Q 01/05

The Danube is Europe's second-longest river after which?

A) Volga

B) Rhine

C) Dnieper

D) Don

Answer · why

A) Volga

It runs about 2,850 km from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.

Q 02/05

Into which sea does the Danube empty?

A) Adriatic Sea

B) North Sea

C) Black Sea

D) Baltic Sea

Answer · why

C) Black Sea

It arrives via a delta shared by Romania and Ukraine.

Q 03/05

The Danube passes through or borders how many countries?

A) Fourteen

B) Ten

C) Four

D) Seven

Answer · why

B) Ten

Its drainage basin extends into nine more, or ten if Kosovo is counted.

Q 04/05

Which four national capitals stand on the Danube?

A) Bratislava, Budapest, Zagreb and Belgrade

B) Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Bucharest

C) Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia

D) Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade

Answer · why

D) Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade

No other river in the world flows through as many capitals.

Q 05/05

The Danube takes its name at the meeting of the Brigach and Breg in which German town?

A) Passau an der Donau

B) Regensburg

C) Donaueschingen

D) Ulm an der Donau

Answer · why

C) Donaueschingen

The confluence lies in the town's palace park; the Breg itself rises at Furtwangen and is the longest headstream.