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Question 1

What is the capital city of Greece?

  • A
    Thessaloniki
  • B
    Istanbul
  • C
    Athens
  • D
    Sparta

Question 2

This national capital is one of the least prominent of any world capital population-wise. Just 0.2% of all people in the country live in the capital and residents there have no voting delegate in the country's Congress despite the fact that meetings are held there.

  • A
    New Delhi
  • B
    Canberra
  • C
    Washington, D.C.
  • D
    Brasilia

Question 3

This city is the largest in the European Union by population and home to the most-visited museum in the world, the Louvre.

  • A
    Amsterdam
  • B
    Paris
  • C
    Brussels
  • D
    Bern

Question 4

This city is the largest in the Arabic-speaking world as well as the largest in the Middle East and located in Egypt.

  • A
    Casablanca
  • B
    Cairo
  • C
    Riyadh
  • D
    Baghdad

Question 5

What is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica?

  • A
    Panama City
  • B
    Managua
  • C
    San José
  • D
    Puerto Limón

Question 6

What is the name of the city that served as the capital of Czechoslovakia until 1993, when it became the capital of the newly formed Czech Republic?

  • A
    Rotterdam
  • B
    Prague
  • C
    Munich
  • D
    Dublin

Question 7

Which of the following cities is the capital of Panama and sits on the Pacific end of the Panama Canal?

  • A
    St. John's
  • B
    Panama City
  • C
    Managua
  • D
    Nassau

Question 8

Roughly one-fourth of the residents of Ireland live in the greater metropolitan area of its capital. What is the name of this capital city?

  • A
    Edinburgh
  • B
    Dublin
  • C
    Amsterdam
  • D
    Cork

Question 9

This may be the most fiercely contested capital in the world. It is currently claimed as capital by two different states and has been captured and recaptured no fewer than 44 times in its long history.

  • A
    Lhasa
  • B
    Jerusalem
  • C
    Seoul
  • D
    Beirut

Question 10

Despite its location at 33 north longitude on the banks of the Tigris River, this Middle Eastern capital is one of the hottest cities in the world, with summer temperatures averaging 111F.

  • A
    Baghdad
  • B
    Damascus
  • C
    Kuwait City
  • D
    Tehran

Question 11

What is the capital city of Argentina, the eighth largest country in the world?

  • A
    Buenos Aires
  • B
    Brasília
  • C
    Quito
  • D
    Santiago

Question 12

The world's largest English-speaking capital city is:

  • A
    Canberra
  • B
    Washington, D.C.
  • C
    London
  • D
    Ottawa

Question 13

What has been the name of Japan's capital city since 1868?

  • A
    Kuala Lumpur
  • B
    Hong Kong
  • C
    Tokyo
  • D
    Osaka

Question 14

Russia is the largest country in the world by land area. Located in the western part of the country, what is the capital city of Russia?

  • A
    Belgrade
  • B
    Moscow
  • C
    Saint Petersburg
  • D
    Helsinki

Question 15

Now it gets tougher. This might be the only city on the list less than 20 miles away from a nuclear power it is technically at war with.

  • A
    Pyongyang
  • B
    Moscow
  • C
    Seoul
  • D
    Beijing

Question 16

This coastal capital is famous for its liberal laws, which include legalized marijuana and prostitution.

  • A
    Stockholm
  • B
    Amsterdam
  • C
    Berlin
  • D
    Madrid

Question 17

What city is the capital of Belgium and is considered to be the de facto capital of the European Union?

  • A
    Amsterdam
  • B
    Paris
  • C
    Prague
  • D
    Brussels

Question 18

This city is the world's largest capital by population, with over 25 million in metro-area population. It is also one of the more recent capital cities, having been capital only since 1949.

  • A
    Beijing
  • B
    Moscow
  • C
    Istanbul
  • D
    Lagos

Question 19

Staying in North America, this city south of the border is the largest city and urban area in Latin America, and has an altitude exceeding two miles in some areas!

  • A
    Mexico City
  • B
    Guatemala City
  • C
    Cancun
  • D
    Tegucigalpa

Question 20

What city served as the seat of government for all British territory in West Africa from 1821 to 1874, and became the capital city of Sierra Leone in 1961?

  • A
    Freetown
  • B
    Madrid
  • C
    Lagos
  • D
    Monrovia

Question 21

This 2,500 year old capital city is the only one in the world to completely contain an independent country.

