Can you name the countries by the length of their name? by White

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Countries by name length Quiz

by White

Created Oct 22, 2009 in Geography
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	Onno:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 17:28 GMT	5 points
	Nice quiz, but I think 9 (A-L) should have Costa Rica too.

	Nafets:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 17:31 GMT	5 points
	For some reason the quiz isn't accepting Swaziland... A fun quiz, though! :)

	White:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	3 points
	The above two problems have been fixed now, let me know if anything else doesn't seem right. I'd also like to know if you think 10 minutes is too long or short. Thanks.

	D3nn1s:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 17:56 GMT	5 points
	Awesome quiz! 10 minutes is fine, but maybe 1 or 2 minutes extra is helpful

	hvdm:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 18:02 GMT	10 points
	10 min is a good time, I needed more, but it must remain challenging . I think this belongs on the sporcle homepage!

	dtro:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 18:15 GMT	10 points
	Wow 10 mins was perfect. I thought it would be easy but it gets more and more challenging the further you go and I wound up missing the 16 letter one.

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	White:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 19:10 GMT	5 points
	Meh, thought I'd go for the more common ones like United Kingdom for the above, also missing out any "The" at the start of a name and things like "Federated States of". But it gives you a chance on 13 if you can't spell Li........ein or C.... ......ic for example. :)

	Hugh:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 19:18 GMT	4 points
	Great fun, personally I'd have liked a minute or two more.

	kidcanada:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 20:00 GMT	18 points
	Equatorial Guinea strikes again.

	White:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	6 points
	[SPOILER]Also for those who haven't noticed, something I like about this quiz is that New Zealand ("NZ") is an answer for 10 letters N-Z. Completely by accident :D

	dodsface:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 23:58 GMT	2 points
	@ConorONeill, yes but in all the sporcle quizes it is refered to as 'United Kingdom'. Great quiz!

	sugarpill11567:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 00:00 GMT	0 points
	might want to put dem rep of the congo acceptable, idk im lazy :)

	White:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	3 points
	I thought you'd be even lazier so the current accepted answers are DRC, Dem Rep Congo and the full name. I'll add it though! :)

	White:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 00:05 GMT	2 points
	^ Added "Dem Rep of the Congo" and "Rep of the Congo".

	woodchopper88:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 03:47 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz and I got them all. Time limit is perfect.

	schadenfreude90:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 05:39 GMT	3 points
	time limit was great. i was missing one but quite frankly i spent the last minute and a half forcing myself to realize there was no way i was going to come up with "marshall islands". amazing quiz

	milc:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 07:36 GMT	3 points
	10 minutes is a good time, could be a little less, but certainly no more. Good quiz :)

	wurzelman:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 14:48 GMT	7 points
	I completed it with 15 seconds to go so ideal time. Great quiz - definitely deserves to be published.

	rottenmonk:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 16:50 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz, very fun and challenging. Only ones I missed were the Islands =/ 10 minutes is perfect and sporcle would do well to publish this quiz.

	arbitrage:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 17:15 GMT	4 points
	Fantastic quiz. Please publish, Sporcle!

	Jono_:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 17:28 GMT	3 points
	aaaaagh missed three obvious ones. funny thing is, this is probably one of the few quizzes where the usa is one of the least guessed. (i missed it D:)

	Grawk:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 18:21 GMT	3 points
	I think I'm gonna start all geography-quizzes from now on by checking if Equatorial Guinea is a possible answer. Awesome quiz!

	Annie:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 18:29 GMT	3 points
	This quiz is epic!

	moeslick:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 21:51 GMT	4 points
	great quiz, it was quite embarassing when i forgot my own country

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	shawnkay:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 06:12 GMT	4 points
	Superb idea, flawlessly executed.

	thisisaname:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 21:55 GMT	4 points
	The quiz doesn't accept "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", even though that's what shows up.

	Toungesten:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 12:34 GMT	4 points
	Perhaps allow Burma for five letters A-L - its normally an alternative to Myanmar. Good quiz - really enjoyed it.

	White:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 17:02 GMT	2 points
	@thisisaname: It does now! The trouble is there's a set amount of space for all the acceptable answers to go into (hence the grouping for 5-11 letters) and the space gets eaten up surprisingly quickly with 28-letter answers and so on. Hopefully it should be almost impossible to type a "correct" answer without it being accepted. @Toungesten: (Tonguesten?) I thought about it but it might be best to just leave it with the one name to save confusion - Myanmar seems to be more accepted in other country quizzes.

	WhiteSox:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	-2 points
	the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia?

	Zalx:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 14:57 GMT	2 points
	I have never had such a rush to type Bosnia and Harzegovina! 4 seconds left to get them all!

	White:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	2 points
	Hopefully you spelled it right that time :p Also Whitesox see above - common short names are used, i.e. Macedonia.

	biggers:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 20:06 GMT	2 points
	Best quiz I've done in ages

	BonesLover:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 21:40 GMT	2 points
	doesn't accept sudan under 5 letters

	sten:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 01:05 GMT	3 points
	cool quiz--very tricky! I'm impressed with how well people did; I feel like I know the countries quite well but still only ended up in the 56th percentile.

	White:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 11:11 GMT	2 points
	It accepts Sudan, I've just checked.

	cuccir:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 18:55 GMT	-1 points
	Hmm, not so sure how consistent this is across names of countries... why 'United States of America' and 'Democratic Republic of the Congo' but not 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' or 'Most Serene Republic of San Marino'?

	tigerschick:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 12:14 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz. Think the time is perfect tho I have yet to get 100% :o) @ cuccir - if you read the comments you'll see that White has already answered your querie further up.