The emblem without the flag

Only the device from a national flag is shown: the eagle, the crest, the sun, the seal, the map. No stripes, no field colour. Name the country from four options, and the full flag slides in so you can see where the emblem sits. A free hint tells you the region. The quiz has 72 emblems in three levels, 18 at Easy, 28 at Medium and 26 at Hard, and each level asks every emblem once, ten a round, with misses returning at the end.

Emblems that come in pairs

The wrong answers are chosen to look right, so the look-alikes are listed against each other. Albania, Serbia and Montenegro all fly a double-headed eagle; Argentina and Uruguay the Sun of May; Kenya and Eswatini a Maasai or Swazi shield with spears; Cyprus and Kosovo an outline of their own territory. El Salvador and Nicaragua share almost the same triangle-in-a-wreath, inherited from the old Central American federation. Where no twin exists, the options come from the same region, then the same continent.

Easy is the famous set: Mexico’s eagle on a cactus, Canada’s maple leaf, Portugal’s armillary sphere, Lebanon’s cedar, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, India’s wheel, South Korea’s taegeuk, Brazil’s starry globe. Hard goes to the emblems nobody has studied: Kiribati’s frigatebird, Vanuatu’s boar’s tusk, Turkmenistan’s carpet guls, Nepal’s sun and moon, Brunei’s royal crest.