1. Which island has the nickname "The Emerald Isle"?
Ireland
2. Which city is the center of government of the USA?
Washington D.C.
3. Which country is cut through by the equator, after which it is named?
Ecuador
4. What is the currency of Greece?
Euro. Heh. I almost wrote drakhma.
5. Which country is also known as Myanmar?
Burma
6. In 1971, East Pakistan broke away from West Pakistan to become an independent country called...what?
Bangladesh.
7. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, lies on the banks of which river?
Tigris? One of the two.
8. Which Central American country has had no army since 1948?
Huh. I don't know. I am intrigued.
9. Democratic elections in 1990 led to Czechoslovakia's split into two countries - the Czech Republic and which other country?
Slovakia
10. What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Kinshasa
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Brainteaser!
- 03/04/2011 03:29:33 PM
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*NM*
Re: Brainteaser!
- 03/04/2011 04:51:30 PM
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I was hoping for something more difficult.
- 03/04/2011 06:11:29 PM
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Yeah, not to be a snob here, but that one was particularly easy... *NM*
- 03/04/2011 06:18:16 PM
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). 
Brainteasers require reasoning and creatively applied logic. That's just regurgitation of facts.
- 03/04/2011 07:44:10 PM
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