Terms: |Central America|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Over which canal does the Bridge of the Americas, about one and a half miles long, run?
Panama Canal
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
As the main civilian intelligence agency of the United States, the CIA gathers information tied to defense and state security. In which American state is its headquarters situated?
Virginia
Terms: |Ferdinand de Lesseps|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
What was excavated in 1869 under the leadership of Ferdinand de Lesseps?
Suez Canal
Terms: |Marco Polo|
Published: 9. 4. 2026.
This question is not concerned with where Marco Polo came from, but with the famous account of his supposed travels. During captivity, he told his adventures to Rustichello da Pisa, a fellow prisoner who recorded them in French. Though originally published as The Book of the Marvels of the World, the work later became known by a different title. Which one?
Il Milione (Milion)
Terms: |USA|
Published: 9. 4. 2026.
Nearly every U.S. state has a nickname of its own, and one of them is famously called the Silver State. Which state is being referred to?
Nevada
Terms: |Cameroon| |Chad| |Niger| |Nigeria|
Published: 6. 4. 2026.
Which African lake is shared by Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger and Chad?
Lake Chad
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Somewhere between 6500 and 6200 BC, rising waters finally submerged the broad area of land that had connected Great Britain with continental Europe. The region extended from the eastern coast of what is now Britain to the Netherlands, the western coastline of Germany, and the Jutland peninsula. It was once a rich natural habitat inhabited by Mesolithic peoples. What name has modern science given to this vanished territory, if the term comes from seventeenth-century Dutch fishing craft?
Doggerland
Terms: |Africa| |Mount Kilimanjaro|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, rises within the borders of which African country?
Tanzania
Terms: |Calvi| |France| |French Foreign Legion|
Published: 30. 3. 2026.
Camp Raffalli, home to one of the French Foreign Legion’s parachute regiments, lies near the town of Calvi. Calvi is situated on which French Mediterranean island, also locally associated with the birth of Christopher Columbus?
Corsica
Terms: |Croatia| |Italy| |River Po|
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
What is the name of the sea into which the Po River ultimately drains, and which washes the eastern coast of Italy and the western coast of Croatia?
Adriatic Sea