"A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life"(Wikipedia).
I don't know the source used by the creator, but many parts of Canada may well fit in the definition.
Anyway, it's clear that a desert doesn't have to be full of sand, the biggest desert of the world is Antarctica.
This is a fun quiz, well done. Too bad there isn't a way to highlight each top five by itself so when you type in a country it doesn't fill-in every relevant answer. Like it though.
It's a tricky balance between not having long enough to spam loads of countries and having long enough to think about each category for a decent amount of time. Difficult I know, but on balance I think there should be more time.
Even if you count the papal gardens? I expected Nauru on the forest list, but no, it's surprisingly green these days after they carved all the phosphate out.
Great Quiz in a Great Series. One question. Why does the Tour de France question end in a _______ or _______ answer, while in the most borders question it just extends it to top six?
Indians may be svelte in their own country, but I can ascertain that they most certainly fall victim to the curse of the increasing waistline in Australia.
i feel like you should count external territories, because theyre still land that exist on earth and completely ignoring eg greenland for northernmost category doesnt feel right
Germany has 408 medals to Norway's 368, unless you arbitrarily exclude East German medals. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say arbitrarily, I meant to say: unless you exclude them on purpose to artificially inflate the ranking of the US.
The forest % has me scratching my head a little, with Vatican City not on there. I also tried Nauru and Maldives. It's hard to believe the Vatican has enough trees to be considered forest. This was a very enjoyable quiz.
I don't know the source used by the creator, but many parts of Canada may well fit in the definition.
Anyway, it's clear that a desert doesn't have to be full of sand, the biggest desert of the world is Antarctica.
Or even better cut the number of categories.