March 24 QoD -- "Olympics Abbreviations"

[NellyLunatic1980]

Here’s one for all you Olympics fans. Below is a list of three-letter codes that are used during the Olympic Games. For each code, tell me its respective country or territory. Be careful, as some of those codes are tricky. On your mark... get set... GO!

1. ESA - El Salvador
2. BDI - Burundi
3. BIZ - Belize
4. ASA - American Samoa
5. SWZ - Swaziland
6. MKD - Macedonia
7. GEQ - Equatorial Guinea
8. IVB - British Virgin Islands
9. VIN - St. Vincent and the Grenadines
10. COD - Democratic Republic of the Congo
11. SLO - Slovenia
12. INA - Indonesia
13. IRI - (Islamic Republic of) Iran
14. MRI - Mauritius
15. TLS - Timor-Leste/East Timor

BONUS
KSA - (Kingdom of) Saudi Arabia

I said there was 105 points available on Monday. If you remembered that I made two QoD posts on Monday, you would've checked the results of the March 20 ("Name That Cat!") QoD that I posted immediately before posting these questions. If you scrolled below the scoreboard, you would've seen this:

Spoiler

Congratulations! You found the SUPER SECRET QOD BONUS QUESTION!

You can earn 25 bonus points for naming this Bored Merry Man, who just happens to fit the category du jour:


Alternate link is here: http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/nellylunat ... bonus.html

To receive your points, post the answer anywhere in today's (March 24) QoD thread. You may include it in your answers or answer in a separate post. DO NOT post your answer in this thread; otherwise, you will not get your bonus points.

Of course, that was a picture of ShitSandwich. If you were uncomfortable with posting his first name, you could've cleaned it up by saying KittySandwich or Mr. Sandwich.

Adding it all up, we see that aj took top honors with 97 out of 105. With that, he reclaims second place from Fannie.

March 24 Scores / Scores after Day 19
Greyhound - 80 / 599.5
aj - 97 / 514
fanny - 6 / 465 (+2 humor points)
mrkelley - 73 / 460
Annie - 41 / 411
plasticene - 64 / 388
tlynn - 64 / 384
Catfish - 53 / 377.5
T_Bone - 28 / 367.5
tansta - 28 / 361
pea - 55 / 358.5 (+2 humor points)
gsabc - 34 / 329 (+1 humor point)
Confessor - 41 / 327.5
ne - X / 298.5
Marley - X / 291.5
mikehardware - X / 282.5
krox - 32 / 262
winter - X / 257.5
Dad - 44 / 243
mega - 6 / 235 (+2 humor points)
TMITSSS - X / 192
jarnon - 56 / 183
nitrah - X / 160
lb13 - X / 131.5
macrae - 64 / 131
Sprots - X / 114.5
FrankT - X / 69
Appa - X / 64
KT - X / 60
minty - X / 54.5
ear - X / 54
VAdame - X / 46.5
Cal - X / 40
Bob#s - X / 34.5
etaoin - X / 30
ladysoleil - X / 28
LFHP - X / 27
starfish - X / 20
eyegor - X / 19
Rexer - X / 18
trevor - X / 18
hermillion - X / 12
SirG - X / 11
christie - X / 9
TLITF - X / 8
jsuchard - X / 5