EUROPEAN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

(e.g., In which country is the westernmost point of continental Europe? Answer: Portugal.)

Freshman level

1. This river flows from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.

2. These mountains form the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia.

3. This Ukrainian city was the site of a 1986 nuclear accident.

Graduate level

4. His works include “Das Kapital” and “The Communist Manifesto.”

5. The “Enlightenment” is also known as the “Age of ____.”

6. On what island was the Minoan civilization?

Ph.D. level

7. King of the Franks and founder of first empire in Western Europe after fall of Rome.

8. This killed as many as 50 million Europeans between 1346 and 1353.

9. Two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were in Europe. Name either.

Answers: 1. Danube River. 2. Ural Mountains. 3. Chernobyl. 4. Karl Marx. 5. Reason. 6. Crete. 7. Charlemagne. 8. The Black Death (bubonic plague). 9. Colossus of Rhodes and Statue of Zeus (at Olympia).

— North America Syndicate