Impossible Countries to Type First on the Countries of the World Quiz

No matter what you do, the names of these 5 countries will trigger something else when you type their names.

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Answer

Dominican Republic

Guinea-Bissau

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Ukraine

Level 65

Dec 21, 2016

Exceptional!

Level 44

Dec 21, 2016

Great quiz idea!!

Level 76

Dec 22, 2016

nice! I only understood instructions after seeing the answers though. You can type 'THE dominican republic' as first country

Level 77

Dec 22, 2016

Sweet.

Level 26

Dec 22, 2016

I don't get it

+10

Level 44

Feb 16, 2017

If you are typing random countries there are countries like Dominican Republic which you cant type first because of Dominica. Or Countries like Nigeria which you can't type first because of Niger.

Level 30

May 5, 2022

Basically, one country will activate when you try to type in another, since it contains a part of that country.

{*Parenthesis is the country it contains.}

Countries & What They Activate:*

(Uk)raine activated United Kingdom or (UK)

(Congo) Republic also activates Democratic Rep. (Congo)

(Guinea)-Bissau activates (Guinea)

(Dominica)n Republic activates (Dominica)

(Niger)ia activates (Niger)

Hope that helps!

Level 61

Mar 13, 2017

Great quiz idea! Got 100% but it took me a while. At first I didn't even understand the title but eventually the lightbulb went off!

Level 32

Apr 21, 2017

Are you able to type Republic of Congo or will it appear as the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

Level 76

Apr 21, 2017

It will

Level 33

Sep 28, 2017

I finally get the quiz. You can't type Nigeria because of Niger. You cannot type Ukraine because of UK. You cannot type Dominican Republic because of Dominica. You cannot type Guinea-Bissau because of Guinea

Level 33

Sep 28, 2017

But I don't see what other country will get triggered while typing "Republic of the Congo"

Level 51

Dec 6, 2017

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Level 76

Apr 21, 2021

If you type Republic of the Congo it does highlight Republic of the Congo, so I don't think this should be one of the answers here. (It also triggers DRC, so you get 2-for-1).

Level 76

Oct 1, 2017

It shouldn't trigger both Congos, but it does.

Level 85

Feb 26, 2019

Cool quiz idea

+10

Level 71

Jun 15, 2020

There is now an official type-in for Dominican Republic. We can now write "DR" instead, making it possible to type it as the first country

Level 76

Aug 8, 2020

Well that breaks this quiz.

+13

Level 66

Dec 28, 2020

That also means you have to add the DRC. If you type DRC, you will trigger Dominican Republic with DR. But if you type Congo, you will also trigger Republic of the Congo.

Level 72

Dec 18, 2023

And you can’t type in RoC either because that triggers Taiwan aka Republic of China. Seriously, how has the CCP not shut down Jetpunk yet, and not put Quizmaster in the gulag for this?

Level 60

Sep 12, 2021

If you want avoid changing this quiz and resetting stats you could add a caveat saying "Excluding abbreviations".

Level 64

Dec 18, 2023

In German, Dominican Republic is often abbreviated as "Dom. Rep.", even spoken like that. No wonder, as in German, it has even two syllables more: "Dominikanische Republik".

I somehow expected that English language might use "Dom. Rep." as well and was a bit disappointed when I found out it doesn't.

But in German version of Jetpunk, "Dom Rep" is a working type-in for the country.

Level 91

Dec 18, 2023

Problems here:

-typing “Congo” gets both countries.

-typing “DR” calls up the Dominican Republic without triggering something else.

The quiz should be updated with these two excluded.

Level 70

Dec 18, 2023

I did not get it until after taking the quiz, but I understood after seeing the answers. Great concept.