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Round 3 Questions & Answers - Wednesday 6th March

Palindromes And Countries Starting And Ending With The Same Letters

We're looking for any single word palindromes of four or five letters, defined in the Macquarie Dictionary.  Of course, a palindrome is a word that reads the same backwards as it does forwards, like the seven-letter word 'rotator'.

ABBA 2
ALULA 0
ANNA 2
BOOB 4
CIVIC 1
DEED 4
DELED 0
DEWED 0
ESSE 0
GOOG 0
KAIAK 0
KAYAK 1
KOOK 1
LEVEL 4
MADAM 5
MALAM 0
MINIM 0
NAAN 1
NOON 3
OTTO 2
PEEP 0
POOP 2
RADAR 3
REFER 2
ROTOR 1
SAGAS 0
SEES 0
SEMES 0
SERES 0
SEXES 0
SHAHS 0
SOLOS 0
STATS 1
STETS 0
TENET 0
TOOT 5



We'd like you to tell us any country whose name in English begins and ends with the same letter.

ALBANIA 11
ALGERIA  3
ANDORRA  2
ANGOLA  5
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 0
ARGENTINA  9
ARMENIA  2
AUSTRALIA  75
AUSTRIA  33
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 0
CZECH REPUBLIC 0
GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG 0
KINGDOM OF DENMARK 0
REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR 0
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 0
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 0
SEYCHELLES 0
SOLOMON ISLANDS 0