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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country directly west of Suriname?	Guyana	88%
Slovakia is commonly confused with...	Slovenia	88%
Which of these Pacific regions is a country: Melanesia, Micronesia, or Polynesia?	Micronesia	85%
U.K. Is made of Wales, England, Scotland and...	Northern Ireland	82%
Which Scandinavian country is not in the EU?	Norway	82%
The Falkland Islands belong to the UK, but what other country claims them?	Argentina	79%
The two central European countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia were once a single country called:	Czechoslovakia	79%
Name a country that has an eponymous, nearly identically named capital. (e. Narnia City as the capital of Narnia)	Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Kuwait, Djibouti, Singapore, Vatican City, Monaco, Luxembourg or San Marino	79%
What country colonized most of Suriname? Great Britain was the first to do so, but soon traded it off to this country.	Netherlands	79%
Equatorial Guinea is the only African country where _____ is an official language.	Spanish	79%
Sumatra belongs to...	Indonesia	76%
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and _____ are the three African countries with Guinea in their names.	Equatorial Guinea	74%
Sanskrit and Tamil are two languages that have remained almost unchanged for the past five hundred years. They are spoken in present-day:	India	74%
Which of the three Baltic countries did not win any medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics?	Latvia	74%
Of the three Caucasus countries, which one is completely in Asia?	Armenia	71%
Which island did Thesus (remember the Minotaur from Greek mythology?) rise to fame in?	Crete	71%
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of...	Hispaniola	71%
Newest country as of 2/16/16?	South Sudan	68%
Sharing an island with Indonesia, this newly independent nation is also the only Asian country that is predominantly Catholic aside from the Philippines.	East Timor	65%
The 2020 Euro UEFA Cup will not be partly held in which of these cities: Baku, Minsk, London, Oslo, Cardiff, Glasgow, Jerusalem or Skopje?	Oslo (Surprisingly not Jerusalem)	65%
Nepal is to Himalayas as Andorra is to _______.	Pyrenees	62%
This is the largest city in the Baltics, with around two-thirds of a million people.	Riga	62%
Doubly landlocked Asian country...	Uzbekistan	62%
What North African city has a name meaning "White House"?	Casablanca	59%
The Laotian capital, Vientiane, comes from a word from what language?	French	59%
Four Tigers of Asia: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and... (Not an official country)	Hong Kong	59%
Easy question time! The Taj Mahal is in the city of...	Agra	56%
Name one of the two most secular countries in Europe.	Estonia or Czech Republic	56%
Last surviving "Buddhist nation"?	Bhutan	53%
The nation of Grenada is named after the Spanish city...	Granada	53%
This Romance language is often overlooked and is isolated from the other major Romance languages today.	Romanian	53%
What are the three countries always included in Scandinavia? No and required.	Sweden, Norway, Denmark.	53%
There are three distinct capital cities in this country in Africa. Name it.	South Africa	50%
Speaking of Romance languages, what is the official language of Andorra?	Catalan	47%
This small, coastal country joined the EU in 2013, the newest as of the making of the quiz.	Croatia	44%
_______ surrounds The ______ (Western Africa)	Senegal, Gambia	44%
Only language isolate spoken in Europe (doesn't have roots)	Basque	41%
Belize again: While the official capital is inland, most business takes place in...	Belize City	38%
Country where Sofia Vergana came from.	Colombia	38%
Greenest city in the world (Europe)	Copenhagen	38%
Name them; the hardest to spell will be relaxed.	Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.	38%
Finnish, Estonian and ____ are the three most widely spoken Finno-Ugric languages.	Hungarian	35%
... Versus European	Liechtenstein	32%
From what region did algebra come from?	Middle East	32%
Last question. Stick with me. The once-grand city of _________ is in present-day Somalia.	Mogadishu	32%
Out of four major island groups off the east coast of Africa, which is not a nation but instead a French possession?	Reunion (or Réunion if you must)	32%
Name a country with a capital that contains PART of the country name.	El Salvador, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Algeria, Tunisia, or Guinea-Bissau.	29%
Country with a name meaning "Resplendent Isle"	Sri Lanka	26%
Beijing means "Northern Capital". Which former Chinese capital city means "Southern Capital"?	Nanjing	24%
Found only in USA, Venezuela, and Trinidad; another name for a large, natural body of tar or asphalt.	Pitch Lake	18%
What does "Libya" mean in Ancient Greek?	Africa	15%
Kanji are ___ words borrowed into ___.	Chinese, Japanese	15%
Ambergris Caye is found off the shore of Belize. What does "Caye" mean?	Reef	15%
The closest language to old English that is definitely not a dialect is the language of:	Frisian	3%
The Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, means what in Malay?	Muddy River	3%
The lowest point in Africa, in Djibouti, is Lake ______	Assal	0%