Q 01/05

Which city, whose 168-letter ceremonial name is the world's longest place name, is the capital of Thailand?

A) Chiang Mai

B) Bangkok

C) Pattaya

D) Phuket

Answer · why

B) Bangkok

Bangkok is known to Thais as Krung Thep, the opening words of a ceremonial title that Guinness World Records lists at 168 letters.

Q 02/05

Which city, known as Edo until it was renamed in 1868, is the capital of Japan?

A) Tokyo

B) Osaka

C) Nagoya

D) Yokohama

Answer · why

A) Tokyo

Tokyo means 'Eastern Capital', a name it took when the imperial court moved there. As Edo it had already grown from a fishing village to more than a m...

Q 03/05

Which Chinese city, the national capital, was given a name meaning 'Northern Capital' in 1403?

A) Shanghai

B) Nanjing

C) Beijing

D) Guangzhou

Answer · why

C) Beijing

Beijing was named under the Ming dynasty to tell it apart from Nanjing, the 'Southern Capital'. Work on the Forbidden City began three years later.

Q 04/05

Which city, home to the hilltop mausoleum of Atatürk, became the capital of Turkey in 1923?

A) Istanbul

B) Izmir

C) Bursa

D) Ankara

Answer · why

D) Ankara

Ankara took over from Istanbul, the old Ottoman capital, when the republic was founded. It has since grown into Turkey's second-largest city.

Q 05/05

Which city, designed by the British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, is the capital of India?

A) New Delhi

B) Mumbai

C) Kolkata

D) Hyderabad

Answer · why

A) New Delhi

New Delhi was inaugurated in 1931, two decades after George V announced that the capital of British India would move from Calcutta.