A | B |
The Palio is a700 year-old horse race | in Siena Italy |
A plimsoll is a | sneaker |
The Plimsoll Mark is a load-line | for ocean going cargo ships |
The four languages of Switzerland | German, French, Italian, Romansh |
In London, Big Ben is in the | clock tower of the House of Parliament |
A dirndl is a | full-skirted dress |
The original Magna Carta can be | read in the British Museum |
Vasco da Gama was the first | European to reach India by sea |
He wrote The Little Mermaid and | The Ugly Duckling |
Greenland has two representatives | in the Danish legislature |
Loch Ness is a body of water | full of mystery in Scotland |
The British Crown Jewels | are in the Tower of London |
Hadrian was a Roman Emperor | made famous for building a wall |
Napoleon met his waterloo in | near the village of Waterloo |
The village of Waterloo is in | Belgium |
The Mayflower sailed from | Plymouth, England in 1620 |
Heathrow is an airport | that serves London |
The flag of the United Kingdom | is called the Union Jack |
The patron saint of Wales is | St. David |
On Saint David's Day a Welshman | wears a leek in his hat |
Before air conditioning in Spain | siestas were common |
Saffron is a yellow spice that is | used in cooking paella. |
Antoni Gaudi is an architect | noted for ornate design |
Switzerland exports the | swatch |
four of the eight alpine countries | Austria, France, Germany, Italy |
If you sailed downstream on the Volga | you would end up in the Caspian Sea |
The statue of the Little Mermaid | is in Copenhagen harbor |
Guy Fawkes was unsuccessful | in blowing up Parliament in 1605 |
Lorenzo Ghiberti's bronze doors | are found in Florence |
The Hungarian Rhapsodies were composed | by Franz Liszt |
Home heating in Iceland is by | steam from hot springs |
Three capital cities that start and end with the same letter | Andorra, Oslo, Warsaw, |
Corsica>Strait>Sardinia | Strait of Bonifacio |
Roman name for Scottish highlands | Caledonia |
The Costa del Sol is in | Spain |
The Isle of Man is smack dab | in the middle of the Irish Sea |
Bavaria is a state in | West Germany |
Zugspitze is a mountain in | Bavaria |
The Basque live in Spain and | France |
Johann Strauss composed the waltz | On the Beautiful Blue Danube |
Bosporus Strait connects the Black | sea to the Sea of Marmara |
From the Sea of Marmara you can | access the Mediterranean Sea |
In Russian, Pravda means | truth |