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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Quiz on Flags with stars: can you guess all ten - with a little help?



Palace of Nations, UN building in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo in Wikipedia by Tom Page.

Quiz

Problem
Which country do these flags with stars belong to?

Flag 1
Flag of the United States of America

Flag 2

Flag of Malaysia.svg

Flag 3


Flag 4

Civil Ensign of Australia.svg


Flag 5

Blue field with the Union Flag in the top right corner, and four red stars with white borders to the right.


Flag 6


Flag of  China







Flag 7

 




Flag 8


Flag of  Turkey



Flag 9

Flag of  Vietnam







Flag 10

Flag of Europe.svg












Bonus Flag




Hints:
These flags are of (alphabetical order): Australia, China, Esperanto, European, Israel, Malaysia; New Zealand, Singapore, Turkey, Vietnam, USA,
Do the quiz again, by process of elimination, before looking at the answers.

Clues
1 United. 'Beautiful'. Take the 'Route ..', or a greyhound, 'from sea to shining sea'. Be careful if you are 'in the city'.

2 The crescent suggests Muslims. Near Singapore. See their statue resmbling American's Iwo Jima flag-raising memorial. Visit the towers where Katherine Zeta-Jones made a movie.

3 Holy land. David's star. See the Scrolls and the wall. Volunteer to work on a kibbutz.

4 British flag. English speaking. Big and brash. Somewhere down under. Hop over and see it. They may be far but we think of them as 'Neighbours'.

5 British flag. English speaking. A smaller, quieter country, accent and flag. Not old. Ski in summer (their winter). See Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sights.

6 Red for communists. Lucky colour, red. A great country with a Great Wall you can climb.

7 More lucky red. Chinese speakers? Get out of the concrete jungle and take a Night Safari.

8 Another Muslim crescent. That's the only key I'm giving you. Would you like a second key? See the  Blue mosque, Green mosque, and red flag.

9 Not a white star like the American flag, but Americans know this drafty country. 'Good morning.'  See and sigh.

10 Union of countries. Which continent? Not America. Where? The united kingdom is divided on whether to get disunited and exit. Go now, while it's easy.

Bonus Flag - 'I hope' you will try learning this easy International language. Inventor Zamenhof. See the museum in Vienna, Austria. The language taught in schools in Hungary, if you want a place to practise your extra language, which compensates for lack of languages.

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Answers
Flag 1 USA
Flag 2 Malaysia
Flag 3 Israel
Flag 4 Australia
Flag 5 New Zealand
Flag 6 China
Flag 7 Singapore
Flag 8 Turkey
Flag 9 Vietnam
Flag 10  European
 Bonus Flag Esperanto

If you got
1-3 right answers, your first go at this quiz?
Same result as me.  Learn something new every day. Go back and try it again.

4-5 right. You've lived in Australia or New Zealand or Singapore or China. That gives you a head start.  Good effort.

6-10 You've done this quiz before. Great to learn flags, isn't it!
Useful Websites

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/03/should-you-and-i-learn-esperanto-or.html
(Flags of Esperanto and Edo.)

Author
Angela Lansbury. Travel writer and photographer. Author and speaker. I can give an entertaining and informative talk or workshop on flags to a club, college or corporation. If you like this quiz, please share links to it with your friends.

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