  • A
    Athens
  • B
    Rome
  • C
    Tirana
  • D
    Moscow

Question 22

What is the name of the capital city of the Dominican Republic, which is also the oldest permanent city established by Europeans in the Western Hemisphere?

  • A
    Santo Domingo
  • B
    Nassau
  • C
    Port-au-Prince
  • D
    Mexico City

Question 23

What is the capital city of Iceland?

  • A
    Nuuk
  • B
    Stockholm
  • C
    Reykjavík
  • D
    Kopavogur

Question 24

This city borders the Pacific Ocean where the Yangtze River flows into the East China Sea and is the most populous city in the most populous country in the world.

  • A
    Shanghai
  • B
    Guangzhou
  • C
    Ulaanbator
  • D
    Tokyo

Question 25

Which city is the capital of Bangladesh and also one of the most populous cities in South Asia?

  • A
    Singapore
  • B
    Dhaka
  • C
    Dakar
  • D
    Bangkok

Question 26

What is the capital city of Haiti?

  • A
    Port-au-Prince
  • B
    Santo Domingo
  • C
    Havana
  • D
    San Juan

Question 27

The capital of Uruguay was founded in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala. What is the name of this city?

  • A
    Buenos Aires
  • B
    Washington
  • C
    Montevideo
  • D
    Lima

Question 28

Ljubljana is the capital of which of the following countries?

  • A
    Austria
  • B
    Switzerland
  • C
    Czech Republic
  • D
    Slovenia

Question 29

What is the capital of the Central American country of El Salvador?

  • A
    Bogota
  • B
    La Paz
  • C
    San José
  • D
    San Salvador

Question 30

This city on the Atlantic Ocean is in a country with the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union.

  • A
    Lisbon
  • B
    Dublin
  • C
    Oslo
  • D
    Madrid

Question 31

One of the world's oldest cities, this capital is often referred to as both the birthplace of democracy as well as western civilization itself.

  • A
    Athens
  • B
    Rome
  • C
    Paris
  • D
    Budapest

Question 32

Located on the islands of Zealand and Amager, what is the name of the capital city of Denmark?

  • A
    Athens
  • B
    Copenhagen
  • C
    Stockholm
  • D
    Oslo

Question 33

This capital city is the most densely populated city proper in the world, with a staggering 110,000 people per square mile. It also shares its name with a type of paper and a popular office product.

  • A
    Canberra
  • B
    New Delhi
  • C
    Manila
  • D
    Brussels

Question 34

What is the name of Libya's capital, largest city, and chief seaport?

  • A
    Cairo
  • B
    Carthage
  • C
    Tripoli
  • D
    Tunis

Question 35

What has been the capital city of Albania since 1920?

  • A
    Skopje
  • B
    Vienna
  • C
    Budapest
  • D
    Tirana

Question 36

Let's go back to the Western Hemisphere. This is the largest city in South America and the largest city in the world that speaks Portugese.

  • A
    Bogota
  • B
    Quito
  • C
    Sao Paulo
  • D
    Lima

Question 37

The Nile River flows through all but this mile-high national capital (located in Kenya):

  • A
    Nairobi
  • B
    Cairo
  • C
    Khartoum
  • D
    Juba

Question 38

This city is often considered the headquarters of the European Union, and is home to the headquarters of NATO.

  • A
    Amsterdam
  • B
    Berlin
  • C
    Brussels
  • D
    Bern

Question 39

The first of three cities on this list in a Hindu-majority country, this city is capital of the world's second-largest country.

  • A
    Tehran
  • B
    Lagos
  • C
    Calcutta
  • D
    New Delhi

Question 40

The African nation of Angola lies on the Atlantic coast bordering the nations of the DRC, Zambia, and Namibia. What is the name of Angola's capital city?

  • A
    Huambo
  • B
    Abu Dhabi
  • C
    Luanda
  • D
    Bangui

Question 41

Chisinau is the capital of city of which of the following countries?

  • A
    Romania
  • B
    Moldova
  • C
    Greece
  • D
    Syria

Question 42

On the topic of language, this is not only the largest Spanish-speaking capital, but also the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world.

  • A
    Havana
  • B
    Mexico City
  • C
    Bogota
  • D
    Madrid

Question 43

This city straddling two continents was capital of a vast, powerful empire for over 1,000 years, but today is merely the largest city in Europe.

  • A
    Istanbul
  • B
    Athens
  • C
    Rome
  • D
    Sparta

Question 44

Which of these cities is the capital of Romania?

