Around the World in 10 Questions Trivia

1. On which sea does Montenegro have a coastline?

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Answer: Adriatic Sea

Part of the former Yugoslavia, Montenegro is similar in size to the U.S. state of Connecticut. Podgorica is the capital and largest city. The Adriatic provides coastlines for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia.

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Answer: Melanesia

Located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, this region includes the countries of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

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Answer: Madrid

Opened in 1928, Barajas Airport is located just six miles from the centre of Madrid, the Spanish capital. Also named for Spain's first President following the end of Franco's dictatorship in 1976, its full title is "Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport". With an area of 7,500 acres, Barajas is the largest European airport by area. Passenger numbers exceeded 50 million for the first time in 2015, making it Europe's sixth-busiest airport that year. Spain's other major airport, Barcelona El Prat Airport, had 44 million passengers that year, putting it right behind Madrid, in seventh place.

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Answer: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Originally built as a high school, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum reminds visitors of the horrors that took place at Security Prison 21 (S-21) during the late 1970s under the Khmer Rouge regime. Located in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, 'Tuol Sleng' means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" in Khmer. Between 1975 and 1979, more than 17,000 prisoners passed through Prison 21. Of those 17,000 there are only twelve known survivors! The buildings today remain as they were found by Vietnamese troops who drove out the Khmer Rouge. The authorities photographed all prisoners when they arrived as well as many of inmates after they were beaten to death or executed. Many of the rooms at the museum contain walls of these stark black-and-white photographs. Tuol Sleng is not only a memorial to those who died there and an attraction for tourists, but also an educational site. Cambodian schoolchildren are routinely brought here on study tours, to learn the reality of the darkest period in their country's history.

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Answer: Cambridge

Founded in 1874 and named for Henry Cavendish, some 29 Nobel Prize winners had carried out their research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge as of 2011. Founded in 1766 and now regarded as one of the world's premier teaching hospitals, Addenbrooke's Hospital is part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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Answer: Baffin Island

Formerly named Frobisher Bay (which is also the name of the inlet on which it is stands), Iqaluit is located on the southern coast of Canada's largest island, Baffin Island, the fifth-largest island in the world. With an area of almost 196,000 square miles, Baffin Island is slightly larger than Spain. Only two U.S. states, Alaska and Texas, are larger.

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Answer: New Guinea

Although technically part of Denmark, if considered independently Greenland would be the world's 12th-largest nation. Australia is the world's 6th-largest country and, whilst an island, it is also a continent. With an area of 303,300 sq miles, New Guinea is the world's second-largest island - about the size of Turkey. The island is shared by Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Borneo (289,000 sq miles) is shared by Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. With an area of 227,000 sq miles, Madagascar is the world's largest single independent nation island. Is is only marginally smaller than the Ukraine, the largest country wholly within Europe. Baffin Island (196,000 - the size of Spain) is the largest of the Canadian islands.

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Answer: Milan

Da Vinci's 15 foot by 29 foot masterpiece, created between 1495 and 1498, is a mural painted directly onto an end wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

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Answer: Montana

At 147,042 sq miles, Montana in America's 4th-largest state (after Alaska, Texas and California). It has a similar land area to Japan. With just under 1 million residents, though, it is the 44th-largest state in terms of population. With less than 7 inhabitants per square mile, only Alaska and Wyoming are less densely populated.

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Answer: Yukon & British Columbia

Yukon lies in the extreme northwest corner of Canada and is the smallest of the country's three territories. Yukon's 752-mile border with Alaska stretches along the 141 degree west longitude line. British Columbia borders Yukon to the north and the US states of Washington, Idaho and Montana to the south. The province's northwest border is with Alaska.

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Answer: M5

Built between 1962 and 1977, the M5 runs 162.9 miles from the West Midlands to northern Devon. At its northern end it joins the M6 at West Bromwich. At the southern end, it joins the A30 on the outskirts of Exeter. Major populations centers along the route include Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Worcester, Cheltenham, Bristol, West-super-Mare, Bridgewater and Taunton.

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Answer: Montenegro

Montenegro first attained independence from the Byzantine Empire in 1042. It was annexed by Serbia in 1186 and again became an independent kingdom in 1356. In 1499 it became part of the Ottoman Empire, and there it stayed for almost four decades, regaining its independence again in 1878. At the end of WWI it became part of 'Serbia & Montenegro', and remained so until that union was dissolved in 2006. In became the 192nd member of the UN in 2006 and has applied for European Union candidate status. With an area of just over 5,000 sq miles, Montenegro is slightly smaller than The Bahamas -- about twice the size of the US state of Delaware. It's population (around 650,000) it about the same as the city of Baltimore MD. Of the alternatives, the capital of Macedonia is Skopje, the capital of Georgia is Tbilisi, and the capital of Moldova is Chisinau.

