Statistics for Most Difficult (Least Guessed) Question for Each Country

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 22 times
The average score is 36 of 198

Answer Stats

Country	Least guessed question	Answer	% Correct
United States	Highest mountain	Denali	74%
Brazil	Waterfalls on the Argentina border	{Iguazu} Falls	63%
South Africa	Longest river	Orange	58%
Ukraine	Protests that happened in 2004 after vote-rigging and the poisoning of a Presidential candidate	{Orange} Revolution	58%
Canada	Viking settlement established around 1000 A.D.	{Vin}land	58%
Belize	Giant marine sinkhole that is a popular scuba destination	Great {Blue} Hole	53%
Estonia	According to Hemingway, at least two Estonians can be found in every one of these places	Port	53%
Belarus	The national animal of Belarus is the wisent, also known as the ...	European {Bison}	47%
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan has 400 of these "volcanoes", the most of any country (note: they are not actual volcanoes)	{Mud} Volcanoes	47%
Spain	Red spice that flavors paella	Saffron	47%
Nepal	This was abolished in 2008 after the Constituent Assembly elections	Monarchy	42%
Malta	Most populous municipality	St. {Paul}'s Bay	42%
North Korea	The year in which the men's football (soccer) team first appeared in the World Cup	1966	37%
Togo	Among the African countries, Togo has the highest percentage of population who follow this type "ism" religion	{Anim}ism	37%
Antigua and Barbuda	Last name of father/son leaders Vere and Lester	Bird	37%
Andorra	One of two co-princes of Andorra	{Bishop} of Urgell	37%
Germany	Longest rivers	Elbe	37%
Colombia	Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"	Gabriel García Márquez	37%
Greece	Island - Odysseus's home	Ithaca	37%
Iceland	The Alþingi, founded in 930 A.D. is said to be the world's oldest ______, at least 200 years older than England's	Parliament	37%
United Arab Emirates	Third-most populous city	Sharjah	37%
Japan	Main islands	Shikoku	37%
Denmark	Famous existential philosopher	Søren Kierkegaard	37%
Bulgaria	Southern Bulgaria is part of this ancient region starting with T	Thrace	37%
Australia	What you won't find in South Australia's Nullarbor Plain	Trees	37%
Zimbabwe	National symbol	Zimbabwe {Bird}	37%
Iraq	Former U.S. prison where detainees were abused	Abu Ghraib	32%
Tanzania	Historic language of Zanzibar	Arabic	32%
Georgia	Largest Georgian city on that sea	Batumi	32%
Cameroon	Largest type of frog, found mostly in Cameroon (hint: a Bible character)	{Goliath} Frog	32%
Sweden	Gulf between Sweden and Finland	Gulf of {Bothnia}	32%
Sudan	Biggest city by that sea	Port Sudan	32%
United Kingdom	Longest river	River Severn	32%
Liechtenstein	Most populous municipality	Schaan	32%
Uzbekistan	Warlord born in the city of Shahrisabz in 1336 whose conquests killed an estimated 5% of the world population	Timur	32%
Chile	War in which Bolivia lost its coastline to Chile	War of the {Pacific}	32%
Ireland	City where famous crystal was made	Waterford	32%
Saint Lucia	Island chain that Saint Lucia is part of	{Windward} Islands	32%
Sri Lanka	Chain of island and shallow waters connecting India and Sri Lanka	{Adam}'s Bridge	26%
Peru	Former President who rid the country of the guerrilla Shining Path, but was convicted of human rights abuses and fled to Japan	Alberto Fujimori	26%
Kazakhstan	Holiday celebrated on January 7	Christmas	26%
Algeria	Two-letter country code	DZ	26%
Cape Verde	Currency of Cape Verde	Escudo	26%
Portugal	Former currency	Escudo	26%
Barbados	Fruit discovered by accident in Barbados that is a cross of an orange and a pomelo	Grapefruit	26%
Cyprus	What is the nickname for the UN buffer zone that separates the two parts of the country?	{Green} Line	26%
Nigeria	Largest ethnic groups	Hausa	26%
Switzerland	Fictional woman who personifies Switzerland	Helvetia	26%
