1. Road Town, on the island of Tortola, is the capital of which British Overseas Territory?

2. Which French writer lived in exile on Guernsey for 15 years and finished "Les Misérables" there?

3. Diego Garcia, the main island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is home to a military base run by which country?

4. What was the former name of Benin, changed in 1975, the name of a West African kingdom famous for its women warriors?

5. Which European country ruled Guinea-Bissau until 1974?

6. Antigua and Barbuda is often said to have 365 beaches. Why that number?

7. Adamstown, the only settlement on the Pitcairn Islands, is named after John Adams, one of the mutineers from which ship?

8. Before independence in 1980, Vanuatu was ruled jointly by Britain and France under what name?

9. Which large wild animal, Europe's heaviest land mammal, lives in the Białowieża Forest on the border of Belarus and Poland?

10. The flag of Kyrgyzstan shows the crown of which traditional nomadic dwelling?

11. In 2009, the government of the Maldives held a cabinet meeting in an unusual place to highlight the threat of rising sea levels. Where?

12. On the shores of which great African lake is Burundi's largest city, Bujumbura?

13. Which 38-year-old Cameroon striker danced with the corner flag after scoring at the 1990 World Cup?

14. In which country did the doctor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer found his famous hospital at Lambaréné?

15. Which is the only country that borders The Gambia?

16. Lake Assal in Djibouti holds which African record?

17. Riga, the capital of Latvia, has one of the world's finest collections of buildings in which early 20th-century architectural style?

18. What is the name of the fjord-like bay on the coast of Montenegro, with a walled medieval town of the same name?

19. In 301 AD, Armenia became the first country in the world to officially adopt which religion?

20. In August 1990, which country did Saddam Hussein's Iraq invade, leading to the Gulf War?