1) What are the two major ethnic groups?
2) What countries border Afghanistan?
3) What is the principal mountain range?
4) What is the currency?
5) What is one of the old names for Afghanistan?
6) In what year did the pro-Soviet leftists take over the country?
7) Which sect of Islam is predominant?
8) Which group currently controls Afghanistan?
9) Who is known as the Lion of Panjsher?
10) In what year did the Soviet forces withdraw?
1) What two ethnic groups are the Albanian people divided into?
2) What language family does the Albanian language belong to?
3) Who was the last king of Albania?
4) Who was the longest serving leader during the communist era?
5) What country invaded Albania in 1939?
6) What is the old name for the area occupied by Albania today?
7) What is the capital city?
8) What ethnic group makes up about 2% of the population?
9) What country sent Albania a lot of aid between 1960 and 1974?
10) What country introduced Islam during the 15th century?
1) What sea does Algeria face?
2) What two ethnic groups make up the majority of the population?
3) What branch of Islam is most practiced?
4) What is the mountain range running through Algeria?
5) What currency is used there?
6) What country ruled Algeria prior to France?
7) Which country does not border Algeria, Libya, Mali, Chad or Niger?
8) In what year did the French leave Algeria?
9) What percentage of Algeria is covered by the Sahara?
10) What is the armed opposition known as (acronymn)?
1) Which two countries does Andorra lie between?
2) What is Andorra's status?
3) Sovereinty is technically exercised by a Spanish Bishop and who else?
4) What language is spoken there?
5) A General Council actually rules the state. How many members does it have?
6) What is the capital city called?
7) What is its chief source of income?
8) What is the main agricultural product?
9) What is its size? 368, 453 or 492 sq kms
10) Which side of the border is more easily accessible?
1) What is the part of Angola that is seperated from the rest of the country?
2) What language group do a majority of the people's languages belong to?
3) In what year did Angola gain independence?
4) What country ruled Angola during the colonial period?
5) What are the names of the two protaginist groups?
6) What is the capital city?
7) What currency is used there?
8) Which one of the following is not a major export item, copper, diamonds, coffee or oil?
9) What is the population, under 2 million, between 2 and 3 million or more than 3 million?
10) On which side of the African continent is Angola situated?
1) What was this country named after?
2) Who was the first European to locate this island?
3) What group of nations does Antigua belong to (excluding the UN)?
4) In what body of water can this nation be found?
5) What is the ancestry of the majority of its inhabitants?
6) When was independence granted?
7) Who is the official head of state?
8) What is the most important industry?
9) What is the capital city?
10) In which century did the British settle there?
1) What is the southern part of Argentina called?
2) What is the southern tip of Argentina known as?
3) What is the central region grasslands called?
4) On which estuary is Buenos Aires situated?
5) What is the highest peak in the country?
6) In what month of 1810 did Argentina declare independence?
7) What do the Argentinians call the Falkland Islands?
8) What country borders Argentina to the north?
9) What was the name of the president whose wife later became president?
10) Who was the first European to enter the Rio de la Plata?
1) What is the capital city?
2) What is its northern neighbour?
3) What country did Russia take Armenia from in 1828?
4) What currency is used there?
5) When did the Red Army retake Armenia?
6) What area is it in conflict with Azerbaijan over?
7) How many military bases do Russia have there?
8) Is the population, 3.5, 4 or 4.5 million?
9) What is the major christian denomination in Armenia?
10) What is the highest mountain there?
1) How Many States Are There In Australia?
2) What Is The Highest Point In Australia?
3) What Colours Do Aussie Sporting Teams Wear?
4) What Is The Nickname Given To The Aussie Rugby Union Team?
5) What Is The Capital City Of South Australia?
6) What Is The Date Of Australia Day?
7) Who Is The Prime Minister That Drowned Off The Coast Of Victoria?
8) What Bridge Is Known As The Coat Hanger?
9) What City Hosted The Olympic Games In 1956?
10) What Is The Only Major City Where Trams Still Run?
