Europe General Knowledge #2

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An isolated language spoken in a region in Spain and France

Basque

George Orwell's dystopian novel

Nineteen Eighty-Four

A fictional detective who lives on Baker Street in London

Sherlock Holmes

What river flows through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade?

Danube

A monarch whose nickname was "Sisi"

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Roman combatants who fought animals or each other for people's entertainment

Gladiators

What peninsula does Denmark lie on?

Jutland

In what city were held the Summer Olympic Games in 1896?

Athens

Spanish general and the dictator of Spain (from 1939 to 1975)

Francisco Franco

Where can you find barbary macaques, the only wild monkeys in Europe?

Gibraltar

A citizen of Moscow

Muscovite

The oldest university in the world

University of Bologna

The second oldest university in the world

University of Oxford

Whose motto was "one for all, all for one"?

The Three Musketeers

The first artificial Earth satellite launched on 4 October 1957

Sputnik 1

Édith Gassion's nickname which meant "sparrow" and referred to her small height

Édith Piaf

Napoléon Bonaparte's birthplace

Ajaccio, Corsica

P. I. Tchaikovsky's ballet that features the characters of Odette, Odile, and Rothbart?

Swan Lake

Who abducted Europa in the guise of a bull?

Zeus

A sea between Greece and Turkey

Aegean Sea

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