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96 free Flags of the World trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
84 free flag trivia questions with answers. Did you know that Nepal is the only country with a non-rectangular flag? Test your global flag knowledge with this flag trivia game covering every continent: you will identify iconic symbols, learn flag histories, and discover which nations share unexpected design similarities. The questions run from easy ones almost anyone can get (which flag has a maple leaf) to hard flag trivia questions on colours, crescents, stars and the stories behind them, so it works for a classroom, a family night or a pub quiz round. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation once you have answered, so any argument about a flag can be settled on the spot.
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Q 01Which country's flag features a red 11-pointed maple leaf on a white square between two red bands?
Canada
The design by historian George Stanley, modelled on the Royal Military College flag, first flew on 15 February 1965, now marked as National Flag of Canada Day; the leaf's eleven points have no official meaning.
Q 02Which country is the only one in the world with a non-rectangular national flag?
Nepal
Nepal's flag is two stacked pennants, a moon on the upper and a sun on the lower, and it is also the only national flag taller than it is wide.
Q 03Which country's flag is a simple red disc on a white background?
Japan
Japan's flag, officially the Nisshōki and popularly the Hinomaru, shows a red sun disc on white; the 1999 flag-and-anthem law set the disc at dead centre, whereas the 1870 specification placed it slightly toward the hoist.
Q 04Which colour is not on the flag of France?
Green
When the tricolour was adopted in 1790 the red band was nearest the pole; the order was reversed to the modern blue-white-red in 1794.
Q 05Which Scandinavian country has a red flag with a white cross?
Denmark
Legend says the Dannebrog fell from the sky during a 1219 battle in Estonia; Guinness recognises it as the oldest national flag in continuous use, dating its record from 1625.
Q 06Which country's flag has the Union Jack plus a large white seven-pointed 'Commonwealth Star'?
Australia
Australia's flag pairs the Union Jack with the seven-pointed Commonwealth Star; the star had six points for the federating states until a seventh for the territories was added in 1908, the design winning a 1901 competition.
Q 07What do the 50 stars on the American flag represent?
The 50 states
The current 50-star layout was adopted in 1960 after Hawaii joined; a 17-year-old, Robert Heft, had designed it as a school project and reportedly received a B-minus until it was accepted.
Q 08Which African country's flag is a green, white, and green vertical tricolor?
Nigeria
Nigeria's green-white-green flag came from student Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi's winning entry in a 1959 competition of almost 3,000 designs; judges removed his red quarter-sun before adoption at independence on 1 October 1960.
Q 09Which country's flag features a large yellow five-pointed star centered on a red background?
Vietnam
Vietnam's flag, a yellow five-pointed star centred on red, became the flag of the reunified country in 1976; its points are read as five classes — intellectuals, farmers, workers, entrepreneurs and soldiers.
Q 10What word, coined by Whitney Smith and first printed in 1959, names the study of flags?
Vexillology
Vexillology joins Latin vexillum, the square banner of Roman cavalry, to Greek -logia; American scholar Whitney Smith coined it in 1957 and it first appeared in print in 1959.
Q 11What animal appears on the flag of Wales?
Dragon
The Welsh flag features a red dragon (Y Ddraig Goch) on a green and white background. The dragon has been associated with Wales for centuries and appears in Arthurian legend.
Q 12Which two countries have square-shaped national flags?
Switzerland and Vatican City
Switzerland and Vatican City fly the only square national flags; Switzerland's cross has arms one-sixth longer than wide by an 1889 federal definition, and the Vatican's yellow-and-white flag dates from 7 June 1929.
Q 13Which Nordic country's flag is a blue cross on a white field?
Finland
Q 21Which European country's flag is identical to Indonesia's flag but with the colors reversed?
Poland
White and red were formally adopted as Poland's national colours in 1831; Monaco's flag, red over white, is the one that actually matches Indonesia's, differing only in proportions.
Q 22What text appears on the flag of Saudi Arabia?
The shahada
The shahada is written above a sword; because the creed is holy the flag is made with identical front and back so the Arabic reads correctly, is never flown at half-mast, and is kept off T-shirts and footballs.
