Counting Stars Trivia Quiz

Answer: One

Interestingly, the star on the Vietnamese flag is meant to represent the people as one whole, though they would be divided into five classes represented by the five points on the shape. The flag was originally selected during World War II to be the flag for North Vietnam, but in 1976 the nation united and adopted the banner.

The revolutionary who created the flag later stated that the red was meant to symbolize blood, and the yellow was the skin of the Vietnamese. To him, the five points represented intellectuals, peasants and farmers, workers, traders and the military.

Answer: Six

Five of the stars, found on the right of the flag, form the constellation of the Southern Cross (which it actually shares with several other flags of the Southern Hemisphere), while the Commonwealth Star appears in the lower left beneath the Union Jack.

Originally, the seven-pointed Commonwealth Star, meant to represent the states of Australia, only had six points; a seventh was added for future territories in the 1900s (and represented Papua until the mid-1970s).

Answer: Twelve

The top left of this four-coloured flag features a crescent moon and twelve stars split into three horizontal rows consisting of three, four, and five stars, each meant to represent months of the Islamic calendar (while the moon represents Islam). The flag, introduced in 1991, was adopted after the dissolution of the Soviet Union when Uzbekistan gained its independence. Before this, the Uzbek flag featured much more red and, atop a hammer and sickle in its top left corner, a single star meant to represent communism.

Answer: Four

The Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros is one that has many flags over the years, but the vast majority (and the one adopted for permanent use in 2002) have featured a crescent moon and four white stars. Along with the four different-coloured stripes found on the flag, these are meant to represent the four main islands of Comoros-- Moheli, Mayotte, Anjouan, and Grande Comore.

The flag changed five times between the 1960s and the 2000s, but all of them featured the moon and stars.

Answer: Two

In addition to being one of the few nations with two stars on its flag, Nepal is known for having a flag that isn't in a conventional shape, eschewing the quadrilateral for a five-sided shape evoking two pennants. The top star is integrated into an image of a crescent moon while the bottom is a larger twelve-pointed sun; they're meant to represent purity, resolve, and permanence.

Answer: Fifty

The fifty stars of the United States flag were included to represent each of the fifty states in the union, and since 1777, the flag has added new stars twenty-six time, originally starting with thirteen for the original thirteen colonies and then adding more for those introduced.

Interestingly, the thirteen stripes on the flag have always represented the original thirteen colonies of the states, even when the flag included a Union Jack, and even though said states have also been represented by stars.

Answer: Five

A two-coloured flag, the banner for the Central American nation of Honduras features two horizontal blue stripes which flank a central white stripe to represent the water surrounding the nation on both sides. Five stars, all five-pointed, are in the center of the white band, and each is meant to represent a nation in the Federal Republic of Central America, which only existed between 1821 and 1841.

Answer: One

Introduced as the flag of Israel in 1948, this national banner features a single Star of David in the middle to represent the influence of Judaism in the nation. This has, of course, been a source of debate for religious citizens not following the Jewish faith.

The flag was made in blue and white; the blue, considered by many to be a colour of upper-class, was also meant to reflect the influence of God in the nation while the white, as usual, represented purity and the divine.

Answer: Eight

Featuring yellow, blue, and red horizontal stripes and a coat of arms in its top left, the flag of Venezuela has eight five-pointed stars in its central band oriented to form an arch. The stars on this flag, like the American flag, were introduced to represent the divisions of the country-- in this case, provinces.

Originally, the stars stood for Caracas, Cumaná, Barcelona, Barinas, Margarita, Mérida, and Trujillo, but an eighth was added in 2006 for Guayana.

Answer: Five

All five stars appear in the top left of the flag with four smaller stars extending outwards from a larger gold star to the furthest left. The largest of the stars is meant, along with the red of the flag, to represent the Communist Party while the smaller stars are all meant to represent the people of China, all circling the central figure.

This flag was adopted in 1949 after the nation was declared the People's Republic of China. Prior flags did feature suns, but never five-pointed stars before the modern take.