Q 01/05

Like San Marino, which of these countries is entirely surrounded by one other country?

A) Lesotho

B) Eswatini

C) Andorra

D) Luxembourg

Answer · why

A) Lesotho

Lesotho lies wholly inside South Africa, as San Marino lies inside its one neighbour. Its king asked for British protection in 1868 to keep Boer settl...

Q 02/05

Which of these countries is even smaller in area than San Marino?

A) Liechtenstein

B) Malta

C) Nauru

D) Andorra

Answer · why

C) Nauru

Nauru covers about 21 square kilometres, a third of San Marino's 61. A century of phosphate mining stripped most of the Pacific island's interior, lea...

Q 03/05

The capital, the City of San Marino, sits atop which mountain?

A) Monte Cimone

B) Monte Titano

C) Monte Carpegna

D) Monte Nerone

Answer · why

B) Monte Titano

Monte Titano was, by legend, a gift: a wealthy woman is said to have given the mountain to the stonemason Marinus after he healed her son.

Q 04/05

San Marino's largest settlement is not the capital but which border town?

A) Acquaviva

B) Dogana

C) Borgo Maggiore

D) Domagnano

Answer · why

B) Dogana

Dogana, whose name means 'customs house', has about 7,000 residents. In 2006 it asked to become a municipality in its own right, and the request was t...

Q 05/05

The stonemason saint who gave San Marino its name came, by tradition, from an island in which present-day country?

A) Croatia

B) Greece

C) Malta

D) Cyprus

Answer · why

A) Croatia

Croatia's island of Rab was his home. He is said to have crossed the Adriatic to help rebuild a coastal city's walls, then climbed the mountain to esc...