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Round #3: answers

Daily World round of October 20, 2026

These were the five facts of the day. Each one belongs to a different country, and players had to find it on the globe: a tap inside the right country scores 100 points, a tap nearby still scores some.

1. It uses the euro although it is not part of the eurozone.

Answer: Kosovo

Kosovo adopted the euro unilaterally.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

2. Oil was discovered in 1932, the first on the Arab side of the Gulf.

Answer: Bahrain

Bahrain found oil in 1932, before its neighbours.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

3. Striker Samuel Eto'o, four-time African Player of the Year and Champions League winner with Barcelona and Inter, comes from here.

Answer: Cameroon

Eto'o was born in Cameroon in 1981 and later became president of its football federation.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

4. The Varna Necropolis yielded some of the world's oldest worked gold, dated to about 4600 BC.

Answer: Bulgaria

The Varna gold was found in Bulgaria.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

5. A port named Mocha helped give a type of coffee its name.

Answer: Yemen

Mocha is a port in Yemen.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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