Country Flag Quiz Wheel

1. 1Spin. Press Spin, click the wheel, or press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac). The wheel turns and stops on one country.
2. 2Read the question. A card opens with a flag and the line "Which country has this flag?", or with a country name and "Which flag belongs to this country?".
3. 3Answer with one tap. Tap the answer you think is right. On a computer you can also press the number keys, 1 to 4 for four answers.
4. 4Check the result. The right answer turns green. If you tapped a wrong one it turns red and a short line says what the answer was, for example "Not quite. It is Sweden."
5. 5Go on. Press Next flag for the next spin. The card also has Remove winner, which takes that country off the wheel, and Share result.

Once you answer, every answer button is locked, so a second tap cannot change the score.

On phones and tablets there is no side panel, so the score and the quiz settings sit under the Spin button.

The setting You guess the has three choices, and it works like a guess the flag wheel in either direction.

• Country. The card shows a flag and you pick the country name. The slices on the wheel show flags only, so the wheel does not give the name away.
• Flag. The card shows a country name and you pick the flag from small pictures. The slices show names only. After you answer, each flag shows its country name, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
• Mixed. Each spin picks one of the two kinds at random. Every slice shows a question mark, because either a flag or a name on the slice would give away the answer.

The panel's last-result line and the history list say "Question 3" and never the country, so nobody can read the answer from the side panel before answering.

Three settings change how hard a question is.

Answers. You can choose 2, 4 or 6. Guessing blind gives you 1 chance in 2, 1 in 4 or 1 in 6. A player who guesses everything at 4 answers should land near 6 right out of 24, so a score above that means you actually know some flags.

Difficulty. This changes where the wrong answers come from. The right answer is always one country from the wheel.

On Hard, the look-alike groups are made by hand. There are 20 of them, for example the blue, yellow and red stripes of Romania, Chad, Andorra and Moldova, the red and white halves of Indonesia, Monaco and Poland, and the Nordic crosses of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. If a country has fewer look-alikes than your answer count needs, the remaining answers are filled from its continent and then from any country. The groups are a hand-made list, not an official classification, so a flag can sit in more than one group.

Timer. Off, 10 s or 20 s. With a timer on, a bar on the card runs down. If it reaches zero, the card says "Time is up. It is Mexico." (or the country on that spin), and the question counts as a miss. Choose Off for learning and 10 s for a fast round.

Settings apply to the next spin. Changing them does not reset your score.

Four tiles sit above the settings: Score (right out of asked), Accuracy (a whole percent), Streak (right answers in a row) and Best (your longest streak this visit).

Every flag you miss, including one you ran out of time on, goes into Missed flags at the top of the Results tab. A flag you later answer right leaves the list.

• Practise missed puts only your missed flags on the wheel. It needs two or more missed flags. Stop practising brings the earlier wheel back.
• Copy score copies one line to the clipboard, for example "I got 5 of 8 (63%) on the Country Flag Quiz Wheel, best streak 2." followed by the page link.
• Reset score and missed flags starts again from 0.

The score lives on the page. Reloading it, or opening it on another device, starts at 0. Copy your score first if you want to keep it.

The wheel is random, so a plan helps. This one works for a person on their own:

1. 1Start on Starter 24, Country, Medium, 4 answers, no timer. Play until the first 24 questions are done.
2. 2Open Results and press Practise missed. Keep going until the list is empty.
3. 3Pick one continent, for example South America, which has 12 countries, and play it on Medium.
4. 4Move to Hard when Medium feels easy. Look-alike flags are where most mistakes happen.
5. 5Switch to Flag (country name to flag) once Country feels easy, so you practise the link in the other direction.
6. 6Finish with Mixed and a 10 s timer.

• Whole class. Put the page on the board, choose a continent that the class has studied, and let one student answer each spin. Switch on Remove winner after each card, or set the Spin tab to Elimination, so each flag comes up once.
• Teams. Split the class with the Random Team Generator, keep a score for each team on a whiteboard, and use Next flag to deal the questions. The page keeps one score for the whole screen, not one per team.
• Who answers. Pick the student with the Random Name Picker and then spin the flag.
• Friends and family. Pick 2 answers for young children, 6 with a 10 s timer for adults.

• It is multiple choice. You cannot type the country name.
• It makes one question per spin. It does not build a printable quiz, a worksheet or a shareable test, so it is a flag quiz game, not a quiz maker.
• It shows no capitals, populations or other facts about a country.
• It keeps one score on one screen. There are no player accounts, rooms or leaderboards, and the score is not saved.
• Only the 195 listed countries turn into questions. The list follows UN membership and observer status.
• It has 2, 4 or 6 answers, not 8.

• To spin for a country without a quiz, use the Random Country Generator.
• To draw a starting letter and ask for a country that begins with it, use the Random Letter Generator.