Why is this a yellow box quiz? To prevent someone from getting both Saint Louis..es? And all three Saint Peters?
Because that's really not a great reason when the "source" you're using for why they're the most common is not yellow box.... It's annoying to have the yellow box without any real need for it, and I'm not exactly seeing the need for it here.
Also, it's just terrible practice to not accept type-ins that are very common and used by your source quiz and not even mention that you're going to do that. I'd give the benefit of the doubt, but there are several examples that are at least very difficult not to notice (Split or Dalmatia for Split-Dalmatia, e.g.) Meanwhile, "Rio" works? Because... you personally don't use the other type-ins, or what? Quiz should not be "guess which type-ins I happen to like". Doubly true when it's yellow box as you'll have quizzers questioning whether they are in the right country's box before realizing you just randomly didn't accept it.
A substantial improvement, though I still see a major flaw with this quiz.. specifically, that a number of the answers are only most common because of type-ins of cardinal directions or other countries' capitals, which you're discounting for this quiz.
See:
Bahamas - San Salvador
El Salvador - La Paz
Nepal - Sudurpashchim (type-in "West")
Estonia - Laane (west)
What I would advise doing is going to your source quiz, typing in every national capital, every cardinal direction, plus "capital, federal district", and then discounting all of those answers, not just the answers whose names are actually those things.
That being said, there is an argument for something like St Vincent - St George, where genuinely the most well-known subdivisions are all names of Saints, so it may be worth checking up on specific examples if anyone can provide them. But something like Sudurpashchim, when until this year Nepal had "Province No. 1", there's no way more people would have guessed that.
Also, you could use more type-in help with a few answers.
FBiH, FBH, or even just BH are common type-ins for Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Basel for Basel-Landschaft, Lagos for Los Lagos, Dnistr (Dnister, Nister, Nistr) for Transnistria, Mecca for Makkah, more generous spellings for Kaohsiung (Kaosung?), and Samarqand (Samarkand?), and Baluchestan (Balochistan, Baluchistan?) since transcription to Latin alphabet sometimes sucks, and something at all typable for Ho Chi Minh (and also HCMC for it) because I'm not installing a Vietnamese keyboard for this quiz ;)
Might have missed something, but now it reads very much like you did try and just don't know all the type-ins, not over-relied on auto to do it.
Some of these are super surprising. Like, for South Africa, people know Mpumalanga more than any of the Cape provinces or Guateng? Madi-Okollo is the best-known subdivision of Uganda, more than Jinja or Gulu?
My guess is that the extensive type ins on the original quiz allow for people to gain credits for some of these answers, while trying to type a different answer.
Because that's really not a great reason when the "source" you're using for why they're the most common is not yellow box.... It's annoying to have the yellow box without any real need for it, and I'm not exactly seeing the need for it here.
Also, it's just terrible practice to not accept type-ins that are very common and used by your source quiz and not even mention that you're going to do that. I'd give the benefit of the doubt, but there are several examples that are at least very difficult not to notice (Split or Dalmatia for Split-Dalmatia, e.g.) Meanwhile, "Rio" works? Because... you personally don't use the other type-ins, or what? Quiz should not be "guess which type-ins I happen to like". Doubly true when it's yellow box as you'll have quizzers questioning whether they are in the right country's box before realizing you just randomly didn't accept it.
See:
Bahamas - San Salvador
El Salvador - La Paz
Nepal - Sudurpashchim (type-in "West")
Estonia - Laane (west)
What I would advise doing is going to your source quiz, typing in every national capital, every cardinal direction, plus "capital, federal district", and then discounting all of those answers, not just the answers whose names are actually those things.
That being said, there is an argument for something like St Vincent - St George, where genuinely the most well-known subdivisions are all names of Saints, so it may be worth checking up on specific examples if anyone can provide them. But something like Sudurpashchim, when until this year Nepal had "Province No. 1", there's no way more people would have guessed that.
FBiH, FBH, or even just BH are common type-ins for Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Basel for Basel-Landschaft, Lagos for Los Lagos, Dnistr (Dnister, Nister, Nistr) for Transnistria, Mecca for Makkah, more generous spellings for Kaohsiung (Kaosung?), and Samarqand (Samarkand?), and Baluchestan (Balochistan, Baluchistan?) since transcription to Latin alphabet sometimes sucks, and something at all typable for Ho Chi Minh (and also HCMC for it) because I'm not installing a Vietnamese keyboard for this quiz ;)
Might have missed something, but now it reads very much like you did try and just don't know all the type-ins, not over-relied on auto to do it.
Madi-Okollo, I don't know actually.. mistyping Madrid?
But indeed the original quiz does have a lot of accidental guesses getting unintended things.