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The Big Wide World

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the world's largest continent?

a)

Asia

b)

South America

c)

Europe

d)

Antartica

2.

What does the ‘DC’ stand for in Washington DC?

a)

District of California

b)

District of Cambridge

c)

District of Columbia

d)

District of Canby

3.

What nation produces two thirds of the world’s vanilla?

a)

China

b)

Brazil

c)

Madagascar

d)

Netherlands

4.

What is the smallest country in the world?

a)

TUVALU

b)

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

c)

REPUBLIC OF MALTA

d)

VATICAN CITY STATE

5.

Which country formerly ruled Iceland?

a)

Denmark

b)

Sweden

c)

Poland

d)

Germany

6.

Havana is the capital of what country?

a)

Argentina

b)

Chilie

c)

Columbia

d)

Cuba

7.

Which Spanish Island is known as “The Island of Eternal Spring”?

a)

Tenerife

b)

Ibiza

c)

Lanzarote

d)

La Palma

8.

Which Nordic country was first to give women the right to vote, in 1906?

a)

Norway

b)

Iceland

c)

Finland

d)

Benelux

9.

Portugal is bordered by what other country?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

Germany

d)

Turkey

10.

What is the only sea on Earth with no coastline?

a)

Sargasso Sea

b)

Red Sea

c)

Marmara Sea

d)

Coral Sea

11.

What is the capital of Poland?

a)

Krakow

b)

Wrocław

c)

Warsaw

d)

Lublin

12.

Which line on a London Underground map is coloured brown?

a)

Bakerloo

b)

Central

c)

City and South

d)

Picadilly

13.

The equator passes through how many countries?

a)

13

b)

14

c)

15

d)

16

14.

Which is the largest of the five main Japanese islands?

a)

Hokkaido

b)

Okinawa

c)

Kyushu

d)

Honshu

15.

Which County Durham town is twinned with Nordenham in northern Germany?

a)

Peterlee

b)

Bishop Auckland

c)

Barnard Castle

d)

Spennymoor

16.

What is the oldest recorded town in the UK?

a)

York

b)

Colchester

c)

Sunderland

d)

Blackpool

17.

What is Scotland's fourth-largest city by population?

a)

Dundee

b)

Glasgow

c)

Aberdeen

d)

Inverness

18.

Abertawe is the Welsh name for which city?

a)

Cardiff

b)

Swansea

c)

Newport

d)

Bangor

19.

Which Turkish city shares its name with a famous superhero?

a)

Superman

b)

Flash

c)

Batman

d)

Green Lantern

20.

In which city would you find Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa?

a)

London

b)

New York

c)

Paris

d)

Berlin

21.

What is the largest UK city without a professional football team?

a)

Wakefield

b)

Leeds

c)

Manchester

d)

Birmingham

22.

What is the only city in the United Kingdom to begin with the letter R?

a)

Richmond

b)

Ripon

c)

Rotherham

d)

Reading

23.

Yorkshire is the biggest county in the UK by area. What's the second biggest?

a)

Cumbria

b)

Lincolnshire

c)

Devon

d)

Norfolk

24.

PEK is the code for which international airport?

a)

Beijing

b)

Los Angeles

c)

Shanghai Pudong

d)

Kuala Lumpar

25.

In which UK city was the Titanic built?

a)

Manchester

b)

Newcastle

c)

Sheffield

d)

Belfast