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Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
17/11/2013	Capital cities	24 multiple choice questions about capital cities. In addition, whenever a correct answer is selected another piece of the picture of a famous building in the centre of the question choice grid is revealed. Identify the capital in which this building is located.	Format index

Choose your question from the 24 subjects listed below by clicking the adjacent question number.

Each question has 4 possible answers. Click the one you think is right. The answer will turn red if it's wrong and green if it's right. Clicking a correct answer reveals another portion of the picture of a famous building from a further capital city in the centre of the grid below. See if you can identify the building and the capital city in which it is located.

Click here to reveal the name of the mystery building and capital city:

Berlin

Hanoi

Bogota

Tehran

Moscow

Paris

Vienna

Dublin

Budapest

10.

Beijing

11.

Warsaw

Algiers

13.

Praia

14.

Bern

15.

Helsinki

Washington

17.

Yamoussoukro

Brussels

19.

London

20.

Canberra

21.

Prague

Colombo

23.

Havana

Sofia


1.	Berlin
What is the main river flowing through Berlin?

A	Elbe	B	Weser	C	Necker	D	Spree
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2.	Hanoi
Which foreign country is closest to Hanoi?

A	Cambodia	B	Laos	C	China	D	Thailand
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3.	Bogota
In the Bogota bracelet incident, England football captain, Bobby Moore, was accused of stealing a bracelet from a Bogota hotel foyer shop. He was arrested and then released after the intercession of which UK Prime Minister?

A	Harold Macmillan	B	Edward Heath	C	Harold Wilson	D	James Callaghan
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4.	Tehran
In 1981 the Persian authorities decided to rename Winston Churchill Boulevard on which Tehran’s British Embassy was situated to what?

A	Arthur Scargill Street	B	Margaret Thatcher Street	C	Diana Street	D	Bobby Sands Street
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5.	Moscow
What does the word 'kremlin' mean in Russian?

A	Meeting place	B	White house	C	Fortress	D	Mausoleum
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6.	Paris
This Claude Monet painting depicts Gare Saint-Lazare. To which area of France might you be travelling if you boarded at this station?

A	Lyon	B	Normandy	C	Marseilles	D	South West
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7.	Vienna
Vienna was the location for perhaps the best British film ever made, The Third Man. The film opens with this Joseph Cotton narration: “I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its ------- music, its glamour and easy charm.” What is the missing word?

A	Opera	B	Waltz	C	Strauss	D	Mozart
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8.	Dublin
If you travelled due west from Dublin in which Irish county would you be when you hit the Atlantic Ocean?

A	Galway	B	Clare	C	Mayo	D	Limerick
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9.	Budapest
In which musical is there a line that rhymes ‘Budapest’ with ‘ruder pest’?

A

Sweet Charity

B

Cabaret

C

Phantom of the Opera

D

My Fair Lady

(You Did It)

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10.	Beijing
This is the theme music used by the BBC to introduce its broadcasts from the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Who wrote it? (click to play)

A	Gary Barlow	B	Elvis Costello	C	Damon Albarn	D	Ron Grainger
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11.	Warsaw
The opening fixture of Euro 2012, the European Nations Football Championship, took place in Warsaw. In this match Poland played which other European nation?

A	Germany	B	Greece	C	Ireland	D	Italy
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12.	Algiers
Algiers is served by Houari Boumediene Airport. Who was Houari Boumediene?

A	Former Algerian long distance runner	B	Former Algerian President	C	Algerian Nobel laureate (Medicine)	D	Algerian author and philosopher
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13.	Praia
Of which small republic is Praia the capital?

A	Solomon Islands	B	Togo	C	Cape Verde	D	Fiji
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14.	Bern
Which is the main language spoken in Bern?

A	Romansch	B	German	C	French	D	Italian
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15.	Helsinki
Which other capital is closest to Helsinki?

A	Stockholm	B	Riga	C	Tallinn	D	Vilnius
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16.	Washington
Which city was capital of the USA immediately before Washington?

A	Philadelphia	B	New York	C	Boston	D	Baltimore
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17.	Yamoussoukro
Of which country is Yamoussoukro the capital?

A	Tajikistan	B	Burkina Faso	C	Ivory Coast	D	Gabon
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18.	Brussels
The Brussels Atomium was built for the 1958 World Fair. How many spherical balls are there in the structure?

A	7	B	8	C	9	D	10
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19.	London
Which of the 11 London Underground lines has the most stations?

A	District	B	Central	C	Northern	D	Piccadilly
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20.	Canberra
Which Australian state capital is nearest to Canberra?

A	Adelaide	B	Melbourne	C	Brisbane	D	Sydney
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21.	Prague
Which famous Czech does this statue in Prague commemorate?

A	Antonin Dvorak	B	Franz Kafka	C	Milos Forman	D	Leos Janacek
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22.	Colombo
Colombo is on which coast of Sri Lanka?

A	North	B	South	C	East	D	West
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23.	Havana
One of the greatest tourist attractions of Havana is The Malecon. What is The Malecon?

A	Esplanade	B	Cemetery	C	Fort	D	Park
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24.	Sofia
In which Roman province was Sofia situated?

A	Thracia	B	Macedonia	C	Dalmatia	D	Dacia
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