Christmas Things That Start With P

People's Republic of Korea? Isn't that one or is it just North Korea now.

That was the transitional government in place following the end of WWII.

I'm pretty sure that they call themself simply Korea (which is by the way the exact same what the South does).

no, the name for the northern half of korea the world calls it north korea

RoK and DPRK. Source: I used to live in the RoK.

Just say North Korea. It's simpler.

No, they were the ones who came up with the name "Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea" They call themselves this because they think it makes them sound better, it's basically propaganda. They are not democratic at all, so I think the better name is just "north korea" but their government calls themselves the DPRK

Technically, they don't call themselves by the same name in either English or Korean. South Korea is The Republic of Korea (RoK) in English; 한국 (Hangook) in Korean. North Korea is The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in English; 조선 (Joseon) in Korean. Though since the English-speaking world calls them North Korea and South Korea and these quizzes are in English, I'd say those common names are acceptable. After all, should we put Mexico in countries that start with U? Most countries don't have simple names and that would just get confusing.

right? Putting the United States of Mexico under U would be like putting the United States of America under U or the Democratic Republic of Congo under D or the People's Republic of China under P. That wouldn't make any sense at all.

People's Republic of China is that way.

On this site we only count adjectives in the official names of countries as part of the name of that country in the case of the USA, UAE, DRC and maybe RoC. And only when those names are rarely used in the common vernacular in the case of the latter two. For pretty much everything else, we don't. Yes it's inconsistent. Deal with it.

North, South and East are adjectives.

Also except for Zealand, Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, Republic (there is more than one possibility here), States of Micronesia, Papua Guinea, and maybe a few others I can't think of at the moment.

Just 'North/South Korea' ... I think

its democratic peoples republic of korea

Its just North Korea now.

I cant be the only one that tried Panem

I did! I was really struggling towards the end so i tried it just in case. lol.

Snow would be disappointed that it's not on here...

Snow disappointed? What else is new?

Today's Jeopardy episode has this as a category!

I didn't get Papua New Guinea cause people just call it New Guinea. At least everyone I know calls it that..

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Level 54

Jan 10, 2014

New Guinea is the island; Papua New Guinea the country that forms its eastern half.

I always call it papua new guinea

In Indonesia,we called it Papua

You know some weird people then

I have always only known it as papua new guinea. Only here I typed new guinea, because somehow I learned that was accepted and saves times typing. I have never heard anyone actually call it that in real life. (but maybe that differs per place you life, but here atleast it is not a thing at all.)

misd palau and philippines.

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Level 19

Oct 23, 2018

It's ridiculous that your name was almost same letters with Palau and yet you missed it. Hehe.

It's a commonwealth, not a territory

I get the hard ones, but always forget the easy ones, like I get palau, but forget Portugal and peru

But panama's on the thumbnail lol

How did I miss Papua New Guinea? I live there...

Missed Poland, the most obvious one but got everything else. *facepalm*

I always forget Poland and Japan on these quizzes - no idea why.

took me over a minute to get poland, managed it in the dying seconds!

why did i missed Paraguay :(

there's many people who knows philippines, but or those who speaks in spanish is difficult o associate that with the P.

How do you pronounce the first sound then?

It's Las Filipinas in Spanish

100% on 2nd try with 1:18 left. I forgot about Pakistan the first time, and i was kicking myself hard cos of it

Hope you didn't hurt yourself to much.

2 and a half years later lmao

I managed to forget Portugal. Being European and having been to Portugal a few times, not impressed with myself on that one. Also tried Palestine, but....

The only one I missed was Portugal, too. And I have been to Portugal. And I am of Portuguese descent. Hanging head in shame...

Listen, there's a difference between facts and opinions. In this case, Palestine being a country is an opinion, not a fact. You do not get to decide if a territory fulfills all the requirements to be a State; I would say that everything points to Palestine not fulfilling these requirements, so I think it is a little stubborn to just affirm that it is a country, without at least giving an explanation stating which criteria is used to make such affirmation.

which is probably why it's already filled in on the quiz and you don't have to guess it. There's no way to do it where everybody's happy but this is probably the best compromise.

