Countries that Beat the United States

U-S-A! U-S-A! We're number 2! We're number 2!

Yes in youth hockey. :)

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Cool quiz!

Good quiz , trickier than I thought it was going to be. Drinks the most Champagne?

Great (-: And the one country with more stripes on its flag is......-?

Malaysia! (thanks internet)

This was a question on the Chase last week, and I finally happened to notice this quiz today. I found it pretty funny coming across the same question on this quiz from a few years ago.

Lovely quiz, Quizzer6794! Really fun one.

Very clever, finally got the flag question with 8 seconds to spare.

More like that, please!

Greenland, is more northern than the USA. Therefore you should also list Denmark as an option

Rimpak, that makes no sense at all to me. If Greenland is not "part" of Denmark, then of what country is it part? I live in Gibraltar and we are part of the UK - like Greenland, not independent.

If denmark is not listed then greenland should be, you cant deny it's there.

I have a UK passport. Your argument is a semantic one. A territory of the UK is a part of the UK. It isn't a country in own right, it has to be part of one. As far as I know, the only inhabited land in the World that isn't part of a country is Antarctica. And that is only because those countries which claim parts of it have shelved their claims for a period under the terms of the Antarctic treaty.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are part of the UK. Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories belong to the UK but are not part of it.

Here's the thing I don't get about this whole argument. You claim that any territories or crown dependencies aren't part of the UK, and Dutch people similarly claim that about their territories, but I have never once seen anyone claim that Puerto Rico is not a part of the United States although it has the exact same status as the examples given.

You'll love this one: http://everysecondcounts.eu/

Awesome.

I must be getting dyslexic as I kept reading "beer consumption per capita" for a while... or maybe just need to wet my whistle.

I also thought it said beer at first.

Could you add more time, please?

I got the final flag question with 2:29 to spare! Not saying I did the questions in order...

Great Quiz!

The flag question was a good curveball. Nice work!

It was directly above "highest obesity rate," after all.

Where was gun deaths, faulty politicians and xenophobic percentage by capata?

It's okay because I am american.

It wouldn't be #1 in any one of those categories. Total gun deaths actually would go well on the quiz, though, as the US is 2nd only to Brazil. (per capita they're much lower).

Xenophobia is a little harder to measure, but in a 2013 survey by World Values Survey (Sweden) polling different countries on their racist attitudes, the USA ranked damn near the bottom of the list (being most racially tolerant). Though many countries in Africa and some other around the world were not polled, the US would be somewhere around 170-190 on a list of xenophobic countries. India, in that poll, came out on top along with Jordan.

As for "faulty politicians," that's also difficult to measure, though on the Corruption Perceptions Index the United States is also very near the bottom of the list. Virtually every country in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe rank worse. Though the US is the only country to have elected a narcissistic orangutan as president so there's that.

Lame. The U.S. is still among the least corrupt and xenophobic places on Earth. Its shortcomings are magnified because of its stature as the world's most influential country, and it could learn some lessons from western Europe, but compared to most of the nearly 200 countries, the US is a very tolerant and uncorrupt (is that word? I don't think so) place. It's also worth reminding that Trump won the election with fewer actual votes than his opponent, and his approval rating is currently below 40%. There are ignorant morons here, but they are the minority.

I have a serious question here: if you think you have a better basis than those of us consuming "mainstream media" (groan), then where are you getting your information? And what makes you think it is credible, other than that it tells you what you want to hear? I have seriously never understood this position. "I don't trust the New York Times, its on-the-ground reporting from all over the world, or its many award-winning and seasoned journalists, but there is a guy in a condo in Oklahoma with an absolutely killer blog. He's telling it like it is." The truth is that whatever alternative you prefer to the "mainstream media" likely has no resources of its own, and is merely offering commentary off the hard work done by the media to develop a story. They have no information beyond what the mainstream gives them. So why should anybody put faith in your opinion, or that of the "non-mainstream" media you prefer? You think QAnon is a better method?

jmellor: that's not true. They have additional information that they have made up. Or else gotten from other people who make stuff up.

I just guessed Malaysia, and it went right 🤣

Glad to see my country 'beat' the United States in some way! 😁

good one! loved it, harder than a couple of others

I'm always extremely skeptical when I see stats about this. I know there are many different indigenous languages in South Africa and some other places, but America has got people living there from every country on Earth, AND a large host of its own indigenous languages. I'm guessing there's some highly dubious figuring going on in Africa, New Guinea, etc. inflating their figures, and a lot of undercounting in the US. But I don't actually know for certain. Just seems implausible.

Papua New Guinea has over 800 languages. It is a mountainous country populated with tribes living in valleys. For thousands of years, villages remained isolated from each other, and languages with ancient roots developed without foreign influence. There are also hundreds of islands.

I know that. Still skeptical.

I actually read first "beer consumption per capita" and guessed Germany, Czechia, etc. but didn´t work. After quiz i notice that it was "beef consumption per capita" :o

Nice quiz, perhaps put the questions in order? Closest to ranking 1st at the top (so, 2,3,4,5,9,10)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table#Winter_Olympics

This puts Germany as top.

haha! that's funny. Of course on the German language wiki they have decided that in the years that East Germany and West Germany were separate countries, Germany got to field two olympic teams and win medals with both of them, something no other country ever benefited from doing.

There's no reason why this should be surprising and the fact that you find it so may point to your own biases. I'm not a patriot; I'm a realist.

Not any more than they deserve. Again, I'm nothing if not a realist.

I thought it said "beer" not "beef" consumption so I kept writing Germany, then Ireland, lol!

South Africa has more OFFICIAL languages not languages in general

wow, this series is so good that quizmaster had to copy it :P

The only one I didn't get was the CO2 one... To which there were 12 countries to guess from.. D'oh!

Bought to go on Babel and get the US back to #1!

We should have countries that beat India Pakistan or Italy. It would be interesting to see these countries. Keep up the good work :D

Only missed Malaysia

Thanks Hawaii... and Alaska?

I thought that Mexico had a higher obesity rate than the US?

Mexico 29%, USA 42%

Countries that beat the United States? So is this the same quiz as the "Countries of the World" quiz? Tee hee snicker heh heh heh

Not remarkable at all given they have 1.4 billion people and not that long ago were barely even industrialized.

The USA would be #1 in that category (fattest man), but that would make a good question for a Countries That Beat Saudi Arabia (#2) or a Countries That Beat Mexico (#3) quiz...

Unless you mean fattest person still alive.... in which case the USA is #3 after Saudi Arabia and Mexico, and that would actually be a good question to include, except for the fact that enormously obese people tend to have short lifespans and you'd be setting yourself up for the quiz soon being out-of-date

Good quiz but like most in this series pretty easy - if you don't confuse beef and beer it seems.

However if Malaysia hadn't been right for the stripes I'd have been struggling.

OK, so Palau has more emissions per capita, but that´s hardly the issue for the world that American emissions are...