A-Z Challenge 2025 - Q is for Quandar or quandary?

I thought I'd seen the word "Quander" when I was looking at synonyms for nonsense but I may have been wrong.

According to AI:

"Quander" has two main meanings. It can mean to ponder or wonder about something. Alternatively, it can mean to spend or waste something (like money or time) extravagantly or foolishly.

1. Pondering or Wondering:
The verb "quander" can be used to describe the act of considering or questioning something deeply, similar to "ponder" or "wonder".
For example, "She quandered over the meaning of the poem".

2. Squandering or Wasting:
This usage of "quander" is less common, but it can mean to spend something, especially money or time, in a wasteful or careless way.
For example, "He quandered his inheritance by spending it all on gambling".

In summary: "Quander" has two meanings: to ponder or wonder, and to waste or squander. 

Clearly it feels like it's just a lazy way of saying squander which gives me the quandary of whether to use it for my Q word or find an alternative.  However, I'm preparing this post on Sunday 13th April and it's the last one of the coming week.  A week that is going to be busy when I will not have lots of time to quander so I'm sticking with plan A.  If you have a better word please leave it in the comments.

And, moving on to Q countries (Although I don't officially have a theme I wanted something to link my posts so I thought I'd see how many countries in the World I've visited or might visit.)

again there is only 1

Qatar 

Unsurprisingly I haven't been there and have no wish to visit.  Thanks to the 2022 FIFA World Cup its visitor numbers were probably drastically increased.  I enjoy watching football occasionally and some of the World Cup games were definitely exciting although it does take over the TV scheduling during the period it takes place.  Researching this I note that in 2026 there will be 48 teams in the final (compared to 32 in the past) so no doubt even more TV time will be quandered on it!

Right that's still 14 out of 197 countries then.

And 17 out of 26 letters done.  The end is in sight.

And here's another quandary - the total prize pot for the 2022 World Cup was £440 million.  Surely that money could be better spent?