Countries of Origin Quiz

Poker has truly become an international game. Unless you’ve been living in a cave during the poker boom of the past few years, you know that Gus “Great Dane” Hansen is from Denmark, Johnny Chan is from China, and Daniel Negreanu is from The Great White North. Can you place the following poker players with their countries of origin? Careful, a few are tricky!

Note that there are 20 players and only 18 countries. Two different pairs of players share the same country; it’s up to you to determine which countries. Good luck! (Answers at bottom of column)


Players
1. Andrew Black
2. Antonio Esfandiari
3. Barney Boatman
4. Carlos Mortensen
5. Dave Colclough
6. Eli Elezra
7. Gavin Smith
8. Hasan Habib
9. Humberto Brenes
10. John Juanda
11. Joseph Hachem
12. Kirill Gerasimov
13. Marcel Luske
14. Martin de Knijff
15. Max Pescatori
16. Men Nguyen
17. Phil Laak
18. Sam Farha
19. Tuan Le
20. Victor Ramdin

Countries
A. Canada
B. Costa Rica
C. England
D. Ecuador
E. France
F. Guyana
G. Indonesia
H. Iran
I. Ireland
J. Israel
K. Italy
L. Lebanon
M. Netherlands
N. Pakistan
O. Russia
P. Sweden
Q. Vietnam
R. Wales

Answers
1I, 2H, 3C, 4D, 5R, 6J, 7A, 8N, 9B, 10G, 11L, 12O, 13M, 14P, 15K, 16Q, 17I, 18L, 19E, 20F

Results
0-4 Correct Geographically challenged, to say the least. You do know the Earth is round, don’t you?
5-8 Wow, you must really suck at Risk™. You regularly get lost while walking around the block.
9-12 You can make it across town, but only after stopping for directions a few times.
13-16 Not bad. You probably have Mapquest saved to your “Favorites” folder.
17-20 Quite the world traveler! Chances are you have a pocket GPS system. Well…either that, or you’re just another cheating bastard!

See ya at the tables…
Rick