11) What City Was Flattened By A Cyclone On Christmas Day?
12) In Which City Will You Find Bondi Beach?
13) What Are The Original Inhabitants Of Australia Known As?
14) Who Discovered Australia For The British Crown?
15) What Was Tasmania Called Before?
16) Tasmania Is Known As The Apple Isle. What Is Queensland Called?
17) What Is Ayer's Rock Now Called?
18) What Percentage Of Australians Live Near The Sea?
19) What Percentage Of Australia Is Located In The Tropics?
20) What Kind Of People Were First Sent To Australia?
1) What percentage of the country do the Alps cover?
2) What river flows through the north of the country?
3) Which family took over the leadership of Austria in 1282?
4) In what year did the Austro-Hungarian empire collapse?
5) In what year was Austria annexed by Nazi Germany?
6) What is the highest point in Austria?
7) What is the second biggest city after Vienna?
8) What minority language group reside in the east of the country?
9) What president was thought to have had links to the Nazis during World War 2?
10) What is the currency used there?
1) On what sea is the capital, Baku, situated?
2) What is the largest ethnic group called?
3) In what year did it gain independence?
4) What was Azerbaijan known as in ancient times?
5) What is the major Islamic sect?
6) When was a cease fire called in the war with Armenia?
7) What is the prime resource that the West is interested in?
8) What is the highest position in government?
9) In what mountainous area is this country located?
10) What did the government offer Armenia in return for the withdrawl of their troops?
1) What is the capital city?
2) How many islands are there, about 700, 750 or 800?
3) What direction from Florida are the Bahamas situated?
4) In what year did it become a British colony, 1710, 1714 or 1717?
5) What native people inhabited the islands prior to Columbus' arrival?
6) When was full independence granted?
7) What was Watling island originally called where Columbus landed?
8) What percentage of the population do blacks comprise?
9) What is the long name for the Bahamas?
10) What is the currency used?
1) What is the second biggest group after the Arabs?
2) In which body of water is it situated?
3) What is the capital city?
4) What country is to the west?
5) What is the leader of the country called?
6) What currency do they use?
7) Bahrain was a protectorate from 1861. Under which country?
8) Which country paid a billion dollars to build a causeway conecting Bahrain to the Arab mainland?
9) What industry is the most important now?
10) What family has ruled Bahrain for centuries?
1) What is the official language?
2) What bay is it situated on?
3) What country is south-east of Bangladesh?
4) What is the capital city?
5) What was Bangladesh's previous name?
6) Who was the first leader of Bangladesh?
7) What is one of the chief ports?
8) What kind of storms wreak havoc in the lowland areas?
9) In what year did Bangladesh declare itself independent of Pakistan?
10) Which nation intervened on Bangladesh's behalf during the civil war with Pakistan?
1) What is the principal christian denomination?
2) What is the capital city?
3) Which country named Barbados?
4) In which year were the slaves freed, 1834, 1837 or 1841?
5) When did full independence come?
6) Which country colonized Barbados?
7) In which body of water can it be found?
8) What are its closest neighbours?
9) How large is Barbados, 152, 159 or 166 square miles?
10) What percentage of the population do African Barbadoans make up?
1) What is the capital city?
2) What other name has Belarus been known by?
3) What language is most widely used there?
4) Until 1939 West Belarus was in which country?
5) How many years does the president serve?
6) What is its major trading partner?
7) What is the literacy rate?
8) What monetary unit do they use?
9) Belorussians make up 76, 78 or 80% of the population?
10) What is the second largest ethnic group there?
1) What type of governmental system do they have?
2) What four languages are spoken there?
3) What penalty is meted out to those who do not vote?
4) What two organisations have their headquarters in Brussels?
5) What country did it declare its independence from in 1830?
6) What plateau covers the south-eastern portion of Belgium?
7) What are the two main rivers?
8) What is Brussels' linguistic designation?
9) Which linguistic group forms the majority?
10) What organisation is it a member of with Luxembourg and the Netherlands?