Q 01/05

Which self-governing Arctic territory, with its capital at Nuuk, is the world's largest island?

A) Iceland

B) Baffin Island

C) Greenland

D) Ellesmere Island

Answer · why

C) Greenland

Greenland gained self-rule in 2009, with the right to take over its own courts, policing and natural resources in time. An ice sheet covers about 81% ...

Q 02/05

From which European country did the United States buy the US Virgin Islands for $25 million in 1917?

A) Netherlands

B) Denmark

C) Spain

D) France

Answer · why

B) Denmark

Denmark had run the three main islands as the Danish West Indies. The United States took possession on March 31, 1917, and gave them their present nam...

Q 03/05

The overseas department of French Guiana gives France its longest land border with which country?

A) Spain

B) Suriname

C) Belgium

D) Brazil

Answer · why

D) Brazil

Brazil meets France along French Guiana, which sits in South America yet is fully part of France and of the European Union.

Q 04/05

Which British territory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula is home to wild Barbary macaques?

A) Gibraltar

B) Malta

C) Lanzarote

D) Madeira

Answer · why

A) Gibraltar

Gibraltar has been British since Spain ceded it under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Its famous "apes" are actually monkeys, the only wild ones in Europe...

Q 05/05

On which remote British island in the South Atlantic did Napoleon Bonaparte die in exile in 1821?

A) Isle of Elba

B) Saint Helena

C) Ascension Island

D) Corsica

Answer · why

B) Saint Helena

Saint Helena was picked by the British government in 1815, after Waterloo. Napoleon lived at Longwood House there until his death six years later.