Can You Guess the Country with the Longest COVID Lockdown? (Quiz)

Ten hints, one country! Jot down your guesses along with The World hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler as they play the first round of GeoQuiz.

This country in question had the longest COVID-19 lockdown, hosts a large number of refugees, is the birthplace of a NASA program director, and has won 13 Olympic gold medals… but only at the Summer Games.

Let us know if and when you got the right answer!

0:00 Welcome to the GeoQuiz!
0:20 Rules
0:56 Longest school lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic
1:41 It offered to host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan
2:18 6.5 billion barrels of oil underground
2:39 Top exports? Gold and coffee
3:11 Anti-Homosexuality legislation
4:08 One Oscar submission
5:05 Thirteen Olympic medals (in the Summer games)
5:41 No Nobel Prize, but one nomination
6:25 Drought, agriculture, food security
7:10 Endangered species: eastern gorilla, chimpanzee, grey crowned crane
7:53 The Pearl of Africa!
8:24 Marco and Carolyn guess!
9:00 The answer is...

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