As we in the UK are due to up anchor and drift off in to the unknown what do we actually know about Europe well here's a little quiz and hopefully it isn't too easy ;)
Rules:
- No use of online search engines ie. Google (is there any other) etc.
- No use of online encyclopedias eg. Wikipedia etc.
- Can't think of answer! Then make something up ;)
- Most of all have fun :)
Send me the answers via PM (private message) and the best of luck to all entrants.
Closing date TBA.
Europe a quiz.
1. In which county is Bantry Bay in the South of Ireland?
2. What is Italy's Capodimonte famous for?
3. In which city is the Pompidou Centre?
4. What island is called Kafallinia in Greek?
5. From which resort at the foot of Mont Blanc does the highest cable car in the world rise?
6. What do the British call what the French call Les Iles Normands?
7. Which province of the Irish Republic includes Galway and Sligo.
8. The Amalienborg Palace is the home of which royal family?
9. What Scandanavian country is called Suomi in its own language?
10. The Baltic states are made up of Lavia, Lithuania and where?
11. What is Germany's Schwarzwald?
12. Which monument is at the opposite end of Paris's Champs Elysees from the Place de la Concorde?
13. Where was the refugee camp built for asylum seekers near the Channel Tunnel?
14. Where is the park called the Bois de Boulogne?
15. What is the capital of the state of the Tyrol?
16. Ithaca is off the west coast of which country.
17. Which Scandanavian strait means "cat's throat"?
18. In which sea are the Balearic Islands?
19. Which breed of dog comes from Kerry in south-west Ireland?
20. In which city is the Prado art gallery?
21. Which town of Lombardy gave its name to a bright reddish-mauve dye?
22. What is the Bourse in Paris?
23. On which is sea is Odessa?
24. Which country has the rivers Douro, Tagus and Guadiana?
25. What is the chief city of Catalonia, and Spain's second largest?
26. Which is the most northerly Belarus, Ukraine or Estonia?
27. What was St Petersburg called for most of the 20th century?
28. Which sea is to the west of Denmark?
29. What is the most easterly city, Stuttgart, Munich or Hanover?
30. The Basque country surrounds which mountains?
