Monoresponsory

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. The most devastating volcanic eruption of the last four centuries occurred in the territory of which kingdom (at that time)? Answer: (One Word)

2. On the territory of which kingdom could be found the greatest Muslim population during the first four decades of the 20th century? Answer: (One Word)

3. A brother of Napoleon reigned for about four years as King over this country. He was the father of another Emperor (at least legally). Of which country was he King? Answer: (One Word)

4. What country had a navy who inflicted the greatest defeat of all centuries upon the English navy? Answer: (One Word - think of a river)

5. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Shogun of Japan was - quite rightly so, in my view - worried about Western foreigners. These Western foreigners brought with them, amongst other things, the Christian belief which was considered by the Shogun to be a potential political and cultural menace to Japan. So, he ordered that any Westerner who wanted to trade with Japan had to spit upon the Cross. Virtually all Western traders refused. Only the merchants of one Western country complied. Which one? Answer: (One Word)

6. Descartes. Does it ring a bell with you? Of course: "cogito, ergo sum." Lesser known is the fact that Descartes was a mercenary in the pay of which state? Answer: (One Word)

7. Ok, if by this time you haven't guessed the right answers, it's about time that you will be expelled from this formidable trivia site for lack of competence. But I will give you a last chance! Tell me this: in which country was the 17th century painter Dujardin born and raised? Answer: (One Word)

8. Which country has a population that is considered to be the tallest in the world? Answer: (One word)

9. Which country sent the battalion that about 1995 had to protect, under auspices of the U.N., the Muslim population of Srebrenica in Bosnia against the attacking Serbs, but failed miserably in doing so? Answer: (One word)

10. There is a general tendency in the world to believe that more and more places are changing their political status from monarchies into republics. Yet, there is one country in the world that was born as a republic and remained so for centuries, but which now is a monarchy. Which one? Answer: (One Word)