Dominica	Dominica's Boiling Lake is the second-largest of these in the world	Hot Spring	26%
Hungary	Hungarian-American mathematician considered to be one of the most intelligent people of all-time	John von {Neumann}	26%
Kenya	1952–1960 revolt against that country	{Mau} {Mau} Uprising	26%
D.R. Congo	Who was dictator of the country during that period?	Mobutu Sese Seko	26%
Greenland	Large bovid which lives in northern Greenland	{Musk}ox	26%
Malawi	Former name of Malawi	{Nyasa}land	26%
China	What were the four "Great Inventions" of ancient China?	Printing	26%
Vietnam	River that flows through the capital	Red	26%
Ivory Coast	Tree sap product that is one of the Ivory Coast's most important exports	Rubber	26%
Cambodia	That temple complex is located this city, with initials SR	Siem Reap	26%
Niger	Empire that ruled the region c. 1464–1591	{Song}hai	26%
South Korea	Self-proclaimed religious messiah who died in 2012	Sun Myung {Moon}	26%
Kuwait	"W" word that refers to a landform of a dry riverbed	Wadi	26%
Vatican City	Official residence of the pope	{Apostolic} Palace	21%
Lesotho	Lesotho's colonial name	{Basuto}land	21%
Trinidad and Tobago	Most populous municipality	{Chag}uanas	21%
Paraguay	Second largest city, found near Iguazu Falls	Ciudad del {Este}	21%
Croatia	Roman emperor who built a palace in Split	Diocletian	21%
Madagascar	Gigantic bird that weighed five times as much as an ostrich (driven to extinction by 1200 AD)	{Elephant} Bird	21%
Taiwan	Taiwanese company that makes iPhones in China	{Fox}conn	21%
Kiribati	Type of bird that appears on the flag of Kiribati (hint: a type of ship)	{Frigate}bird	21%
Monaco	The royal family	House of {Grimaldi}	21%
Egypt	What ancient Egyptian has been called history's first architect and doctor?	Imhotep	21%
Haiti	Haiti's first democratically-elected President, in 1991	Jean-Bertrand {Aristide}	21%
Morocco	K word that refers to a fortress or keep	Kasbah	21%
Indonesia	Supervolcano that erupted 74,000 years ago, nearly causing humans to become extinct	Lake {Toba}	21%
Somalia	What ancient kingdom around northern Somalia was an essential trading partner of ancient Egypt?	Land of {Punt}	21%
Djibouti	Ancient kingdom said to exist around Djibouti before 1000 B.C. * hint: starts with P	Land of {Punt}	21%
France	Woman who "personifies" France	Marianne	21%
Slovakia	Slovak-born woman who won 5 Grand Slam titles	Martina Hingis	21%
Fiji	City with the most tourists and the largest airport	Nadi	21%
North Macedonia	One of the most populous cities in Europe in the year 1000 A.D., which shares its name with the lake on which it lies	Ohrid	21%
Namibia	Group of islands named for the birds that inhabit them	{Penguin} Islands	21%
Belgium	Painter who will tell you what a pipe isn't	René Magritte	21%
Russia	Metal boiler for making tea	Samovar	21%
Samoa	The two main islands of Samoa (name either)	Savai'i / Upolu	21%
Tajikistan	Term for the struggle between Great Britain and Russia for control of this area during the 19th century	The Great {Game}	21%
Guatemala	Ancient city of the Mayas also called Yax Mutal	Tikal	21%
Israel	The two Israelis who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat in 1994 (name either)	Yitzhak Rabin / Shimon Peres	21%
Netherlands	Scientist who was the first to see single-cell organisms	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	16%
Argentina	Argentinian style of barbecue	Asado	16%
Angola	Group of people that displaced the original San and Khoi populations in the first millenium B.C.	Bantu	16%
Brunei	Full name of the country	Brunei {Darussalam}	16%
Mexico	Richest man	Carlos Slim	16%
Liberia	Brutal warlord convicted of crimes against humanity by the Hague in 2012	Charles {Taylor}	16%
Burundi	Burundi's two biggest exports	Coffee	16%
Qatar	Traditional sailing vessel whose name starts with "D"	Dhow	16%
