Q 01/05

Which European capital is the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state?

A) Stockholm

B) Tallinn

C) Helsinki

D) Reykjavík

Answer · why

D) Reykjavík

According to the Landnámabók, Iceland's settlement began there when Ingólfur Arnarson arrived in 874.

Q 02/05

Which is the southernmost capital in Europe, covering just 0.61 square kilometres?

A) Valletta

B) Lisbon

C) Athens

D) Nicosia

Answer · why

A) Valletta

It is named after Jean Parisot de Valette, the Grand Master who held off the Ottomans in the Great Siege of Malta.

Q 03/05

Malta's capital was built in the 16th century by which order?

A) The Knights Hospitaller

B) The Jesuits

C) The Teutonic Knights

D) The Knights Templar

Answer · why

A) The Knights Hospitaller

The city's Royal Opera House was destroyed in the Second World War and never fully rebuilt.

Q 04/05

Which country has no official capital, only a 'federal city' that acts as its de facto capital?

A) Netherlands

B) Switzerland

C) Liechtenstein

D) Belgium

Answer · why

B) Switzerland

Bern is only Switzerland's fifth-largest city, behind Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne.

Q 05/05

Bern's old town is surrounded by which river?

A) The Rhine

B) The Limmat

C) The Rhône

D) The Aare

Answer · why

D) The Aare

The Altstadt became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.