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Test your knowledge of world countries with this fun CIA World Factbook Description Quiz. Challenge yourself and learn interesting facts about different countries.

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World Country By CIA World Factbook Description

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Name the country given the CIA World Factbook ‘Background’ section for that country. You can type ‘.’ at any time during an answer to clear the answer box (to save time backspacing an incorrect guess). Points based on time to answer. You are given up to 25 total countries, and a max of 45 seconds for each.

The word (country) will replace any country-related words that would give away the country name in the description.

Some background sections won’t entirely fit in the box but the vast majority will be shown.

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waddupworld

8 months ago

it tends to say the name of the country in the description; sweden, cameroon and couple more; but then there are instances when the description is too vague “settled by bantu people in 6ad”

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to waddupworld

I’ll fix the countries you mentioned – yeah I’m just going with what the CIA site has, so some may be more vague than others.

LostGrandma

9 months ago

Untimed Mode takes away the whole-quiz timer, but not the per-question timer. Would you consider taking away the per-question timer for Untimed Mode?

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darin

9 months ago

Reply to LostGrandma

No sorry Untimed is only for the main timer.