Q 01/05

Which state of under 900 people is the smallest sovereign country by both area and population?

A) Vatican City

B) San Marino

C) Liechtenstein

D) Nauru

Answer · why

A) Vatican City

Vatican City covers just 44 hectares inside Rome and came into being in 1929 through the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy.

Q 02/05

Which river, flowing through four national capitals, more than any other, ends in the Black Sea?

A) Elbe

B) Dnieper

C) Danube

D) Vistula

Answer · why

C) Danube

The Danube runs 2,850 km from Germany's Black Forest to a delta shared by Romania and Ukraine, and was once a frontier of the Roman Empire.

Q 03/05

Which capital, the world's most northerly for a sovereign state, heats every building geothermally?

A) Helsinki

B) Reykjavík

C) Stockholm

D) Tallinn

Answer · why

B) Reykjavík

Reykjavík lies at 64°08′ N; only Nuuk in Greenland sits slightly further north, and Greenland is a constituent country rather than an independent stat...

Q 04/05

Which country has around 26% of its land and a fifth of its people living below sea level?

A) Belgium

B) Lithuania

C) Latvia

D) Netherlands

Answer · why

D) Netherlands

The Netherlands literally means 'lower countries', and most of the land below sea level is polders, reclaimed from water in work that began in the 14t...

Q 05/05

Which team, let into Euro 1992 only after Yugoslavia was disqualified, went on to lift the trophy?

A) Sweden

B) Denmark

C) Germany

D) Scotland

Answer · why

B) Denmark

Denmark entered as runners-up from Yugoslavia's qualifying group and beat a newly reunified Germany 2–0 in the final.