Mozambique	Mozambique-born footballer known as the "Black Panther"	Eusébio	16%
Guinea	Largest ethnic group (starts with F)	Fula	16%
Saudi Arabia	Bordering seas and gulfs	Gulf of {Aqaba}	16%
Luxembourg	Current monarch	Henri	16%
Malaysia	Malaysian city just north of Singapore	Johor Bahru	16%
India	Most common first languages	Marathi	16%
Bahamas	Largest island	North {Andros}	16%
Bahrain	Tiny man-made island shared by Bahrain and that country	Passport Island	16%
Bolivia	City at an elevation of 4090 meters, site of the richest vein of silver ever discovered	Potosí	16%
Dominican Republic	Dictator nicknamed "El Jefe" who the capital was once named for	Rafael Trujillo	16%
Jamaica	Neighborhood in the capital known as the birthplace of that genre	{Trench}town	16%
Iran	Mountain range starting with Z	Zagros	16%
Ghana	Ethnic group to which 47.5% of the population belongs	Akan	11%
Eritrea	Ancient kingdom that covered most of the territory of Eritrea from 100–940 AD	Aksum	11%
Ethiopia	City in Ethiopia that was the center of an empire that lasted from 100–940 AD	Aksum	11%
Syria	Minority branch of Islam to which the ruling class of Syria belongs (starts with A)	{Alawite}s	11%
Zambia	Name one of Zambia's five most-spoken native languages	Bemba \| Nyanja \| Tonga \| Lozi \| Chewa	11%
Tunisia	Northernmost point on the African mainland (a female name)	Cape {Angela}	11%
Turkmenistan	Meaning of the capital's name	City of {Love}	11%
Benin	Beninese-American actor who starred in "Blood Diamond" and "Gladiator"	Djimon Hounsou	11%
San Marino	Largest settlement	Dogana	11%
Yemen	Cool-looking trees of Yemen's largest island	{Dragon}'s Blood Tree	11%
Tuvalu	Former name of Tuvalu	{Ellice} Islands	11%
Equatorial Guinea	Largest ethnic group (hint: starts with F)	Fang	11%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Former British fort overlooking the capital, named after the wife of King George III	Fort {Charlotte}	11%
Republic of the Congo	Ethnic group of half the population	Kongo	11%
Thailand	Name for the capital in Thai (short version)	Krung Thep	11%
Rwanda	Great Lake that Rwanda borders	Lake Kivu	11%
Sierra Leone	Currency of Sierra Leone	Leone	11%
Moldova	Currency of Moldova	Leu	11%
Vanuatu	Vanuatu's second most populous city and that island's main city	{Lugan}ville	11%
Libya	"M" word that refers to the old part of a town in North African countries	Medina	11%
Romania	Last king of Romania, forced to abdicate by the Soviets in 1947, but who lived for 70 years after	Michael	11%
Mauritania	Meaning of capital's name	Place of the {Winds}	11%
Gabon	Second most populous city in Gabon	Port-{Gentil}	11%
Botswana	Currency of Botswana	Pula	11%
Oman	Monarch of Oman, 1970-2020	Qaboos	11%
Palau	UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of two hundred small, forested islands	{Rock} Islands	11%
Mauritius	Second largest island	Rodrigues	11%
El Salvador	Second largest city (hint: a saint)	Santa Ana	11%
Chad	One third of the population belong to this ethnic group (hint: also a common English girl's name)	Sara	11%
Serbia	The capital is built on the confluence of these two rivers	Sava	11%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	River that forms the northern border	Sava	11%
Latvia	Series of events that led to the independence of Latvia and two of its neighbors	{Singing} Revolution	11%
Norway	3x Olympic figure skating champion	Sonja Henie	11%
East Timor	Official languages	Tetum	11%
Tonga	Main island of Tonga	Tonga{tapu}	11%
Cuba	Most famous cabaret and nightclub (hint: starts with T)	Tropicana	11%
Myanmar	U.N. Secretary General, 1961-71	U {Thant}	11%
Czech Republic	Writer who served as President from 1993 to 2003	Václav Havel	11%
Marshall Islands	Unincorporated territory of the United States claimed by the Marshall Islands, site of a WWII battle	{Wake} Island	11%
