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146 free World Flags trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
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Q 01Which country's flag features a red circle on a white background?
Japan
Japan's Hinomaru, the 'circle of the sun', served as the country's flag in practice for well over a century, yet the Diet only made it the national flag by law in 1999.
Q 02What tree's foliage appears on the flag of Canada?
Maple
Canada's maple leaf flag replaced the Red Ensign in 1965 after the Great Flag Debate, months of heated argument in Parliament set off by Prime Minister Lester Pearson's promise of a distinctive national flag.
Q 03Which country's flag consists of three vertical stripes: blue, white, and red?
France
France's Tricolore joined the blue and red of Paris to royal white during the Revolution; its bands first ran red, white, blue and only took today's order in 1794.
Q 04What are the colors of the Italian flag?
Green, white, and red
Green, white and red first became a state flag under the Cispadane Republic in 1797; the green is traced to the uniforms of Milan's civic guard.
Q 05Which flag combines the Union Jack, a seven-pointed Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross?
Australia
Australia's Commonwealth Star began with six points, one for each federating colony; a seventh was added in 1908 to stand for Papua and any future territories.
Q 06The Stars and Stripes is the nickname for the flag of which country?
United States
The Stars and Stripes refers to the flag of the United States. It features 50 white stars on a blue canton representing the 50 states, and 13 alternating red and white stripes representing the original 13 colonies.
Q 07What color is the cross on the flag of Switzerland?
White
Switzerland's flag is a white Greek cross on a red, square field; an 1889 federal decree fixed the cross's arms at one-sixth longer than they are wide.
Q 08Which Scandinavian country's flag features a yellow cross on a blue background?
Sweden
Sweden's blue and golden yellow are believed to come from the national coat of arms, whose blue shield is quartered by a gold cross.
Q 09What colour are the stars on the flag of China?
Golden
China's five stars are golden yellow on a red field: one large star for the Communist Party and four smaller stars, in the upper hoist, for the unity of the Chinese people.
Q 10Which country's flag, two stacked pennants bearing a moon and a sun, is the only national flag that is not rectangular?
Nepal
Nepal's flag joins two pennants once flown by rival branches of the ruling dynasty; the moon and sun express the hope that the nation will last as long as they do.
Q 11The map of the country on the flag of Cyprus is coloured to represent which metal?
Copper
Copper is the colour of the island's outline on Cyprus's white flag; the design uses deliberately neutral symbols, meant as a signal of peace between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Q 12On the flag of Mexico, the eagle is perched on what kind of plant?
A cactus
The eagle sits on a nopal cactus devouring a serpent, recalling the Aztec legend that marked where Tenochtitlan should be founded.
Q 13How many stripes are on the flag of the United States?
13
13 stripes stand for the original colonies; the flag grew to 15 stripes in 1795, but in 1818 Congress went back to 13 and added only a new star for each new state.
Q 21The emblem on the United Nations flag shows a world map surrounded by branches of which tree?
Olive
Two olive branches, a symbol of peace, frame the white map on the UN flag — an azimuthal equidistant projection centred on the North Pole, set on a sky-blue field.
Q 22Which country's flag features an AK-47 assault rifle?
Mozambique
Mozambique's flag shows a Kalashnikov AK-47 crossed with a hoe over an open book on a red triangle, recalling the independence struggle; it is the only national flag bearing a modern assault rifle.
Q 23Which country's flag shows six white stars in an arc above a golden map of the country on a blue field?
Kosovo
Adopted on the day of the 2008 declaration of independence, the six stars stand for Kosovo's six major ethnic groups: Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Turks, Romani and Gorani.
Q 14Which country's flag shows a red dragon on a green-and-white field?
Wales
Wales flies Y Ddraig Goch, the red dragon, yet has no place on the Union Jack: when that flag was first designed, Wales had long been absorbed into the Kingdom of England.
Q 15Besides Gaddafi-era Libya, which country used a plain single-colour national flag, all white, in 1996-97?
Afghanistan
Afghanistan under the Taliban flew a plain white banner from 1996 until the Shahada was added in 1997; in those years the only other national flag of one plain colour was Libya's all-green one.
Q 16The five interlocking rings on the Olympic flag represent what?
The inhabited continents
The inhabited continents, with the Americas counted as one, are linked in the rings to show a united world; Coubertin took the colours from the national flags of the countries then competing.
Q 17Which celestial symbols appear on the flag of Turkey?
Star and crescent
Star and crescent, white on red, came down from the flag of the Ottoman Empire; the republic founded in 1923 kept the old imperial flag.
Q 18Which country's flag has one blue six-pointed star between two blue horizontal stripes?
Israel
Israel's flag sets the Star of David between two stripes that recall the tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl; long a Zionist banner, it became the state flag in 1948.
Q 19What motto is written across the flag of Brazil?
Ordem e Progresso
'Ordem e Progresso' ('Order and Progress') comes from Auguste Comte's positivist motto. It runs on a curved white band across the blue celestial globe, which shows the Southern Cross among its stars.
Q 20Which two countries have square-shaped national flags?
Switzerland and Vatican City
Switzerland and Vatican City are the only two states with square national flags; even so, Swiss ships at sea fly a rectangular version of theirs.
Q 24What is the study of flags called?
Vexillology
Vexillology joins the Latin vexillum, a flag carried by Roman cavalry, to the Greek ending for 'study'; the American scholar Whitney Smith coined the word in the late 1950s.
Q 25Which country's flag holds the Guinness record as the oldest continuously used national flag?
Denmark
Denmark's Dannebrog holds the record, counted from 1625; legend says the red banner with its white cross fell from the sky during a battle in Estonia in 1219.
Q 26The Pan-African colours of red, gold and green were borrowed from which country's flag?
Ethiopia
Ethiopia beat an Italian army at Adwa in 1896 and, apart from a brief Italian occupation, stayed independent through the colonial era, so newly free African states borrowed its green, yellow and red.
Q 27What do the two red bands added to Mauritania's green flag in 2017 represent?
Blood shed for independence
Blood shed for independence from France is what the red bands honour; voters approved them in an August 2017 referendum that also abolished the Senate, and the gold crescent and star on green stayed.
Q 28What is unusual about the black eagle on Albania's red flag?
It has two heads
It has two heads, like the Byzantine emblem that Skanderbeg, the 15th-century hero, is said to have raised on a red flag against the Ottomans.
Q 29Which South American country's flag has a gold Sun of May with a human face on its centre stripe?
Argentina
Argentina's Sun of May recalls the sun that is said to have broken through the clouds on 25 May 1810, as crowds in Buenos Aires gathered to demand self-rule from Spain.
Q 30Which country's flag features a trident-head called a 'broken trident'?
Barbados
Barbados's flag bears a black broken trident on a gold band between two ultramarine bands; the colonial badge showed Britannia with a full trident, and the missing shaft marks the break from Britain.