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Title: Can you name the 22 countries Britain has not invaded?
Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 07:36:31 pm: Saturday night quiz for you.
Name the countries Britain has not invaded.

One for starters:
Andorra.
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Post by: Malc Morling on January 04, 2014, 07:52:15 pm: LOt in Russa
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 07:54:18 pm: Only four former Russian Republics
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Post by: keith79 on January 04, 2014, 07:55:41 pm: Chad. Vatican city. Sweden
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Post by: DonnyOsmond on January 04, 2014, 07:57:17 pm: Monaco
Vatican City
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Post by: RedJ on January 04, 2014, 07:57:50 pm: Spain?

If anyone says France you need a f**king slap.
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Post by: jonnydog on January 04, 2014, 07:58:01 pm: No!
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Post by: Donnywolf on January 04, 2014, 08:13:49 pm: I reckon Liechtenstein

Ironic given its National Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmDbMbDZKk
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 08:17:29 pm: Chad, Vatican city, Sweden - All Correct
Monaco, Vatican City - Correct
Spain - Incorrect
Liechtenstein - Correct
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Post by: RedJ on January 04, 2014, 08:20:07 pm: Are we counting Argentina? as it wasn't actually a country at the time we originally claimed the Falklands, iirc.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 08:21:49 pm: Argentina - Incorrect
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Post by: Donnywolf on January 04, 2014, 08:29:22 pm: Luxembourg
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Post by: wilts rover on January 04, 2014, 08:36:30 pm: We invaded Argentina during the Napoleonic War & Russia in 1919.

I dont believe we have ever invaded Mongolia though.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 08:37:09 pm: Luxembourg - Correct
Mongolia - Correct
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Post by: River Don on January 04, 2014, 08:48:03 pm: Portugal?

Switzerland?

Central African Republic? (because it is often a pointless answer on Pointless)
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Post by: wilts rover on January 04, 2014, 09:17:15 pm: We have invaded most of the countries in the Americas at some point, but I reckon Bolivia is landlocked so probably not them.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 09:30:24 pm: Portugal - Incorrect
Switzerland - Incorrect
Central African Republic - Correct
Bolivia - Correct
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Post by: Pintolager on January 04, 2014, 09:37:58 pm: Holland
New Zealand
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Post by: River Don on January 04, 2014, 09:40:37 pm: I'm surprised at Portugal, I thought they were one of the few nations we hadn't been to war with. I know we had a long alliance with them to keep a check on who was coming in and out of European waters and what the French were up to.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 09:44:52 pm: We invaded Portugal as part of the Peninsular War in 1807. (says Wikipedia)
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Post by: RedJ on January 04, 2014, 09:46:47 pm: Switzerland?

Oh and we have invaded the Netherlands, in the world wars.

Also invaded New Zealand.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 09:49:50 pm: Holland - Incorrect
New Zealand -Incorrect ask the Maoris
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Post by: wilts rover on January 04, 2014, 09:52:22 pm: Quote from: Pintolager on January 04, 2014, 09:37:58 pm
Holland
New Zealand

I never thought I would ever have the opportunity on this forum to say that the dissertation for my BA was on the Elizabethan Army in the Netherlands. Thanks Pinto.

When the Empires divided up Africa, Congo went to Belgium, so they must be one.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 10:06:11 pm: Congo - Correct
12 down 10 to go
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on January 04, 2014, 10:07:43 pm: San Marino?
Peru?
Paraguay?
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 10:16:31 pm: San Marino - Incorrect
Peru - Incorrect
Paraguay - Correct
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Post by: Akinfenwa on January 04, 2014, 10:23:01 pm: Everyone's favourite country, Kyrgyzstan?
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 10:26:25 pm: Kyrgyzstan - Correct
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Post by: Sprotyrover on January 04, 2014, 10:28:33 pm: Iceland,Thailand,Montenegro,Romania,Armenia,
Georgia,The khanate of Khiva,Ecuador,Uraguay,
Paraguay,Vietnam,Laos,
Cambodia,Sweden,Finland,Latvia,Lithuania,
Estonia,Poland,Moldova,
Croatia,Slovenia,Belarus.
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Post by: afro goal machine on January 04, 2014, 10:34:44 pm: Papua new guinea ?
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 10:42:57 pm: Iceland,Thailand,Montenegro,Romania,Armenia,
Georgia,The khanate of Khiva,Ecuador,Uraguay,
,Vietnam,Laos,
Cambodia,,Finland,Latvia,Lithuania,
Estonia,Poland,Moldova,
Croatia,Slovenia, Papua new guinea All Incorrect

