[GAME] All the Countries in the World trivia game

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Saudi Arabia

Home to Mecca, holiest city in the Islamic religion
Largest oil producing nation in the world
Exporter of Wahabbism to much of the Islamic world
41. Peru

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  1. Peru
  1. Lima beans are called that because they were introduced to international markets in boxes that were shipped from Lima, Peru.
  2. Inca Kola, the infamous bubblegum-flavored soft drink, comes from here.
  3. An Irishman, Bernardo O’Higgins, served as Viceroy during the Spanish colonial period.
  1. Venezuela
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  1. Venezuela

  2. Very cheap gas, only a few cents a gallon.

  3. World’s highest waterfall

  4. Another country (Bolivia) named after its first president.

  5. Uzbekistan

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  1. Uzbekistan

  2. Former Soviet Socialist Republic

  3. It’s location along the Silk Road lead to great wealth, until the invasion of Genghis Khan.

  4. One of two “doubly landlocked” nations in the world (the other is Liechtenstein).

  5. Malaysia

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  1. Malaysia.

You have to go through Immigration again on a domestic flight from the peninsula to the Borneo portion of the country.
The Borneo portion contains the tallest mountain in Southeast Asia.
The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur once were the world’s tallest.

  1. Nepal
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  1. Nepal

Wow- had no idea Nepal had such a high population!
Capital is Kathmandu
Location of Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain
Has a sort of double-triangular flag, rather than a standard rectangular flag
46. Ghana

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46 Ghana

Former British colony
Recently discovered oil
Soccer team is the Black Stars

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Afghanistan

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  1. Afghanistan

Graveyard of Western soldiers for centuries.
Capital is Kabul.
Produced one Nobel Peace Laureate after she was shot by the Taliban for trying to get an education.

  1. Yemen
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Malala is not from Afghanistan and she was not shot for getting an education, she was shot for anti Taliban activism. So, fail, Afghanistan is also the graveyard of gamers. :smiley:

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So much for the top of my head. But pfft. All those unstable hellholes just sort of blend together.

Okay, second try:

  1. Afghanistan

Graveyard of Western soldiers for centuries.
Capital is Kabul.
Beat out the Golden Triangle for opium production since the 1990s.

  1. Yemen
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  1. Yemen

On the Arabian Peninsula
Used to be divided into separate nations North and South Yemen
Port city of Aden is used constantly in crossword puzzles
49. Mozambique

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Mozambique

Official language is Portuguese
Has a rifle on its flag
Only country besides South Africa that borders Swaziland

Number Fifty and an easy one!!!
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

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Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

Supreme Leader is #1 most glorious leader in whole world
Only country loved and feared by all other countrries
#1 army in whole world led by world’s #1 general

or possibly

Ryongyong hotel is world’s biggest folly
Still at war with South Korea
Leadership kidnapped Japanese film director so he could make Monster Movies
51 Angola

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  1. Angola

Former Portuguese colony
Had a really bloody Civil War with outside countries like Cuba and South Africa joining in
Is a source for valuable strategic minerals

  1. Ivory Coast
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French colony for awhile
Slavery transit point
Not exactly awash in elephants these days

  1. Australia!
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54. Taiwan

Has Taipei 101, which was the world’s tallest building for several years until it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Has the world’s highest concentration of convenience stores per square mile
Males outnumbered females in the population for around 100 years until just recently, when the number of females finally surpassed that of males
55. Syria!

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Capital is Damascus, the world’s oldest continuously occupied city
Has long been ruled by the Assad family
Formerly a component of the United Arab Republic
56. Madagascar

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  1. Australia (since skipped)

Many early settlers were prisoners
All kinds of strange critters
Stalwart U.S. ally

  1. Madagascar

Lemurs are natives
Penguins aren’t
Hitler considered settling Jewish refugees there

Next:

  1. Cameroon
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57. Cameroon

NOT the name of a cookie
Located on the west coast of central Africa, slightly below the big bend
Suffered a major disaster in the 1980s involving poison gas from a volcano

  1. Sri Lanka
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  1. Sri Lanka

Used to be called Ceylon
Has a temple with one of Buddha’s teeth
Has a violent separatist movement (is it Hindus fighting the Buddhist majority?)

  1. Romania