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

The Volga. It runs about 3,500 km without ever leaving Russia, while the Danube's 2,850 km take it through or along ten countries.

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

The Black Sea. The silt the river carries has built a delta at its mouth, and new land is still forming where its arms reach the sea.

Q 03/05

Which country has less than a kilometre of the Danube's bank?

A) Croatia

B) Moldova

C) Slovakia

D) Ukraine

Answer · why

B) Moldova

Moldova. Its bank at Giurgiulești is only a few hundred metres long, yet the country has built its only port open to seagoing ships on it.

Q 04/05

Which four national capitals stand on the Danube?

A) Bratislava, Budapest, Zagreb and Belgrade

B) Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Bucharest

C) Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia

D) Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade

Answer · why

D) Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade

Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade. The third only became a single city in 1873, when Buda and Óbuda on the west bank merged with Pest on the e...

Q 05/05

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

A) Donauwörth

B) Regensburg

C) Donaueschingen

D) Ingolstadt

Answer · why

C) Donaueschingen

Donaueschingen. The town presents a spring beside its palace as the place where the river begins, but hydrologists count the spring of the larger Breg...