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Continent	Etymology	Answer	% Correct
South America	Named after the Latin word for "silver"	Argentina	82%
Asia	"Land of the Pure" in Persian and Urdu	Pakistan	67%
North America	"Sunday Island" in Latin	Dominica	62%
North America	First word: "Ancient" in Spanish, named after an icon in the Seville Cathedral; Second word: "Bearded" in Spanish	Antigua and Barbuda	56%
Europe	"The fertile place" in Proto-Celtic	Ireland	54%
Europe	Celtic for "small" + Germanic for "castle"	Luxembourg	51%
North America	"The Shallows" in Spanish	Bahamas	48%
Oceania	"Eight Islands" or "Eight standing with each other" in the local language	Tuvalu	47%
Africa	"Lake" in the local language	Chad	46%
North America	"Mountainous land" in the language Taino	Haiti	42%
North America	"Land of wood and water" or "Land of springs" in Taino	Jamaica	41%
Asia	"Home of the Free", from a combination of Turkic, Sogdian and Persian words	Uzbekistan	41%
Asia	Combination between East-Turkic and Persian meaning "Land of Forty Tribes"	Kyrgyzstan	38%
Asia	"The Two Seas" in Arabic	Bahrain	32%
Africa	The word "hippopotamus" in Malinké and Bamana	Mali	32%
Africa	Named after a son of Hephaestus	Ethiopia	29%
Europe	Turkic for "Alliance of the ten tribes"	Hungary	29%
Africa	"Land of Honest Men"	Burkina Faso	22%
Africa	Derived from the words for "water" and "shore" in the local language.	Togo	21%
Africa	Named after the finance minister to King Louis XV of France	Seychelles	16%