Farflung Answers · Expedition #27 (2026-10-31)

Prompt 1 of 5

Pin a country where someone was executed for witchcraft

Ruling note: An execution after a sentence counts where it happened, from ancient Athens to Islamic State's courts and village councils. Killings of accused witches by mobs do not. Nigeria counts as a close call for a fatal ordeal following an Efen Clan Council witchcraft trial in 2017, without a separately established death sentence. Jamaica counts for colonial executions after obeah convictions.

Gem note: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man for sorcery in 2014. Liechtenstein's trials of the 1670s left its counts so in debt that they sold the land to the Liechtensteins.

74 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
United States	Common	23.2%
United Kingdom	Uncommon	10.8%
Germany	Rare	7.7%
France	Rare	4.6%
Spain	Rare	3.5%
Canada	Rare	3.1%
India	Rare	3.1%
Mexico	Rare	3.1%
Italy	Rare	2.3%
Romania	Elusive	1.9%
Ireland	Elusive	1.5%
Jamaica	Elusive	1.5%
Kenya	Elusive	1.5%
Nigeria	Elusive	1.5%
New Zealand	Elusive	1.5%
Peru	Elusive	1.5%
Philippines	Elusive	1.5%
North Korea	Elusive	1.5%
Norway	Elusive	1.2%
Russia	Elusive	1.2%
Sweden	Elusive	1.2%
Switzerland	Elusive	1.1%
Poland	Elusive	1.1%
Netherlands	Elusive	1%
Austria	Elusive	0.9%
Belgium	Elusive	0.8%
Denmark	Elusive	0.8%
Czechia	Elusive	0.7%
Hungary	Elusive	0.7%
Angola	Elusive	0.6%
DR Congo	Elusive	0.6%
Ghana	Elusive	0.6%
Haiti	Elusive	0.6%
Mongolia	Elusive	0.6%
Malaysia	Elusive	0.6%
Papua New Guinea	Elusive	0.6%
Tanzania	Elusive	0.6%
Uganda	Elusive	0.6%
Yemen	Elusive	0.6%
Portugal	Elusive	0.5%
Finland	Elusive	0.5%
Iceland	Elusive	0.5%
Ukraine	Elusive	0.5%
Greece	Elusive	0.4%
China	Elusive	0.3%
Croatia	Elusive	0.3%
Saudi Arabia	Farflung	0.3%
Slovakia	Elusive	0.3%
Luxembourg	Elusive	0.3%
Israel	Farflung	0.2%
Türkiye	Farflung	0.2%
Central African Republic	Farflung	0.2%
Republic of the Congo	Farflung	0.2%
Equatorial Guinea	Farflung	0.2%
Liberia	Farflung	0.2%
Lesotho	Farflung	0.2%
Suriname	Farflung	0.2%
Eswatini	Farflung	0.2%
Belarus	Farflung	0.2%
Egypt	Farflung	0.2%
Estonia	Farflung	0.2%
Iraq	Farflung	0.2%
Lithuania	Farflung	0.2%
Latvia	Farflung	0.2%
Slovenia	Farflung	0.2%
Syria	Farflung	0.2%
South Africa	Farflung	0.2%
South Korea	Farflung	0.1%
Libya	Farflung	0.1%
Liechtenstein	Farflung	0.1%
Somalia	Farflung	0.1%
Andorra	Farflung	0.1%
Madagascar	Farflung	0.1%
Zimbabwe	Farflung	0.1%

Prompt 2 of 5

Pin a country among the ten that grow the most pumpkins

Ruling note: By weight of pumpkins, squash and gourds grown in 2024. Mexico, eleventh by a whisker, was ninth the year before, so it counts too.

Gem note: Egypt is third, behind only India and China.

11 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
United States	Common	28.3%
China	Common	26.2%
India	Uncommon	10.1%
Mexico	Uncommon	9.1%
Russia	Uncommon	8.7%
Italy	Rare	4.5%
Ukraine	Rare	4%
Spain	Rare	3.5%
Türkiye	Rare	3%
Bangladesh	Elusive	1.5%
Egypt	Farflung	1%

Prompt 3 of 5

Pin a country that has had a Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum

Ruling note: Closed, franchised and seasonal ones count, like Jakarta's and Cape Town's, but not Ripley's aquariums or mazes. Hong Kong's counts for China.

Gem note: Jakarta's was billed as the largest of its kind in the world, and closed within a few years. Manila's stood in a shopping mall, Shangri-La Plaza.

18 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
United States	Common	45.3%
Canada	Uncommon	12.1%
United Kingdom	Uncommon	9.1%
Mexico	Rare	6%
Australia	Rare	4%
China	Rare	3%
Netherlands	Rare	3%
Thailand	Rare	3%
France	Rare	2.5%
United Arab Emirates	Rare	2.2%
South Africa	Elusive	2%
Denmark	Elusive	1.5%
South Korea	Elusive	1.5%
Malaysia	Elusive	1.2%
India	Elusive	1.1%
Kuwait	Elusive	0.8%
Philippines	Farflung	0.8%
Indonesia	Farflung	0.7%

Prompt 4 of 5

Pin a country where mummies over 500 years old have been found

Ruling note: Bog, ice and desert mummies count as well as embalmed ones, and so do burials shown to have been dried first and naturally mummified animals. Bones alone don't, and Ho Chi Minh is too young. Ötzi lay 92 metres inside Italy; Austria counts for a salt miner at Hallstatt.

