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100
The language spoken natively on this set of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe is the most widely spoken foreign language on the continent.
What is the British Isles?
100
This European nation's ancient culture is celebrated worldwide - including the United States - once every year in March, even though the majority of the people celebrating are not nationals and do not speak its national language.
What is Ireland?
100
This international organization is working in six official languages, four of which are European languages.
What is the United Nations?
100
The gigantic stones of these ancient ruins were built in 3100 B.C. out of Welsh sandstone and served as an astrological calendar, a site for worship or as burial grounds.
What is Stonehenge?
100
This ecclesiastic official is currently the bishop of a large city, the Head of a European state, and the worldwide leader of a church.
What is the Pope?
200
The language of this European country was once so widespread that it was the preferred foreign language of the Russian czars.
What is France?
200
The inhabitants of this mountainous country in Europe live in cantons and speak four official languages: French, German, Italian, and Romansh.
What is Switzerland?
200
This international military organization that extends to the United Nations and Turkey has two official languages: French and English.
What is NATO?
200
Constructed in 1858, this clock is the world’s largest chiming clock and is part of a legislative building in a large state in Europe.
What is the Big Ben?
200
This noble woman is currently the Head of a Constitutional Monarchy and of fifteen other so-called "realms" around the world, fulfilling her global state functions continuously for more than five decades.
What is the Queen of England?
300
The official state language of this country is the most widely-spoken Slavic language in contemporary Europe and is written with the Latin alphabet.
What is Poland?
300
The inhabitants of this small country in Eastern Europe speak a non-Indo-European language and they are sometimes mistakenly believed to descend from the nomadic tribes brought to Europe by Attila.
What is Hungary?
300
This legislative body of the European Union has twenty-four official languages and employs over two thousand translators.
What is the European Parliament?
300
This tower in the heart of a major capital city in Europe was hated by a famous writer so much that the writer hid every evening in the only place from which he could not see it: in the restaurant on the top of the tower itself.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
300
This former military and political leader, born on a small island, rose to prominence during the later stages of the French Revolution and gave his country a legal code that influenced numerous civil law regimes worldwide.
What is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
The literary language of this large European country is often referred to as 'High', while its spoken dialects are called 'Low'.
What is Germany?
400
The official language of this tiny principality on the mountainous border between France and Spain is neither French, nor Spanish: it is Catalan.
What is Andorra?
400
This international organization that specializes in education, science, and inter-cultural understanding has an 'Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing'.
What is UNESCO?
400
The ruins of this landmark in a large European country today commemorate the struggle of the country's past division as well as celebrate its triumphant reunification in 1991.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
This former Prussian statesman dominated German and European affairs in the late 19th century and shares his name with a doughnut stuffed with jelly filling and topped with icing.
What is Bismark?
500
The language of this former country in South-Eastern Europe gave rise to Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian.
What is Yugoslavia?
500
The newest autonomous country in Europe is bordered by Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, and Serbia, and its name means 'black mountain'.
What is Montenegro?
500
This international organization has forty-eight member countries and a treaty protecting regional or minority languages specifically in Europe.
What is the Council of Europe?
500
Perched high above a sprawling European capital, this building allows you to step back into fifth century B.C. in a country that worshiped the gods and philosophy.
What is the Acropolis?
500
This noble title referred to the most powerful ruler of the former Ottoman Empire that - at its height - stretched from Hungary to Turkey and Somalia from 15th to the 20th century.
What is the Sultan?