Can you name the country if given the founding father? by enough

Can you name the country if given the founding father?

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Some countries may have more than one person who is considered a founding father, but these are usually credited with establishing their nation.
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Founder	Country
Genghis Khan
Mahatma Gandhi
Otto von Bismarck
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Peter the Great
William I of Orange
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Bernardo O'Higgins
George Washington
Sam Nujoma
José de San Martín

Founder	Country
Aung San
Sun Yat-sen
Michael Somare
King George Tupou I
Mieszko I
Ahmad Shah Abdali
Cyrus the Great
Simón Bolívar
Eamon de Valera
Lajos Kossuth
Toussaint Louverture
Miguel Hidalgo
Henry Parkes

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National Founders Quiz

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Created Feb 2, 2010 in History
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	enough:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 05:29 GMT		6 points
	Let me guys know if you think any of these are wrong. I'm sure you could debate most of these but I just tried to go with the most well known.

	caughtstealin32:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 07:13 GMT		1 point
	Fun quiz. Nice work.

	JeroAdmi:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 11:11 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz.

	Brownepants:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 12:12 GMT		5 points
	Reaaly good quiz, suprised you didn't include Bolivar as well

	EGaffney:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 14:27 GMT		3 points
	Top quiz. The only way to improve it would be to add more questions and answers! Like Alfred the Great, Lajos Kossuth, Toussaint Louverture. You could always accept multiple answers for Simon Bolivar. Jean Monnet would be good, but he didn't found a country - yet.

	joewhitey:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 16:08 GMT		6 points
	Peter the great didn't really found a country. Ivan IV (aka Ivan the Terrible) really was the person who expanded the Moscovite kingdom into the Russian Empire.

	joewhitey:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 16:15 GMT		3 points
	How about Éamon de Valera for Ireland? Maybe Ferdinand II and/or Isabella for Spain?

	johnlk:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 20:34 GMT		1 point
	I'm pretty sure Sun Yat-sen is not the "national founder" of China, what with China having existed for several thousand years.

	RebeccaAMax:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 21:07 GMT		3 points
	Some of these are quite sketchy, but yay Bernardo O'Higgins!

	enough:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 21:44 GMT		5 points
	Everybody, thanks for the recommendations. Just keep in mind that these people didn't first find the country; its more like a founding father.

	Aaron_Kashtan:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 22:26 GMT		3 points
	Excellent idea for a quiz. Maybe you could add Tokugawa Ieyasu, Aung San, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Kamehameha I (though Hawaii isn't a country anymore), Ferdinand and Isabella, or Charlemagne.

	danmont:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 07:25 GMT		6 points
	I think Persia should work for Cyrus

	GiantsJoe2110:	Feb 7th, 2010 at 04:08 GMT		3 points
	I agree with danmont. I'm pretty sure that the country wasn't known as Iran until fairly recently in history compared to the thousands of years it was known as Persia. Also, George Washington is a good answer for USA but there many founding fathers, but then again I'm sure most of these other countries probably celebrate multiple founders but only 1 or 2 are known worldwide.

	Osprey39:	Feb 7th, 2010 at 06:27 GMT		2 points
	I don't agree with Cyrus for Iran. Iran has been under several centuries of foreign rule since then. A better founder clue would be Ismail I, who reunified Iran in the 1500s and established Shi'a Islam as the official religion. Or Khomeini, who oversaw the 1979 revolution.

	Osprey39:	Feb 7th, 2010 at 06:30 GMT		2 points
	Also, maybe add Hugh Capet for France?

	newenglander:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 21:13 GMT		1 point
	enough with suggesting other countries. almost every country can identify a founding father

	BagelPopper:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 05:18 GMT		1 point
	very good quiz, i want to see this on the front page soon. as other people have said, simon bolivar would be a great addition. you can have him under bolivia, or just as a bonus answer.

	Rooster:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 04:47 GMT		1 point
	good quiz, but should take Myanmar for Burma too.

	Yodageddon:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 16:46 GMT		-1 points
	Did you personally decide these 'founding fathers', or are they like officially recognized by the countries? Because either you or Italy is kind of wrong with Garibaldi. All he did was take over Sicily and Naples and hand it over to Piedmont, and he was a symbol I suppose.

	JimKatz:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 01:36 GMT		3 points
	Bernardo O'Higgins, what an improbable name.

	nearlyextinct:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 21:06 GMT		0 points
	I would say Saint Stephen I for Hungary not Lajos Kossuth if you were including the Kingdom of Hungary. Maybe for France you could put Marianne.

	Fingon:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 21:11 GMT		2 points
	I agree that Peter the Great was not the "Father of Russia." That title belongs to an earlier tsar such as Ivan the Terrible. However, Ivan did not found the Russian Empire. Peter the Great was the first tsar to take the title of emperor.

	Squiffy:	Feb 28th, 2010 at 20:34 GMT		-3 points
	Maybe Benito Mussolini - Vatican City? (Lateran Accords of 1929)

	kevincrumbs:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 07:49 GMT		3 points
	Great mix of supremely easy (Washington, Gandhi) and obscure (Somare and Nujoma).

	cjmulrain:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 16:14 GMT		-1 points
	I don't really agree with Sun Yat-sen as the "founder" of China. Yes, he was the first leader of China after the era of dynasties ended, but Mao established a completely new government after World War II. I guess you're saying that Sun is similar to someone like Bismarck or Garibaldi, but unlike them he didn't re-unite lands that were previously fractured - he presided over the same lands that the Q'ing Dynasty ruled. All Sun did was take over a new government after overthrowing the old regime, which was exactly what Mao did. So, I think either China doesn't _have_ a founder or it's Mao.

	mtepera:	Apr 21st, 2010 at 15:36 GMT		1 point
	Kim Il Sung for North Korea would be fairly well known.

	Acid_Snow:	Apr 6th, 2012 at 04:08 GMT		1 point
	King Tupou died recently, I believe.