Can you name the greenest countries (by environmental performance index)?

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Greenest Countries Quiz

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Published: February 8th, 2008
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 87,754

Tags: Country Quizzes, performance, index, environmental, rank, green

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	cls121389:	Sep 6th, 2008 at 12:12 GMT	16 points
	When the game is keeping track of countries named, it says "1/15 countrys named" - countries is misspelled...Thanks.

	Matt:	Sep 19th, 2008 at 18:11 GMT	26 points
	I love it when you put in China and it says 105th! Jokes!

	Liv:	Sep 24th, 2008 at 09:38 GMT	15 points
	Chicka yeah new zealand!! We may be a bum country but atleast we're environmental ^^

	Mitchell:	Oct 2nd, 2008 at 21:21 GMT	0 points
	How would I ever have guessed Costa Rica, Lativa and Slovenia? XD.

	AeroE:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 04:59 GMT	5 points
	It also puts in USA at 39th.

	Bray:	Nov 6th, 2008 at 18:33 GMT	-4 points
	I got the bonus answers, and all of the top 15 except Colombia and Costa Rica. I tried Belize, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, etc etc but not Costa Rica! xD

	davebesag:	Nov 12th, 2008 at 18:27 GMT	1 point
	Got the same answers as Bray. Slovenia is in the Alps so always a possibility.

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	UDMM:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 17:05 GMT	1 point
	how many bonus answers are there? i got the US and China, but did i miss any?

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	JM11:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 12:25 GMT	2 points
	On the website there are countries that have the same EPI, such as Sweden & Norway, and UK, Germany & Slovenia. So shouldn't they be sharing ranks? Just a thought...

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	okenter:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 19:27 GMT	18 points
	@Mitchell: Costa Rica is one of the most liberal countries on earth. It has no standing army, universal education and health care, and is on track to be "carbon neutral" in 4 years.

	nearlyextinct:	Dec 10th, 2008 at 00:24 GMT	51 points
	I thought Libya was the greenest country. Look at their flag.

	lordbyham:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 19:48 GMT	3 points
	i think that a quiz of different types of trees would be good

	SPU:	Jan 7th, 2009 at 17:03 GMT	5 points
	nearlyextinct: If you look at their map, you'd rather think they are the yellowest country.

	loki1983:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 03:21 GMT	15 points
	Shocked that Denmark is not here

	jkd:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 15:21 GMT	7 points
	@Edward: Me, too, since the rest of Scandinavia ranks so well. I hope geography wonks will forgive me if Denmark is not normally included in Scandinavia, but their proximity groups them in my mind. In fact, once I saw the top part of the list, I started working on the Baltic states, thinking there must be something about northerm climes that leads to green thinking. Mixed success there.

	nearlyextinct:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 23:45 GMT	6 points
	Why is it that this quiz is not in Geography?

	archicello:	Mar 10th, 2009 at 19:27 GMT	9 points
	For some reason I had expected Japan

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	MacZidane:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 01:30 GMT	14 points
	Redskins Rule - England should never be accepted as an answer for UK, in the same way you wouldn't accept 'Wyoming' as an answer for the USA. ;-)

	let_it_go:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT	3 points
	Latvia and Slovenia were my only misses and thoroughly surprise me (Alps/Slovenia, ok ok). What does Latvia do that makes 25% of quiz takers guess them? Does Denmark lose out because of something dirty going on in Greenland?

	Sparky:	Apr 2nd, 2009 at 20:40 GMT	3 points
	I'm astonished that Denmark/GREENland isn't on there. Missed colombia, the rest were pretty intuitive imo.

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	Liberal:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	14 points
	The above comment by Tim is false.

	Alyssa_T:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 18:32 GMT	10 points
	@Edward- Same. I typed in Denmark three times just to make sure I hadn't misspelled. O: And 11 of the top 15 are European. Hah. Go Europe.

	andrecb:	Apr 27th, 2009 at 22:38 GMT	-2 points
	greenland is not a country

	bart122333:	May 7th, 2009 at 12:46 GMT	0 points
	Iceland?

	GeoExpert:	Jun 9th, 2009 at 23:48 GMT	6 points
	@Bat122333: Iceland is in a lucky geological location in which is accessible to geothermal heat underground. The geothermal heat is used for energy. I am actually quit surprised that they are not #1 on the list.

	GeoExpert:	Jun 9th, 2009 at 23:49 GMT	8 points
	Iceland was actually the first country I guessed. Plus, Tim's comment is false

	Offtheheazy6:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 00:20 GMT	3 points
	after beating countries of the world, this was just easy guess 'n check i got 15/15 but some of them suprised me-colombia? is that because their main exports are grown in the ground and smoked? lol

	GeoExpert:	Jul 10th, 2009 at 02:02 GMT	3 points
	I guessed Estonia and Lithuania, bot not Latvia. Ouch

	shakescene:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 06:43 GMT	1 point
	What in the world is the Yale University Environmental Performance Index (EPI)? Almost all of the countries on the list are advanced OECD members, and only three are outside Europe (NZ, Costa Rica & Colombia) so perhaps it measures how much you've tamed or mitigated your industry. Like Freedom House's "unfree" countries list, you have to guess at the assumptions or tests behind the list, so I was safe guessing a lot of European countries (+NZ) and got 13/15 (my Latin American stabs in the dark like Uruguay, Jamaica and Cuba just happened to be wrong, but I'm not sure what Colombia's done to improve their performance.)

	justmichelle:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 19:50 GMT	2 points
	I really should learn to spell Colombia.

	starfish:	Aug 1st, 2009 at 23:43 GMT	7 points
	It seems ironic that Ireland, being the Emerald Isle, doesn't make it onto a list of the greenest countries.

	newenglander:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 20:40 GMT	-4 points
	i bet if california, massachusetts, new hampshire, vermont, oregon, and washington were independent countries, theyd be on this list.