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Q 01Which country's army accidentally marched into Liechtenstein in 2007?
- AAustria
- BGermany
- CSwitzerland
- DItaly
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Switzerland
The Swiss Army apologised; a Liechtenstein ministry spokesman replied 'No problem, these things happen.' In 1985 Swiss shells had already set fire to a patch of Liechtenstein forest, settled 'over a case of white wine'.
Q 02Which British force stormed a Spanish beach by mistake while training to land on Gibraltar?
- AThe SAS
- BThe Royal Marines
- CThe Gurkhas
- DThe Grenadier Guards
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The Royal Marines
The Royal Marines. They landed on a beach at La Línea, the Spanish town next to Gibraltar, and Britain apologised to Spain.
Q 03Whose botched 1989 press conference sent Berliners flooding through the Wall?
- AGünter Schabowski
- BEgon Krenz
- CErich Honecker
- DErich Mielke
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Günter Schabowski
Günter Schabowski, handed a note he had not read, told reporters the new travel rules applied 'immediately'; crowds massed at the checkpoints that night and the guards, with no orders, opened them.
Q 04US bombers mistakenly bombed which Swiss town on 1 April 1944?
- ASchaffhausen
- BLugano
- CLucerne
- DChur
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Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen sits on the north bank of the Rhine, surrounded by Germany on three sides, and crews blown off course took it for a German target; about 40 people died and the US paid compensation.
Q 05A jogging French teen strayed from a Canadian beach into which state?
- AMichigan
- BMaine
- CAlaska
- DWashington
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Washington
Washington: Cedella Roman, 19, jogged south along the beach from White Rock, British Columbia, past an unmarked stretch of border into Blaine in 2018, and US Border Patrol held her for two weeks in Tacoma.
Q 06A US veteran who said he took a wrong turn into Mexico was jailed for months over what in his truck?
- AUndeclared cash
- BRare parrots
- CGuns
- DStolen car parts
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Guns
Guns. Andrew Tahmooressi, an Afghanistan veteran, had three, all legally owned in the US, and faced weapons charges after Mexican customs found them.
Q 07Why did Belgium and the Netherlands swap small pieces of land near Maastricht?
- AA motorway had been rerouted
- BA river had been straightened
- CAn airport had been extended
- DA railway had been built
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A river had been straightened
A river had been straightened. Reshaping the Meuse had stranded slivers of each country on the wrong side, and they became lawless spots police struggled to reach.
Q 08What did Edén Pastora blame for Nicaragua's 2010 incursion into Costa Rica?
- ABing Maps
- BOpenStreetMap
- CMapQuest
- DGoogle Maps
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Google Maps
Google promptly corrected the map. Nicaragua's actual claim rested on a small channel it argued marked the boundary instead of the main San Juan River.
Q 09Ten US sailors were detained in 2016 near which Gulf island?
- AKharg
- BQeshm
- CAbu Musa
- DFarsi
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Farsi
The Navy first blamed mechanical failure, but the cause turned out to be navigational error: one boat's engine trouble had stopped both, and they drifted inside Farsi Island's three-mile limit.
Q 10Korean Air Flight 007 strayed into whose airspace in 1983?
- AChina
- BNorth Korea
- CThe Soviet Union
- DJapan
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The Soviet Union
The crew appear to have left the autopilot in HEADING mode instead of following the inertial navigation route, so the 747 tracked steadily off course for hours. All 269 aboard died.
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