An arc of eight white stars sits on the blue band of which country's yellow-blue-red flag?
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Correct answer: Venezuela.
Simón Bolívar called for stars to honor provinces in the independence movement; an eighth star was later added.
Which Caribbean country's flag is divided by a white cross into blue and red rectangles, with a coat of arms at the center?
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Correct answer: Dominican Republic.
It is the only national flag to feature a Bible in its coat of arms, shown open to a verse from the Gospel of John.
The Twelve Apostles are a chain of peaks forming part of which South African landmark?
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Correct answer: Table Mountain.
The Twelve Apostles are a row of buttresses on the Atlantic side of the Table Mountain range, rising above Cape Town's western coast.
Which scientist explained, in his 1604 work on optics, that the eye forms an image on the retina?
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Correct answer: Johannes Kepler.
Kepler showed that the eye's lens casts an inverted image onto the retina, locating where sight actually begins.
Bhutan's Dzongkha name, Druk Yul, means "Land of the" what?
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Correct answer: Thunder Dragon.
The white dragon on Bhutan's flag is the Druk, or Thunder Dragon; the jewels in its claws represent the nation's wealth.
What do the fifty stars on the flag of the United States represent?
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Correct answer: The fifty states.
Each star is a state and each of the thirteen stripes an original colony; a new star is added on the Fourth of July after a state joins.
Which country added a golden crown to its blue-and-red flag after finding it identical to Haiti's at the 1936 Olympics?
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Correct answer: Liechtenstein.
The duplicate came to light when both delegations marched at the Berlin Games; Liechtenstein added the crown the following year, 1937, while Haiti simply kept its flag unchanged.
What four elements do the trigrams in the corners of South Korea's flag represent?
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Correct answer: Heaven, earth, water, and fire.
The four trigrams come from the I Ching and frame the central Taegeuk, the red-and-blue symbol of cosmic balance.
Which West African country's green-yellow-red vertical flag has a single green star on the central band?
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Correct answer: Senegal.
It shares the pan-African colors with its neighbors; the green star marks it apart from Mali's plain tricolor and Guinea's reversed one.
Which Pacific country's blue flag has orange-and-white diagonal stripes rising to the fly and a large many-rayed white star?
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Correct answer: Marshall Islands.
The diagonal stripes represent the Equator and the Ratak and Ralik island chains; the star's 24 points stand for electoral districts.
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