  • A
    Budapest
  • B
    Bucharest
  • C
    Chisinau
  • D
    Athens

Question 45

Which city became the capital of Papua New Guinea when it attained independence in 1975?

  • A
    Port Moresby
  • B
    Canberra
  • C
    Noumea
  • D
    Brisbane

Question 46

Pyongyang is the capital of which of the following countries?

  • A
    South Korea
  • B
    Japan
  • C
    North Korea
  • D
    Mongolia

Question 47

The Danube River flows through this capital city, which used to be three separate cities until a merger in 1873. It is home to the 3rd largest Parliament building in the world.

  • A
    Budapest
  • B
    Dublin
  • C
    Copenhagen
  • D
    Bratislava

Question 48

What is the capital city of Ethiopia, one of the world's oldest countries?

  • A
    Addis Ababa
  • B
    Entoto
  • C
    Nairobi
  • D
    Tashkent

Question 49

This Canadian city is located in southeastern Ontario. What is the name of this national capital?

  • A
    Ottawa
  • B
    Washington, D.C.
  • C
    Toronto
  • D
    Reykjavík

Question 50

What has been the capital city of Pakistan since 1967?

  • A
    Dubai
  • B
    Islamabad
  • C
    Kabul
  • D
    Karachi

Question 51

Another tough one. This massive city sits on the most populous island on Earth and is capital of the world's largest majority-Muslim country.

  • A
    Sumatra
  • B
    Casablanca
  • C
    Jakarta
  • D
    Baghdad

Question 52

The capital city of Cambodia was established in 1434 but abandoned several times before it was reestablished in 1865. What is the name of this capital city?

  • A
    Singapore
  • B
    Yangon
  • C
    Phnom Penh
  • D
    Bangkok

Question 53

Which of the following cities is the capital of Grenada?

  • A
    Santo Domingo
  • B
    Port of Spain
  • C
    Saint George's
  • D
    Havana

Question 54

Which of the following countries has its capital in the city of Thimphu?

  • A
    Bhutan
  • B
    Laos
  • C
    Pakistan
  • D
    Thailand

Question 55

The islands of Trinidad and Tobago lie off the northeast coast of Venezuela. What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?

  • A
    Port of Spain
  • B
    St. Augustine
  • C
    San Fernando
  • D
    Caracas

Question 56

The capital city of Latvia sits on the coast of the Baltic Sea. What is the name of this national capital?

  • A
    Helsinki
  • B
    Riga
  • C
    Tallinn
  • D
    Copenhagen

Question 57

This 1000-year-old city on a fjord is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive in the world. It was also known as Kristiania until 1925 and is the capital of Norway.

  • A
    Reykjavik
  • B
    Stockholm
  • C
    Helsinki
  • D
    Oslo

Question 58

This city on the Congo River is now the largest Francophone city in the world.

  • A
    Paris
  • B
    Franceville
  • C
    Kinshasa
  • D
    Luanda

Question 59

This remote city in the mountains is home to many throat singers as well as the coldest climate of any capital city, with an average January low of -14 F and a year-round daily average below freezing. (Hint: located in a country that starts with M)

  • A
    La Paz
  • B
    Stockholm
  • C
    Moscow
  • D
    Ulaanbaatar

Question 60

Despite being built by Muslims in the 9th century, this capital city, the EU's third largest, is today mostly Roman Catholic.

  • A
    Andorra
  • B
    Istanbul
  • C
    Lisbon
  • D
    Madrid

Question 61

This city 42 miles southeast of Lake Titicaca is located over two miles higher than our previous city and is the world's highest capital city. (Hint: City is two words)

  • A
    Thimphu
  • B
    La Paz
  • C
    Bogota
  • D
    Mexico City

Question 62

This capital city is both the world's windiest city as well as the southernmost capital. Rather ironically, it is located on its country's North Island. This city is located in a country that starts with "New".

  • A
    Maputo
  • B
    Wellington
  • C
    Canberra
  • D
    Cape Town

Question 63

This massive city is one of the 20 largest in the world and is also the world's coldest city with a population greater than 10 million people.

  • A
    Stockholm
  • B
    Helsinki
  • C
    Moscow
  • D
    Reykjavik

Question 64

This capital holds the record for lowest capital city, with an elevation of -92 feet, possible because of its location on the Caspian Sea. It is also the largest city below sea level and the largest in the Caucasus, with a metro population over 4 million.

  • A
    Minsk
  • B
    Baku
  • C
    Tehran
  • D
    Ashgabat

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