Q 01/05

Which autonomous Danish territory quit the European Economic Community in 1985 over fishing rules?

A) Spitsbergen

B) Greenland

C) Iceland

D) Bornholm

Answer · why

B) Greenland

Greenland walked out because it rejected Europe's commercial fishing regulations and a ban on sealskin products, while Denmark itself stayed a member.

Q 02/05

Which Chinese territory, run by Portugal until 1999, has a far bigger gambling trade than Las Vegas?

A) Hainan

B) Xiamen

C) Zhuhai

D) Macau

Answer · why

D) Macau

Macau is known as the gambling capital of the world, and its handover in December 1999 ended 442 years of Portuguese rule.

Q 03/05

Which autonomous monastic peninsula in Greece bars all women from entering, by law and tradition?

A) Mount Athos

B) Meteora

C) Mount Olympus

D) Monemvasia

Answer · why

A) Mount Athos

Mount Athos is governed by its own community of Orthodox monks, who hold the mountain to be the garden of the Mother of God and out of bounds to all o...

Q 04/05

Which semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, with its own president, was Freddie Mercury's birthplace?

A) Seychelles

B) Comoros

C) Zanzibar

D) Mombasa

Answer · why

C) Zanzibar

Zanzibar is where the Queen singer was born Farrokh Bulsara, in Stone Town; he fled to Britain with his family at 17 during a revolution.

Q 05/05

Which Chinese region kept its own dollar and driving on the left after Britain's 1997 handover?

A) Hong Kong

B) Shanghai

C) Shenzhen

D) Guangzhou

Answer · why

A) Hong Kong

Hong Kong changed hands at midnight on 1 July 1997 after 156 years of British rule, with China guaranteeing its economic and political systems for 50 ...