Capitals
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
True or False: Did the olympics used to give out medals for art?
True or False: Do continents shift close to the same rate as your fingernails grow?
True
Milan is a city in which European Country?
Italy
What year was the Dominion of Canada created?
1867
What is the capital of Afghanistan?
Kabul
Which country has not invaded any other country in the last 10 thousand years?
India
What percentage of the Earth's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere?
90%
True or False: there are more than 200 languages spoken in Europe
True!
This European country has 0 mosquitos!
Iceland
What is the capital of Cuba?
Havana
The Group of Seven (G7) consists of seven of the world's advanced economies. Name all 7.
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States
887 giant head statutes can be found on this island
Easter Island
Which country is the most western point of Europe?
Portugal
What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
Ouagadougou
What is the capital of Belize?
Belmopan
True or False: Ketchup used to be sold as medicine
True! They used to be sold in the form of tomato pills!
Which country is known for being wider than the moon?
Australia
This Romanian city is also known as Little Paris!
Bucharest
How many time zones does Russia have?
11. At one end of Russia it could be 7 in the morning and at the other its 6 in the evening.
What is the capital of Zambia?
Lusaka
Longest war in the world?
Reconquista. This war lasted 781 years!
Which country is growing by nearly 5 centimetres per year?
Iceland! Divided by North American and European tectonic plates, Iceland is growing by nearly 5cm per year as the plates grow wider apart.
In this country, Baby names must be approved by a court. They even have a list of approved names to save time!
Denmark
What is Italy's longest river?
Po
Honiara
This animal was trained to execute and torture prisoners and traitors
Elpehant! Until the 19th century in Asia!
This beach is the longest freshwater beach in the world.
Ontario's Wasaga Beach! It stretches 14km long along the shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay
In Wales, there is a city that has the longest name of any town in Europe. How many letters does it have?
58! Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
If you were to walk from one side of Canada's coastline to the other, how long would it take you?
33 years! At a pace of about 20km each day, the stroll would take you 33 years.