[GAME] All the Countries in the World trivia game

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(That conflict ended a few years ago. More on it here.)

  1. Romania
    Home of the Dracula legend.
    Homeland of the Romany, aka Gypsie
    Capital is Bucharest

  2. Niger

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Named for the Niger River
Capital is Niamey
Was “called Africa” by George W Bush, probably due to speechwriters wanting to avoid an unfortunate mispronunciation.
Burkina Faso.

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  1. Burkina Faso

Formerly called Upper Volta.
Currently in turmoil as the military has ceased control.
The capital is Ouagoudougou.

Chile

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  1. Chile
    Capital is Santiago
    Lies on a major subduction fault, which makes it prone to severe earthquakes (including an 8.3 just last week)
    Contains the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.

  2. Mali

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  1. The name is also the proper word for “Gardener” in Urdu
  2. Invaded by the French recently
  3. Home of Timbuktu

Kazakhistan

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Kazakhistan

  1. Is the second-largest former Soviet republic (after Russia)
  2. Used to be the site of a lot of the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal, which were removed when the Soviet Union broke up.
  3. Has been an ally of Russia but has recently been getting closer to China.

Next: Netherlands

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Netherlands (#65)

  1. Official capital is Amsterdam; however, all government administration takes place in their secondary capital, The Hague.
  2. Formerly one of the largest empires in the world.
  3. Birthplace of Anneke van Giersbergen. :slight_smile:

Next: Malawi (#66)

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has a three-colored flag
nicknamed “The Warm Heart of Africa”
HIV/AIDS a big problem

Next: Guatemala #67

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Ok, here goes:

Coffee. Um… Um…

Pass.

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Guatemala

  1. The capital is Guatemala City.
  2. The CIA overthrew its government in the 1950s.
  3. Has an East and a West Coast.

Next is Ecuador (No. 68).

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Ecuador (#68)

  1. Capital is Quito
  2. The name is Spanish for “equator”, as the country straddles the equator.
  3. Owner of the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin did much of his research on evolution.

Next: Zambia (#69)

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Zambia (#69)

15 million population
Landlocked, borders on Victoria Falls
Formerly part of the British Empire
Facing an AIDS epidemic

Next: Cambodia (#70)

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Cambodia (#70)

  1. Angkor Wat is featured on the flag.
  2. Coming from Thailand, traveling overland from the border town of Poipet (officially The Asshole of the Universe) to the town of Siem Reap near Angkor Wat takes two hours if no bridges are washed out.
  3. Bordered by Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Next: Chad (#71)

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South of Libya
Home to a French base
Desert

Senegal.

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  1. Senegal

  2. Western most country of the “Old World”

  3. Capital is Dakar

  4. Akon spent much of his childhood there.

#73 Zimbabwe

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#73: Zimbabwe

  1. Used to be called Rhodesia.
  2. The first president after independence, the wonderfully named Canaan Banana, served jail time for coercing young men to have sex with him while president.
  3. Current president is the 150-year-old Robert Mugabe, who is not an improvement on Canaan Banana.

#74: South Sudan

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War-torn
Got independence just three years ago
Six colors on its flag

#75: Bolivia.

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#75: Bolivia

  1. Completely landlocked
  2. Named after Simón Bolívar
  3. Country is largely Roman Catholic

#76 Rwanda

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#76: Rwanda

  1. Suffered a horrible genocide in the mid-1990s
  2. Known for its gorilla population
  3. Lies along the East African Rift

#77: Belgium

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#77 Belgium

  1. Home to Hercule Poirot
  2. Has compulsory voting
  3. Primary languages are French, German, and Dutch.

#78 Cuba