Name a valid country quiz
Your challenge today is to identify a country that satisfies each of the requirements set out below. In all cases, there is more than one answer but you only need one of them to get a point and you can only have one guess. I have indicated (in brackets) how many countries satisfy each requirement. No use of reference material or the internet of course to ensure fair play. Good luck.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to midnight tonight. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
Name a country……
1.with land on the Equator (11) Brazil | Colombia | D.R. Congo | Ecuador | Gabon |
Indonesia | Kenya | R. Congo | São Tomé and Príncipe |Somalia | Uganda
2.with an X in its name (2) Luxembourg | Mexico
3.bordering only China and India (2) Bhutan | Nepal
4.on the island of Borneo (3) Brunei | Indonesia | Malaysia
5.whose flag is only blue and white (6) Greece | Finland | F. S. Micronesia | Honduras |Israel | Somalia
6.whose flag is only blue and yellow (4) Ukraine | Sweden | Kazakhstan | Palau
7.completely surrounded by another country (3) Lesotho | San Marino | Vatican City
8.touching Lake Victoria (3) Kenya | Tanzania | Uganda
9.that averages less than 6 cm of precipitation per year (3) Egypt | Libya | Saudi Arabia
10.with an average elevation over 3000 meters (3) Bhutan | Nepal | Tajikistan
11.bordering the Black Sea (6) Bulgaria | Georgia | Romania | Russia | Turkey | Ukraine
12.bordering the Red Sea (8) Djibouti | Egypt | Eritrea | Israel | Jordan |Saudi Arabia | Sudan | Yemen
13.which gained independence from the Netherlands (3) Belgium | Indonesia | Suriname
14.considered by the United States to be astate sponsor of terrorism (4) Cuba | Iran | North Korea | Syria
15.whose population shrunk more than 5%between 2010–2021 (9) Andorra | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria |
Croatia | Latvia | Lithuania | Romania | Syria | Ukraine
16.whose capital starts with J (3) Israel | Indonesia | South Sudan
17.that grows more than 600,000 metric tons of coffee (4) Brazil | Vietnam | Colombia | Indonesia
18.that borders the Ivory Coast (5) Burkina Faso | Ghana | Guinea | Liberia | Mali
19.that had no people in the year 600 AD (7) Bahamas | Cape Verde | Iceland | Mauritius | New Zealand | São Tomé and Príncipe | Seychelles
20.is one of the four countries (other than Australia) which have the largest islands (4)Denmark (Greenland) | Madagascar | Canada (Baffin Island) | Indonesia (Sumatra)
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to midnight tonight. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
Name a country……
1.with land on the Equator (11) Brazil | Colombia | D.R. Congo | Ecuador | Gabon |
Indonesia | Kenya | R. Congo | São Tomé and Príncipe |Somalia | Uganda
2.with an X in its name (2) Luxembourg | Mexico
3.bordering only China and India (2) Bhutan | Nepal
4.on the island of Borneo (3) Brunei | Indonesia | Malaysia
5.whose flag is only blue and white (6) Greece | Finland | F. S. Micronesia | Honduras |Israel | Somalia
6.whose flag is only blue and yellow (4) Ukraine | Sweden | Kazakhstan | Palau
7.completely surrounded by another country (3) Lesotho | San Marino | Vatican City
8.touching Lake Victoria (3) Kenya | Tanzania | Uganda
9.that averages less than 6 cm of precipitation per year (3) Egypt | Libya | Saudi Arabia
10.with an average elevation over 3000 meters (3) Bhutan | Nepal | Tajikistan
11.bordering the Black Sea (6) Bulgaria | Georgia | Romania | Russia | Turkey | Ukraine
12.bordering the Red Sea (8) Djibouti | Egypt | Eritrea | Israel | Jordan |Saudi Arabia | Sudan | Yemen
13.which gained independence from the Netherlands (3) Belgium | Indonesia | Suriname
14.considered by the United States to be astate sponsor of terrorism (4) Cuba | Iran | North Korea | Syria
15.whose population shrunk more than 5%between 2010–2021 (9) Andorra | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria |
Croatia | Latvia | Lithuania | Romania | Syria | Ukraine
16.whose capital starts with J (3) Israel | Indonesia | South Sudan
17.that grows more than 600,000 metric tons of coffee (4) Brazil | Vietnam | Colombia | Indonesia
18.that borders the Ivory Coast (5) Burkina Faso | Ghana | Guinea | Liberia | Mali
19.that had no people in the year 600 AD (7) Bahamas | Cape Verde | Iceland | Mauritius | New Zealand | São Tomé and Príncipe | Seychelles
20.is one of the four countries (other than Australia) which have the largest islands (4)Denmark (Greenland) | Madagascar | Canada (Baffin Island) | Indonesia (Sumatra)
