Donnie gets Antigua before Australia in Drop A Pin's quiz

A countries-with-an-A challenge has viewers comparing their own memory blanks and asking whether Aruba should count.

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Why this story? The video drew 716 comments in its first day, 7 times a normal first day on this channel (103).

9 countries that start and end with the letter a

How do you remember Antigua and Barbuda but get stuck on Australia? Donnie manages it in Drop A Pin's geography challenge, and viewers are comparing his stumbling blocks with their own.

The task sounds manageable: name nine countries whose English names begin and end with A. Algeria and Angola come quickly. Antigua, accepted as Antigua and Barbuda, follows, then Andorra. But having some less obvious answers ready doesn't make the rest arrive in an orderly queue.

At one point, Donnie starts sounding out possibilities rather than naming places. "I like how when you're thinking you're just basically doing a spell," the host tells him. Aconcagua gets a brief, unsuccessful audition as a country. Hints eventually help him reach Australia and Armenia, with Austria and Albania completing the card.

The Short drew roughly 700 comments in its first day, seven times the usual response for Drop A Pin's Shorts, even though its views were ordinary for the channel. The conversation has something more specific than applause: viewers describe getting a completely different set of answers immediately, then struggling with countries Donnie remembered at once. Several Australians point out how long their country took to surface.

Others propose Aruba and ask about the rules. It is a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, rather than an independent sovereign state, a distinction that explains why it falls outside this particular list. For Donnie, the remaining knowledge gap is elsewhere: after completing the challenge, he admits Antigua and Barbuda is the answer he could probably say the least about.

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What viewers say

As an Australian, I'm deeply hurt that we took so long to be mentioned.
@arendeepropertymaintenanceSee it on YouTube
I got about 5 straightaway, but strangely the opposite of the ones he got straight away.
@paulthompson8996See it on YouTube
So funny. The one he struggled with the most (Albania) was the first one that popped in my head. And I never would have gotten even half the rest.
@tobarstepSee it on YouTube

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What about Aruba? Or it doesn't count because it's under crown of Netherlands...
@niarlatotepbassetSee it on YouTube
Remember Coach from Cheers learning “Albania” geography?
@DavidSix-nd6htSee it on YouTube
I love these because I hit the pause 😅😅😅
@BillMeasure-n1gSee it on YouTube
I tried to think of the countries from the title before starting the video and I got 5.

Then I started the video and the first 4 countries he mentioned are exactly the ones I didn't find.
@JannPooSee it on YouTube
Enjoying this series, gentlemen. I might have missed Andorra. Well played and here's to the game.
@staceyduff6139See it on YouTube