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Academic Decathlon 2004 State Championship Logic Quiz

Question 13

Organized properly the European nations spell out a European nationality. The African / Middle Eastern countries spell out a Western hemisphere nationality. What are these two nationalities?

ALBANIA
ANGOLA
ALGERIA
BOTSWANA
ESTONIA
GREECE
IRAN
IRAQ
LIBERIA
MONACO
NETHERLANDS
NIGERIA
ROMANIA
RWANDA
ZIMBABWE

Answer:

GERMAN and BRAZILIAN

The first thing you need to guess is that the first letters of each country are the letters that spell out the two nationalities. Then, using your knowledge of geography, you need to separate the countries into the two categories -- one category is European, and the other is African / Middle Eastern.

European Countries

ALBANIA
ESTONIA
GREECE
MONACO
NETHERLANDS
ROMANIA

African / Middle Eastern Countries

ANGOLA
ALGERIA
BOTSWANA
IRAN
IRAQ
LIBERIA
NIGERIA
RWANDA
ZIMBABWE

Now you need to unscramble the letters

A E G M N R to form GERMAN

and unscramble the letters

A A B I I L N R Z to form BRAZILIAN

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