1) Name the country a) Great Britain b) Ireland c) France d) United Kingdom 2) Name the country a) Canada b) USA c) Mexico d) Greenland 3) Name the country a) Australia b) New Zealand c) Papua New Guinea d) China 4) Name the country a) Peru b) Chile c) Argentina d) Bolivia 5) Name the country a) Crete b) Malta c) Sicily d) Cyprus 6) Name the country a) South Korea b) Hawaii c) Japan d) New Zealand 7) What is the capital of Slovakia? a) Bratislava b) Budapest c) Sofia d) Belgrade 8) What is the capital of Liechtenstein? a) Bern b) Valleta c) Vaduz d) Riga 9) What is the capital of Scotland?? a) Glasgow b) Edinburgh c) Perth d) Aberdeen 10) What is the capital of Moldova? a) Riga b) Vilnius c) Bucharest d) Chisnau 11) Christmas Island is in which Ocean? a) Pacific b) Atlantic c) Indian d) Southern 12) What was the capital city of Portugal between the years 1808 and 1821? a) Lisbon b) Oporto c) Faro d) Rio de Janiero 13) The United States of America has formally declared war on five different occasions against ten countries. Can you name the first three countries? a) France, Germany, Mexico b) Great Britain, Mexico, Spain c) Mexico, Spain, Germany d) Great Britain, Germany, Mexico 14) Which Apollo 11 astronaut did not set foot on the moon? a) Buzz Aldrin b) Neil Armstron c) Michael Collins d) Jim Lovell 15) According to legend, which man rode horses named Llamrei, Hengroen and Passelande? a) King Arthur b) Attila the Hun c) Ghengis Khan d) Napoleon Boneparte 16) Who first popularised the expression 'Iron Curtain'? a) Joseph Stalin b) Eric Hoeniker c) Winston Churchill d) Theodore Roosevelt 17) Who succeeded Stalin as Communist Party leader? a) Brezhnev b) Trotsky c) Cruschov d) Yeltsin 18) Which eastern European country maintained close relations with China? a) Yugoslavia b) East Germany c) Poland d) Albania 19) Due to superstition, what didn't Bjorn Borg do at Wimbledon? a) shave b) wash c) brush his teeth d) change his socks 20) Countries from which continent boycotted the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal? a) Europe b) Africa c) Asia d) South America 21) What is the old name for Sri Lanka? a) Spice Islands b) Mandalay c) East Pakistan d) Ceylon 22) Karol Wojtyla is better known under which name? a) Pope John Paul II b) Liberace c) Carole King d) Santa 23) What was he name of the infamous nuclear reactor in Harrisburg Penn.? a) 1 mile island b) 3 mile island c) 9 mile creek d) 16 mile creek 24) Which three letters replaced CQD? a) KGB b) SOS c) TNT d) FYI 25) What was the number of the last Apollo mission? a) 13 b) 14 c) 17 d) 22 26) According to Merrian Websters Encyclopedic Dictionary, the longest word in the English language has how many letters? a) 25 b) 45 c) 85 d) 125 27) How many passengers were on board the Hindenburg on her last voyage? a) 97 b) 98 c) 99 d) 100 28) How many kilometres long is the Antarctic's coastline? a) 2,968 b) 7,968 c) 17,968 d) 37,968 29) How many teeth does a wolf have? a) 12 b) 22 c) 32 d) 42 30) According to the Bible, how old was Methusalem? a) 696 b) 797 c) 979 d) 969 31) How many lakes are there in Finland? a) 8,880 b) 87,880 c) 88,880 d) 187,880 32) Where is Timbuktu a) Niger b) Mali c) Chad d) Morocco 33) Where is the deepest place on earth a) Dead Sea b) Loch Ness c) Mid Atlantic Ridge d) Marianas Trench 34) How many square metres was ENIAC, the worlds first electronic computer? a) 70 b) 120 c) 170 d) 220 35) How many weeks was the album Dark Side Of The Moon in the US hitparade? a) 52 b) 326 c) 572 d) 741 36) How many Big Macs with cheese worth of energy would it take to send 1 kg into outer space? a) 21 b) 121 c) 221 d) 321 37) How many moons does the dwarf planet Pluto have? a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3 38) In Star Trek, what is the name of the earth colony on the moon ? a) New New York b) New London c) New Berlin d) New Beijing 39) How many men have walked on the moon ? a) 3 b) 9 c) 12 d) 18 40) How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime? a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 17 41) How many dimensions are there in Einsteins space time contiuum a) 3 b) 4 c) 11 d) infinite 42) How many bones are there in a human body a) 106 b) 160 c) 206 d) 260 43) How many vertibrae does a giraffe have in its neck? a) 7 b) 12 c) 17 d) 22 44) How many baths did Louis XIV take in his lifetime? a) 0 b) 3 c) 6 d) 9 45) How many hours would it take to listen to all of Beethoven's compositions? a) 100 b) 110 c) 120 d) 210 46) How many Asian countries start with the letter 'B'? a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 8 47) Approximately how many indigenous languages are spoken in Paua New Guinea? a) 450 b) 650 c) 750 d) 850 48) A famous band and the name given to a Coptic bishop. a) abba b) sheriff c) ursula d) oasis 49) The name for which extremely hot and arid African capital means 'end of the elephant's trunk'? a) Bamako b) Khartoum c) Nairobi d) Pretoria 50) The coat of arms of which country depicts two soldiers disguised as monks carrying swords? a) Andorra b) Latvia c) The Vatican City d) Monaco

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