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How many country codes can I name
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If you don't know what a country code is, let me explain. So the country code for Russia is .ru
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so their websites would be blah, blah, .ru, and in the UK, it's .co.uk
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That's the country codes. Now, I have a quiz here with 194 different country codes
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I have never specifically tried to learn country codes, but I've randomly picked up a few
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but mainly we're just gonna be doing a lot of guessing. I wanna see how many can we just work out from their name
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because they're normally something to do with the name, but not always. So let's just jump into it. Afghanistan is the first one at once. So I would be attempted to go with AF
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And it was AF. See, I didn't know that, but I just worked it out from the letters. Albania is coming up next. AB. Oh, okay. AA. Oh dear. AL. It was AL
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I should have just gone with the most obvious to begin with. Algeria coming up next. AG. It's got to be. It is not AG. So we know AL's taken. AI. Oh, it's not AI
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All right, okay. We have to come back to Algeria. Let's do Andorra. N
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Ah, A.D. Yes, okay. Angola. A.G. Ah. How many times am I going to try something I've already tried as well, by the way
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A.L? No. A.A? No. A.N is out of the question, right? We'll leave that one
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Antigra and Barbuda. For some reason, I think this is A.I. I feel like I know it
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I do not know it. That's Anguilla. That's what I'm thinking of. All right. A.B
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A for Antigra. One for Barbuda. But that is incorrect. A.G. Oh, we got it. Okay. We know Argentina's right? Is that A R G? No, it's just a R. It's all two letters
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All right. All country codes are two letters. I'll keep that in mind. Armenia. What's that going to be
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A M? Yep. Australia. I know that one. It's A U. Austria. Now I do know that as well. It's A T, right
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Azerbaijan. It's got to be A Z. It is. Bahamas. We're on a bit of a roll. B A. No. B H. B M
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Mmm. B A. Again. B S. Okay. So there seems to be a bit of a logic. It's either first two letters
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or first and last letter. That's pretty common, right? But not always, you know
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Andorra was the third letter along. There's a bit of variety to the format because obviously lots of countries would have repeats
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So Albania is AL, but so is Algeria. So Algeria had to go with something different
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There's also going to be lots of instances where the country code is based off
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the country's own language. So I know that South Africa's is ZA
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even though there's no Z in the English South Africa. Bahrain, BH, gotta be, knew it
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Bangladesh. So BG is Bulgaria. So what's Bangladesh? BH? No, we just had BH. BN? B-E? B-L? B-D
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Okay, Barbados. B-B. Knew it. Belarus. B-L. No. B-R. I think I know this one, actually. I do not know
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this one. B-E. No. B-L. B-U. No. B-S. Okay, well, we don't know that one. Belgium, I do know, right
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That's bl. That's definitely bl. No, it's not. It's bg. I meant bg. No, I didn't. I've just been through bg bg is this is confusing
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bg's bulgaria belgium is bm no b it's be why did I not try be right if belize isn't bz I'm gonna go crazy
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I should think so benin bn bi could it be a different letter altogether? Could it be a a nana
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It is not a nana. Okay, we come back to it bh no ba BN BU
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It's got Oh it's not Okay Some are really easy Some are just I have no idea BO
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Knew it Okay Bosnia and Herzegovina What would that be? Let's think about it
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BH would be what I'd want to go with BZ Hmm BS BN BI BA
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Ha ha ha ha Okay Botswana BW Gotta be Yes Brazil BR
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We know that one Brunei BI No BU Oh god BE Okay no problem Bulgaria
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I know that one BG Yes, Burkina Faso. If this isn't BF, I'm going crazy. Yeah, there we go. Burundi. Uh, BU. Nope
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BR. Nope. That's Brazil's. BD. Nope. BI. Yes. Okay. So quite frequently, it's the last letter. So
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Cambodia, that would be C is Canada. So CM, CB, CO, CD, CI. Hmm. Okay. Skip that one. It's going to
