The Only Remaining European Country . . .

For each box, enter the only European country that fits the description excluding countries that have already appeared on the quiz.

Any reference to city population refers to urban agglomeration population according to citypopulation.de

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Last updated: October 29, 2021

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First submitted	December 30, 2018
Times taken	22,467
Average score	64.4%
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The only country . . .	Country
To average more than 1 pope / square km	Vatican City
To have an operating steam-powered railway in 1825	United Kingdom
To touch both the North Sea and the Mediterranean	France
To have a megacity (population > 10,000,000)	Russia
To be larger than Yemen (~550,000 square km)	Ukraine
To have a flag that is entirely blue and yellow	Sweden
To be connected by road or rail to a country it doesn't have a land border with	Denmark
To have more than 25,000 km of coastline	Norway
To touch the Prime Meridian	Spain
To be a republic since 1600	San Marino
To have a population density less than 10 people / square km	Iceland
To enter the Renaissance in the 1300s	Italy
To touch the Arctic Circle	Finland
To win the FIFA World Cup	Germany
To have a population larger than Ghana (~30,000,000)	Poland
To be the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World	Greece
To have more than 2 Nobel Laureates in literature	Ireland
To be an island country	Malta
To share an inhabited island with another country	Netherlands
To have a name that ends in "-land"	Switzerland
To host a Summer Olympics	Belgium
To win more than 100 Winter Olympic medals	Austria
To contain an Olympic host city	Bosnia and Herzegovina
To not use multiple different vowels in its name	Kosovo
To not have red on their flag	Estonia
To have multiple Eurovision wins	Luxembourg
To have a Germanic language as the primary language	Liechtenstein
To have a non-Indo-European language as the primary language	Hungary
To produce more than 500,000 metric tons of wine per year	Portugal
To have an alpha city	Czech Republic
To be smaller than Barbados (~400 square km)	Monaco
To touch the Alps	Slovenia
To have a monarchy	Andorra
To have participated in the Olympics but never won a medal	Albania
To have a smaller population than Honolulu (~1,000,000)	Montenegro
To have a border with Russia to the west	Lithuania
To touch the Baltic Sea	Latvia
To touch the Mediterranean Sea	Croatia
To have a mammal on the flag	Moldova
To have a Romance language as the primary language	Romania
To win more than 150 Olympic medals	Bulgaria
To be among the top 50 in the world in Human Development Index	Slovakia
To touch the Danube	Serbia
To have a city with a population of over 1,000,000	Belarus
To be in Europe	North Macedonia

Level 83

Oct 23, 2021

Big thanks to everyone who pointed out clues that were confusing, misleading, or downright wrong! This quiz is better because of you.

If you like this quiz, check out the sequel, which is the same concept but with entirely different clues.

Level 81

Dec 30, 2018

There's two answers "to host a Summer Olympics"; the Netherlands hosted the 1928 Olympics.

Level 83

Dec 30, 2018

Well that's an embarrassing miss. I'll fix this soon. Just need to make sure I don't mess up any of the other answers in the process.

Level 69

Oct 11, 2021

Ireland shares an island with UK.

+14

Level 71

Oct 28, 2021

Only *remaining* country. The UK was taken out of the running after question 2, and Ireland was also out before the Netherlands. Maybe before taking a quiz, work out what the quiz is actually about.

Level 83

Dec 30, 2018

Fixed. Fortunately that wound up being simpler than I expected. Just needed to rearrange one answer.

Level 71

Dec 31, 2018

Fun but exhaustive! However silly it may sound, but Monaco is also one of the Alpine countries along with Slovenia.

Level 83

Dec 31, 2018

Interesting. I was using the Jetpunk quiz "Countries in the Alps" as a source, but I probably should have been using Wikipedia instead. Or at least have read the comments section on that quiz XD

Level 55

Dec 31, 2018

There's two answers "To win more than 100 Winter Olympic medals" Austria and Bulgaria, and there's two answers "To not have red on their flag" Estonia and Kosovo

Level 83

Dec 31, 2018

You're right about Kosovo, and I'll get to fixing that soon, but where are you getting more than 100 Winter Olympic medals for Bulgaria? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table has them at a grand total of 6.

Level 82

Oct 28, 2021

If you are going to make any edits to the one about vowels, would it be possible to add "of the alphabet" in the clue? My idiot brain kept trying to think of a country with 5 vowels in it.

Otherwise this is a fantastic quiz!

Level 83

Oct 28, 2021

Will consider rewording that clue if I need to make other changes.

Level 57

Nov 1, 2021

Ireland also has no red on their flag

Level 83

Dec 31, 2018

The issues with "To not have red on their flag" and "To touch the Alps" have been fixed. Thanks to those who pointed them out!

