1. Which is the largest ocean on Earth?
2. Which river is usually considered the longest in the world, flowing through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea?
3. Which continent is almost entirely covered by ice and has no permanent population?
4. Which ancient civilisation, based around the city of Rome, built a huge empire across Europe and controlled the Mediterranean?
5. Which city is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, even though many people assume it is Dubai?
6. South Africa is unusual in having how many capital cities, each handling a different role of government?
7. The Wright brothers made history in 1903 by achieving what?
8. Which river valley civilisation, in what is now Iraq, is often called one of the earliest, and developed an early writing system called cuneiform?
9. Which two continents are joined on one continuous landmass, sometimes called Eurasia?
10. Which scientist accidentally discovered a mould that killed bacteria in his lab, leading to the antibiotic penicillin?
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