Places Quiz 10: 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. 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?
Victor Hugo
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?
Dahomey
5. Which European country ruled Guinea-Bissau until 1974?
6. Antigua and Barbuda is often said to have 365 beaches. Why that number?
One for every day of the year
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?
The New Hebrides
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?
A yurt (the circular crown is called a tunduk)
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?
Underwater (ministers wore scuba gear)
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?
Roger Milla
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?
It is the lowest point in Africa (about 155 metres below sea level)
17. Riga, the capital of Latvia, has one of the world's finest collections of buildings in which early 20th-century architectural style?
Art Nouveau
18. What is the name of the fjord-like bay on the coast of Montenegro, with a walled medieval town of the same name?
Kotor (the Bay of Kotor)
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?
ANSWERS
1. C The British Virgin Islands
2. Victor Hugo
3. C The United States
4. Dahomey
5. A Portugal
6. One for every day of the year
7. C The Bounty
8. The New Hebrides
9. A The European bison
10. A yurt (the circular crown is called a tunduk)
11. Underwater (ministers wore scuba gear)
12. D Lake Tanganyika
13. Roger Milla
14. D Gabon
15. C Senegal
16. It is the lowest point in Africa (about 155 metres below sea level)
17. Art Nouveau
18. Kotor (the Bay of Kotor)
19. A Christianity
20. C Kuwait