Farflung Answers · Expedition #5 (2026-10-09)

Prompt 1 of 5

Pin a country that is a monarchy today

Ruling note: Only today's monarchies count, where the head of state is a king, emir, sultan, prince or the Pope. Former ones, like France and Iran, do not. Samoa counts as an elective monarchy.

Gem note: Its two princes are a Catalan bishop and whoever France elects as president.

44 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
United Kingdom	Common	22.8%
Spain	Uncommon	10.7%
Canada	Uncommon	8.8%
Australia	Rare	7%
Japan	Rare	6.1%
Netherlands	Rare	5.6%
Sweden	Rare	4.9%
Belgium	Rare	4.1%
Denmark	Rare	3.7%
Thailand	Rare	3.3%
Norway	Rare	3%
New Zealand	Rare	2.2%
Saudi Arabia	Rare	2.1%
Malaysia	Rare	2.1%
Morocco	Rare	2.1%
United Arab Emirates	Elusive	1.5%
Jordan	Elusive	1.2%
Cambodia	Elusive	1%
Luxembourg	Elusive	0.8%
Kuwait	Elusive	0.8%
Qatar	Elusive	0.7%
Jamaica	Elusive	0.6%
Oman	Elusive	0.6%
Bhutan	Elusive	0.4%
Monaco	Elusive	0.4%
Belize	Elusive	0.4%
Papua New Guinea	Farflung	0.3%
Bahrain	Farflung	0.3%
Bahamas	Farflung	0.3%
Vatican City	Farflung	0.3%
Brunei	Farflung	0.3%
Lesotho	Farflung	0.3%
Samoa	Farflung	0.2%
Liechtenstein	Farflung	0.2%
Eswatini	Farflung	0.2%
Solomon Islands	Farflung	0.2%
Saint Lucia	Farflung	0.1%
Grenada	Farflung	0.1%
Tonga	Farflung	0.1%
Andorra	Farflung	0.1%
Antigua and Barbuda	Farflung	0.1%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Farflung	0.1%
Tuvalu	Farflung	0.1%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Farflung	0%

Prompt 2 of 5

Pin a country or territory where penguins breed in the wild

Ruling note: Five territories count, the Falklands and South Georgia among them, and the UK, France and Norway count for theirs: Norway for Bouvet Island. Penguins swim as far as Brazil and Uruguay, but do not nest there.

Gem note: African penguins nest on the small rocky islands off its desert coast, named the Penguin Islands after them.

16 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
South Africa	Common	48.1%
New Zealand	Uncommon	17.3%
Argentina	Rare	7.2%
Australia	Rare	7.2%
Chile	Rare	6.3%
Falkland Islands	Rare	4.8%
Ecuador	Elusive	1.7%
Peru	Elusive	1.7%
South Georgia	Elusive	1.4%
Namibia	Farflung	1.2%
United Kingdom	Elusive	1%
France	Elusive	0.8%
Norway	Farflung	0.5%
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Farflung	0.3%
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Farflung	0.3%
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Farflung	0.3%

Prompt 3 of 5

Pin a country where Portuguese is an official language

Ruling note: Portuguese spread with Portugal's empire and is official in nine countries. China counts for Macao, where it is still official.

Gem note: An island nation off Africa, half an island beside Indonesia, and Macao, which Portugal handed to China in 1999.

10 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
Brazil	Common	42.1%
Portugal	Common	34.1%
Angola	Uncommon	9.2%
Mozambique	Rare	7.4%
Cape Verde	Elusive	1.8%
Guinea-Bissau	Elusive	1.6%
Equatorial Guinea	Elusive	1.3%
Timor-Leste	Farflung	1.2%
São Tomé and Príncipe	Farflung	0.7%
China	Farflung	0.5%

Prompt 4 of 5

Pin a country that has had a citizen in space

Ruling note: On anyone's rocket: only Russia, the United States and China launch their own crews. Tourists and short hops to the edge of space count. A traveller counts for the country they were born in too, as it is today, so Georgia counts for Fyodor Yurchikhin, born in Batumi, who flew for Russia.

Gem note: Three of the smallest countries to have had a citizen in space, all since 2023. One man, Chun Wang, counts for two of them.

67 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
Russia	Common	22.8%
United States	Common	22.8%
China	Uncommon	9.6%
Japan	Uncommon	8.8%
France	Rare	3.1%
Canada	Rare	2.6%
Germany	Rare	2.6%
United Kingdom	Rare	2.6%
India	Rare	2.6%
United Arab Emirates	Rare	2.3%
Italy	Rare	2.3%
Australia	Elusive	1.1%
Kazakhstan	Elusive	1.1%
South Korea	Elusive	1.1%
Brazil	Elusive	0.9%
Israel	Elusive	0.9%
Spain	Elusive	0.7%
Saudi Arabia	Elusive	0.7%
Ukraine	Elusive	0.7%
Mexico	Elusive	0.5%
Netherlands	Elusive	0.5%
Sweden	Elusive	0.5%
Cuba	Elusive	0.4%
Iran	Elusive	0.4%
Poland	Elusive	0.4%
Türkiye	Elusive	0.4%
Belgium	Elusive	0.4%
Switzerland	Elusive	0.4%
Denmark	Elusive	0.4%
Egypt	Elusive	0.4%
Norway	Elusive	0.4%
New Zealand	Elusive	0.4%
Pakistan	Elusive	0.4%
South Africa	Elusive	0.4%
Austria	Elusive	0.3%
Czechia	Elusive	0.3%
Hungary	Elusive	0.3%
Malaysia	Elusive	0.3%
Nigeria	Elusive	0.3%
Portugal	Elusive	0.3%
Vietnam	Elusive	0.3%
Afghanistan	Elusive	0.2%
Bulgaria	Elusive	0.2%
Belarus	Elusive	0.2%
Mongolia	Elusive	0.2%
Romania	Elusive	0.2%
Syria	Elusive	0.2%
Panama	Farflung	0.1%
Slovakia	Farflung	0.1%
Antigua and Barbuda	Farflung	0.1%
Azerbaijan	Farflung	0.1%
Bahamas	Farflung	0.1%
Cameroon	Farflung	0.1%
Costa Rica	Farflung	0.1%
Micronesia	Farflung	0.1%
Georgia	Farflung	0.1%
Iceland	Farflung	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	Farflung	0.1%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Farflung	0.1%
Latvia	Farflung	0.1%
Morocco	Farflung	0.1%
Malta	Farflung	0.1%
Peru	Farflung	0.1%
Singapore	Farflung	0.1%
Turkmenistan	Farflung	0.1%
Taiwan	Farflung	0.1%
Uzbekistan	Farflung	0.1%

Prompt 5 of 5

Pin a country that was part of Yugoslavia

Ruling note: Yugoslavia broke up from 1991. Its six republics are now six countries. Kosovo, then a province of Serbia, declared independence in 2008 and counts.

Gem note: In Yugoslavia it was a province of Serbia, not one of the six republics.

7 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
Serbia	Common	42.7%
Croatia	Uncommon	23.5%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Uncommon	14.4%
North Macedonia	Rare	7.6%
Slovenia	Rare	7.6%
Kosovo	Farflung	2.5%
Montenegro	Elusive	1.8%