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Answer: Tasmania

Bass Strait was named after British naval surgeon and explorer George Bass. In 1797, he became the first European known to have entered the waters between the mainland state of Victoria and Van Diemen's Land, as Tasmania was then known. Of the alternatives, Australia and Papua New Guinea are separated by the 100-mile wide Torres Strait. The Tasman Sea separates Australia and New Zealand. Cape Jervis at the southwestern tip of South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula is separated from Kangaroo Island by the Backstairs Passage.

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Answer: Manchester

Standing on the north bank of the river Mersey, the village of Didsbury dates back to the 13th Century. It is now a commuter community about 5 miles south of Manchester City Centre. The township of Cheetham became part of the growing Borough of Manchester in 1838. It lies on the west bank of the River Irk to the northeast of the centre, near the boundary with Salford. Children's writer Francis Hodgson Burnett, Nobel laureate physicist J.J. Thompson and Don Arden, manager of The Small Faces and father of Sharon Osbourne, were all born in Cheetham Hill. Hulme is located on the southern edge of Manchester City Centre. It was here that the first 'Rolls-Royce' factory opened in 1904. Morrissey, controversial lead-singer of 'The Smiths', grew up in Hulme and neighboring Moss Side. Moss Side is a multi-ethnic residential area two miles south of Manchester City Centre, east of Old Trafford, with an unfortunate reputation for gang culture and high crime rate. Moss Side was home to Manchester City's Maine Road stadium from 1923 until their move to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2003. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Sloan Street. Moss Side was also the childhood home of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott and 'A Clockwork Orange' author Anthony Burgess.

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Answer: Australia

Much of Australia is desert -- the largest are The Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria Desert. Then come the three in the questions here, Tanami, Simpson and Gibson. The Gibson Desert lies along the Tropic of Capricorn in Western Australia. It covers about 155,000 sq km, which is about twice the size of the Czech Republic. The Simpson Desert lies in central Australia, north of Lake Eyre. Annual rainfall is less than 200mm. It covers some 176,000 sq km, which is about the size of Uruguay. The Tanami Desert is the largest of the three, covering 185,000 sq km -- slightly larger than the US state of Washington. Located in Northern Territory, it remains one of the world's least explored places. The nearest recorded rainfall was at Rabbit Flat, one of the most isolated roadhouses in Australia (more than 100 km from any other settlement).

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Answer: Pakistan - China

At 15,397 feet, the Khunjerab Pass is the highest point on the Karakoram Highway which connects Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Xinjiang Province in China. The paved roadway through the pass was completed in 1982. The pass is open only during summer months, between the beginning of May and mid October. The Karakoram Range, part of the Himalayas, straddles the border and contains many of the world's highest peaks, including the second highest mountain on the planet, Qogir Feng (aka K2). Most of the highest peaks in the Karakorams, including K2, lie on the Pakistan side of the border.

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Answer: Qing

Also known as the Manchu dynasty as it was founded by a clan from Manchuria (northeastern China today), the name 'Qing' means 'clear'. Having captured Beijing in 1644, it extended its rule to most of modern-day China within two years. The most significant Qing leader was Kangxi, the dynasty's third emperor (and the second to rule over the whole of China). His 61-year rule between 1661 and 1722 makes him the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history. Military victories over both the Taiwanese government and Czarist Russia enabled him to expand his empire and to bring about a period of relative calm after decades of war. Of the other choices, the Ming dynasty ruled from 1368-1644, the Song from 960-1279 (split between Northern and Southern Song), and the Tang from 618-907.

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Answer: The Red Crescent

The Red Cross idea was born during the Battle of Solferino, fought between France and Austria in Northern Italy in 1859. The International Red Cross was founded in 1919 in Paris following the WWI. The War had shown a need for close cooperation between Red Cross Societies.

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Answer: Kazakhstan

Surrounded by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and China with a coastline on the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest country (behind Argentina) with an area larger than the whole of Western Europe.

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Answer: Albania

Located on the southwestern part of the Balkan Peninsular, Albania is only 45 miles from Italy's east coast across the Strait of Otranto. Estonia is "Eesti" in its native language, Montenegro is "Crna Gora" and Hungary is "Magyarország".

