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Ten countries where the famous city is not the capital — and the quieter one that is.
What is the capital of Myanmar?
Countries that picked up their capital and put it somewhere else — and the ones doing it right now.
Brazil moved its capital in 1960 away from which city?
A river, a statue, a nickname, an altitude — ten capitals identified by a single detail.
Which capital was formed by merging two towns on opposite banks of the Danube?
Ten countries that have no land border with anybody, from the Caribbean to the central Pacific.
Which island nation lies roughly 800 kilometres east of Madagascar and was the only home of th…
Ten questions on the ocean that holds more islands than all the others put together.
Easter Island, home of the moai statues, is administered by which country?
Prisons, exiles, monasteries and one very expensive swap involving nutmeg.
Which island in New York Harbor processed arriving immigrants between 1892 and 1954?
Hotspots, subduction, sinking volcanoes and drowned hills — the four or five ways land ends up surrounded by sea.
The Hawaiian island chain formed as the Pacific plate drifted over what?
Ten questions on the eight planets, from the hottest surface to the one lying on its side.
Which planet orbits closest to the Sun?
Phases, tides, the far side and the slow retreat — ten questions on the nearest thing in the sky.
What causes the phases of the Moon?
Ten questions on what makes a star shine, what it turns into afterwards, and where your atoms came from.
What process powers a star like the Sun?
Ten milestones from 1957 to 1981, from the first satellite to the first shuttle launch.
What was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
Ten kings and one queen who took the throne, from the first unifier to the last native ruler.
Which king appears on a famous carved palette wearing the crowns of both Upper and Lower Egypt?
The gods with animal heads, the weighing of the heart, and what the jars beside the coffin were for.
Which god, shown with the head of a jackal, was associated with embalming?
Angles, casing stones, granite hauled from Aswan, and what the workers' village actually revealed.
The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, which changes angle partway up, was built for which king?
Beer rations, board games, eye paint and the rubbish heap that told us how ordinary Egyptians lived.
Egyptian writing sheets were made from what?
Ten questions on the animals that do the hunting, from cheetah claws to what actually holds a wolf pack together.
Which is the largest of the big cats?
Electric fields, infrared pits, polarised light and infrasound: ten senses that no human has.
How do most insect-eating bats locate prey in the dark?
Beetles, woodlice, coral polyps and spider silk: ten questions on the animals without a backbone.
Which of these is not an insect?
Gaggles, mobs, cobs and kids: ten questions on what we call animals in groups and on their own.
What is a group of geese on the ground called?
Ten questions on the frame you walk around in — the bones, the muscles pulling on them and the joints in between.
Which is the longest bone in the human body?
Chambers, valves, vessels and what is actually floating in the blood they carry.
Which vessel carries blood out of the heart to the rest of the body?
Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch and the sixth one nobody counts — how each is actually built.
Light entering the eye is focused onto which layer at the back of the eyeball?
Ten discoveries that changed medicine, and the people who were usually ignored at the time.
Who discovered X-rays in 1895?
Where the colours on national flags come from, and the families of flags that share them.
On the flag of Ireland, the orange band is generally understood to represent which group?