Q 23Which country's flag features a red circle on a green background?
Bangladesh
Bangladesh's red disc sits slightly toward the hoist so it looks centred when the flag flies; the 1971 Liberation War version carried a yellow map of the country inside the red circle, dropped in 1972.
Finland's blue cross on white was adopted in May 1918, months after independence from Russia; the colours are popularly read as the blue of the lakes and the white of winter snow.
Q 14Which country's flag shows a single white crescent and star on a plain red background?
Turkey
Turkey's flag is based on an 18th-century flag of the Ottoman Empire, and its white crescent and star on red make it one of the world's most recognisable.
Q 15Which country's flag features a blue Star of David on a white background with blue horizontal stripes?
Israel
Israel's flag, a blue Star of David between two blue stripes echoing the tallit prayer shawl, descends from a flag flown at Rishon LeZion in 1885 and adopted by the Zionist movement in 1897, half a century before the state.
Q 16Which country has the only national flag that is different on its front and back sides?
Paraguay
Paraguay's flag carries the national seal on the front and the Treasury seal — a lion beneath a Phrygian cap with the motto 'Paz y Justicia' — on the back, a quirk from the dictatorship of José de Francia (1814–1840).
Q 17What weapon is depicted on the flag of Mozambique?
AK-47 rifle
The AK-47 rifle, crossed with a hoe over an open book, stands for defence, agriculture and education; it has drawn repeated calls for removal since multiparty politics began in 1990, and a 2005 design contest failed to replace it.
Q 18Which Pacific nation's flag shows a gold frigatebird over a rising sun and three wavy stripes?
Kiribati
Kiribati's flag is lifted almost unchanged from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony's 1937 coat of arms; its three white waves stand for the Gilbert, Phoenix and Line groups and the frigatebird for command of the sea.
Q 19What celestial objects appear on the flag of New Zealand?
The Southern Cross
The Southern Cross appears as four red stars edged in white, a design first approved in 1869 and made the national flag in 1902; Australia's flag shows the same constellation with five white stars.
Q 20Which country's flag centres on an eagle perched on a cactus devouring a serpent?
Mexico
The Aztecs were told to settle where they saw the omen; they found it on an island in Lake Texcoco and built Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, there. The bird lost its crown when Mexico became a republic.
Q 24Which Middle Eastern country's flag has a green cedar tree across its central white stripe?
Lebanon
Lebanon's flag, adopted by constitutional amendment on 7 December 1943, bears a green cedar on its central white stripe; the constitution specifies a green cedar, though older versions often showed a brown trunk.
Q 25How many points does the star on the flag of Morocco have?
Five
The green pentagram, read as the five pillars of Islam, was added by sultan Yusef in 1915; the plain red flag it replaced dated to the 17th-century Alaouite dynasty.
Q 26Which country's flag features a trident head?
Barbados
Barbados's black trident head comes from the colonial badge, where Britannia held Poseidon's trident; showing only the head with the shaft snapped off symbolises the break from Britain at independence on 30 November 1966.
Q 27What is the most common color found on national flags around the world?
Red
Red is the most common flag colour, appearing on roughly three-quarters of national flags and usually read as courage, revolution or blood; white is the runner-up and blue a distant third.
Q 28Which country's flag shows a copper-coloured outline of the country above two olive branches?
Cyprus
Cyprus's flag shows the island in copper, recalling the ore deposits that may have given it its name, above two olive branches for peace between Greek and Turkish Cypriots; the 1960 design avoids Greece's blue and Turkey's red.
Q 29Which country's flag has light blue, white and light blue bands with a sun bearing a human face?
Argentina
The Sun of May was added in 1818 by an engraver descended from Inca nobility, and copies the sun on the country's first coin of 1813; the same emblem sits in the canton of Uruguay's flag.
Q 30From 1977 to 2011, which country's national flag was a single plain colour with no design?
Libya
Gaddafi adopted the plain green banner in 1977, green being the colour of his 'Green Book' and of Islam; after his fall in 2011 Libya reverted to the red-black-green tricolour of 1951.