Around the World in Ten Questions (18) Quiz

Answer: Adriatic Sea

Part of the former Yugoslavia, Montenegro is similar in size to the U.S. state of Connecticut. Podgorica is the capital and largest city. The Adriatic provides coastlines for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia.

Answer: Kazakhstan

Surrounded by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and China with a coastline on the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest country (behind Argentina) with an area larger than the whole of Western Europe.

Answer: Tunisia

Located 25 miles north of Cape Serrat on the Tunisian mainland and 90 miles south of the Italian island of Sardinia, the Galite Islands are the site of the northernmost point of the African continent.

Answer: Barbados

A sovereign nation in the Lesser Antilles, Barbados covers an area of just 21 miles by 14 miles, and so is barely 10% the size of the smallest U.S. state, Rhode Island. It lies about 100 miles east of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and 250 miles northeast of Trinidad and Tobago.

Answer: Alabama

Nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, the Cotton State and The Heart of Dixie, Alabama is slightly larger than Greece and became the 22nd U.S. state in 1819. Its capital is Montgomery and Birmingham is the largest city by population. Alabama's highest point is Mount Cheaha at 2,413 feet.

Answer: Rhine

Located in north-central Switzerland, just on the Swiss side of the point where the Swiss, French and German borders intersect, Basel has suburbs in both other countries. Home to 177,000 in 2018, it is the third-largest city in Switzerland, after Zurich and Geneva. Known today for its museums, the city of Basel joined the Swiss Confederacy in 1501.

It is also home to Switzerland's oldest university, founded in 1460.

Answer: New Guinea

Although only one-third the size of the world's largest island (Greenland), New Guinea is larger than the U.S state of Texas and of similar size to Turkey. It is shared by the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

Answer: Kuwait

About half the size of Taiwan, Kuwait is a West Asian country located at the northern edge of Eastern Arabia. In 2016, more than 70% of its 4.2 million population were expatriates. Kuwait has the world's sixth-largest oil reserves and the Kuwaiti Dinar is the world's highest-valued currency.

Answer: Peru

Many rivers join to form the Amazon itself, but its two primary sources are the Apurimac and the Mantaro rivers, both of them Peruvian. These two join to form the Ucayali River, which in turn meets the Marañón River before it crosses the border into Brazil.

Answer: Channel Islands

Part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, the tiny island of Sark lies off France's Normandy coast. Just 2.1 square miles in area, it is home to a population of 600. It is one of the world's few places with no cars: only tractors and horse-drawn vehicles are allowed.