| I'm very sorry to tell you that this quiz has already been created in a much more comprehensive and exhaustively-researched fashion (although for all I know it might have been much more primitive and naive when it began). It had a few pretty obscure semi-sovereign countries that almost no one got, e.g. Nejd and other places on the Arabian peninsula, and some tiny slivers in Asia. I seem to remember that it was a little too picky about exact names. (Other than my checking my own statistics, I'm not sure of the best way to find it, since Sporcle's tags and indexing don't work all that well.) Some specific things to check out: Ottoman Empire; please accept Abyssinia for Ethiopia; Sweden; El Salvador; was Mongolia sovereign in 1914 (the Mongolian People's Republic was founded in the 1920's) and if so, more or less sovereign than Tibet? What was the status of Sikkim vis-a-vis other Indian principalities? How about the various protectorates (e.g. in Arabia and the Pacific): which ones were at least nominally sovereign? As for British dominions (Canada 1867, Australia 1901, New Zealand 1907, the Union of South Africa 1910), they were self-governing but had a hazy international status where their diplomatic relations were meant to be conducted through the British Foreign Office or consular service. So including and excluding the dominions are both legitimate, although if you have space in your intro, you might warn users how you treat them. |
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