Krillion Recorded answers
69 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outwards from religion rather than from a mental list of countries: take each major non-Christian faith in turn and ask which states it dominates demographically, constitutionally or culturally. That produces candidates faster than free recall. Then run a second pass over the awkward cases, such as secular republics with an established faith, small island economies, and states where migration or a post-independence settlement tipped the balance. For every candidate, confirm that the non-Christian share is a real majority rather than a plurality built on weak census data, and that the place is a recognised sovereign state and not a dependency. Rank what you have by obviousness before answering, because the famous cases will be offered by nearly everyone and pay little.
Get a hint
Begin from the world's large non-Christian faiths and ask which states they shape politically or demographically, instead of trying to recall country names first.
A little more
Add the less obvious cases: secular republics with a strongly established religion, tiny island economies, and countries whose Christian share fell after independence or through migration.
One step further
Push past the famous examples into microstates, island territories and desert or mountain republics where one non-Christian community forms an outright majority.
Reveal answers 69
- BangladeshSchooler30points
- ChinaSchooler30points
- EgyptSchooler30points
- IndonesiaSchooler30points
- IraqSchooler30points
- JapanSchooler30points
- JordanSchooler30points
- MalaysiaSchooler30points
- MoroccoSchooler30points
- PalestineSchooler30points
- QatarSchooler30points
- ThailandSchooler30points
- TurkeySchooler30points
- United Arab EmiratesSchooler30points
- IndiaPlankton10points
- IranPlankton10points
- IsraelPlankton10points
- PakistanPlankton10points
- Saudi ArabiaPlankton10points
Why these answers count
The scoring here rewards rarity, and the reveal shows it plainly. Mauritius, the single 100-point answer, sits alone at the top because almost nobody thinks of it, even though a majority of its population follows a faith other than Christianity. The 85-point tier is populated by countries where the non-Christian majority is overwhelming and long established, among them Azerbaijan, Gambia and Mauritania: obvious once you start listing states with an official or near-total non-Christian identity. The 60-point group is the crowded middle, where Algeria, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Singapore and Vietnam sit; they are correct, familiar and therefore cheap, because players reach them through the same handful of mental shortcuts. Everything below that is likely a Christian-majority country that only narrowly fails the test, or a territory rather than a state. The practical lesson is that a correct but conventional answer earns roughly half of a correct but unexpected one, so the last few minutes are best spent hunting one more quiet majority rather than verifying a safe pick.