
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Level 68
Jun 27, 2022
It has to satisfy all clues above it in that colour group.
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Level 57
May 30, 2019
Bhutan was a shocker. I thought about it, but rejected it straight away when i read 'minimum elevation' under 100m. - considering almost the entire country lies in the Himalayas.
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Level 68
May 30, 2019
Got to admit, that one may have been a little cruel from me :P

Most of the country is indeed very very high, but at the very south, the Manas River allows Bhutan to dip down to just below 100m.

I suppose many people will learn from this that Bhutan isn't entirely in the Himalayas! Before making this I also assumed Bhutan was above 1000m or something.

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Level 71
May 30, 2019
That's fascinating- it's like whoever made the borders said "just draw it right around the base of the mountains-- except for those 3 towns, give them those 10 sq miles just for fun."
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2019
It's particularly hard when your eyes read "maximum."
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Level 70
Sep 30, 2019
I knew that the very southern towns are on the edge of the mountains, yet at a lower elevation. But still that was really tricky!!
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Level 55
Apr 14, 2020
I somehow got it by just typing the first small asian country that came to mind :)
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Level 20
May 18, 2020
wow! shocker!
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Level 55
Nov 14, 2020
Bhutan wrecked me!
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Level 56
May 20, 2021
i actually read it as maximum elevation of 100 m
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Level 63
Jun 25, 2022
Tricksy, tricksy. Great quiz.
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Level 73
Jun 8, 2019
I got it mostly because I was running through every smaller landlocked country in Asia.
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Level 75
Sep 30, 2019
Same here. It definitely wasn't my first choice of those, either.
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Level 38
Apr 28, 2022
I said Japan, then on my second guess said Bhutan. Well it was a lucky guess
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Level 48
Jul 18, 2023
Yep, totally through me off, too! Thought about it and dismissed it - no way it could have that low a low point.
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Level 72
May 31, 2019
Great quiz, love the series!

for the last category, in the 4th box I think maybe Russia should be accepted, I could be wrong but I think it fits all the criteria.

It has blue on the national flag, a land area over 100,000km squared and a population above 50 million, I guess maybe it counts as being in Europe instead of Asia though.

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Level 68
May 31, 2019
It's a marginal case, but generally on JetPunk we consider Russia to be primarily in Europe (since most of the population of the Capital lies there).
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Level 75
Jun 2, 2019
I agree completely. I guessed it for the second clue, then realized it meant completely in Asia
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Level 67
Sep 30, 2019
I tried it for the third clue (land area over 100,000 km2) and Russia didn't work. I can understand why you wouldn't accept Russia for the fourth clue (regarding population over 50 million) because Russia doesn't have that many people in Asia, but Russia definitely has enough Asian land area to qualify for the third answer. JetPunk conventions shouldn't matter in that respect. Russia fits all the criteria at that point: it's in Asia, has blue on its flag, and has an Asian land area over 100,000 km2.
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Level 68
Sep 30, 2019
I've decided to accept it for up to the area question only.
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Level 65
Sep 30, 2019
I think accepting it for the area question but not the population question is worse. It's very confusing when Russia is accepted but then not accepted only after the 50 million criteria since Russia clearly has more than 50 million people. I think that it would be better to be consistent and not accept it from the start or accept it for the area question as well
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Level 68
Oct 1, 2019
looking at this page indicates Russia's Asia population is below 40 million (around 34m). This means it's far from the 50 million threshold here.
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Level 68
Mar 28, 2020
I decided to remove it again and add a caveat instead.
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Level 73
May 31, 2019
Wow... thanks for the quiz. It was really fun. Got all except Bhutan. It is indeed harder than you'd think...
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Level 75
May 31, 2019
Did not see Bhutan coming
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Level 50
Jun 1, 2019
do one where you have to do a country that isnt in the categories
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Level 69
Jun 2, 2019
Somehow I got them all except the Philippines
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Level 52
Jun 12, 2019
More time would be great.
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Level 41
Jul 23, 2019
Got them all and 8 seconds left OMGGG
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Level 44
Jul 24, 2019
Ooh, competing with Sporcle now are we? ;) Nice idea, this style of quizzes are fun too! :)
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Level 68
Jul 24, 2019
got every question accept the last questions for each category lol :P
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Level 53
Aug 22, 2019
I thought of Bhutan 2 seconds before the timer ran out and couldn't type it fast enough ;(
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Level 23
Sep 30, 2019
Sh*t, I'm french so I wrote Bhoutan 19/20 ;(
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Level 36
Sep 30, 2019
make part 5!
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Level 68
Sep 30, 2019
It's already done! I completed it yesterday :D

Category Elimination - Countries #5

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Level 38
Oct 2, 2019
Ethiopia ends in A
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Level 68
Oct 2, 2019
But Ethiopia has more people than Ireland, more area than Ireland and also isn't in the Americas... Remember the country must satisfy its category and all categories above it in the group. This is shown by the number reducing on the left, showing how many possible countries fit all the categories so far.
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Level 64
Oct 4, 2019
For some reason, in every part of this quiz I guess Luxembourg all the time!

