Prompt 2 of 7
Name a country that was once part of the British Empire
73 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Vanuatu— Britain and France ran it jointly, down to two rival police forces.
85 ptsDeep Cut26 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Afghanistan— Britain ran Kabul's foreign policy from 1879 until 1919.
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bhutan— Its foreign affairs were British-guided by treaty from 1910.
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Dominica
- Eswatini
- Grenada
- Kiribati
- Libya
- Maldives
- Namibia— Administered by British South Africa under a mandate held for the Crown.
- Nauru
- Oman
- Papua New Guinea
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa— Ruled from Wellington, but the League mandate named the British Crown.
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan— Part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan back when the map was pink.
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Yemen
60 ptsRare21 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Belize
- Botswana
- Cyprus
- Fiji
- Gambia
- Guyana
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Qatar
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Arab Emirates
- Zambia
30 ptsSchooler19 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Bangladesh
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Hong Kong— A territory, never a country, but the 1997 handover counts here.
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- United Kingdom— Yes, Britain was part of the British Empire; take your 15 points.
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Australia
- Canada
- India
- South Africa
- United States