Gem note: A girl of 2,000 years ago, kept in Bishkek's history museum for over 60 years, was reburied in 2017. South Africa's first mummy, about 2,000 years old, was found in the Eastern Cape in 1999.

52 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
Egypt	Common	15.8%
Peru	Rare	7.3%
Italy	Rare	7%
China	Rare	7%
Mexico	Rare	7%
Australia	Rare	3.2%
Canada	Rare	3.2%
Chile	Rare	2.8%
Denmark	Rare	2.4%
United Kingdom	Rare	2.1%
Greece	Elusive	1.8%
Argentina	Elusive	1.7%
Austria	Elusive	1.7%
Bolivia	Elusive	1.7%
Colombia	Elusive	1.7%
Germany	Elusive	1.7%
Spain	Elusive	1.7%
France	Elusive	1.7%
Ireland	Elusive	1.7%
Iran	Elusive	1.7%
Japan	Elusive	1.7%
Mongolia	Elusive	1.7%
Netherlands	Elusive	1.7%
Russia	Elusive	1.7%
Sudan	Elusive	1.7%
United States	Elusive	1.7%
Indonesia	Elusive	1.6%
Norway	Elusive	1.6%
New Zealand	Elusive	1.6%
Portugal	Elusive	1.6%
Saudi Arabia	Elusive	1.6%
Vietnam	Elusive	1.6%
Hungary	Elusive	0.6%
Lithuania	Elusive	0.6%
Libya	Elusive	0.4%
India	Elusive	0.4%
Brazil	Elusive	0.3%
Israel	Elusive	0.3%
Philippines	Elusive	0.3%
Kazakhstan	Elusive	0.2%
Syria	Elusive	0.2%
Türkiye	Elusive	0.2%
Eritrea	Elusive	0.2%
South Korea	Elusive	0.2%
Sweden	Elusive	0.2%
Nepal	Elusive	0.2%
Poland	Elusive	0.2%
Ukraine	Elusive	0.2%
Yemen	Elusive	0.2%
Lebanon	Elusive	0.1%
South Africa	Farflung	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	Farflung	0.1%

Prompt 5 of 5

Pin a country with catacombs that still hold human remains

Ruling note: Crypts, ossuaries and burial caves that still hold the dead count, and so does Évora's Chapel of Bones. Most bodies were taken from Rome's ancient catacombs long ago.

Gem note: Pskov's monks still bury their own in the monastery's sandstone caves. At Yemrehanna Kristos, in Ethiopia, the skeletons of monks and others lie at the back of the cave that shelters the church.

52 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
France	Common	26.5%
Italy	Uncommon	12.6%
Czechia	Rare	6.3%
Peru	Rare	4.4%
Brazil	Rare	2.5%
Canada	Rare	2.5%
China	Rare	2.5%
Spain	Rare	2.5%
India	Rare	2.5%
Japan	Rare	2.5%
Mexico	Rare	2.5%
United States	Rare	2.5%
Austria	Elusive	1.9%
Egypt	Elusive	1.8%
United Kingdom	Elusive	1.6%
Belgium	Elusive	1.2%
Greece	Elusive	1.2%
Indonesia	Elusive	1.2%
Ireland	Elusive	1.2%
Iraq	Elusive	1.2%
Netherlands	Elusive	1.2%
Türkiye	Elusive	1.2%
Ukraine	Elusive	1.2%
Poland	Elusive	0.9%
Portugal	Elusive	0.9%
Germany	Elusive	0.8%
Bulgaria	Elusive	0.5%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Elusive	0.5%
Bolivia	Elusive	0.5%
Ecuador	Elusive	0.5%
Fiji	Elusive	0.5%
Georgia	Elusive	0.5%
Guatemala	Elusive	0.5%
Honduras	Elusive	0.5%
Croatia	Elusive	0.5%
Hungary	Elusive	0.5%
Cambodia	Elusive	0.5%
Lithuania	Elusive	0.5%
Madagascar	Elusive	0.5%
Malta	Elusive	0.5%
Myanmar	Elusive	0.5%
Palestine	Elusive	0.5%
Romania	Elusive	0.5%
Serbia	Elusive	0.5%
Slovenia	Elusive	0.5%
Vatican City	Elusive	0.5%
Venezuela	Elusive	0.5%
Switzerland	Elusive	0.5%
Tunisia	Elusive	0.4%
Russia	Farflung	0.2%
Liechtenstein	Elusive	0.2%
Ethiopia	Farflung	0.1%