ENGL: Pset

1. What is the name of the capital of Turkey?

a. Bursa
b. !Ankara
c. Istanbul
d. Izmir
2. What colour is the circle on the Japanese flag?
a. !Red
b. Black
c. Yellow
d. White
3. Which nation claims ownership of Antarctica?
a. United States of America
b. United Nations
c. Australia
d. !No one, but there are claims.
4. What is the capital of Senegal?
a. !Dakar
b. Nouakchott
c. Conakry
d. Monrovia
5. The Sonoran Desert is located in eastern Africa.
a. True
b. !False
6. The Space Needle is located in which city?
a. Toronto
b. !Seattle
c. Los Angles
d. Vancouver
7. Which of the following Japanese islands is the biggest?
a. Shikoku
b. Hokkaido
c. !Honshu
d. Kyushu
8. In the 2016 Global Peace Index poll, out of 163 countries, what was the United States of
America ranked?
a. !103
b. 10
c. 79
d. 59
9. What is the capital of Mauritius?
a. Port Vila
b. Port Moresby
c. !Port Louis
d. PortauPrince
10. What city is the Terracotta Army located in?
a. !Xi039;an
b. Hong Kong

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c. Shanghai
d. Beijing
1. The ancient Roman god of war was commonly known as which of the following?
a. Ares
b. !Mars
c. Jupiter
d. Juno
2. This Greek mythological figure is the godgoddess of battle strategy among other things.
a. Apollo
b. Artemis
c. !Athena
d. Ares
3. The greek god Poseidon was the god of what?
a. Fire
b. War
c. Sun
d. !The Sea
4. A minotaur is half human half what?
a. Eagle
b. Cow
c. Horse
d. !Bull
5. What mythology did the god quot;Apolloquot; come from?
a. !Greek and Roman
b. Roman and Spanish
c. Greek and Chinese
d. Greek, Roman and Norse
6. The Maori hold that which island nation was founded by Kupe, who discovered it under
a long white cloud?
a. !New Zealand
b. Hawaii
c. Vanuatu
d. Fiji
7. Who is the god of war in Polynesian mythology?
a. !039;Oro
b. Mui
c. Kohara
d. Hina
8. What immense structure is referred to in Norse Mythology as the Yggdrasil.
a. !Tree
b. Mountain
c. Temple
d. Castle
9. Which Norse God has a horse named Sleipnir?
a. Thor
b. Frigg
c. Balder
d. !Odin

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10. Hel was the daughter of which Norse Mythological figure?
a. Balder
b. Thor
c. !Loki
d. Odin
1. A group of islands is called an 039;archipelago039;.
a. False
b. !True
2. Where is the area commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle?
a. !North Atlantic Ocean, between Florida and Puerto Rico
b. In the Caribbean Sea
c. North Pacific Ocean, between Japan and the USA
d. South Pacific Ocean, far off Chile
3. How many countries are larger than Australia?
a. 4
b. 6
c. !5
d. 3
4. What is the right way to spell the capital of Hungary?
a. Budapast
b. Boodapest
c. Bhudapest
d. !Budapest
5. The Space Needle is located in which city?
a. Los Angles
b. Vancouver
c. Toronto
d. !Seattle
6. What is the capital of Estonia?
a. !Tallinn
b. Riga
c. Tartu
d. Helsinki
7. Hungary is the only country in the world beginning with H.
a. True
b. !False
8. Bridgetown is the capital of which island country in the Carribean?
a. Jamaicalrm;
b. Cuba
c. Dominica
d. !Barbados
9. Greenland is a part of which kingdom?
a. United Kingdom
b. Norway
c. Sweden
d. !Denmark
10. Which two modernday countries used to be known as the region of Rhodesia between
the 1890s and 1980?
a. Togo amp; Benin

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b. Lesotho amp; Swaziland
c. !Zambia amp; Zimbabwe
d. Rwanda amp; Burundi

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