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Answer: Chicago IL

Three hundred guests filled the six-car train that made the first journey operated by the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad on May 27, 1892, and the line opened to the public ten days later. The charge to early passengers on the 3.6-mile trip was five cents. Much of the route travelled by those early trains is still part of the South Side Elevated Railroad, the "Chicago L" today. Unlike the cable railroads of the time, the new line ran 24-hours a day, with two trains operating through the late-night hours, providing service every 20 minutes. During rush hours, 18 cars operated with a three-minute gap between them.

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Answer: Chad

Founded by the French in 1900 and named Fort-Lamy, the city quickly became a major trading post and the capital of the region. In 1920, the region was incorporated into the colony designated as French Equatorial Africa. Following WWII, the region was granted 'overseas territory' status and eventually, in 1960, independence as the Republic of Chad. In 1973, the name of the capital and largest city in Chad was changed to N'Djamena (meaning "place of rest" in Arabic). Today, N'Djamena is a major port, a regional market and the country's major economic centre. In 2012, the city itself was home to something approaching 1.1 million, with a further half million resident in the surrounding metropolitan area. Meanwhile, the relatively small market town of Kousseri at the Cameroonian end of the bridge was home to around 90,000 at the time of the 2005 Census. Since that time, though, that population has swollen considerably by an influx of refugees fleeing ethnic violence on the opposite side of the river.

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Answer: China

A fault-bounded trough, the Turpan Basin covers an area of 19,000 square miles, which is about the size of Costa Rica or the combined size of Vermont and New Hampshire together. It is located in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the north-western corner of China. Lying 505 feet below sea level, the Turpan Depression is the fourth-lowest exposed surface on Earth, after the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee and Lake Assal in Djibouti. Average rainfall in the region is 0.62 inches/year, with rain falling on an average of just 13 days annually. The average 24-hour daily temperature in July is 90 degrees F.

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Answer: Yellow

Vietnam is the simplest variation - a red flag with a central yellow star. Burkina Faso's flag has red and green horizontal strips with a yellow star. The Cape Verde flag actually has a ring of ten yellow stars. Other national flags that include a 5-pointed yellow star include China, Grenada, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Suriname and South Sudan. The flags of Burma, Chile, Libya, Micronesia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts Nevis and others all include white stars. Those of Djibouti, North Korea, New Zealand and Panama include one or more 5-pointed red stars, whilst Ghana and Guinea-Bissau have a black star.

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Answer: The Gambia

The smallest country on the African mainland, The Gambia gained independence from Britain in 1965 and became a republic five years later. The dalasi replaced the Gambian Pound as the country's currency in 1971. There are 100 bututs to 1 dalasi. Curiously, the highest denomination bill in circulation is 100 dalasi, which converted to about £2 (just over $3) in 2012.

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Answer: Greenland

Although a member of the European Union and considered part of Europe, Iceland's nearest neighbour is Greenland, just 178 miles away, which (geographically speaking) is considered part of the North American continent. The Faroe Islands are 261 miles away. Iceland is much nearer to continental Europe than to the North American mainland, though - New York City is 2,600 miles away. Iceland's nearest European neighbours are Scotland, about 470 miles away, and Norway, 600 miles off.

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Answer: Greenland

The main body of Scoresby Sund stretches some 70 miles into Greenland's east coast from the Greenland Sea. The entire branch-like system of fjords cover 14,700 square miles with the longest extending more than 220 miles from the coast.

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Answer: Western Australia

With a land area of just over 1 million sq miles, Western Australia covers more than one-third of Australia. Russia's Sakha Republic is the only national subdivision in the world that is larger than Western Australia, which is more than one and a half times the size of the US state of Alaska.

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Answer: Malawi

Although Blantyre is the largest city, Lilongwe is the capital of Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa bordering Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. Prior to independence from Great Britain in 1964, Malawi was known as Nyasaland. Of the alternatives, Botswana's capital is Gaborone, Mali's is Bamako, whilst Lobamba and Mbabane are joint-capitals of Swaziland.

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Answer: The Azores

The flag of the Azores is one-third blue/two-thirds white with a golden Northern Goshawk flying under a crescent of nine golden stars. In the top left-hand corner is the Portuguese coat of arms. The Goshawk, a medium-sized bird of prey, is the symbol of the Azores. The name 'Azores' comes from the Portuguese name for the Goshawk, 'Acor'.

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