Statistics for Historical countries that no longer exist

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This quiz has been taken 192 times
The average score is 15 of 29

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This US state was at first an independent country (1836-46)	Republic of Texas	90%
German kingdom that created Germany in 1871 (1701-1918, was still a kingdom within the empire)	Prussia	82%
Dissolved into 15 countries including Russia and countries in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe (1922-91)	Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)	81%
Dissolved into Turkey and many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (ca. 1299-1922)	Ottoman Empire	78%
Dissolved to form several countries in the Balkans, including Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia (1918/29-92)	Yugoslavia	77%
De-facto independent of China (1912-51) [has had a government in exile in India since 1959]	Tibet	74%
One of the Austro-Hungarian successor states, dissolved peacefully into two states (1918-92)	Czechoslovakia	70%
Congo during the dictatorship of Mobutu (1971-1997)	Zaire	69%
One of two countries (itself an island) that merged to form Tanzania (1856-1964)	Zanzibar	69%
Union of an empire and a kingdom, also known as The Dual Monarchy (1867-1918)	Austria-Hungary	67%
The southern states that broke away from the USA (1861-65)	Confederate States of America	66%
Japanese puppet state located in Northeast China (1932-45)	Manchukuo	60%
Preceded Zimbabwe (1965-79)	Rhodesia	60%
Communist state, abolished in peaceful reunification (1949-90)	East Germany (German Democratic Republic)	58%
Unsuccessful separatist state in Russia (1991-2000)	Chechnya (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria)	50%
Communist state, succeeded British colony of Aden, one of two countries that merged into one (1967-90)	South Yemen (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen)	50%
One of two Boer republics that was conquered by the British to later form South Africa in 1910 (1854-1902)	Orange Free State	46%
One of two countries that united and became Romania in 1881 (1330-1859)	Wallachia	46%
Founded in a rebellion and overthrew the Yemeni monarchy in 1970 (1962-90)	North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic)	45%
Anti-communist state, abolished when conquered (1955-75)	South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam)	44%
Short-lived union between Egypt and Syria under the Egyptian president Nasser (1958-61)	United Arab Republic	43%
One of two countries that united and became Romania in 1881 (1346-1859)	Moldavia	38%
One of two countries that merged to form Tanzania (1961-64)	Tanganyika	38%
One of two Boer republics that was conquered by the British to later form South Africa in 1910 (1852-1902)	Transvaal (formally South African Republic)	32%
Short-lived separatist state in Nigeria (1967-70)	Biafra	30%
Former name of United Arab Emirates as a British protectorate (1820-1971)	Trucial States	21%
Short-lived separatist state in the Congo (1960-63)	Katanga	14%
Successor state from the Ottoman Empire located south of Saudi Arabia (1918-70)	Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen	5%
Short-lived separatist state in the Congo (1960-62)	South Kasai	5%