I don’t live there, I’ve never been there

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Level 63
Nov 6, 2019
I was typing in Kazakhstan in the blue grid, and realised that it does indeed have a minimum elevation of less than 100m. So now I have an idea for a quiz - how about "Countries with the most variance in elevation?" Bhutan clearly will also make the list.
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Level 40
Dec 2, 2019
Well, of course I got my own country, Philippines 🇵🇭
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Level 43
Jan 9, 2020
I started writting alredy both buthan and Jamaica, i just got very lucky ^_^
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Level 64
Feb 24, 2020
Got Bhutan and Philipines, missed Jamaica and Estonia
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Level 52
Mar 27, 2020
In the purple category I was thinking of Russia - which has a population of more than 140 million, until the fourth question wasn't approving my answer which got me completely confused. Please adjust the answers !
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Level 68
Mar 28, 2020
We consider Russia to be in Europe on JetPunk, in accordance with all our other featured quizzes.
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Level 39
Jul 3, 2020
Got them all...just! Bhutan was very tricky, great quiz =]
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Level 73
Sep 4, 2020
Lmao I guessed Jamaica from the first clue..
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Level 42
Oct 20, 2020
got Jamaica from the third clue to the last
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Level 35
Dec 20, 2020
First one of these i've managed to get all of them right on!! Great quiz. :))
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Level 65
Mar 18, 2021
Got them all apart from Bhutan that one is a killer fairplay. Great quiz.
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Level 38
Apr 9, 2021
I got them all but Jamaica, i suddenly turn off my brain
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Level 73
May 19, 2021
Surely Cyprus is in the EU and part of Europe, not Asia
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Level 68
May 19, 2021
We have to apply some kind of uniformity and standard otherwise people would have different answers to everything. As someone who is almost level 70, you must know very well that Cyprus is in Asia on JetPunk. Since a country is only considered to be in one continent we cannot make an exception for Cyprus.

Note to others: This is not a place for arguments on where Cyprus is located, I am stating a purely factual argument that JetPunk designates it as Asia, whether that is correct or not is not necessary to discuss here.

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Level 49
Aug 19, 2021
the bhutan hint super confusing. i explicitly thought it disqualified bhutan cause i read it as max elevation.
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Level 68
Aug 19, 2021
Gotta make some of these quizzes difficult :)
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Level 26
Nov 26, 2021
i cant do all because for the in the americas one i put every country in the americas and nothing worked
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Level 68
Nov 26, 2021
You are looking for one of the small island countries in North America
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Level 67
Dec 10, 2021
Struggled with a lot, but in the last few seconds I got a few and the only thing I missed was Jamaica
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Level 36
Apr 26, 2022
I only missed Bhutan
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Level 32
May 4, 2022
When Bhutan is the most mountainous country but has a super low point.
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Level 47
May 18, 2022
why isnt ireland accepted for the 2nd one for the orange collum, it has white an fewer then 5 mil.
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Level 68
May 19, 2022
The latest estimates put it just over 5 million.
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Level 67
Jun 26, 2022
Curious to know the process by which you make these. Seems complicated.
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Level 68
Jan 19, 2023
By hand, with the help of data in a spreadsheet!
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Level 22
Jan 19, 2023
Im sorry but doesn't uk also qualify for the blue category?
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Level 68
Jan 19, 2023
UK is not landlocked, in fact quite the opposite - it is an island!
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Level 24
Mar 26, 2023
I was running out of time when I repeatedly answer Philippines on the Purple Categories :(
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Level 57
Sep 8, 2023
Panama should work up until the 4th question of green
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Level 68
Sep 8, 2023
This is referring to the country of Ireland, which has a smaller land area than Panama. Panama is 75,417 km2 and Republic of Ireland is 70,273 km2.

The reason we don't specify "Republic of" is to not use too many words in each clue, and also because this is a countries quiz.