Paraguay Correct
Sweden Correct
Belarus Correct
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Post by: afro goal machine on January 04, 2014, 10:48:30 pm: Oman
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 10:56:06 pm: Oman - Incorrect
We seem to have invaded all of the Middle East
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Post by: River Don on January 04, 2014, 11:00:48 pm: Quote from: moses on January 04, 2014, 10:56:06 pm
Oman - Incorrect
We seem to have invaded all of the Middle East

Hydrocarbons are a very big incentive
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Post by: wilts rover on January 04, 2014, 11:07:33 pm: Moses, Sproty was actually correct with The Khanate of Khiva, I just had to look up where that was and it is now part of Uzbekistan.
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 11:13:58 pm: My apologies Uzbekistan is correct
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Post by: RedJ on January 04, 2014, 11:23:53 pm: Ivory Coast? Chad?
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Post by: Dagenham Rover on January 04, 2014, 11:24:16 pm: Quote from: wilts rover on January 04, 2014, 11:07:33 pm
Moses, Sproty was actually correct with The Khanate of Khiva, I just had to look up where that was and it is now part of Uzbekistan.

I was just going to ask where the bloody hells that
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Post by: moses on January 04, 2014, 11:27:14 pm: Ivory Coast? Chad both correct.
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Post by: OxonViking on January 05, 2014, 12:30:15 am: Saw this a while ago. Bolivia and Para/Uruguay. Some islands in the pacific,Mongolia and a few of the Turk/Kurd/Uzbek/etcStan countries and Congo. Few places in Europeand Africa too which I remember surprised me
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Post by: Filo on January 05, 2014, 01:20:30 am: Greenland
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Post by: afro goal machine on January 05, 2014, 01:26:55 am: I had a sneak at the answers and you'll do well to get some of those. The question also means any sailor in 1800s with a musket sailing under the crown and having fisty cuffs with a local counts but still an interesting piece of trivia
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on January 05, 2014, 09:39:08 am: Just had a look too

The Principality of Sealand (Coastal Fort/Pirate Radio station/Tax haven off the Suffolk coast) might be a 23rd, depending on country status interpretation
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Post by: moses on January 05, 2014, 10:05:27 am: Here's the Map with the answers.

pic.twitter.com/bliArT6tkS (http://pic.twitter.com/bliArT6tkS)

Its from a twitter/Facebook site called Amazing Maps which has some other interesting ones (a lot US based) such as:

What Netherlands would look like without canals
Most common category on "exotic" sites by US State
Favourite TV programme by state

Hope you enjoyed.
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Post by: bobjimwilly on January 05, 2014, 10:44:09 am: Britain leads the world in Fascist Movements? :blink:

https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/419151886176899072
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 06, 2014, 10:12:39 pm: Brilliant thread.

Not sure I agree with Bolivia though. We sent Standanista there years back. He's such an obnoxious ugly t**t, that amounts to a declaration of war in anybody's book.
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Post by: German Rover on January 12, 2014, 11:15:15 am: Djibouti?
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Post by: jonnydog on January 12, 2014, 11:25:48 am: Quote from: German Rover on January 12, 2014, 11:15:15 am
Djibouti?

No... It was a miss-kick!!
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Post by: DevilMayCry on January 19, 2014, 06:24:16 pm: lol, that's incorrect, Romania was never invaded by Britain.
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Post by: moses on January 19, 2014, 09:07:44 pm: DevilMayCry I think you are right, I cant find any evidence of an invasion of Romania my apologies. Equally I cant find any evidence of the invasion of Britain by Romanians. Both were stories in the Telegraph..
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Post by: Sprotyrover on January 19, 2014, 09:07:55 pm: Quote from: jonnydog on January 12, 2014, 11:25:48 am
Quote from: German Rover on January 12, 2014, 11:15:15 am
Djibouti?

No... It was a miss-kick!!

Think we invaded Ethiopia through Djibouti in 1868.
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Post by: wilts rover on January 19, 2014, 09:30:18 pm: Quote from: DevilMayCry on January 19, 2014, 06:24:16 pm
lol, that's incorrect, Romania was never invaded by Britain.

You need to gen up a bit more on your history DMC, according to this website:
http://www.roconsulboston.com/Pages/InfoPages/Commentary/WW-I.html

In November of 1916, British military were sent ahead of invading troops on a secret mission to destroy oil stocks and sabotage oil wells in Ploesti. This was successfully accomplished - much to the dismay of the Germans who had made control of Romanian oil a strategic focus of their invasion.

There were also SOE operations and bombing raids in WWII.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 19, 2014, 09:30:57 pm: I assumed that "invasion" meant "belligerent action by British forces in the land, air or sea of that country". In which case, we certainly took action against Romania in WWII, bombing the Ploesti oilfields.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 19, 2014, 09:31:38 pm: Wilts.

39 seconds ahead of me!
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Post by: wilts rover on January 19, 2014, 09:37:57 pm: BST, you can have the WWII actions and I will take the WWI!