There's a town in Europe where the international border doesn't just run between two countries — it runs straight through houses, shops, and at least one café. Which two countries share it? France and Switzerland Belgium and the Netherlands Germany and Austria Spain and Portugal None What is the largest country in the world that does not have a single permanent river? Mongolia Australia Saudi Arabia Kazakhstan None If you wanted to stand on the lowest patch of dry land anywhere on Earth, where would you go? Death Valley, California The shores of the Dead Sea The Qattara Depression, Egypt The Caspian Sea coast None No river on Earth flows through more countries than this one. As a bonus, it passes through more national capitals than any river in the world — four of them. Which river is it? The Nile The Rhine The Danube The Amazon None The world's *newest* international land border was created in 2022, when two countries finally agreed to split a tiny, uninhabited Arctic island down the middle. The decades-long dispute over it was so polite it got nicknamed the "Whisky War." Which two countries? Canada and Denmark Russia and Norway Iceland and the United Kingdom Finland and Sweden None There's a spot in the South Pacific Ocean so impossibly far from any land that, at certain moments, the closest human beings to it aren't on a ship or an island — they're somewhere else entirely. Where are the nearest people? On the nearest fishing vessel, hundreds of miles away On Easter Island Aboard the International Space Station, passing overhead At a research station in Antarctica None Time's up
