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20 World Flags questions for GK preparation — with answers and explanations.
Q1. What do the fifty stars on the US flag stand for?
A. Presidents
B. Battles
C. States
D. Colonies
Answer: C. A star has been added each time a new state joined.
Q2. What do the thirteen US stripes stand for?
A. Wars
B. Colonies
C. Signers
D. Rivers
Answer: B. The original thirteen colonies that declared independence.
Q3. On flags, white most often stands for what?
A. Winter
B. Wealth
C. Courage
D. Peace
Answer: D. Red usually means blood or courage, and green the land.
Q4. Which colour dominates the Saudi flag?
A. Red
B. Green
C. Black
D. Blue
Answer: B. Green has long been associated with Islam.
Q5. Which colour appears on the most national flags?
A. Red
B. Green
C. Black
D. Purple
Answer: A. Red appears on more than three quarters of them.
Q6. How many colours are on the South African flag?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Seven
Answer: C. More than any other national flag in the world.
Q7. Which country's flag carries the most stars?
A. China
B. Uzbekistan
C. Brazil
D. United States
Answer: C. Twenty-seven, one for each state and the federal district.
Q8. Which two flags are almost identical?
A. Chad and Romania
B. Peru and Canada
C. Mali and Guinea
D. Chile and Cuba
Answer: A. Only a slightly different shade of blue tells them apart.
Q9. Which flag shows a bird of paradise?
A. Vanuatu
B. Papua New Guinea
C. Fiji
D. Solomon Islands
Answer: B. A schoolgirl won the competition to design it in 1971.
Q10. Which flag shows a lion holding a sword?
A. Nepal
B. Myanmar
C. Sri Lanka
D. India
Answer: C. Four leaves in the corners stand for four Buddhist virtues.
Q11. Which flag has six white stars and a Union Jack?
A. New Zealand
B. Fiji
C. Tuvalu
D. Australia
Answer: D. Five make the Southern Cross; the sixth is the Commonwealth Star.
Q12. Which country's flag differs on its two sides?
A. Peru
B. Bolivia
C. Ecuador
D. Paraguay
Answer: D. One side carries the state seal, the other the treasury seal.
Q13. Which national flag includes the colour purple?
A. Antigua
B. Dominica
C. Grenada
D. Saint Lucia
Answer: B. The purple is on the parrot; the dye was once too costly for flags.
Q14. Which flag shows a map of the country itself?
A. Cyprus
B. Kosovo
C. Malta
D. Bahrain
Answer: A. Kosovo does too, but Cyprus did it first, in 1960.
Q15. Which flag shows a frigate bird over a rising sun?
A. Tonga
B. Palau
C. Kiribati
D. Nauru
Answer: C. The three wavy white bands stand for three island groups.
Q16. Which flag shows two crossed swords and a dagger?
A. Bahrain
B. Yemen
C. Oman
D. Qatar
Answer: C. The curved dagger is called a khanjar.
Q17. Which flag shows a quetzal bird?
A. Guatemala
B. Honduras
C. Belize
D. Panama
Answer: A. The bird also gives the country its currency name.
Q18. Which is the only flag showing a building?
A. Spain
B. Portugal
C. San Marino
D. Cambodia
Answer: D. Angkor Wat has appeared on every version since 1863.
Q19. Which flag shows a red sun with eight broad rays?
A. Kyrgyzstan
B. North Macedonia
C. Argentina
D. Japan
Answer: B. The design was adopted in 1995 after a dispute over the old one.
Q20. Which flag has stripes and one star in a blue square?
A. Liberia
B. Malaysia
C. Chile
D. Togo
Answer: A. It was modelled on the US flag by freed American settlers.
Music: "Crimson Fly" by Huma-Huma, from the YouTube Audio Library (free to use).
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