50 Question Challenge #4, Flags: answers and sources
Spoilers ahead! Play the video first. Here is every answer, the fun fact and the source we checked it against.
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Level 1: Easy
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Let's start easy. Whose flag is this? 🇺🇸
USA Its 13 stripes stand for the original 13 colonies.
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Which country's flag is this? 🇨🇳
China It was first raised in 1949.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China
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Name this flag. 🇷🇺
Russia The tricolor first flew on Russian ships.
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Whose flag is this? 🇬🇷
Greece It has nine blue and white stripes.
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Which country flies this flag? 🇸🇪
Sweden Its blue and yellow date back to at least 1275.
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Which country's flag is this? 🇵🇱
Poland Flip it upside down: Indonesia's flag!
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Name this one. 🇦🇹
Austria It was first recorded way back in 1230.
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Whose flag is this? 🇨🇱
Chile Chileans call it “the Lone Star”.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Chile
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Which country flies this one? 🇵🇪
Peru Its red and white stripes run up and down.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Peru
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Last easy one: whose flag? 🇵🇭
Philippines In wartime, it's flown with the red on top.
Level 2: Medium
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Which country's flag is this? 🇳🇬
Nigeria A student, Taiwo Akinkunmi, designed it.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nigeria · thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/08/30/pa-michael-akinkunmi...
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Whose flag is this? 🇭🇺
Hungary Italy's flag uses the same three colors.
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Name this flag. 🇷🇴
Romania Chad's flag is almost exactly the same.
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Which country flies this flag? 🇪🇹
Ethiopia Many African flags borrowed its three colors.
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Whose flag is this? 🇦🇪
UAE It was first raised in 1971.
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Which country's flag is this? 🇶🇦
Qatar Its official shade is called “Qatar maroon”.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Qatar
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Name this one. 🇲🇾
Malaysia It has 14 stripes. The US flag has 13.
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Whose flag is this? 🇨🇷
Costa Rica The red stripe is twice as wide as the others.
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Which country flies this flag? 🇵🇦
Panama Panama's first First Lady sewed the first ones.
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Last medium one: whose flag? 🇹🇿
Tanzania It mixes the flags of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
Level 3: Quick flags
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Level 4: Hard
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Which country's flag is this? 🇦🇱
Albania Its black eagle has two heads.
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Whose flag is this? 🇲🇰
North Macedonia Its yellow sun has eight rays.
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Name this flag. 🇧🇦
Bosnia and Herzegovina The triangle stands for the country's shape.
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Which country flies this flag? 🇲🇬
Madagascar It hasn't changed since 1958.
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Whose flag is this? 🇿🇼
Zimbabwe The bird on it is called the Zimbabwe Bird.
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Which country's flag is this? 🇳🇦
Namibia Its golden sun has 12 rays.
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Name this one. 🇬🇾
Guyana It's nicknamed “The Golden Arrowhead”.
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Whose flag is this? 🇸🇷
Suriname Its yellow star sits on a wide red stripe.
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Which country flies this flag? 🇹🇯
Tajikistan Its crown sits under an arc of seven stars.
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Last hard one: whose flag? 🇺🇿
Uzbekistan It shows 12 white stars.
Level 5: Impossible
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Which country's flag is this? 🇰🇮
Kiribati A frigatebird flies over a rising sun.
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Whose flag is this? 🇳🇷
Nauru The star shows where Nauru sits, below the equator.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nauru
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Name this flag. 🇲🇭
Marshall Islands Its white star has 24 points.
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Which country flies this flag? 🇱🇨
Saint Lucia The triangles stand for its twin mountains.
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Whose flag is this? 🇹🇱
Timor-Leste It was first adopted back in 1975.
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Which country's flag is this? 🇵🇬
Papua New Guinea A bird-of-paradise flies beside five stars.
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Whose flag is this? 🇧🇫
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso means “land of upright people”.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso
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Which country flies this flag? 🇲🇼
Malawi A red sun rises in its black top stripe.
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The very last flag. Whose? 🇱🇸
Lesotho The black symbol is a Basotho straw hat.
The Big Aha stories
- The flag with two different sides: Most flags look the same from both sides. Paraguay's doesn't. The front shows the national coat of arms: a yellow star inside a wreath. The back shows a lion, and the words “Paz y Justicia”: peace and justice. That makes it the only national flag with a different design on each side. Sources: wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Paraguay
- Every flag in five rings: In 1913, Pierre de Coubertin drew the five Olympic rings. Blue, yellow, black, green and red, on a white background. He said these six colors covered every competing nation's flag of the time. Sources: wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols
Bonus question
How many stars are on the flag of Brazil? We reveal the answer in the pinned comment under the video.