Level 65

Apr 18, 2019

a complimentary map would be nice

Level 83

Sep 30, 2020

Now there is one!

Level 48

Apr 11, 2020

macedonia is now north macedonia

Level 83

Apr 11, 2020

Yes, I am aware. Unfortunately I don't have much free time to keep quizzes updated these days since they shut down the daycare.

Level 83

Sep 30, 2020

Updated.

Level 84

Nov 25, 2020

Great quiz!

Level 74

Dec 13, 2020

North Macedonia also have multiple words in its common name, not just Czech Republic (which is also questionable since the name Czechia is now more used on JetPunk)

Level 83

Dec 14, 2020

Fair points on both counts; I didn't think when I recently updated Macedonia to North Macedonia that it would invalidate an earlier clue. I'll try to get around to fixing this at some point, but at first glance it doesn't look like there are any easy fixes.

Level 83

Dec 17, 2020

Fixed this by replacing the "multiple words" clue with something else.

Level 65

Mar 3, 2021

This is a sweet quiz!

Level 86

May 3, 2021

Am I missing something, or is there a mistake with the 'name that can be split' question?

Level 83

May 3, 2021

Can you elaborate?

Level 86

May 5, 2021

I just don't get why it's Moldova.

Level 83

May 5, 2021

"mold" and "ova" are both words.

Level 66

Oct 17, 2021

You should clarify that these two words use the American spelling. It's spelled "mould" elsewhere.

Level 77

Jun 10, 2021

I found it a really confusing clue. Why is it "non-proper" English?

Level 83

Jun 10, 2021

"Proper" here refers to proper noun. Looking back at the clue, I suppose it could be a little confusing. I can try to reword it.

Level 70

Oct 14, 2021

That clue completely through me, but it looks like others were able to work it out, or had time to guess.

Level 68

May 3, 2021

Belgrade has more than 1.000.000 inhabitants too, so you should correct that question...

Level 83

May 3, 2021

Hmm, not sure how I missed that. Thanks for the pointer. At first glance, it looks like it shouldn't be hard to fix for that.

Level 83

May 3, 2021

Should be fixed now.

Level 56

May 10, 2021

Didn't Latvia, as Courland, own Tobago as a colony?

Level 83

May 11, 2021

Yes, and (I now see) they had a few islands in the Gambia River as well. They don't appear to have controlled any of these places for more than 15 years or so. That doesn't exactly scream "colonial empire" to me.

If more people comment, I'll consider changing it, but I think it's fine as is for now.

Level 59

Jun 10, 2021

You could argue that Courland was subbortinated to Poland, so it was Polish empire ;)

Level 52

Jun 10, 2021

I'm not sure if I get this quiz... Ireland doesn't fit to being an island country, share an inhabited island with another country or end in "land"... and It was not already guessed.

Level 83

Jun 10, 2021

Ireland is the answer to "To have more than 2 Nobel Laureates in literature", so it should not be considered for any of the other three clues that you mention, which all come after that one.

Level 55

Oct 2, 2021

Yeah, I think the quiz is confusing. It wouldn't accept Bosnia for the country with no red on the flag, and other things like that. If I've understood it right, it shouldn't say the word "already" in the instructions - that line could be re-written, and it's not the case that, for instance, Estonia is the "only country which" has no red in its flag - that heading is a problem too.

Level 55

Jun 10, 2021

Great quiz, I nominated!!

Level 57

Jul 8, 2021

I think counting Latvia as having a colonial empire would be interesting for the purposes of this quiz, sure it wasn't long-standing but it's not technically wrong, besides, it will make for an interesting fact for all the confused people who come to this comment section and learn about Courland.

Level 83

Jul 9, 2021

I gave in on the "colonial empire" question. It has been replaced with something else.

Level 58

Jul 10, 2021

Awesome quiz, nominated!

Level 76

Aug 8, 2021

Very interesting quiz. I hadn't come across the concept of alpha/beta/gamma cities before doing this quiz, nice to learn something new.

Level 74

Sep 23, 2021

Nominated.

Level 65

Oct 1, 2021

The UK and France are also connected by rail, but don't share a land border. Good quiz this though.

Level 65

Oct 1, 2021

Ignore me, you knew this, and France and UK already appear so aren't valid. Same for Sweden of course.

Level 71

Oct 1, 2021

What about Cyprus.. and it's in the EU

Level 83

Oct 2, 2021

Oh, Cyprus . . .

