Q 01/05

The 1985 Schengen Agreement was signed in what unusual setting, at a spot where three countries' borders meet?

A) A railway carriage

B) A riverboat

C) A castle courtyard

D) A customs house

Answer · why

B) A riverboat

A riverboat, the Princesse Marie-Astrid, hosted the signing while moored on the Moselle. Sold abroad in 1992, the ship came home to Schengen in 2025 a...

Q 02/05

The village of Schengen, which gave its name to Europe's border-free travel zone, lies in which small country?

A) Luxembourg

B) Belgium

C) Netherlands

D) Denmark

Answer · why

A) Luxembourg

Luxembourg is home to Schengen, a village of only a few hundred people. Both the 1985 agreement and the 1990 convention that put it into practice were...

Q 03/05

Which EU member state holds a Schengen opt-out so that it can keep an open border with its only land neighbour?

A) Portugal

B) Finland

C) Ireland

D) Malta

Answer · why

C) Ireland

Ireland stays out to protect the Common Travel Area it has shared with the United Kingdom since 1923. Joining Schengen would mean checks on the border...

Q 04/05

The Entry/Exit System at Schengen's outer borders replaced which old ritual performed on visitors' passports?

A) Photocopying

B) Hole punching

C) Manual stamping

D) Handwritten logging

Answer · why

C) Manual stamping

Manual stamping gave way to a digital record of each crossing when the system began rolling out in October 2025. Guards still reach for the ink if the...

Q 05/05

San Marino and Vatican City have open borders with the Schengen Area because both sit entirely inside which country?

A) Greece

B) France

C) Portugal

D) Italy

Answer · why

D) Italy

Italy surrounds both, so neither keeps frontier posts. The edge of Vatican City in St Peter's Square is marked by nothing more than a line of pale sto...