"Six Degrees of Separation" is a concept that every person, place, or thing is in someway connected with one another in six or less separate connections. With the help of hints, can you name the countries that are connected to one another below?
Each statement only has one possible answer that connects with the country above
Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box
Massive hint: In this quiz we are NOT considering Greenland to be an integral part of Denmark
Will you create other quizzes like this one (cities, capitals, countries by continent,...)? I just love this concept (and I didn't know it was featured, so congrats!)!
I've tried, but finding connections for cities is harder than you would think lol. I plan to do perhaps other regions such as states and countries by continent, but anyone can try to use this concept as well. Unlike the Cat Elim quizzes, 6 degrees doesn't need hidden boxes, which could provide some interesting random group quizzes in the future.. hint hint nudge nudge
This is a lot of fun! Nominated! Just out of curiosity could you clarify that the Singapore question is a country, because I kept guessing years. Maybe something like "whose leader first met the US President what island country?" I understand if you want to keep the word country out of the questions because of styling, but if you could find a solution, that would be great!
Uhm, are you conflating the two Mediterranean countries whose name differ by 2.5 letters? I'm willing to be wrong if it will lead to being guided to a clearer explanation
Monaco was an example: Monaco is not in France despite being surrounded by France and the Mediterranean, just like Ceuta and Melilla are not in Africa, despite being surround by Africa and the Mediterranean
For the "former overseas colony" question, I guessed UK (not knowing the answer to the above was Singapore). I then started to worry which countries to guess because so many were former colonies.
How is Zealand the second-largest island in Denmark? It's either (1) the largest island in "main" Denmark or (2) the third-largest island including "external" Denmark, after Greenland and Disko.
Good quiz. As a non-American, I did not know (or care) about where the US president and North Korean leader may have once met. Got all the other answers however.
Snap @blizzrd33 that clue totally stumped me. I remember them meeting on the demilitarised part of the Korean border but that’s it. Tough clue. The rest of that column is pretty much impossible once you miss that question. Tough quiz in general.
Yes, when there’s a random question where there’s no chance you’d get the correct answer (short of guessing every single country in the world) early in a string like this, the rest becomes completely unfeasible (unless you can work backwards from the end).
Also, any sport or history questions cancel the rest of their chain for me (don’t care about them whatsoever).
I had the same issue with the flag clues. I just can't seem to commit all the different flags to memory, and there were flag clues in three of them. (But I still think this is a great quiz and I hope to see more of them for other countries.)
This is a clever idea. I hope you do more. One nitpick - you have an extra "the" in the last clue for the first section. "Whose national flag is THE similar to..."
in Pacific terms it's nearby, and it's the closest country to New Zealand - indeed Australia is the only country that New Zealand even shares a *maritime* border with, unless you count Antarctica
in Pacific terms it's nearby, and it's the closest country to New Zealand - indeed Australia is the only country that New Zealand even shares a *maritime* border with, unless you count Antarctica
Cool quiz! One thing though: if external territories count (which apparently they do based on the rest of the questions), then the northernmost country is Denmark, not Canada.
Correct. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory, and is not considered part of the UK. It has a similar status as Bermuda, Pitcairn, Cayman Islands etc.
The flag of Poland is also "similar" though, being just red and white upside down from Indonesia. Although I suppose it's not too hard to just guess one, and then guess the other if the first doesn't work.
Shouldn't the largest island of Denmark be Greenland? If not there should be some sort of clarification in the rules that makes it clear why it's not considered as such.
Not sure about a few of the clues in the last section..
1. Shouldn't the largest island of Denmark be Greenland based on the precedent set in the rest of the quiz?
2. In that case, wouldn't Denmark also be the northernmost country?
3. Not sure if "Zealand" (itself an anglicisation/transliteration of Sjælland) can be said to share its name with "New Zealand"... especially when the latter is named after "Zeeland" in The Netherlands.
4. Not sure whether the boundaries of Antarctic "claims" can be described as "borders", when they're not official territory recognised by the UN and when they overlap.
Agree completely, all of these must be changed. Claiming Canada as the northernmost country is especially wrong, you can't just erase Greenland off the map, even if you don't count it as part of Denmark. But if you do that, then why is Hans Island considered in Denmark? Doesn't make any sense. Also, the notion of "Antarctic borders" is completely wrong, these illegitimate territorial claims have no practical relevance.
I've had previous complaints to consider it the largest island of Denmark, then others tell me that I shouldn't include external territories. Guess you can't please everyone at once :p
Can you at least include a caveat that explicitly says that external territories are not included? Because that one definitely stumped me for a long time.
I like this quiz a lot despite my agreement with various objections already raised by others - thanks!
However, the term six degrees of separation is correct in the way you use it ONLY for the social distance between people, not for things or places. As your creativity shows, anyone can easily make up the six degrees of separation between places (or things). The six degrees of social distance separating people is a real sociological phenomenon, as shown in a study by Stanley Milgram.
Milgram, S. (1967). The small world problem. Psychology today, 2(1), 60-67.
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?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
Not sure why they don't renounce their claims. It seems kinda pointlessly evil.
Also, any sport or history questions cancel the rest of their chain for me (don’t care about them whatsoever).
1. Shouldn't the largest island of Denmark be Greenland based on the precedent set in the rest of the quiz?
2. In that case, wouldn't Denmark also be the northernmost country?
3. Not sure if "Zealand" (itself an anglicisation/transliteration of Sjælland) can be said to share its name with "New Zealand"... especially when the latter is named after "Zeeland" in The Netherlands.
4. Not sure whether the boundaries of Antarctic "claims" can be described as "borders", when they're not official territory recognised by the UN and when they overlap.
However, the term six degrees of separation is correct in the way you use it ONLY for the social distance between people, not for things or places. As your creativity shows, anyone can easily make up the six degrees of separation between places (or things). The six degrees of social distance separating people is a real sociological phenomenon, as shown in a study by Stanley Milgram.
Milgram, S. (1967). The small world problem. Psychology today, 2(1), 60-67.
Thanks !