What Country Am I? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Egypt

The Pyramids are some of the oldest buildings on Earth, with some scientists declaring that they were built over 5,000 years ago! The mysterious Sphinx is nearby and is about the same age.

Answer: Argentina

Only Brazil is a bigger country. The highest mountain is called Aconcagua. My borders are Chile to the west, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north and Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast. The Argentinian rugby team is called the Pumas, and their polo team won three of the first five world championships.

Answer: Switzerland

Switzerland has borders with Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein. It is well known for its mountains, called the Alps. The Swiss flag is the reverse of the Red Cross flag and it is one of only two square flags in the world- the other is Vatican City.

Answer: Philippines

There are more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines, most of them very small. There are several active volcanoes there, with Mt Pinatubo probably the most famous- it erupted in 1991, killing many people.

The islands were named by Spanish explorers in 1542 in honour of King Philip II.

Answer: Turkey

Turkey is in both Europe and Asia, and there are two huge bridges to carry road and rail traffic from one side to the other. The largest city, Istanbul, is also divided into two.

Turkeys (the bird) are not even found in Turkey (the country)! They are, instead, native to North and Central America and they were confused with other European birds by the early American settlers. The mountain where Noah's Ark rests is call Mt Ararat.

Answer: Panama

The Panama Canal was a huge engineering feat and took more than 30 years to build. At over 70 kms long, it saves ships from having to travel all the way around the bottom of South America.

Panama hats are not actually from Panama- they are usually made in Ecuador. They are a lightweight straw hat, which are quite comfortable in the tropical heat of Central and South America.

All the wrong answers are Central American countries, too.

Answer: Vietnam

I visited Vietnam and loved it! I have never seen so many motor scooters- they were everywhere. Ho Chi Minh City is a huge city in the south of the country, and used to be called Saigon. Hanoi is another very large city in the north, and it is near Ha Long Bay, a huge bay filled with hundreds of tiny islands, and named one of the New7Wonders of Nature in 2009.

Answer: Denmark

Legoland is in the small city of Billund, and the statue of The Little Mermaid is in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. It was constructed in memory of Hans Christian Andersen. Denmark also governs Greenland, a huge island just off the coast of Canada. Greenland is 50 times the size of Denmark!

Answer: South Africa

The three capitals are Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Cape Town. South Africa is sometimes called the 'Rainbow Nation', because of the many different cultures and people that live there. Its flag is very bright, with six different colours.

The three wrong answers are all countries in the north of the continent.

Answer: Australia

The euro and the wallaby are species of kangaroos, a brolga is a large bird similar to a crane and a taipan is a very deadly snake. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, China, USA and Brazil.