Can you name the countries of Europe by their names in official languages? by bubblegumkitty

Can you name the countries of Europe by their names in official languages?

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Name in Official Language	Name in English	Language
San Marino		Italian
Slovensko		Slovak
Città del Vaticano/Santa Sede		Italian/Latin
România		Romanian
Eesti		Estonian
Россия		Russian
Liechtenstein		German
Suomi		Finnish
Deutschland		German
Ελλάς		Greek
Shqipëri/Shqipëria		Albanian
Polska		Polish
Moldova		Romanian
Κύπρος/Kıbrıs		Greek/Turkish
Monaco		French
България		Bulgarian
Lietuva		Lithuanian
Босна и Херцеговина		Bosnian/Serbian
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra		German/French/Italian/Romansh
België/Belgique/Belgien		Dutch/French/German
Ísland		Icelandic
Österreich		German
Portugal		Portuguese
Србија		Serbian

Name in Official Language	Name in English	Language
Česká republika		Czech
Kosova/Косово		Albanian/Serbian
France		French
Norge/Noreg		Bokmål/Nynorsk (Norwegian)
Украïна		Ukrainian
España		Spanish
Беларусь		Belarusian/Russian
Slovenija		Slovene
Crna Gora		Montenegrin
Malta		Maltese/English
Македонија		Macedonian
Latvija		Latvian
Sverige		Swedish
Lëtzebuerg		Luxembourgish
Magyarország		Hungarian
Éire		Irish
Andorra		Catalan
Italia		Italian
Nederland		Dutch
Danmark		Danish
United Kingdom		English
Türkiye		Turkish
Hrvatska		Croatian

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Countries of Europe by Name in Official Language Quiz

by bubblegumkitty

Created Jan 31, 2013 in Language
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	bubblegumkitty:	Jan 31st, 2013 at 04:56 GMT		3 points
	Thoughts on this quiz? I left out a few official languages that made it too easy, such as "Finland" in Swedish for Finland. Thinking about doing the same for "Citta del Vaticano." Obviously some of the names are the same in English and their official language, so should I leave them in there? What about including the UK--is that too redundant? Also, for countries with more than one official language (Switzerland, Belgium) should I list off all names, or just the name for the most widely spoken official language?

	NC_Watson:	Jan 31st, 2013 at 07:06 GMT		6 points
	I'd leave in the ones that are the same in English, UK and all, for the sake of completeness, but not the ones that have another official language to use. Otherwise I think listing name in multiple official languages is good.

	alastor:	Jan 31st, 2013 at 16:35 GMT		1 point
	Россия has a spurious accent on the я.

	legriff:	Feb 6th, 2013 at 23:19 GMT		0 points
	I think it'd be made even better by penalising wrong answers i.e. making it clickable.

	120watts:	Feb 7th, 2013 at 02:15 GMT		2 points
	good idea but WAY too much time

	koopa08:	Feb 7th, 2013 at 03:48 GMT		4 points
	Fun...so so fun

	bubblegumkitty:	Feb 7th, 2013 at 04:49 GMT		1 point
	@120watts- I wondered if there was too much time...anyone else want to chip in their opinion? If I reduce the time, by how much should I do it?

	uphillrunner:	Feb 7th, 2013 at 16:56 GMT		2 points
	Fantastic idea for a quiz! I had 7:33 left, but I'm a language geek, so maybe just chopping off 4 minutes or so would be good. You want enough time for people to go through and hit the easy ones, then come back and think harder on the tough ones. But not enough time to Google anything :)

	bubblegumkitty:	Feb 7th, 2013 at 18:26 GMT		1 point
	I reduced it to 7 minutes. Still too much?

	ChileNoseJam:	Feb 11th, 2013 at 20:30 GMT		0 points
	It's a good idea for a quiz, but the number which are identical or very similar to their English names makes it pretty easy. Drop the obvious ones and cut the time down to 2 or 3 minutes, maybe?

	Razanir:	Feb 14th, 2013 at 01:07 GMT		1 point
	Accept Holy See for Vatican City. Technically they aren't the same thing, but they pretty much are and it's the actual translation of the Latin "Santa Sede"

	LICA98:	Feb 22nd, 2013 at 01:38 GMT		-3 points
	Finland should be as Suomi/Finland (because Swedish is also official). Luxembourg speaks also French and German, so there should be also Luxembourg and Luxemburg. Albania is Shqipëria. Ireland should be written also in English, since it is spoken there too. Russia is Россия (no accent on the и). BiH needs to be also Bosna i Hercegovina (speaks Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian). Serbia is also written as Srbija since Serbian can be also written in Latin letters. The official language of Montenegro is Montenegrin. otherwise good quiz :D

	bubblegumkitty:	Feb 22nd, 2013 at 19:11 GMT		2 points
	@LICA98- to address those points: 1. as I said in my first comment, I left out answers like Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, and Luxemburg because they made the quiz too easy (and it's already too easy, honestly). Based on comment ratings, people seem to like it this way. 2. I'll add Shqipëria as a hint. 3. I've checked multiple sources and they don't agree on whether Россия has an accent or not so I'm going to stick with what my source says, which is to leave the accent. 4. I left out the Latin spellings of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia also because they make the quiz too easy. 4. I'll add the Montenegrin name for Montenegro.

	LICA98:	Feb 23rd, 2013 at 16:32 GMT		-1 points
	OK, I understand the first ones but Russia is written Россия without any accent (Russian is my first language and we never write any accent in Россия) :D

	bubblegumkitty:	Feb 23rd, 2013 at 18:41 GMT		2 points
	Hm, I wonder why different sources say different things. But native speakers know best! I've checked a few other dictionaries and they don't use the accent. I was just inclined to trust Wikipedia and WordReference which are normally pretty reliable.

	LICA98:	Feb 24th, 2013 at 00:19 GMT		-3 points
	thanks :D btw in the language column, can you add Swedish for Finland, Croatian for BiH, German&French for Luxembourg, and English for Malta and Ireland? Also Montenegro is Црна Гора (cyrillic). In Czech rep. they can say just Česko (official short version of the name). And why is Holy See in Vatican (it's the English name)?

	bubblegumkitty:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 05:47 GMT		1 point
	^But adding those in would make the quiz too easy. Do you mean just list the languages in the official language column? I left them out because I didn't list their hint. Wikipedia says the Montenegrin government prefers the Latin alphabet so I used the Latin name instead of Cyrillic. I'd rather leave the full official name for Czech Republic...but Holy See was a mistake, I meant to list it as an alternate answer. It's fixed.

	LICA98:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 23:57 GMT		-3 points
	yes I mean that :D

	bubblegumkitty:	Mar 1st, 2013 at 20:43 GMT		2 points
	^It wouldn't make sense to do that because then I'd be listing languages without listing the clue that coordinates with them. For example, I can't list Swedish as an official language of Finland unless I'm listing "Finland" as a clue, because otherwise it seems like "Suomi" is how you say "Finland" in Swedish when it's only the Finnish name.

	LICA98:	Mar 1st, 2013 at 22:31 GMT		-3 points
	ok but Malta is the same also in English :D