Places Quiz 11: multiple choice
15 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. The Baths, a beach strewn with giant granite boulders, is a famous sight on Virgin Gorda in which British Overseas Territory?
2. Which small island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey bans cars, so that people get around by bicycle, horse and tractor?
3. In 2025, the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory to which country?
4. 10 January is a national holiday in Benin celebrating which traditional religion, which originated there?
5. Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's largest exporters of which nut?
Cashew nuts
6. The national cricket stadium of Antigua and Barbuda is named after which great West Indies batsman?
Sir Vivian Richards
7. The Pitcairn Islands have one of the smallest populations of any territory in the world. Roughly how many people live there: about 50, about 500, or about 5,000?
About 50
8. The ritual of "land diving" from tall wooden towers on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu inspired which modern extreme sport?
9. Which country became the world's newest internationally recognised country in July 2011?
10. What is the capital of Togo?
11. Most of the disputed territory of Western Sahara is controlled by which country?
12. What is the capital of Bermuda?
13. At Stingray City in the Cayman Islands, what do tourists swim with in shallow water?
Stingrays
14. Dominica, home to the Boiling Lake, is known by what nickname?
"The Nature Isle of the Caribbean"
15. Which island in the Solomon Islands, scene of a major Second World War campaign, is home to the capital, Honiara?
16. Tonga is the only Pacific island nation that was never formally colonised. What kind of state is it?
17. The TV news network Al Jazeera is based in Doha, the capital of which country?
18. In which country is Samarkand, a Silk Road city famous for the Registan square?
19. Which is the only country in South America where Dutch is the official language?
20. In 2002, East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century, after gaining independence from which country?
ANSWERS
1. A The British Virgin Islands
2. B Sark
3. D Mauritius
4. B Vodun
5. Cashew nuts
6. Sir Vivian Richards
7. About 50
8. A Bungee jumping
9. D South Sudan
10. B Lomé
11. B Morocco
12. C Hamilton
13. Stingrays
14. "The Nature Isle of the Caribbean"
15. C Guadalcanal
16. A A kingdom
17. B Qatar
18. A Uzbekistan
19. D Suriname
20. C Indonesia