A CAPITAL EVENT (Quiz)

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Questions:

1. Let's start with the capital of Sweden. Name it. For Bragging Rights, is it the largest city in Sweden?

2. Name the capital of Brazil.

3. What is the capital of our close-at-hand northern neighbor Canada?

4. The People's Republic of China is the Mainland China often termed as Red China. What is its capital?

5. Offshore from the PRC in the preceding question is the Republic of China, which is often referred to as Taiwan. What is its capital?

6. Name the capital of Australia, that lovely land down under.

7. Name the capital of that romantic country we know as Italy.

8. Poland seems to be renaming everything in sight in honor of the late Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan. But its capital still bears its historic name. What is it?

9. What is the capital of Iraq, the war-torn Middle Eastern country?

10. Name the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa.


Answers:

1. Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city.

2. Brasilia is the capital of Brazil.

3. Canada's capital is Ottawa, Ontario.

4. The PRC's capital is Beijing.

5. Taipei is the capital of what is often called Free China.

6. Australia's capital is Canberra. (Was that city named after Yogi? Just kidding.)

7. Rome is the capital of the Italian Republic.

8. Warsaw is still the capital of the Republic of Poland.

9. Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.

10. South Africa's legislative capital is Cape Town.