Pop quiz, hot shot
Written by hootenannie on July 1st, 2010Name the 10 countries in the world whose names are made up of 4 letters.
(Now, of course, you might use the Internet to cheat and pretend like you just knew them off the top of your head. But if I were you, I’d rather go to heaven.)
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Peru, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, umm… Spai…
I’m out.
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Togo
Chad
Niger
Mali…
I can’t think of any more… I only know those from briefly studying Africa for 4-H. Ah well.
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Unless, of course, you can count and know that Niger is five letters. My brain demands food from me, until then it rebels and makes me stupid. >.<
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Proud to say I got 8 out of 10 without Papa Google. Togo and Oman were the ellusive little tricksters.
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I think some of these aren’t countries, but at least I didn’t cheat! I couldn’t think of 10 either :(
Chad
Iraq
Iran
Peru
Mali
Guam
Bali
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OK – with no cheating except from the friends above*
IRAN
IRAQ
CHAD
FIJI
MALI
CUBA*
PERU*
OMAN*
TOGO*
I think Bali is really part of Indonesia?
Guam is a US Territory with some special designation – not independent.
There is one more?
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and the answer is — added to those above –
LAOS
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OF COURSE PEG KNOWS!!!!!!! Yes, Bali is part of Indonesia. The one thing I know courtesy of a delicious little trip last year.
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Yep, Leave it to Peg! I got 6 without looking, but Bali was one of those, so 5:
Iran, Iraq, Oman, Peru, Mali
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I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard of Mali :-/. I sooooo failed your pop quiz.
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I care nothing about countries with four-letter names, but your last admonishment against potential cheaters cracked me up. Using that one next year with those [four-letter-word] plagiarizers.
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Without looking at other’s posts or the internets:
Cuba, Mali, Peru, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Laos, Chad . . . thinking . . . Togo . . . and . . .
You got me, but I totally would have remembered the other one a year ago when I was teaching 4th grade geography.
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Cuba
Iran
Iraq
Chad
USSR (ha ha ha! Just kidding)
I’m stumped after that.