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This week’s is a European quiz.

1. Denmark has a land border with which other European country?

2. What French term is given to small pieces of fried bread served with soup?

3. Which country was known by the Romans as “Gaul”?

4. Tim Rice and musicians from which group wrote the musical “Chess”? A) ABBA, B) A-Ha, C) Falco, D) Scorpions

5. What nationality was physicist Galileo Galilei?

6. Which European country’s internet domain code is .de?

7. In which Italian city would you find the Trevi Fountain — an example of baroque architecture? A) Milan, B) Rome, C) Venice, D) Florence

8. The numeric series 0,1,1,2,3,5,8… is named after which Italian mathematician? 9. Complete the title of the Ingmar Bergman film starring Max von Sidow which famously features a man playing chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague, “The Seventh …”

10. In which country would you find Bran Castle (also known as Dracula’s Castle)?

11. In which European country did the dance the fandango originate? 12. What is pancetta? A) Cheese, B) Bacon, C) Ground wheat, D) Chocolate dessert

13. In which European city was author Franz Kafka born and raised? A) Zagreb, B) Prague, C) Vienna, D) Warsaw

14. Which Italian composer wrote the opera “La Traviata”?

15. What nationality is five-time Tour de France champion Miguel Indurain?

16. Richard Krajicek, who was a Wimbledon champion in 1996, represented which country? A) Germany, B) Czech Republic, C) Netherlands, D) Serbia

17. Name the German film directed by Wolgang Petersen that is regarded to be the greatest submarine movie of all time.

18. Name the French fortification system that was built along the German frontier from Switzerland to Luxembourg from 1929-36.

19. He was a French philosopher and novelist who was a Marxist. He and Simone de Beauvoir were a couple. His seminal works include “Being and Nothingness” and “Nausea”. Who is he?

20. The tarantula spider was named after a town in which country? A) Spain, B) France, C) Portugal, D) Italy

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