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1 What is the largest country in the world to have only one time zone?
A China
2 To which country do the Canary Islands belong?
A Spain – Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro.
3 Name the missing Northern Irish County – Armagh, Down, Derry, Fermanagh, Tyrone?
A Antrim
4 In which year did the USSR collapse?
A 1991
5 Which country is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine?
A USA (the world’s three biggest cocaine-producing countries are Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia)
6 Apart from French, Spanish, and English, name two of the other three official languages of the United Nations.
A Arabic, Chinese, Russian – There are six official languages of the UN. These are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
7 Which country’s currency was the Litas before the introduction of the Euro on 1st January 2015?
A Lithuania – The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743 at the time).
8 Which country with a coastline on the Gulf of Thailand, borders Cambodia and Laos to the west and China to the north?
A Vietnam – Vietnam is situated on the eastern side of the Indochina peninsula
9 Which is the largest country by area in Central America?
A Nicaragua, with a total area of over 130,000 square kilometres.
10 How far does a coastal nation’s territorial sea extend out from its coastline?
A (up to) 12 nautical miles; 22.2 km; 13.8 miles (as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).