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be a native language thing. Cameroon. That's going to be CR. No, it's not. That's Croatia. It's going
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to be CO, CM, CA, we know that one, Cape Verde, CV, yeah, there we go, so Central African Republic
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I want to do CAR, but it is, obviously, there's only two letters, so what would that be
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there's like the African countries, they were late to the party, and were forced to get a less
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obvious domains, let's come back to it, let's do CD for Chad, come on, no, okay, we're gonna have
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every letter, oh, see, look at that, we've done all three letters in Chad, it's not there, Chile is
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CL right Oh no wait Chile CI CE What is it Oh wait I wasn on Chile All right C C C I thought it was C Did I I don know All right Chinas Surely I know Chinas C Took so many repeats It was C China That makes sense
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Colombia is dot C-O, yeah. Comoros, C-M, C-R, C-S. C-O again. All right, I don't know it. Costa Rica, I believe C-R's taken
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No, it isn't. I take it back. What the ivory? Ivory Coast. Let's do IC
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Nope. Okay. Let's do CD. CC. CI. Ah, CI. Coast Ivory. Croatia, we know that one
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CI. Nope. Wait, I do know it. CT. No. Oh, I don't know it
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See if we can just see what we can do, then we come back to them, you know? So Cuba is going to be CU
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Definitely. CY, I'm feeling good about. Czech Republic. Definitely CZ. Democratic Republic of Congo, my god, DC, DR, CD, yes, ooh, we're working them out, we're working them out
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Denmark's definitely DK, Djibouti, gotta be DJ, yes, Dominica, DM, oh, we're on a roll, DR, so sad, DO, Ecuador, Ecuador
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um, EC, yes. Egypt, E-G. El Salvador, E-S, no, E-L, S-A, S-L, S-V. We got there
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Okay, Equatorial Guinea. E-G, no. E-Q, G-E, G-U, G-I? Too many options, G-A, E-A. We'll come back
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to that one. Eritrea. EA. ER. Yes. Estonia. ES. No, that's Spain. Estonia is ET. No. EN. What's
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Estonia? I've heard that one. Definitely. Oh, I don't know it. I don't know it. Okay. We'll have
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to skip it. Ethiopia. What would that be? EP is feeling good. No. EA. ET. Ooh. Okay. FJ. Easy
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Finland's FL, it's not? Is it FI? Yes, it is. France is FR, we know that one. Gabon, GB, no, GA. Gambia, GM. Georgia, GG
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Ah! GG, they've missed out. Okay, I don't know Georgia. Germany is a one where it's not just the letters, but I do know it's DE
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There we go, for Deutschland, so that's an example of what I'm talking about. Ghana, GH, easy. Greece, GR, easy
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Okay, we've got 51 by just trial and error. We've made it to the second column. Let's do this
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GR, GN, GD, yes. GM, GU, GA, GT, yeah. Guinea, GU, no. GI, GA, GE, GN. Come on, Jack. GB
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No, that's BG. GB, GU. Ah, what is it? BG, backwards. No, because that's Bulgaria again
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I don't know it. Okay, we'll come back to it. G-Y. Haiti. H-I. Oh, it should be H-I. Could be H-T
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Yeah. Honduras. H-D. That's what I'm feeling anyway. No. H-R. H-S. H-O. H-N. Hungary is H-U
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Iceland is I-L. No. I-C. I'm sure there's a C in it. Is it I-D? C-D? How is it not I-C? I was sure it was I-C
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Okay, we'll leave it. Do I know India's? I-D-I-N. Indonesia. I-A. I-D, yeah. Iran. I-R. Iraq. I-Q
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Ireland. I know this one. It's, uh, L-I. No, it's I-L. No, it's I-O. Wait, I do know this. Oh, it's I-E
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Israel. Um, I-S. I-L. Italy. I-T. I know that one. Jamaica. J-E. No. J-I. J-M. Yeah
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that makes sense. JP, we know. Jordan, J... J... D? J-N? Hmm, J-O? Hmm, Kazakhstan, C-A? K-A? No
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K-Z. It's definitely K-Z. Kenya, K-Y. It's not K-Y. K-E, of course. Kiribati. The amount of times
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that I do not do the first two letters for some bizarre reason. Kiribati, what would that be? K-I
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Yep, Kuwait, K-W. Kazakhstan, K-Y. No, K-G. Yes, coming up to Laos. What's that gonna be
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LS, gotta be. Nope, LO. Nope, LA. Latvia. LV. I know that one
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There it is. Lebanon. LB, baby. Lesotho. LS. Yes. Oh, we're on a roll
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Liberia. LR, yeah. Libya. LY. Liechtenstein. LN? LI? Surely that's not the first LI
