Flag Quiz: Match Five Flags to Their Countries
Flags are easy to recognise and surprisingly easy to mix up. Describing them in words forces you to picture each design before you answer.
What is the Flag Quiz?
This quiz describes five national flags in words instead of showing pictures, so you match each description to its country from the options given. It covers Japan, Italy, Canada, Greece, and China, and it shows the correct country for any flag you miss. It works well as a classroom game or a travel-trivia warm-up.
How to use it
- Read each flag description carefully.
- Pick the country that matches it.
- Click Check My Score.
- Review the correct country for any flag you missed.
Worked example
Answering Japan, Italy, Canada, Greece, and Vietnam scores 4/5, with China shown as the correct answer for the five-yellow-stars flag.
Which flag has a red circle on a white field?
Japan. Its flag is a plain white field with a single red circle at the centre.
Frequently asked questions
Why describe flags instead of showing them?
Word descriptions test recall rather than recognition, and they keep the quiz usable anywhere, including printed worksheets.
Are the descriptions exact?
They are plain-language summaries of the main design elements, not official flag specifications.