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Single-choice knowledge quiz question in which the correct flag for a country has to be selected from a list of flags.

Name:
flags
Type:
Preview:

Which is the flag of Bolivia?

🇨🇱🇧🇴🇵🇪🇧🇷🇦🇷
  • False. 🇨🇱 is the flag of Chile.
  • True. 🇧🇴 is the flag of Bolivia.
  • False. 🇵🇪 is the flag of Peru.
  • False. 🇧🇷 is the flag of Brazil.
  • False. 🇦🇷 is the flag of Argentina.

Which is the flag of Honduras?

🇨🇷🇬🇹🇳🇮🇸🇻🇭🇳
  • False. 🇨🇷 is the flag of Costa Rica.
  • False. 🇬🇹 is the flag of Guatemala.
  • False. 🇳🇮 is the flag of Nicaragua.
  • False. 🇸🇻 is the flag of El Salvador.
  • True. 🇭🇳 is the flag of Honduras.

Which is the flag of Ethiopia?

🇪🇹🇪🇷🇸🇩🇸🇸🇩🇯
  • True. 🇪🇹 is the flag of Ethiopia.
  • False. 🇪🇷 is the flag of Eritrea.
  • False. 🇸🇩 is the flag of Sudan.
  • False. 🇸🇸 is the flag of South Sudan.
  • False. 🇩🇯 is the flag of Djibouti.
Description:
The exercise contains a large list of countries from all continents around the world along with their direct neighbors (sharing a border) and their secondary neighbors (neighbors of neighbors). Flags are generated from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, either via their Unicode symbols (especially in HTML-based output) or using the {worldflags} LaTeX package (in PDF output).
Solution feedback:
Yes
Randomization:
Shuffling (1 out of 136 countries)
Mathematical notation:
No
Verbatim R input/output:
No
Images:
No
Other supplements:
No
Template:
Raw: (1 random version)
PDF:
flags-Rmd-pdf
flags-Rnw-pdf
HTML:
flags-Rmd-html
flags-Rnw-html

Demo code:

library("exams")set.seed(403)exams2html("flags.Rmd")set.seed(403)exams2pdf("flags.Rmd", usepackage = "worldflags")set.seed(403)exams2html("flags.Rnw")set.seed(403)exams2pdf("flags.Rnw", usepackage = "worldflags")
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