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Was going to do this round in an upcoming pub quiz and thought I'd give it a trial run here first. They'd get a printout of this at the start of the quiz and get to fill it in as we do the other rounds and eat sandwiches.


Below this list of categories are 21 boxes. Each box has the names of the top 5 countries for one of these categories. Match the category to the box number, for example…


Largest Countries (‘000 sq km) … Box Fourteen


Largest Populations (Millions)
Biggest economies (GDP, $bn)
Highest GDP per head
Largest defiicits ($m)
Highest Consumer Price Inflation (2009 %)
Largest Industrial Output ($bn)

Top 5 producers of…   

Rice (‘000 tonnes)
Coffee (‘000 tonnes)
Raw Wool (‘000 tonnes)
Oil (‘000 barrels/day)
Automobiles (‘000 cars)

Proven Oil Reserves (% of world total)
Highest rate of Unemployment
Largest class sizes (pupils per teacher in Primary Schools)
Largest fertility rates (average number of children per woman)
Highest life expectancy
Lowest life expectancy
Nobel Prizes for literature (no of wins 1901-2009)
Gold medals at the Winter Olympics
Defence spending ($bn)


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gave up bored when I decided to try the winter olympic gold one first and none of the boxes look right for that

Box 9 looks like lowest life-expectancy.

Box 7 is obv biggest defecit. I am working on em all now in between doing 'real' work.

14 or 19 I'd have thought.

gonna have to  say defo 19...dont see brazil being a giant in the would of winter olympics as box 14 would suggest

Largest Countries (‘000 sq km) … Box 14

Largest Populations (Millions) 12
Biggest economies (GDP, $bn) box 20
Highest GDP per head Box 2
Largest defiicits ($m) Box 7
Highest Consumer Price Inflation (2009 %) box 1
Largest Industrial Output ($bn) box 21

Top 5 producers of…   

Rice (‘000 tonnes) box 18
Coffee (‘000 tonnes)  box 17
Raw Wool (‘000 tonnes) box 11
Oil (‘000 barrels/day) box 3
Automobiles (‘000 cars) box 15

Proven Oil Reserves (% of world total) Box 10
Highest rate of Unemployment box 13
Largest class sizes (pupils per teacher in Primary Schools) Box 5
Largest fertility rates (average number of children per woman) box 8
Highest life expectancy Box 4
Lowest life expectancy Box 9
Nobel Prizes for literature (no of wins 1901-2009) box 16
Gold medals at the Winter Olympics Box 19
Defence spending ($bn) Box 6

Really enjoyed that. At one point i had box 20 for 3 answers. Whats the damage?

a negative deficit should be a surplus also it isn't clear what deficit they are on about.

 i see what you mean. ie USA has a defecit of X amount of $ as opposed to USA has a defecit of -$3gazillion meaning it is actually +3 gazill. I take it to mean straight amount. In which case it would be a negative figure. Unless i just got the question wrong which is highly likely.

I was just being pedantic - there isnt anything else that fits a "negative" answer, so doubt you are wrong.  However you might be a bit out if you think that the USA has inflation of 19.3% ;)

towards the end i just started throwing boxes all over the gaff, i am no geog whiz by any stretch. I just remember inflation going bananas in zimbabwe with people paying £300 for a loaf of bread but i couldn't see that as an option so i went for Nigeria.

not 14 unless you think russia have won 17,000 gold medals and it can't be 19 unless there's some weird combining of east, west and normal germany into a supernation who've then wiped all memory of the soviet union from history

i assumed this was the last olympics

this is why i dont do quizes coz quiz masters are often wrong

14   Largest Countries (‘000 sq km)


18   Largest Populations (Millions)
20   Biggest economies (GDP, $bn)
2   Highest GDP per head
7   Largest defiicits ($m)
1   Highest Consumer Price Inflation (2009 %)
12   Largest Industrial Output ($bn)

Top 5 producers of…   

15   Rice (‘000 tonnes)
17   Coffee (‘000 tonnes)
11   Raw Wool (‘000 tonnes)
3   Oil (‘000 barrels/day)
21   Automobiles (‘000 cars)

10   Proven Oil Reserves (% of world total)
9   Highest rate of Unemployment
13   Largest class sizes (pupils per teacher in Primary Schools)
8   Largest fertility rates (average number of children per woman)
4   Highest life expectancy
5   Lowest life expectancy
16   Nobel Prizes for literature (no of wins 1901-2009)
19   Gold medals at the Winter Olympics
6   Defence spending ($bn)

box 16 is the only one with numbers that are realistic enough to maybe be a single olympics. problem with that one is it has uk at 11 and the uk doesn't compete at the olympics and even if we did we'd never win 11 golds at a winter games

21 20   Biggest economies (GDP, $bn)

Sorry about the delay, forgot I'd posted this.

18/20 here, fine work. Just got the Unemployment and class sizes mixed up.

still objecting to 19 being the olympics unless made up numbers are allowed

14/20 for your good self

Population (box 12)
Largest Industrial Output (box 21)
rice production (box 18)
car production (box 15)
unemployment (box 5)
lowest life expectanct (box 9)

Thanks for pointing this out, will add a (excluding Soviet Union 1956-1988) to the question.
All the data from 'Pocket World in Figures 2011 edition' published by the Economist magazine.

To be fair there is a footnote to the Olympic table which reads

"Table excludes Soviet Union medals (1956 to 1988) and as the Unified team in 1992."

During this time (the '56-'92) they won 87 golds. Russia has won 38 golds since and appears 9th on the table.

There is no note about Germany, but I'm assuming they've counted medals won by both East Germany, West Germnay and Germany Germany.

I'm assuming the reason they did this was that East and West Germany combined to make a larger country while Russia split up to make smaller countries. They can say that East and West German medals were won by athletes from an area now called Germany. The same of course, cannot be said about Soviet medals.

Not a perfect way to do things perhaps, but that's the way they've done them.

I still can't make the numbers add up even combining east, west and uber germany

that may be due to wikipedia articles having wrong figures though

Same here, I'm getting 122 for uber-Germany.

Thanks to gatso, instead of going to bed, it looks like I'm going to spending the next wee while on the internet trying to get to the bottom of this. Either wikipedia or the data table I have from the wee book-e thing must be wrong.

I checked to see if they've maybe included medals won before 1956. Doesn't look like that's the problem.
Germany only got 6 in the period before then, which still leaves us 11 medals short.

I'm going to check wikipedia info for Norway and the US (1956-2010) to see if they add up to the 105 and 87 quoted in the table.

Can't get them to add up either. I'm getting 76 golds for Norway and 70 for the USA. (book quotes 105 and 87)

meh, I am going to bed.

The Winter Olympic question can gtfo and I'll find something else to put in instead.

Malwai has 93 students per teacher!!?? F that. I wonder if there teachers moan as much as ours. Anyways cheers for the answers. Enjoyed the quiz.

if the US had inflation of 19% in 2009 (box 1) I'll eat my < insert something unpleasant to eat > afaik they were experiencing deflation in 2009.

There ye go, didn't even have to be rude!

Cheers, massive typo on my part. Copy and pasting another box and failing to change it properly.

Box 1 should be Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Myanmar, Ghana, Yemen.

Thanks for spotting it