Places Quiz 8: multiple choice
10 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. What is the capital of the Åland Islands?
2. What is the capital of the Faroe Islands?
3. Which Red Sea town is Jordan's only seaport?
4. What is the capital of Georgia, the country?
5. Which Portuguese custard pastry is one of Macau's most famous foods?
The egg tart (pastel de nata)
6. What is the capital of the Central African Republic, on the Ubangi River?
7. What is the capital of Chad?
8. The Comoros is one of the world's main producers of an essential oil used in perfumes such as Chanel No. 5. What is it?
Ylang-ylang
9. On which island is Malabo, the largest city of Equatorial Guinea?
10. Who has been king of Eswatini, one of the world's last absolute monarchies, since 1986?
Mswati III
11. In 2008, Rwanda became one of the first countries in the world to ban what everyday item?
Plastic bags
12. A giant tortoise on Saint Helena, believed to have hatched around 1832, is famous as the oldest known living land animal. What is his name?
Jonathan
13. Which precious stones fuelled Sierra Leone's civil war, as shown in a 2006 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio?
Diamonds ("Blood Diamond")
14. In the early 20th century, São Tomé and Príncipe was the world's largest producer of which crop?
Cocoa
15. The name Anguilla comes from the Spanish or Italian word for which creature?
16. What is the local creole language of Aruba, also spoken on Bonaire and Curaçao?
Papiamento
17. Saint Barthélemy was named by Christopher Columbus after which family member?
His brother, Bartolomeo (Bartholomew)
18. By both area and population, Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest sovereign state in which part of the world?
The Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
19. Which Saint Lucian poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992?
20. Maho Beach, where jets land so low over sunbathers that they can almost touch them, is on which Caribbean island?
ANSWERS
1. A Mariehamn
2. A Tórshavn
3. B Aqaba
4. B Tbilisi
5. The egg tart (pastel de nata)
6. A Bangui
7. C N'Djamena
8. Ylang-ylang
9. D Bioko
10. Mswati III
11. Plastic bags
12. Jonathan
13. Diamonds ("Blood Diamond")
14. Cocoa
15. A The eel
16. Papiamento
17. His brother, Bartolomeo (Bartholomew)
18. The Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
19. A Derek Walcott
20. A Saint Martin