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1. What river flows through Paris?
2. What is the legislative capital of South Africa?
3. What Asian capital is near the confluence of the rivers Baghmati and Vishnumati?
4. Which is the more southerly out of Brasilia and Montevideo?
5. What was the name of Chad's capital N'djamena up until 1973?
6. Which northern hemisphere country's capital city was originally founded as a centre in the early 19th century and named Bytown?
7. In which capital city are the Great Mosque and the Gate of God?
8. Which is the more northerly out of Ankara and Tokyo?
9. Which European capital has the river Danube flowing through it?
10. In which continent is there a capital city founded in the 12th century as a military post, which then became a capital city in the 20th century and where you can still find the 12th century Hassan Tower?
11. Which capital city is situated on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano?
12. What was Norway's capital Oslo, called between 1877 and 1925?
13. Which Asian capital city, founded in the 8th century, is located on the western coast of its country at the mouth of the River Kelani?
14. What capital city was described by the writer Paul Theroux as: 'One of the most violent and decrepit towns on the face of the planet' 'it had been thoroughly vandalized before it could ever be finished, and so it looked like an enormous building site...'?
15. The Nile from its source to the sea flows through both Cairo and Khartoum: True or False?
16. In which capital city is Red Square?
17. When a man is tired of this city, he is tired of life...or at least that is what Samuel Johnson thought...to which capital city was he referring?
18. Which capital cities are situated near the peaks and slopes of the Andes?
19. The Democratic Republic of Congo is situated on the Zaire or Congo river.
20. Which ancient cultural centre was built by Mansur in the 8th century and was sacked by the Mongols in 1258 with great loss of life and learning?
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