Winner Halina (second from right) with hosts Abbi and Jen and runners-up Altin and Raeli.
Given the word list Republic, Kingdom, Sultanate, Principality, State, States, Federation, Confederation, Islamic, Arab, Hashemite, Oriental, Bolivarian, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, People’s, United, and of, could you tell us what kind of country Mauritania is? (It's an Islamic Republic). Spain? (A Kingdom). Somalia? (A Democratic Republic). This and other challenges faced contestants at last Wednesday's geography bee. (In case anyone's wondering, word order doesn't count, since many country names are, of course, translated from other languages).
Rather wonderfully, Libya's full name is "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya," although, for that, reason, Libya was not a question at Wednesday's bee.
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