This country:
11] … had a little problem with Antigua over gambling, has had scandals over teapots, chief crop is wheat, has a problem with Russia over its border, makes no claim in Antarctica and and John Deere lived there.
12] … includes about 75% of the Eastern Alps, in 1867 it went under dual sovereignty, had a little problem in Sarajevo some time later, finally threw off the shackles in 1955, 74% Roman Catholic and doesn't like the the Temelin nuclear power plant.
13] … is drained by the Plata system in the south, is named after a red dye, cooperated with the Allies in both world wars, Jo Sarney was president, thrives on political corruption and has the highest number of vertebrates and invertebrates in the world.
14] … has three capitals, has a country stuck in the middle of it, the San people were the first to settle there, had the Leander Starr Jameson fiasco, its president denies the link between HIV and AIDS and has a dispute over the Orange River.
15] … likes to renew its military appointments in October, strong economy collapsed in 1997, the PM promised to eliminate the drug trade in three months and ended up killing thousands and the people adore their king.
16] … began in 496AD, has the Vosges in the north-east, has a non-capitalist tradition amongst the populace, doesn't like Muslims but does love a woman named Marianne and has territorial disputes with Madagascar and Europa Island
17] … lies between two rivers, was for the Axis in the early part of WW2, has 13% arable land, has an eagle in the coat of arms, had much to do with the Sassanids and musicians play the oud and rebab and has five cultural areas.
18] … has a coastline ragged with fjords and channels, has various provinces and territories, took over the Sverdrup Islands in 1931, main natural resource is iron ore, named for Stadacona and is currently in Afghanistan.
19] … is the scene of largely unreported genocide on a grand scale, 85% is uninhabited, the most destructive earthquake in two decades struck near the capital on May 21, 2003, the Tell area is fertile and the major trading partner is the US.
20] … has a white, black and blue flag, is a lowland country with numerous lakes, forests and rivers, European Union and NATO member, Mr. Ilves is the new president, is 14% Evangelical Lutheran and does not speak an Indo-European native language.
Two again. US and Brazil. Although the corruption part threw me. I was torn between the UK and Brazil.
ReplyDeleteOk, I got Algeria and Canada Wrong. Canada sounded like Norway, bbut I hve to plead ignorance of the Sverdrup islands.
ReplyDeleteAlgeria, I'll plead your description could equally apply to Namibia, Think the Herero Genocide in 1905. The 85 % stat is also true.
Bag, you did better than I. I did draw red herrings like 'corruption' across the path.
ReplyDeleteCbI, Canada was meant to fool you into thinking it was Norway. As for Algeria, it could well have been, that's true.