Prompt 1 of 7
Name a country that no longer exists
74 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Neutral Moresnet— A tiny zinc-mining triangle in Europe that no country could agree on, run jointly for a century until 1920. Even had its own Esperanto movement.
85 ptsDeep Cut40 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Abyssinia— Now Ethiopia. Same tea-box energy as Ceylon.
- Basutoland
- Bechuanaland
- Biafra— Broke away from Nigeria for three years in the late 1960s.
- Bohemia
- Dahomey
- East Pakistan— Became Bangladesh in 1971.
- Etruria
- Free City of Danzig
- Gold Coast— Became Ghana in 1957, the first sub-Saharan colony to gain independence.
- Gran Colombia
- Hejaz
- Katanga
- Kingdom of Hawaii
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Mali Empire
- Manchukuo
- New Granada
- Newfoundland— An independent dominion until it joined Canada in 1949.
- North Vietnam
- North Yemen
- Nyasaland
- Orange Free State
- Papal States
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Republic of Texas
- Republic of Venice
- Sardinia
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Sikkim
- Songhai Empire
- South Yemen
- Tanganyika— Merged with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.
- Transvaal
- Two Sicilies
- United Arab Republic— Egypt and Syria's brief 1958 merger. It lasted three years.
- Upper Volta— Renamed Burkina Faso in 1984 — 'land of honest people.'
- Vermont Republic— An independent republic for fourteen years before becoming the fourteenth state.
- Weimar Republic
- Zanzibar— Independent for barely a month in 1964 before merging into Tanzania.
60 ptsRare22 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Assyria
- Austria-Hungary
- Aztec Empire
- Babylonia
- Byzantine Empire
- Carthage
- Ceylon— Now Sri Lanka. Still on the tea box.
- Confederacy
- Gaul
- Holy Roman Empire
- Inca Empire
- Mesopotamia
- Mongol Empire
- Mughal Empire
- Phoenicia
- Rhodesia
- Siam— Thailand's former name.
- South Vietnam
- Sparta
- Tibet
- Tsarist Russia
- Zaire
30 ptsSchooler6 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- British Empire
- East Germany
- Ottoman Empire
- Persia
- Prussia
- West Germany
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Burma— Renamed Myanmar in 1989. The 'still calls it Burma' pick, right on cue.
- Roman Empire— 'I think about it every day.' Sure you do. So does everyone else.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Czechoslovakia
- Soviet Union
- Yugoslavia