Question: Which Norwegian explorer did Robert Feary beat to the North Pole?
Answer: Roald Amundsen

Question: """A bridge too far"" referred to airborne landings in which country?"
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Who founded the Cubism movement with Picasso?
Answer: Braque

Question: What is the name shared by the currency units of "Algeria and Tunisia?
Answer: Dinar

Question: Mount Toubkai is the highest peak of which range of mountains?
Answer: Atlas Mountains

Question: Which South African politician won the Nobel peace Prize in 1960?
Answer: Albert Luthuli

Question: What is the former name of the People's Republic of Benin?
Answer: Dohomey

Question: Which country is the home of the Ashanti?
Answer: Ghana

Question: Where did Idi Amin rule from 1971 -1979?
Answer: Uganda

Question: In which country are the ruins of ancient Carthage?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: In which country does the White Nile leave Lake Victoria?
Answer: Uganda

Question: Which African explorer translated the Arabian Nights?
Answer: Richard Burton

Question: After which American President is the capital of Liberia named?
Answer: James Monroe

Question: In which country were the Mau-0Mau a secret guerrilla movement?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Who was the Danish author of Out of Africa?
Answer: Karen Blixen

Question: Which new city in Nigeria has been shaped like a crescent, and has replaced Lagos as capital?
Answer: Abuja

Question: Is the Great Wall of China 650, 1,450 or 2,050 miles long?
Answer: 1,450

Question: Where did the Gang of Four try to size power in 1976?
Answer: China

Question: Which Asian city hosted the 1988 Olympic Games?
Answer: Seoul

Question: Who was emperor of Japan during world War II?
Answer: Hirohito

Question: What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Riyadh

Question: Of which country is Vientiane the capital?
Answer: Laos

Question: Who was the Mongol ruler who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia in the 14th Century?
Answer: Tamerlane

Question: Which two Middle-Eastern countries fought a war from 1980 to 1988?
Answer: Iran and Iraq

Question: Which sea lies between china and Korea?
Answer: Yellow Sea

Question: In which modern country are the ports of Sidon and Tyer?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: The West Bank of which river has been occupied by Israel since 1967?
Answer: Jordan

Question: Which 15th-century navigator discovered the sea route from Europe to India by the Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: Vasco da Gama

Question: What did Burma change its name to in 1989?
Answer: Myanmar

Question: A 25 km causeway, the longest in the world, links Saudi Arabia with which other country?
Answer: Bahrain

Question: Beside which river are the Indian cities of Delhi and Agra?
Answer: Jumna

Question: On which inland sea do the ports of Astrakhan and Baku lie?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: Of which state in India is Lucknow the capital?
Answer: Uttah Pradesh

Question: Which country was suspended from the Arab League for ten years from 1979?
Answer: Egypt

Question: With what is the Japanese art of bonsai concerned?
Answer: Miniature Trees

Question: By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
Answer: Siam

Question: What kind of wild cattle with shaggy coats and upturned horns live in the mountains of Tibet?
Answer: Yak

Question: Which 13th-century Mongol warlord controlled probably a larger area than anyone in history, from the Yellow Sea to the Black Sea?
Answer: Genghis Khan

Question: Which is the largest city in India?
Answer: Calcutta

Question: Which is the principal island of Japan?
Answer: Honshu

Question: What distinguished the Japanese tanker Shin-Attoku-Maru, launched in 1980?
Answer: Assisted by wind

Question: In which 1954 battle did the Vietminh defeat the French and end their influence in Indochina?
Answer: Dien Bien Phu

Question: What nationality are the Gurkhas, who have fought for the British and Indian armies since 1815?
Answer: Nepalese

Question: Which major export of Bangladesh is used to make sacking?
Answer: Jute

Question: What was the former name of Iran?
Answer: Persia

Question: Which river runs 1,560 miles to the Bay of Bengal?
Answer: Ganges

Question: Which native East Asian plant is the richest natural vegetable food?
Answer: Soya

Question: What is the capital of Hong Kong?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Who founded the modern republic of Turkey and, in 1934, took a name meaning "Father of the Turks"?
Answer: Kemal Ataturk

Question: What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
Answer: Porcelain

Question: Which river with a vast delta to the South china Sea rises as the Za Qu in Tibet?
Answer: Mekong

Question: Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagoe

Question: Which is the highest mountain in the Alps?
Answer: Mont Blanc

Question: Which country is divided into cantons?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In which Italian city would you find Leonardo's Last Supper?
Answer: Milan

Question: Which is Italy's longest river?
Answer: Po

Question: On which river does Verona stand?
Answer: Adige

Question: Which poet died while helping the Greeks fight for their independence?
Answer: Byron

Question: From which country did Iceland become independent in 1944?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which two colors appear on the flag of Denmark?
Answer: Eire

Question: In which capital city is the Tivoli amusement park?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: On which river does Prague stand?
Answer: Vltava

Question: Which European country restored its monarchy in 1975?
Answer: Spain

Question: In which autonomous region of Spain are the cities of Cadiz and Cordoba?
Answer: Andalusia

Question: Which European country colonized Brazil?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which country was defeated by the USSR in the Winter War of 1939?
Answer: Finland

Question: What is the name of the bay between northern Spain and western France, known for its rough seas?
Answer: Bay of Biscay

Question: Which city linked by canal with Rotterdam and Amsterdam, is the seat of the Netherlands government?
Answer: The Hague

Question: Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Which city was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990?
Answer: Bonn

Question: In which Cypriot town will you find the "Tombs of the Rings"?
Answer: Paphos

Question: In which country did Grand Duke Jean become head of state in 1964?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: In which country was Pope John Paul II a cardinal before his election?
Answer: Poland

Question: Which two countries have a border with Liechtenstein?
Answer: Switzerland and Austria

Question: Which country has as its joint heads of state a Spaniard and a Frenchman?
Answer: Andorra

Question: In which country was Adolf Hitler born?
Answer: Austria

Question: Which two colors appear on the flag of Greece?
Answer: Blue and white

Question: Which is further north, Corsica or Sardinia?
Answer: Corsica

Question: Which European country left the Commonwealth and declared itself a republic in 1949?
Answer: Eire

Question: The shamrock is the national badge of which country?
Answer: Ireland

Question: In which capital city were the treaties signed that established the European Economic Community?
Answer: Rome

Question: Which country was ruled for 40 years by the dictator Antonio Salazar?
Answer: Portugal

Question: What nationality was the 16th-century poet and soldier Camoens?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: Which group had most seats in the European Parliament after the 1989 election - the left, the centre or the right?
Answer: The Left

Question: Of which island is Valletta the capital?
Answer: Malta

Question: In Norway, what are Hardanger and Sogne?
Answer: Fjords

Question: In which Polish city was the Solidarity union formed in 1989?
Answer: Gdansk

Question: Which French river flows into the sea at St. Nazaire and is famous for its chateaux?
Answer: Loire