Sorry for all the problems with this quiz. When we transitioned our quizzes to the new format maybe 0.1% of them got screwed up. It should be fixed now.
As a Turkish person, I always forget Turkey in Asia segment. Yeah, I know Turkey is classified as an Asian nation in JetPunk but in sports competitions and other cultural events It generally lays in Europe.
This is wear Jetpunk's inisistence that Turkey is treated as an Asian country falls down. To pick just three Olympic sports at random - Turkey competes in the official European Championships for athletics, swimming and wrestling.
A nice, non-political quiz. My non-political comment is that it's time those Pacific island nations (New Zealand excepted) started winning a few more medals.
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan #1 exporter of potassium
Other countries have inferior potassium
Lack of government investment in Olympic sport, focus on other sports/cultural activity, talented athletes having a lack of time and resources to train and compete...
Because success at the Olympics has almost nothing at all to do with population or the size of your country which is why looking at per-capita figures is nonsensical. Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of Congo, etc also have virtually no presence at the Olympic games. It's much more about economics, physical geography (hard to get a ski jumping team going in Namibia), politics (how interested a country is in the Olympics, how much support the government gives to its athletes), athletic tradition, and competitive spirit than population. Also a bit to do with genetics (a big part of why Kenya shows up here). Population doesn't start being a factor until you look at some micronations.
Well, it's debatable... Having more people also mean you have more athletes to choose from, more genetic diversity, more competition inside your country... Big olympic nations tend to have a big population (China, USA, Japan, France, Germany...).
It's not the only factor certainly, but going as far as saying it's a non factor is a bit much
Just saying, it’s Capital is in Asia, most of it’s area is in Asia, most of the population is in Asia and they are culturally Asian. You MIGHT consider it historically European due to Constantinople, but this is nothing to do with History.
Really wish I'd read the caveat. I couldn't figure out which European country I was missing that was number one. Sigh. (It finally dawned on me it must be a former country as time was running out, but unfortunately West Germany was the first one that came to mind.)
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan #1 exporter of potassium
Other countries have inferior potassium