Eswatini, Eire and an island called Elba: Drop A Pin's letter E quiz
A 30-second geography question became a roll call in the comments, with viewers adding the countries that were missed, the old names they still remember and a few loopholes.
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Story of Why this story? The video drew 873 comments in its first day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (101).
Name all the countries that start with the letter E
"Name all the countries that start with the letter E" sounds like a quick one. The comment section under Drop A Pin's newest Short shows it is not. About 873 comments arrived on its first day, more than eight times what a Short here usually draws, while the views stayed close to the channel's normal pace.
Drop A Pin is the travel podcast in which the Wonton Don and Uncle Chaps pick a spot on the map each Monday and dig into it, and its tags tie it to the Barstool Sports world. Between episodes, the channel posts quiz Shorts: the continents ranked by population, a mystery flag, the mountain range that holds Everest, the river along the US-Mexico border.
This one turned viewers into a geography class. Many point out that the island of Elba, which viewers say came up as an answer, is not a country, and several remember it as Napoleon's place of exile. Eswatini catches out people who still think of it as Swaziland. Others are surprised at how long it took them to remember Egypt, including one viewer who was born there. Then come the loopholes: Eire for Ireland, Estados Unidos for the United States, and a long back-and-forth about whether England counts.
One viewer says the channel's Shorts have made Equatorial Guinea the first country that comes to mind.
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What viewers say
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@sushibar777See it on YouTubeEswatini got me. my brain still remembers swaziland
@pyr0m0rpheus-----YTSee it on YouTubeWeirdly Equatorial Guinea was the first country that came to mind.
I blame chaps and these shorts for that.@Gremlack13See it on YouTube
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Eswatini sounds like it was named by Jawas
@turdfurgeson2032See it on YouTube"Able was I ere I saw Elba" is the famous palindrome I learned as a kid. It's an island where Napoleon stayed.
@muffinamy83See it on YouTubeEire!!!!
It's the proper name for the Irish Republic.@tonyfisher1365See it on YouTubeIt's funny that I didn't think of Egypt, considering I was born there.
@Trainer359See it on YouTubeEstados Unidos
@markkinz7913See it on YouTubeI got 7 of them, but somehow forgot about Egypt too
@joebutler9850See it on YouTubeI probably shouldn't admit this but I paused the video after hearing the question and spent the next 15 minutes mind palace-ing the whole atlas. Fairly proud to say I got all 8(9) and pretty sure I got all 193(5) UN member countries.
Since when did I become a geography nerd 😅@ImBarryScottCSSSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Drop A Pin
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- Video published
- October 7, 2026
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The views followed an ordinary first day for this channel. The comments, by contrast, came in far faster than usual.
💡 Test your knowledge
One of Drop A Pin's newer Shorts asks which river forms the natural border between the United States and Mexico. Which is it?
The Rio Grande, called Río Bravo in Mexico, marks the border from El Paso down to the Gulf of Mexico.