Q 01/05

Where is the CIA headquartered?

A) Washington D.C.

B) Quantico, Virginia

C) Langley, Virginia

D) Fort Meade, Maryland

Answer · why

C) Langley, Virginia

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, a location often used metonymo...

Q 02/05

Since 1994, what building on the Thames at Albert Embankment has housed the UK's foreign spy service?

A) Thames House

B) Vauxhall Cross

C) Century House

D) Broadway Buildings

Answer · why

B) Vauxhall Cross

Vauxhall Cross: the SIS Building at 85 Albert Embankment, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in July 1994, houses MI6 and appears as its home in several Jam...

Q 03/05

Israel's foreign intelligence agency trains its recruits at an academy near which city?

A) Haifa

B) Beersheba

C) Herzliya

D) Eilat

Answer · why

C) Herzliya

Herzliya: Mossad's training academy, the Midrasha, sits at the Glilot junction just south of Herzliya on Tel Aviv's northern edge, alongside the agenc...

Q 04/05

In which city is France's foreign intelligence agency, whose HQ is nicknamed 'La piscine' after a nearby pool?

A) Lyon

B) Marseille

C) Paris

D) Toulouse

Answer · why

C) Paris

Paris: the DGSE headquarters sits on boulevard Mortier in the 20th arrondissement, beside the Piscine des Tourelles swimming pool that gave it the nic...

Q 05/05

The KGB was headquartered in which city's Lubyanka Square?

A) St. Petersburg

B) Moscow

C) Kiev

D) Minsk

Answer · why

B) Moscow

Moscow's Lubyanka, a Neo-Baroque building from 1897, also housed a prison, part of which is now a museum.