The majority of the international community recognises the State of Palestine. It has a status of a non-member observer state in the United Nations – which amounts to a de facto, or implicit, recognition of statehood. It is a member of the Arab League, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, G77, and the International Olympic Committee.

So, yes, there's a difference between facts and opinions. And your *opinion* is outdated.

"Palestine is a country" is not an opinion, it is a fact. A false fact mind you, but it is a fact.

How do you define a 'false fact'? Isn't that just not a fact?

palestine is not a country yet it's bid for recongnition lost in the united nations

Yes, it did (8 'yes' votes, two 'no', and five abstentions). The vote was symbolic anyway as the USA had already indicated it would use its veto to block a positive outcome. The lack of democracy in the UN is its biggest failure, if you ask me. Allowing a handful of countries to block any vote that doesn't go their way is a peculiar way to run an organisation which is supposed to represent the entire world.

Not when that handful of countries will be expected to provide finance and protection for all those decisions.

That's why Working Class Americans have to pay such enormous

taxes, so that the government can throw its money around to control

"democratic" endeavors.

IMO there's arguments both for and against veto rights. Big countries like Russia, USA, China definitely should have more power in the UN than lets say Palau or Micronesia; but I'd rather give them more votes than the ability to directly VETO a decision.

Maybe give the big countries 10-20 votes each? Then there's the question how to decide who gets more votes.

The UN is a coordinating device to keep the peace between the Great Powers; its democratic elements are at most a fig leaf. This is unsurprising; why would the powerful and wealthy nations give the weak and poor nations the power to bind them? Why would the US (or Russia, or China, etc.) allow the Palaus and Zimbabwes of the world to loot its treasury, limit its industry, or command its army?

puerto rico should be on the list instead of palestine

That's not even close to a country.

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Level 82

May 24, 2017

Actually, it's really close to the Dominican Republic. :-P

Palestine is considered sovereign by many other countries. Puerto Rico is not even a state, it's a territory

9/9 with 2:04 left. No I did not Cheat, my brother used to be obsessed with countries and flags.

Um... you don't need to say you didn't cheat if it took you nearly a minute to do the quiz

Palestine? I thought it was Israel's part

Palestine doesn't exist. Get rid of it asap.

Kind of ....... doesn't hack it on Jetpunk (or shouldn't do)

Very true. Palestine is NOT a soveriegn state

It excist, whether or not you should consider it as a sovereign country is another matter.

shut up alexander i will honestly steal ur lunch money u neek

how come more people get palau(which i have never heard of) than the philipines?

Probably as others have pointed out, the "F" sound at the beginning of The Philippines, when spoken in English.

It's Jetpunk. We love Oceania here.

Maybe many jetpunkers don't know the correct spelling for the Philippines.

100% with 2:14 left. Im a slow typer and my right hand is broken

I didn't get pakistan but got all the others

I missed Pakistan, Peru, Portugal and Palau... I seriously cannot brain today XD

The flag that is shown is my home country: PANAMA

why they cant got my country (philippines)

I had them all except one Josh and went alphabetically through the Pe's and Pi's and did not think of the PH's or I would have got it.

ARRGH! ONLY 69% only got my country( philippines) really??

Probably because of the confusing 'F' sound when pronouncing the country's name.

I'm terrible at Jetpunk quizzes even though I got 9/9 on this.

When I was in school there were more. Persia. Pangea.

I'll let Persia slide, but Pangea. Seriously? That's like saying Africa is a country.

I think he's saying he was is school a LOOOOOOONG time ago.

probably already been stated

Palestine is not a country. It is a region.

got 100% but only through reading the comments lol

Not only a cheat, but proud of it!

Sounds like someone was lazy that day.

I'm so used to just typing "New Guinea" that I frequently forget the country's proper name is "Papua New Guinea." D'oh!

Palestine is not a country.

