1960 World Map Quiz
1960 is called the Year of Africa: seventeen African countries became independent in twelve months. The map still had the USSR, East and West Germany and colonies that have since gone. Find ten of them on a map drawn with 1960’s borders.
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How it works
A prompt appears at the top of the screen. Tap the country on the 1960 map. Your first tap scores 3 points and a second try scores 2; miss twice and the answer is shown on the map before the next prompt. Ten prompts, 100 seconds, so a perfect round is 30 points.
It is also one of the categories in the daily geography challenge: one shared round a day, the same for everyone, with a streak to keep.
Every prompt in this quiz (123)
Each round draws ten of these places on the 1960 map. The answers are on the map, not here.
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Germany, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, USSR, Venezuela, West Germany, Yugoslavia