Which Central European country's flag has horizontal bands of red, white and green?
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Correct answer: Hungary.
The colors are read as strength (red), faithfulness (white) and hope (green), and appear in Hungarian heraldry going back centuries.
Vatican City's square flag shares that rare shape with only which country?
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Correct answer: Switzerland.
Vatican City and Switzerland are the only two states whose national flags are perfect squares.
Which country's flag has three equal vertical stripes of blue, white and red?
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Correct answer: France.
The tricolor was banished after Napoleon's fall — France flew the plain white Bourbon flag from 1815 until the revolution of 1830 brought the blue, white and red back for good.
Which country's plain green-white-red vertical tricolor was first inspired by the French flag during the Napoleonic era?
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Correct answer: Italy.
First adopted by a northern Italian republic in 1797, the colors are unofficially read as the green of the land, the white of the Alpine snow and the red of patriots' blood.
Which country's flag is a simple white band over a red band?
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Correct answer: Poland.
White over red comes from the country's medieval coat of arms: a white eagle on a red shield.
Which European country's blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor is nearly identical to Chad's?
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Correct answer: Romania.
Chad raised the resemblance at the United Nations in 2004, but Romania refused to alter a tricolor it considers its own; Moldova's otherwise-identical flag sidesteps the clash by adding a coat of arms.
Which country's red-white-blue flag has a central shield of red and white checkerboard squares?
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Correct answer: Croatia.
The red-and-white "sahovnica" checkerboard has been a Croatian emblem for many centuries.
Which country's red-white-red flag is tied to a legend of a duke's tunic left red except beneath his sword-belt?
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Correct answer: Austria.
One of the oldest flags still in use, its design is traditionally dated to a blood-soaked siege during the Third Crusade.
Which country's blue flag has a yellow triangle bordered by a diagonal line of white stars?
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Correct answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The triangle's three points stand for the country's three main peoples; the neutral design was imposed in 1998 to avoid favoring any group.
The Union Jack combines the crosses of Saint George, Saint Andrew and Saint Patrick to represent which three nations?
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Correct answer: England, Scotland and Ireland.
Wales is not represented because it had already been united with England when the flag took shape. The red diagonal saltire stands for Ireland's Saint Patrick.
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