Senegal	Largest ethnic group hint: starts with W	Wolof	11%
Guinea-Bissau	National independence hero assassinated in 1973	Amílcar Cabral	5%
Poland	Wild cattle that went extinct in 1627	Aurochs	5%
Costa Rica	Pacific island sometimes called the southernmost point in North America	Cocos Island	5%
Maldives	Official language	Dhivehi	5%
São Tomé and Príncipe	Currency of São Tomé and Príncipe	Dobra	5%
Lithuania	In addition to an Easter Bunny, Lithuania has an Easter _____ who delivers eggs	Granny	5%
Mali	"G" word that refers to a West African bard or storyteller	Griot	5%
Austria	Tallest mountain	Grossglockner	5%
Guyana	Guyana and its neighbors are situated on this part of the Earth's crust	Guiana {Shield}	5%
Singapore	Term for an open-air food court	{Hawker} Centre	5%
Palestine	Most populous city in the territory controlled by the PNA	Hebron	5%
Pakistan	National flower (Hint: it's white)	Jasmine	5%
Ecuador	Type of iguana found only on those islands	{Marine} iguana	5%
Lebanon	Largest Christian denomination in Lebanon	{Maronite} Church	5%
Italy	Tallest mountain	Monte Bianco	5%
Burkina Faso	Most-spoken native language (hint: starts with M)	Mossi	5%
Papua New Guinea	Highest mountain	Mount Wilhelm	5%
Eswatini	Current absolute monarch of Eswatini	{Mswati} III	5%
Finland	Long-distance runner and 12-time Olympic medalist	Paavo Nurmi	5%
Nauru	Former name of Nauru	{Pleasant} Island	5%
Federated States of Micronesia	Largest island by area	Pohnpei	5%
Bhutan	Former capital until 1955	Punakha	5%
Jordan	Current queen consort	Queen Rania	5%
Afghanistan	Which poet was born in 1207 in the city of Balkh and now, according to some, is the best-selling poet of all time in the United States?	Rumi	5%
Philippines	Largest islands	Samar	5%
Central African Republic	Official languages	Sango	5%
Grenada	Another name for the above question: "Holiday period which Grenada celebrates in August, unlike other countries which celebrate it before Lent"	{Spice}mas	5%
South Sudan	Vast swamplands that stymied early efforts to find the source of White Nile	Sudd	5%
Bangladesh	Currency of Bangladesh	Taka	5%
Venezuela	"T" word that refers to the table-top mountains of southeastern Venezuela	Tepui	5%
Turkey	What does wearing a nazar amulet supposedly protect you from?	The Evil Eye	5%
Gambia	Gambia is known by this name	The {Smiling} Coast	5%
Mongolia	Currency of Mongolia	Tögrög	5%
Slovenia	Currency before Euro	Tolar	5%
Panama	What Spanish explorer discovered the Pacific coast of the Americas, and is today the namesake of Panama's currency?	Vasco Nunez de Balboa	5%
Nicaragua	River forming much of Nicaragua's northern border	Coco River	0%
Kosovo	Kingdom whose territory encompassed modern-day Kosovo before it was conquered by Rome in 28 BC	Dardania	0%
Kyrgyzstan	Epic poem that tells of the formation of the Kyrgyz people - thought to be more than 1,000 years old and 20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey	Epic of {Manas}	0%
Seychelles	"Benevolent dictator" who led Seychelles from 1977–2004	France-Albert René	0%
Honduras	Ocean gulfs that Honduras borders	Gulf of {Fonseca}	0%
Uganda	Leader of that group	Joseph Kony	0%
Albania	Deepest and oldest lake in Southern Europe, a UNESCO site	Lake Ohrid	0%
Armenia	Lake which makes up about 4% of Armenia's surface area	Lake Sevan	0%
Montenegro	Largest lake in Southern Europe	Lake Skadar	0%
Laos	Meat salad considered to be the unofficial national dish of Laos	Larb	0%
Solomon Islands	Most-spoken language	Pijin	0%
Comoros	These make up 40% of Comorian exports	Spices	0%
Suriname	River on which the capital is located	Suriname	0%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Shallow channel between the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis	The {Narrows}	0%
Uruguay	River that forms Uruguay's western border	Uruguay River	0%
New Zealand	Longest river	Waikato River	0%