Country Quiz

Pick a mode - Flag Quiz shows a flag and asks you to name the country, Capital Quiz shows a country and asks for its capital city. You then get 10 multiple-choice questions, each with four options. Click an answer; correct picks turn green and add to your score, wrong ones go red. A streak counter rewards consecutive correct answers, and the score persists locally so you can come back to your high score later.

The questions pull from a live country database covering all 195 UN-recognised countries plus a handful of territories. That breadth is what makes it interesting and occasionally frustrating - questions about Tuvalu, Eswatini or Kiribati will catch most players out, even those who breeze through European geography. Treat sub-50% scores on a first attempt as normal and use the wrong answers to learn.

Flag recognition tends to be easier than capitals because flags use a small palette of recurring elements - stripes, crescents, red-white-red Pan-Slavic schemes, the Union Jack canton on Commonwealth flags. Group countries by region and learn flag families: Nordic crosses (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland), Pan-African red-yellow-green (Ghana, Mali, Senegal), and the Latin American horizontal tricolours that catch out almost everyone.

Capitals are trickier because the well-known ones (Paris, Tokyo, Cairo) are the rare cases. Many capitals are not the largest city - Brasília not Rio, Canberra not Sydney, Ottawa not Toronto, Wellington not Auckland. Some recently changed - Astana became Nur-Sultan and then went back to Astana again. The quiz uses current names, so if you were taught a name 20 years ago, double-check before being too confident. If you want to drill capitals systematically rather than randomly, build a deck in the [Flashcard Maker](/flashcard-maker) and use it for spaced repetition.