Flags with Stripes Quiz: Can You Get 8 Out of 10?

This flags with stripes quiz covers the Stars and Stripes, horizontal and vertical tricolors, Malaysia, Uruguay, Greece and Thailand. Can you get 8 out of 10 on striped flags around the world?

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

USA
How many stripes are on the US flag?
Malaysia
How many stripes are on Malaysia's flag?
Thailand
Thailand's flag has a thick middle stripe of which color?
Uruguay
How many stripes does Uruguay's flag have?
Greece
Greece's stripes are which colors?
Liberia
Liberia's flag closely resembles which flag?
France
France's flag stripes run in which direction?
Germany
Germany's stripes are which colors?
Mauritius
Which flag has four equal horizontal stripes of red, blue, yellow and green?
Gambia
Gambia's flag has thin white stripes around a blue stripe representing what?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: How many stripes are on the US flag?
Answer: 13
The stripes represent the original 13 colonies.
Q2: How many stripes are on Malaysia's flag?
Answer: 14
They represent 13 states and the federal government.
Q3: Thailand's flag has a thick middle stripe of which color?
Answer: Blue
Blue represents the monarchy.
Q4: How many stripes does Uruguay's flag have?
Answer: Nine
Five white and four blue stripes.
Q5: Greece's stripes are which colors?
Answer: Blue and white
Nine stripes in total.
Q6: Liberia's flag closely resembles which flag?
Answer: The US flag
It has 11 stripes and one star.
Q7: France's flag stripes run in which direction?
Answer: Vertical
The blue, white and red tricolor dates from the Revolution.
Q8: Germany's stripes are which colors?
Answer: Black, red and gold
They date back to the 1800s.
Q9: Which flag has four equal horizontal stripes of red, blue, yellow and green?
Answer: Mauritius
The stripes stand for independence, the ocean, the light of freedom and the island's green land.
Q10: Gambia's flag has thin white stripes around a blue stripe representing what?
Answer: The Gambia River
Red is for the sun, green for farmland.

Flags With Stripes Quiz – Stripes Across the World

Stripes are the most common flag design. Many countries use tricolors with three bands, either vertical like France and Italy or horizontal like Germany and Russia.

Stripes often have meanings: the 13 colonies of the US, the 13 states of Malaysia or the rivers of The Gambia. Some flags copy famous designs, like Liberia's flag based on the US.

Simple striped designs are easy to make and recognize from afar, which is why so many nations chose them, especially after revolutions and independence.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is for flag fans exploring striped flags.

How many stripes the US flag has
What Malaysia's stripes mean
Which flags copy others
Which flags are tricolors
What The Gambia's stripes show

Did You Know?

Austria's red-white-red stripes are very old.
Estonia's flag is blue, black and white.
Colombia's yellow stripe is double width.
Gabon has green, yellow and blue stripes.
Costa Rica has five stripes.