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Cyprus to New Zealand Island Nation Chain
An African swallow travels using a very strange method. From whatever country it is in, it flies to to the nearest island country. Can you name the countries it visits on a trip from Cyprus to New Zealand?
The swallow never visits the same island twice, even if it's closer
How come Indonesia is 886km from Singapore (ie the Jakarta-Singapore distance) when Ireland is correctly given as 0km from the UK rather than the London-Dublin distance of 463km?
The distance between countries, not capitals, for Indonesia-Singapore is short enough to see one country from the other, though that is not as close as the 0km from the two island countries Indonesia borders!
Great idea for a quiz, currently ruined by the data behind it.
Israel, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan compete in UEFA tournaments and Australia competes in Eurovision. Morocco is closer to Europe than Cyprus is.
I second mf3’s comment. Instead of the, "Portuguese-speaking country that became indepedent in 2002”, the clue should read the, "Portuguese-speaking country that became *independent* in 2002”.
Just wanted to say that in the answer part, the question for Solomon Islands is "Has a bird-of-paradise on its flag," instead of "Named for a character in the Old Testament".
Tricky quiz but I enjoyed it. I liked reading about the clues as until now had just loosely grouped all of the Oceania countries as that but it is fascinating to hear about them. Thank you.
I'm wondering how would Bahrain fit into the quiz? Starting from Cyprus, it looks like Malta is closer than Bahrain. And then the closest the swallow gets to Bahrain subsequently is Seychelles, but the Maldives are closer to Seychelles than Bahrain.
The distance between countries, not capitals, for Indonesia-Singapore is short enough to see one country from the other, though that is not as close as the 0km from the two island countries Indonesia borders!
Great idea for a quiz, currently ruined by the data behind it.
Otherwise, it’s a great quiz. Thank you.
I was inspired to make a similar quiz but with 10 million cities after seeing this. You can play it here
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1812094/10-million-city-hopping
Hope you don't mind using your idea :)
Thanks a lot!