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Lithuania. LT. T's not particularly prominent in there. Ooh Luxembourg got to be Is it LU or is it LX I think it LU It is Macedonia MC Let try it MD MA MN
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MI. MC. How is it not MC? North Macedonia. NM. No. Okay, we come back to it
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Madagascar. Ooh. MR. MA. MD. MG. Yes. Malawi. ML. MA. MW. Malaysia
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We know that one. MY. Maldives. MD, baby. Let's go for it
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No, it's wrong. MV. Yeah, I knew it. It's always the prominent letters. M, A, we've definitely had
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ML. Malta. Is that a MT? Yes, it is. Martial Islands. MI. MR. MS. MH. Mauritania. MU. MR
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Mauritius. MT. MI. MU. MX for Mexico. Micronesia. Oh my god, look at us go. We're nearly at 100
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MC, MR, MN, MS, MI. I'm doing a little bit more spamming
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I accept that. Okay, Moldova is gonna be MD. Monaco is gonna be MO
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No, MN, NA. Hmm, okay. Keep your secrets. Let's go, Mongolia. Is that MG
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It isn't. MN. Montenegro, MN. No, we've just had that one. MG, MO, MN, MT, ME
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Doing a little bit of just spelling the word out. I'm first to admit that. Morocco is not getting through my system
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Mozambique, gotta be MZ. Beautiful one. Ooh, now Burma. Myanmar used to be called Burma
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So let's keep that in mind if we can't work through our system. Hmm
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Oh, we got it. Never mind. Let's do Namibia. That's gotta be an NM if ever I've heard one
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It bloody isn't. MB. MI. MA. All right. Nauru. NU. Gotta be
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No, it isn't NR. It was NR. Nepal. uh nl no that's netherlands np netherlands np no nl new zealand i know that one nz nicaragua
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uh n g n a n c n i niger oh n r no that's gonna be nigeria's probably what would that be then
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hmm oh it's n e so they've got the short straw there there's n g north korea so i've heard that
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It's not NK. I feel like it's for some reason I want to say like P or something North Korea
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This is another one where the native language was gonna throw us off No, I don't know it. I don't know it. So we're gonna have to skip it
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We know that Norway is NO. Oman is probably OM. Pakistan, PK
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I'm just, I've said so many random letters that I've just forgotten how to talk. Palau, PU, PL, PA
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All right, we're out. We're at the final one. We've done 108 out of 194 in 17 minutes
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Panama, PN, PA. Ah, why do I keep not trying the first one
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Papua New Guinea, PG. Paraguay, PY. Peru, PU, PE. Philippines, PA. No, PP
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It's not PP. It's PH then, isn't it? Poland. PL. Portugal. PT
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I know that one. Qatar. CA. QA. Republic of the Congo. Uh... RQ
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No. RC? My brain's melting. Can you tell? Alright, the Congos have beaten us
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Romania. RO. Russia. RU. Rwanda. Gotta be RW. There we go. St. Kitts and Nevis
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KN. St. Lucia. SL? No. LU? Hmm. LS? L C? Oh, we got there
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It's in vince on the grenadines. V, G, G, V. Let's try that
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Okay. S, V. S, G. V, G, G, V. V, T. I really want this one
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G, N. G, D. Ah, you've bested me. Okay, Samoa. S, A, S, M, S, O, S, A
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Oh, we've been beaten again. San Marino. S, M. Let's try it
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No. S, O. S, A. E, M, R, M, N? No. Okay
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Say a time in principle. We've got some tricky ones here. Say a time in principle. What would be that
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TP, PT, ST, SP, TS, PT. Oh, D, M, E. Okay. Oh, I wasn't even on it
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I have to do them all again. S, T, R, S, A, Senegal, S, E, S, N, Serbia
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Now, I think that's RS. That's probably the trickiest one that I do happen to know
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It's short for Republic of Serbia. So I might come back and try that on a few others
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I'm gonna do that on Micronesia Republic of Micronesia. Okay, it didn't work. Well in that case
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We're on the Seychelles and we're nearly done at this strange strange project of a video
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S Y S H Sierra Leone SL Singapore SP no Singapore I do know that one s I s n s G yes of course Slovakia
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Ooh, S-V-S-O-S-K-S-N-S-V-S-O-L-E-N-I
