Q 01/05

Which city fills the blank: 'The capital of Australia is ____'?

A) Sydney

B) Melbourne

C) Canberra

D) Perth

Answer · why

C) Canberra

Canberra was chosen under a constitutional rule that the capital sit in New South Wales at least 100 miles from Sydney, and Parliament met in Melbourn...

Q 02/05

Which sea fills the blank: 'The River Danube empties into the ____'?

A) Black Sea

B) Baltic Sea

C) Adriatic Sea

D) Caspian Sea

Answer · why

A) Black Sea

Black Sea; communist Romania made political prisoners dig a canal linking the Danube to it in the early 1950s, and the project became known as the Can...

Q 03/05

Which country fills the blank: 'Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, stands in ____'?

A) Uganda

B) Ethiopia

C) Tanzania

D) Rwanda

Answer · why

C) Tanzania

Tanzania; the German Hans Meyer named the summit Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze after his emperor, but it has since been renamed Uhuru Peak, Swahili for Freedo...

Q 04/05

Which country fills the blank: 'The world's smallest sovereign state by area is ____'?

A) Monaco

B) Vatican City

C) San Marino

D) Liechtenstein

Answer · why

B) Vatican City

Vatican City became a sovereign state only in 1929, when the Lateran Pacts with Mussolini's Italy ended a 60-year standoff that began when Italy seize...

Q 05/05

Which country fills the blank: 'The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from ____'?

A) Morocco

B) Algeria

C) Tunisia

D) Mauritania

Answer · why

A) Morocco

Morocco lies across the strait from Spain; Gibraltar's name comes from Jabal Tariq, the mountain of Tariq, the commander who crossed from Africa to in...