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2. There are many legends as to how this flag
came into being.
According to one, after the Battle of Kosovo
(1448), a soldier saw the moon was occulting
a star as a reflection in a bloody puddle.
Which modern day flag was originated from
the vision?
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3. The flag ofTurkey.
The Ottoman Empire was formed as a result of Battle of
Kosovo. From whose flag, the modern dayTurkey flag was
designed.
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4. The flag was designed upon the stolen green tablecloth of Mrs Jones.
The background green symbolises the green fields of England and
the white hoof and horn symbolise the brotherhood.
Which fictional flag, I’m talking about?
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5. The Animal Farm flag
as seen in the novel Animal
Farm by George Orwell.
The flag was designed by
the pig Snowball (modeled
after LeonTrotsky), and
often seen as a parody of
the USSR flag, with
hammer, sickle and star in a
red background.
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6. Adopted in 1987, the flag closely
resembles the US flag. Except the
23 white stars, which symbolises
the 23 islands of the island group.
The overall design and the
positioning of the black stars are
symbolic to the islander’s belief
that a great debt is still owed by
the USA to them, after something
was done in their islands from 1946
to 1954.
Flag of which island group?
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7. Flag of the Bikini Atoll.
USA performed 26 nuclear
tests there from 1946-54.
Which obliterated the three
islands of the atoll (symbolised
by the three black stars above).
The whole populations had to
migrate because of the tests,
to the two furthest of the
islands (symbolised by the two
black stars below).
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8. Unlike the Indian
states, each of the 50
states of USA have
their own flags.
Which is the only US
state to have the British
Union Flag featured in
their flag?
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9. Hawai’i
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10. National flags use different
aspect ratios. From the most
popular 2:3 (as of India) to
the weirdest 11:28 of Qatar.
Only two countries use 1:1 in
their flags. If one of them is
Switzerland, which is the
other?
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11. VaticanCity
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12. Lichtenstein started the 1936 Olympic Games
with their usual red and blue flag they were
using for the last 21 years. Something happened
during the Games, made them to have a second
thought and by the following year they’ve
already changed their flag.
What made them take the decision?
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13. At the Olympic march past,
Lichtenstein officials
realised they have exactly
the same flag as Haiti.
To distinguish themselves
from the middle American
nation, Lichtenstein added a
crown to their flag.
Flag of Lichtenstein
(1937-)
Flag of Haiti
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14. Following are the flags of Paraguay, USSR and
the State of Oregon.
Which peculiar similarity connects them?
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15. The flags with different obverse and reverse.
Currently Honduras is the only national flag to
have both of its sides different.
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16. The year was 1612. Heart’s Ease was an English ship
on an expedition off the coast of Canada. When
William Hall, the master of the ship, was murdered
by the Eskimos .
The sailors believed that a the invisible flag of death
should fly over the ship and did something, thus
starting the ritual.
Which ritual I am talking about?
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17. Flying the flag half mast.
The sailors of Heart’s Ease
lowered the Union Jack to
one flag’s width as they
believed the invisible flag of
death (which is actually an
emptiness) should be hang
above as a sign of
mourning.
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18. Although the design was
claimed to be inspired from the
tallit, the traditional Jewish
shawl, the Arab world always
sees a sinister symbolism in the
Israeli flag.
They claim the design
symbolises the hidden agenda
of controlling the ‘Promised
Land’, as said in the Bible.
Which Promised Land? Tallit
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19. “From Nile to Euphrates”
Arab world sees the two blue stripes as the
symbols of Nile and Euphrates rivers.
Which indicates the boundaries of the ‘Eretz
Yisra'el (promised land) as per the Bible.
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20. “Allahu Akbar” or the
takbīr was first
introduced in 1991
to the Iraqi flag and
was accommodated
between the stars.
Who wrote the
takbīr in his own
hand?
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21. Saddam Hussein
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22. This was the flag of the
Nawab of Hyderabad. Also
known as the Asaf Jahi
flag, it featured a central
white roundel upon a
striped yellow
background.
If the striped yellow
background represents a
cloth, what does the white
roundel represents?
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23. A kulcha
The legend says Mir Qamaruddin, the first Nizam,
was once offered kulchas by the sufi mystic Hazrat
Nizamuddin, tied in a yellow cloth.
Therefore, he adapted it as his royal symbol.
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24. Survival is a 1979 album,
proclaiming the Pan-
African solidarity in its
songs.
48 African flags were
featured in the album
cover in support of the
album theme.
Who was the artist?
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25. Bob Marley &TheWailers
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26. This flag itself was a simple government supply,
3inch by 5 inch, made of nylon.Though the flag
cost $5.50 in 1969, the flag assembly cost $75.
The fate of this flag was never known.The last
eyewitness accounts told the flag was knocked
off from its pole, when they last saw it.
Which flag?
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27. The Apollo 11 flag, which
Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin hoisted
in the Moon.
According to Buzz
Aldrin, he last saw the
flag knocked off
during the taking off
from the Moon.
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28. The flag of Chile is shown below. If the red
symbolising the blood shed in the struggle for
independence, the blue canton symbolising the
sky.What does the white signify?
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29. The snows of the Andes.
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30. The following is one of the short listed design for a
new national flag of New Zealand.
What’s represented here is koru, in black. Black is
the traditional colour of Maoris. But what is a koru?
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31. The fern leaf spiral.
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32. Following shown are the flags of Brazil, Nauru
and Marshall Islands.
These are the only three national flags to
feature what?
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33. The Equator.
Indicated by:
• The white line on the blue circle in the
Brazilian flag.
• The yellow stripe in the Nauru flag.
• The converging orange and white stripe in
the Marshall Island flag.
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34. The following is the first naval jack of the US Navy. First adopted in the 1776,
the flag featured 13 red and white stripes as in the US flag.
The flag also featured the words “DONTTREAD ON ME” and most
famously, a snake.
Which snake?
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35. Rattle snake
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36. The bright orange
represents a Hindu
state and the sun
represents Aditya, the
family deity of the
Maharajas.
Which Indian princely
state, this flag
belonged to?
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37. Cooch Behar
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38. This is a traditional hat of
the South Sotho people.
WhichAfrican nation
features one of these in their
national flag?
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39. Lesotho
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40. On a visit to Philippines, you saw the Philippine
national flag (left) was flowing upside down (right).
First you thought it was a mistake, but upon
inquiring you know the reason now.
What was the reason?
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41. A state of war was declared in Philippines.
The Philippine national flag is the only flag
which may be hoisted inverted when the
Congress has declared a state of war.
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