which country wears this?

Which country wears this?

Traditional Costume

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Which country wears this???

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1. Which country wears this?

A. Russia

B. Netherlands

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HOLLAND/ NETHERLANDS

Dutch people are the tallest in the world, with an average height of 184 cm for men and 170 cm for women.

2. Which country wears this?

A. Norway

B. Finland

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FINLAND

Most of the Finns live in Helsinki, the only city in the country Finland with a tram network and a metro. There are 119,701 more women in Finland than men. 6,832 of the Finns are in prison and 2.790 would still fit in, so do behave in Finland!

3. Which country wears this?

A. Wales

B. Germany

Germany

Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle.

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4. Which country wears this?

A. Switzerland

B. France

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FRANCE

The Languedoc-Rousillon city of Nîmes is the birthplace of jeans. The distinctive fabric was imported to California by Levi Strauss in order to make tough work trousers for gold diggers. Denim is short for “de Nîmes”

5. Which country wears this?

A. Wales

B. Sweden

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WALES

The Prince of Wales is not Welsh, he is in fact the first born Son of the English Monarchy.

6. Which country wears this?

A. Malaysia

B. Myanmar

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MYANMAR

Burma was officially named Myanmar in 1989 by military dictators who thought Myanmar was more suitable name, because of the diversity of the country.

7. Which country wears this?

A. Austria

B. Italy

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ITALY

• Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

• In Italy, Santa Claus is called Babbo Natale.

8. Which country wears this?

A. Argentina

B. Greece

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GREECE

The first tomato plants were planted in Greece by a Friar Francis in 1818, in the gardens of a Capuchin monastery at the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates (built in 335 B.C.) in Athens.

9. Which country wears this?

A. Luxembourg

B. Spain

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SPAIN

• Most Spaniards have dark hair and dark skin.   

• The word sandwich is translated as “Torta” in Mexico and “bocadillo” in Spain

10. Which country wears this?

A. Hungary

B. Norway

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NORWAY

The world’s most northerly town is Hammerfest, Norway which has 24 hours of daylight from the end of April to the middle of August. Norway has more daylight than any other country with no real darkness during that time.

11. Which country wears this?

A. China

B. Japan

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CHINA

The kite, a Chinese invention, has been praised as the forerunner of the modern airplane. In the pavilion of aircraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Museum in Washington a plaque says, "the earliest aircraft are the kites and missiles of China". The kite is mainly, but not only, a plaything. It has contributed to science and production. The first planes were shaped after the kite.

12. Which country wears this?

A. India

B. Bangladesh

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INDIA

Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.

13. Which country wears this?

A. Sweden

B. New Zealand

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SWEDEN

Kiruna is Sweden's largest city in area. (7,500 sq.mi.) The city was founded when mining for iron ore began in the late nineteenth century. It has the world’s largest iron in one area

14. Which country wears this?

A. Switzerland

B. Portugal

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Switzerland

Zürich’s technical college graduated 25 Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein, and Wilhelm Röntgen (who discovered X-rays).

15. Which country wears this?

A. Congo

B. Nigeria

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NIGERIA

• Dubbed 'Nollywood', the Nigerian film industry produces over 800 feature films each year.

• UBURUBU (a town in Nigeria) is a palindrome (a word or group of words that is the same whether you read it forwards from the beginning or backwards from the end).

16. Which country wears this?

A. Ireland

B. Singapore

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IRELAND

Dublin was originally called Dubh Linn meaning Black Pool? The pool to which the name referred is the oldest known in Northern Europe and currently forms the centre-piece of the penguin enclosure in Dublin Zoo.

17. Which country wears this?

A. Mongolia

B. South Korea

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South KOREA

The Korean CIA has a network which not only spies on the activities of people within South Korea, but keeps tab on Koreans abroad. In 1973 it kidnapped Kim Dae Jung, Park's 1971 presidential opponent, while Kim was in Japan, and then smuggled him into Korea.

18. Which country wears this?

A. Philippines

B. Argentina

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PHILIPPINES

Dr. Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines can read and write at the age of 2. He grew up speaking 20 foreign languages including French, Greek, Chinese, Latin and German.

19. Which country wears this?

A. Mongolia

B. Japan

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JAPANJAPAN

Young girls who are into wearing bizarre make-up, shoes, clothes and accessories are known as "Harajuku Girls.

20. Which country wears this?

A. Hong Kong

B. Russian

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RUSSIA

• The alphabet used in Russia is cyrillic, with 36 letters. The English alphabet only has 26.Tzar Peter the Great commissioned the building of St. Petersburg. He based the city on Western architecture that he saw while traveling through Europe.