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There we go. Solomon Islands. S-O-S-M-I-S. Ooh, Solomon Islands. You win this round, Solomon Islands
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Somalia. Don't know it. Oh, never mind. Z-A. That's another just one that I've learned
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South Korea. So we didn't get North Korea. We can't have SK
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Can't have K-A-K-S. So we come back to it. Spain, we know is E-S
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Sri Lanka. Let's try an L-K. Yes. Sudan. S-N-S-D. Yes. Suriname
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S-M-S-N-S-R. Swaziland. So that's S-W-T-E-N-E. What would that thing be? S-W-S-B-S-Z. It's got to be
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Yes, I knew it. Sweden is S-E. Switzerland is a I feel like there's a k in it, but I can't remember
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ks kr sz sw yeah, we'll have to come back to that one syria i'm trying sy and we're correct
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taiwan tw tzakistan tj tz Oh, I love it when we're just running through them like this. Oh, look at us go. Oh
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We lost our streak tn no t a t-o drindon tobaga t-t yes t-u no t-n yes turkey uh t-k t-y no what's turkey oh t-u t-r i did not
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think it was t-r i really thought it was t-k turkmenistan maybe that's t-k no it isn't t-m
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tuvalu tv we know that one that's the one that twitch uses for their domain twitch.tv they have
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to pay millions to tuvalu for that uganda ukraine uk that's my one i should know that ua yeah
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UA, Ukraine. U-A-E is what I want to say, but I can't
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A-E. Yes. Okay, there's UK. We've waited for it. There's US. We're so close now
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Uruguay. Mmm. U-U. U-G. U-Y. U-Y, yeah. Uzbekistan. If this isn't us, I'm going to go crazy
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I should think so. Vanuatu. V-N. V-U. Vatican City. V-C. V-T. It's got to be
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No. V-A. Oh, Venezuela. V-Z. VN, VU, VE, VA, Vietnam, VN, Yemen, YA, Zambia, Zam, Zimbabwe, ZW
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Oh my god, that was strange. Okay, so from just dumb trial and error, we managed to get 165 out of 194
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So the question is, what are the ones that we didn't know? Yeah, so there you go
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You've got DZ for Algeria. A-O for Angola, so I should have got that
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Belarus is B-Y. The Y came out of nowhere. B-J for Benin, shout out
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Bhutan is B-T, which I should have tested. Brunei is B-N. Once again, definitely should have tested
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Cambodia is a K-H. Central Africa Republic's got an F in there
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Chad is T-D, which I wouldn't have got. Comoros, K-M. Croatia, HR
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See, that is kind of distantly in my brain for G-U, I guess. Ecuadorian Guinea, G-Q, wouldn't get that
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EE for Estonia, which, you know, there's only one E, but I have seen that as well
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Georgia is GE. Guinea-Bissau, GW. Iceland is IS. That's what I've definitely heard before
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We had a lovely streak. Macedonia is MK, which I didn't get
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FM for Micronesia, so that's pretty tricky. MC for Monaco, which I definitely should have tried
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I don't know why I didn't. MA for Morocco. Tricky one. KP, I knew it had a K, and I don't know why
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And I think I was trying P's as well. I definitely feel like I tried PK. So that was in my brain for some reason
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Palau is PW. Republic of the Congo is C and G. So Congo, which is actually fairly obvious
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I should have tried that. St. Vincent, which we tried a lot on. We have the V and a C that came out of nowhere
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From our perspective anyway. WS for Samoa. Tricky. San Marino. I didn't try SM
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That is criminal. That's actually shocking behavior. Solomon Islands, SB, 737. South Korea, KR
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Yeah, I didn't get that one. There it is, Switzerland, CH. Yep, I've heard that as well
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And then we got all of the others after that. Mmm, not bad. Well, there we go
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If you're curious like me, how many country codes you can name, I've probably answered it for you
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because if you haven't revised it either, you could probably name a similar amount to me
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Anyway, thank you very much for watching. What other quizzes with this kind of style should I attempt
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Let me know in the comments and I will see you all later
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