Around the world in 50 countries: the globe-trotting Christmas travel quiz

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Name the six countries or territories Donald Trump has said or suggested he would like to annex, acquire or take control of.

Donald Trump talking to members of the press after exiting Air Force One in Maryland

7-10

The original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (of which only one survives) were located in which four present-day countries?

A computer-generated 3D illustration of the lighthouse of Alexandria

11-15

Name the only five Caribbean countries to ever qualify for the finals of the men’s football World Cup.

Pre-match pitch photo of Curacao men’s football team (eleven)

16-21

The equator passes through which six African mainland countries?

Poster of Kenya shown in black against a yellow background with a sign marking ‘Equator’ in red on a white background

22 & 23

Name the only two countries in South America that do not border Brazil.

A woman in a sheer bodysuit wearing yellow and green feathers and sash at a carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

24-28: Name these countries from their distinctive landmarks:

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29-33: Where were these famous movies filmed? Clue: none are in the country the story is set.

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A still of Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai

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A still of Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan

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A still of Graham Chapman in Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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A still of Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars

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34-38: In which county would you be if you were eating these foods?

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A thick omelette with potatoes and onion

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A shrimp spring roll with peanut dipping sauce

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Beef stew in a shallow earthenware cooking dish with a tall, conical lid

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A pastry filled with cheese and topped with a soft-boiled egg and butter

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Grilled chicken pieces on wooden skewers with spicy peanut sauce

39-45

There are seven Asian “stan” countries – can you name them on this map?

A map of Asia with numbers showing where the ‘stan’ countries are

46-50: Name the last five countries to join the United Nations. Here are their flags to help you.

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A flag with a red field, a gold border and a gold coat of arms with green detail in the centre

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A flag with a red field with a black isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side bearing a white five-pointed star in the centre superimposed on a larger yellow triangle, also based on the hoist-side, that extends to the centre of the flag

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A flag consisting of three broad horizontal stripes of black, red, and green (top to bottom), with two narrower white horizontal stripes separating the black and red and the red and green stripes, and a blue triangle at the hoist, within which is a five-pointed yellow star

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A flag consisting of three broad horizontal stripes, of red, blue and white, with a gold white and red lesser coat of arms left of centre

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A red flag with a white cross sign in the middle

The answers

1 to 6 Greenland, Canada, Panama (canal), Venezuela, Mexico and Gaza

7 to 10 Greece (Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia), Egypt (Lighthouse of Alexandria, pictured, and Great Pyramid of Giza), Turkey (Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Temple of Artemis) and Iraq (Hanging Gardens of Babylon)

11 to 15 Cuba (in 1938), Haiti (1974 and 2026), Jamaica (1998), Trinidad and Tobago (2006) and Curaçao (2026, pictured)

16 to 21 from west to east, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Somalia

22 and 23 Chile and Ecuador

24 Mongolia (Genghis Khan statue) 25 St Lucia (The Pitons) 26 Mali (Great Mosque of Djenné) 27 Namibia’s red desert sand dunes 28 Portugal (Christ the King statue in Almada)

29 Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon (stood in for Thailand in The Bridge on the River Kwai) 30 Ireland or England (in Saving Private Ryan, Ballinesker in County Wexford stood in for Normandy’s D-day beaches; the rest of the film was shot at various English locations) 31 Tunisia (for the Holy Land in The Life of Brian) 32 Spain (for the US/Mexico in A Fistful of Dollars) 33 The Philippines (for Vietnam in Apocalypse Now)

34 Spain (tortilla) 35 Vietnam (goi cuon) 36 Morocco (tagine) 37 Georgia (khachapuri) 38 Indonesia (satay)

39 Kazakhstan 40 Turkmenistan 41 Uzbekistan 42 Tajikistan 43 Kyrgyzstan 44 Afghanistan 45 Pakistan

46 Montenegro (2006) 47 Timor-Leste (2002) 48 South Sudan (2011) 49 Serbia (2000) 50 Switzerland (2002)

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