It's not. But some people start up stupid arguments over it. And the only reason it's on this quiz is Quizmaster (the creator of this quiz) is trying to avoid getting swamped with idiotic comments.

Best comment I've seen regarding the issue.

And yet here we are, with twenty-six different mentions of Palestine in the comments. Ah, internet...

Exactly, these "I'll do it like this so people wont complain" arent really thought through. It actually usually generates more complaints. Instead of making both sides happy, you are triggering both sides. Because neither side will agree with the chosen "compromise".

Almost missed Pakistan, I live here. Quizmaster, will you please put the picture of Pakistan's flag instead of Panama? It would be a pleasure.

You live in Pakistan and need a flag of Pakistan to remind you?

I don't live in Peru, but I DEMAND that you put the Peruvian flag at the top. I will be deeply OFFENDED if you don't do this, because it's all about ME ME ME, isn't it!!!

No, just remind yourself that Pakistan exists.

Wow, people can be real a**holes..

This one is tricky because if you go by official name then China is "People's Republic of China"

Other countries have official names too.

But it isn't. If it were, it would've been specified.

took me almost 2 minutes to get the last one, Phillipines. Made it with 0:15 left on the clock tho :)

I got 12 of 9, but missed Venezuela.

Since when does Venezuela start with a P?

It was a joke, you know, because, I guessed you missed that one, clearly 12/9 is not possible..

2.24 left well pleased, everything seemed to fall into place

Ooops! Forgot Portugal :(

100% with 1:55 remaining! :D :D yooo!

How is Panama the most guessed, beating Poland, Pakistan, Portugal, Philippines and Papa New Guinea?

Panamanian flag at the top might have something to do with it.

only missed poland dunno how

Missed Philippines damnit! And I live in SEA.

8/9, missed Pakistan because I wasn't even thinking!

Portugal with 45 secs left yes

How can i always forget the spelling of Philippines.

Just think of Philip, and that he pines for something. Philip pines for chocolate. (or something a bit more poetic, with better cadence/rhyme "Philip pines pinot wines")

I seriously forgot Paraguay. Only 8/9

Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory not a country.

What about Puerto Rico and Persia ;P

Why hasnt anybody mentioned Phoenicia?

I remember Palau and not Pakistan

Glad to have forgotten Poland

The only way i can get these quizzes is by visualizing each area in order ... yet I always forget one obvous one - got Peru in the last 2 seconds of this quiz, apologies to those in Peru. I definitely recommend the 'countries quiz' makes these smaller quizzes easier. PS: I want to thank Jetpunk and the quizzmasters so much ... these quizzes are helping so much with a condition I have ... Much Aroha from NZ.

Sorry, but I simply refuse to believe that 2/3 of quiz takers knew Palau (the one I missed) without a quick google search.

You know, it is jetpunk, if you spend more than a week here you will know palau. Now in the "outside" world, if it was anywhere near 5 % I would be surprised. Even more than 1 % would be surprsing. Here it is just another country like philippines or peru.

Was not expecting to get all of them like dammnnnnn 1:45 remaining.

I am Surprised that Philippines is less answered than Palau.

Am I the only knucklehead who tried Puerto Rico?

For some reason, the first country I thought of was "Papan." Why me?

why did you fill in Palestine?

Because Jetpunk doesn't normally acknowledge it as a country (which is too bad) so some people wouldn't have thought to put it

Thanks for putting Palestine! Rebel against Jetpunk's stupid rules!

Really. How did I aLmOsT miss pErU?!?!?!?!?!?

I have no idea. The turn onto Peru is so easy to drive, how can you miss it?

Can you consider changing Papua New Guinea to Papua New {Guinea}?

you can just type "png". It immediately enters Papua New Guinea

i completed this quiz! on windows 7! writing on windows 7 HP/Vista Right now!

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Scoring

You scored 5/9 = 56%

This beats or equals 24.4% of test takers

The average score is 7

Your high score is 5

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I think Philippines, Poland, Pakistan first but in the last, I almost forgot Paraguay. Phew...

i missed portugal... how!? i've been there!!