Q 01/05

Which 2,500 km mountain range in Russia is the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia?

A) Caucasus Mountains

B) Altai Mountains

C) Ural Mountains

D) Carpathian Mountains

Answer · why

C) Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains make a low wall for a continental border: their highest peak, Mount Narodnaya, reaches only 1,895 metres.

Q 02/05

Which landlocked country, the world's largest, moved its footballers from Asia's confederation to UEFA?

A) Kazakhstan

B) Azerbaijan

C) Uzbekistan

D) Turkmenistan

Answer · why

A) Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan lies mostly in Central Asia, but a slice of its territory extends into Eastern Europe, and its footballers have played in UEFA since 2002.

Q 03/05

Which Siberian lake, the deepest in the world, holds more than a fifth of Earth's fresh surface water?

A) Ladoga

B) Balkhash

C) Onega

D) Baikal

Answer · why

D) Baikal

Baikal is also the world's oldest lake, at 25 to 30 million years, and holds more water than all the North American Great Lakes combined.

Q 04/05

Which empire became the largest contiguous empire in history, stretching from the Sea of Japan to Eastern Europe?

A) Ottoman

B) Mongol

C) Russian

D) Timurid

Answer · why

B) Mongol

The Mongol Empire grew from a council in 1206 that proclaimed Temüjin, better known as Genghis Khan, ruler of all the tribes he had united.

Q 05/05

Which Eurasian bird of the crow family was the first non-mammal found to recognise itself in a mirror?

A) Magpie

B) Raven

C) Jackdaw

D) Rook

Answer · why

A) Magpie

The Eurasian magpie passed the mirror test in 2008, after researchers placed coloured stickers on five birds' throats where only a reflection could re...