Around the World in 10 Questions [8] Quiz

Answer: M5

Built between 1962 and 1977, the M5 runs 162.9 miles from the West Midlands to northern Devon. At its northern end it joins the M6 at West Bromwich. At the southern end, it joins the A30 on the outskirts of Exeter. Major populations centers along the route include Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Worcester, Cheltenham, Bristol, West-super-Mare, Bridgewater and Taunton.

Answer: Malawi

Although Blantyre is the largest city, Lilongwe is the capital of Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa bordering Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. Prior to independence from Great Britain in 1964, Malawi was known as Nyasaland. Of the alternatives, Botswana's capital is Gaborone, Mali's is Bamako, whilst Lobamba and Mbabane are joint-capitals of Swaziland.

Answer: Buenos Aires

The Buenos Aires Subway (known locally as 'Subte' -- short for subterranean) opened in 1913 and was the first of its kind outside Europe and the USA. Almost a century on, it is still the only Metro system in Argentina, although there are plans to develop one in Cordoba. These were followed by Tokyo in 1927, Osaka in 1933 and Toronto in 1954. The Shanghai Metro, now the longest in the world, remarkably did not open until 1995.

Answer: New South Wales

Located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia's highest point rises 7,310 feet above sea-level. Polish explorer Count Strzelecki named it in honor of the Polish-Lithuanian national hero and hero of the American Revolution General Tadeusz Kooeciuszko in 1840.

Answer: Blackpool

Located on the Irish Sea coast about 30 miles north of Liverpool, Blackpool is England's fourth most densely-populated local authority district outside London. In the northwest region, only Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington have larger populations than Blackpool's 142,000.

Answer: Departments

Mainland France's 22 "regions" are split into 96 "departments". These are then further sub-divided into 329 "arrondissements", then into "3,879" cantons and, finally, into more than 36,000 "communes".

Answer: Durban

Known as "KSIA", King Shake International is now the principal airport serving Durban. This state-of-the-art facility opened in May 2010, one month before the FIFA World Cup, replacing the aging "Durban International Airport". Of the alternatives, Port Elizabeth is served by "H. F. Verwoerd Airport", Johannesburg by "OR Tambo International Airport", and Cape Town by "Cape Town International Airport".

Answer: New Brunswick

The name of New Brunswick, one of Canada's three 'Maritime Provinces' comes from the English/French transcription of the city of 'Braunschweig' in northern Germany, ancestral home of the British Hanoverian kings. Unexpectedly, perhaps, it is New Brunswick and not Quebec that is Canada's only constitutionally bilingual province - around one third of the population are Francophones.

Answer: Kyrgyzstan

With the Tian Shan mountain region covering more than over 80% of Kyrgyzstan, it is understandable why is sometimes known as "the Switzerland of Central Asia". Lake Issyk-Kul is an endorheic lake (i.e. it has no outflow) located high in the mountains.

Despite the severe winter temperatures of the region, though, it never freezes because of the high salt content in the water, hence its name - 'hot lake' in the local language.

Answer: Russia

Russia's Salisbury Island is located within the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Long, narrow and almost entirely glacierized, Salisbury Island covers 960 sq km -- marginally smaller than Hong Kong. The island was named after Rollin D. Salisbury of the University of Chicago, who was second-in-command on the Peary relief expedition.