Level 80

Oct 11, 2021

Cyprus is in EU but not in Europe as it's much closer to the Asian and even African mainland. I'm surprised you haven't heard about this issue at level 70.

Level 58

Oct 28, 2021

I'm surprised you think KingTom2 hasn't heard about this issue :p

Level 71

Oct 11, 2021

This was awesome! Please tell me there are more of these out there or in the works? One for every continent, perhaps?

Level 83

Oct 11, 2021

I made one for Asia and one for U.S. states. I vaguely remember seeing one that somebody else made for Africa.

Level 71

Oct 11, 2021

I'm not sure whether Andorra should technically qualify as a monarchy, since "mon-" implies only one ruler, while Andorra is a co-principality, ruled by two people.

Level 83

Oct 11, 2021

Wikipedia seems to think it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchs_of_sovereign_states.

Level 76

Oct 18, 2021

I think wikipedia is wrong here. In fact, in their own article about monarchy they define it as "a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication." This isn't the case for neither of Andorra's co-princes (one is elected democratically every four years, the other can be replaced at any time by the Pope).

And of course, if we decided that the co-princes are "monarchs", then we should talk about a diarchy.

Level 83

Oct 18, 2021

Well, for now I will follow Jetpunk, which includes Andorra on its Monarchies of the World quiz. If it gets removed from there, I will make an adjustment here.

Level 72

Oct 12, 2021

Larger than Paraguay would still qualify Spain and Sweden as well, which haven't been used at that point..

Level 83

Oct 12, 2021

Yup. I think some edits were made when the quiz was featured that caused this bug. A fix is now pending approval.

Level 67

Oct 14, 2021

Great quiz, can only imagine the effort it took to think of criteria for each remaining country

Level 75

Oct 16, 2021

Great quiz! Not sure about the Moldova clue though because "mold" is spelt "mould" everywhere except the US! How about "has an eagle and a cow on its flag" or "has a capital with an ă in its name"?

Level 83

Oct 16, 2021

Oof, English spelling inconsistencies. I'll think about possible replacements for that one.

Level 66

Oct 17, 2021

"Belarus" can also be split into two words - "belar" (an Australian tree) and "us". So the clue for Moldova needs to be changed.

Level 83

Oct 17, 2021

The controversial "split into 2 words" clue has been retired (pending approval). Thanks to Jerry928 for inspiration on the replacement! Anyone who liked that clue can go here to see the quiz it was originally pulled from.

Level 58

Oct 28, 2021

The Vatican does indeed have the highest pope density of any country in Europe, I guess.

Level 70

Oct 28, 2021

Believe it or not, it is also the only European country with a pope density :O Shocking I know!

Level 51

Oct 28, 2021

Andorra isn't *technically* a monarchy, it's a diarchy.

Level 83

Oct 28, 2021

This issue has already been discussed above.

Level 77

Oct 28, 2021

Poor North Macedonia

Level 68

Oct 28, 2021

The question "To host the Olympics", wasn't that rather Yugoslavia than that country?

Level 83

Oct 28, 2021

Technically true. If I need to make other changes, I can reword this one to say "Contain an Olympic host city" instead.

Level 63

Oct 28, 2021

Very cool quiz! Great job!

Level 70

Oct 28, 2021

Fun quiz! Like how it made me use process of elimination to figure it out. It was very satisfying when I would come back to a clue I skipped and figure out what it was since there were no other possible answers :)

Level 48

Oct 28, 2021

According to this article:

https://balkaninsight.com/2020/01/28/moldova-hits-new-records-in-wine-exports/

"Moldova exported 156,674 million litres of wine in 2019, with 12,607 million litres more compared to 2018."

Whatever the actual number is, it's certainly higher than the 600,000 liters asked in the Portugal question

Level 70

Oct 28, 2021

Yeah Moldova is very big on wine.

Level 83

Oct 29, 2021

Hmm. My source for this was https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wine-producing-countries, which, now that I look closer, is a little inconsistent about its numbers, years, and units of measurement. I trust Wikipedia more, but its numbers are from 2014.

I think at that point in the quiz Portugal probably is still the biggest wine producer left, but I'm not sure I can confirm it, and I don't know a good cutoff number to use. Which means I will probably be looking for the fourth different clue to use for that one. Sigh . . .

Level ∞

Oct 29, 2021

This quiz is up to date with the latest data from the FAO (2018). You can use that as a source.

Level 69

Oct 28, 2021

This was harder than I thought.

Level 60

Oct 28, 2021

Amazing quiz and well-deserved feature! Evidence of a lot of hard work right here.

Level 83

Oct 29, 2021

Fixed a few issues that were brought up yesterday. Thanks to QM for help with the wine clue!