Europe General Knowledge #3

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What kind of an amusement ride is the London Eye?

What composition by Johann Strauss II is inspired by a river?

What is azbuka?

What natural disaster did Pliny the Younger famously write about?

What carmaker owns the Transparent Factory (Gläserne Manufaktur) in Dresden?

Pope who initiated the First Crusade

Bokmål is one of the official written standarts for what language?

Whose friends are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Where did Charlie Bucket and his grandfather go after finding a golden ticket?

What revolution caused the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the Russian Empire in March 1917?

In what month did the Great October Socialist Revolution took place by the Gregorian calendar?

What is the name of a significant postmodern author whose most famous book is called The Name of the Rose?

Where can you find the Black Forest?

Whose friend is Christopher Robin?

What was Giovan Maria Salati (and Matthew Webb) the first one to swim across?

What preeminent book is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso?

Who starred in the movies about Fantomas or gendarmes, usually portraying choleric characters?

What city did the gendarmes from the movies with the actor above serve in?

What were purportedly the last words of Julius Caesar?

Where is the Hill of Crosses?