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
Terms: |Portland| |Salem| |USA|
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Which U.S. state, located in the Pacific Northwest, has Salem as its capital and Portland as its largest city?
Oregon
Terms: |Tropic of Capricorn|
Published: 26. 3. 2026.
Three continents lie on the Tropic of Capricorn, South America is one, name any of the other two?
Australia, Africa
Terms: |Nile|
Published: 26. 3. 2026.
Into which sea does the Nile flow?
Mediterranean