This country borders Greece on its eastern side - its capital city was once called Constantinople.
What is Turkey?
100
There is only one country that borders the United Kingdom; name it.
What is Ireland?
100
Russia's border is one of the longest; name 2 of the 14 countries that border Russia.
What is: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and North Korea.
100
This country is Spain's only neighbor to the west.
What is Portugal?
200
This mountain range stretches across the southeastern portion of France and extends into Italy and Monaco.
What are the Alps?
200
This mountain is famed for being the home of the mythological Greek gods. In geography, it is both the actual mountain as well as the name of the range where it resides.
What is Olympus?
200
This portion of the United Kingdom, which is also included in Prince Charles's official royal title, has over 12,000 kilometers of coastline. It is also one of the few places in an English-speaking country where there is a second official language (Welsh).
What is Wales?
200
This term, which refers to an area of land that cannot grow trees due to the extremely low temperatures, derives from the Russian word for "uplands". It also makes up a large portion of the Russian landscape, and often follows "arctic".
What is tundra?
200
The Pyrenees mountain range creates a border between mainland Europe and this peninsula, which includes Spain.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
This river runs through the heart of downtown Paris
What is the Seine?
300
This body of saltwater surrounds most of Greece's islands and separates it from Turkey.
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
This body of water separates the United Kingdom from the rest of Europe; there is now a tunnel called the Chunnel that connects the two underground via train.
What is the English Channel?
300
Russia contains (approximately) this percentage of the world's store of fresh water, most of it from Lake Baikal.
What is 25%
300
The name of this large body of saltwater comes from the Latin for "the middle of the land"; Spain's southern coast borders it.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This cityis home to a palace famed for its Hall of Mirrors
What is Versailles?
400
Mythology says that the Greek goddess of wisdom donated an olive tree to the people of this city, Greece's largest. They honored her by naming their city after her.
What is Athens?
400
This city, one of the UK's largest, is home to the Beatles and a highly-publicized soccer/football team.
What is Liverpool?
400
This city, Russia's second-largest, was the home of the country's first railway. It was known as Leningrad from the 1920s until the 1990s.
What is Saint Petersburg?
400
This city is Spain's second largest, after the country's capital.
What is Barcelona?
500
This French monarch is famed for reportedly having said "Let them eat cake" when the country faced famine. She was later executed.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
500
This famed Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, is most famous for writing "The Republic", which discussed justice and the various forms of government.
Who is Plato?
500
This famed monument, located in Wiltshire, England, is believed to have been built for use in rituals and to track the sun and the moon.
What is Stonehenge?
500
This Russian princess, whose story has been retold in many ways in film, was the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. Though it was rumored that she had escaped death in 1917, she and her family were indeed executed by revolutionaries.
Who is Anastasia?
500
Christopher Columbus, a native Italian, was sponsored by this royal Spanish couple when he sailed for new lands.