Q 01/05

Malta lies in which sea?

A) The Mediterranean

B) The Adriatic

C) The Aegean

D) The Tyrrhenian

Answer · why

A) The Mediterranean

The Mediterranean surrounds Malta, which sits near the centre of that sea, south of Sicily and north of Libya, on the old shipping lane between Gibral...

Q 02/05

What is the capital of Malta?

A) Mdina

B) Sliema

C) Birkirkara

D) Valletta

Answer · why

D) Valletta

Valletta, built by the Knights on the Sciberras peninsula after the siege of 1565, is the European Union's smallest capital, under a square kilometre ...

Q 03/05

Besides Malta itself, which two islands of the archipelago are inhabited?

A) Filfla and Cominotto

B) Gozo and Filfla

C) Gozo and Comino

D) Comino and Lampedusa

Answer · why

C) Gozo and Comino

Gozo and Comino are the inhabited islands besides Malta: Gozo is the rural second island with tens of thousands of people, while Comino, between the t...

Q 04/05

What are Malta's two official languages?

A) Maltese and Italian

B) Maltese and English

C) English and Italian

D) Maltese and Arabic

Answer · why

B) Maltese and English

Maltese and English are both official under the constitution, with Maltese the national language; if the Maltese and English texts of a law conflict, ...

Q 05/05

The Maltese language descends from which extinct dialect?

A) Vulgar Latin

B) Siculo-Arabic

C) Byzantine Greek

D) Punic Phoenician

Answer · why

B) Siculo-Arabic

Siculo-Arabic, the Arabic spoken in Sicily from the ninth century, gave Maltese its grammar and core vocabulary; later Sicilian, Italian and English b...