80 European Capitals Trivia Questions with Answers

80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains St. Peter’s Basilica, consecrated in 1626?

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Vatican City

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Buda Castle, the historic palace complex overlooking the Danube?

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Budapest

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Alþingi, founded in Iceland in 930?

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Reykjavík

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Oceanographic Museum, founded by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1910?

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Monaco

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains Sarajevo City Hall, rebuilt and reopened in 2014 after wartime destruction?

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Sarajevo

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Palace on the Isle in Łazienki Park, completed in the 18th century?

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Warsaw

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Kremlin, a fortified complex overlooking Moscow’s Red Square?

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Moscow

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Church of Saint Sava, one of the world’s largest Orthodox churches?

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Belgrade

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Puerta del Sol, the square marking Spain’s official Kilometer Zero?

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Madrid

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Royal Palace of Brussels, whose present façade was completed in 1905?

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Brussels

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Hofburg, the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg monarchy?

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Vienna

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Dublin’s Spire, a 120-metre stainless-steel monument completed in 2003?

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Dublin

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Reykjavik’s Hallgrímskirkja, a church whose tower is 74.5 metres tall?

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Reykjavik

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Habsburgs?

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Vienna

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Arc de Triomphe, commissioned by Napoleon in 1806?

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Paris

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Lisbon’s Belém Tower, built on the Tagus River in the early 16th century?

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Lisbon

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Klementinum, whose Baroque library hall opened in 1722?

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Prague

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Roman Colosseum, inaugurated under Emperor Titus in 80 CE?

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Rome

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Acropolis, whose Parthenon was built in the 5th century BCE?

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Athens

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital has the Charles Bridge, a historic crossing of the Vltava River begun in 1357?

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Prague

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Raeapteek, one of Europe’s oldest continuously operating pharmacies, established in 1422?

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Tallinn

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Podgorica’s Millennium Bridge, opened across the Morača River in 2005?

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Podgorica

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Casa de la Vall, built in 1580 as a fortified manor house?

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Andorra la Vella

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Guaita, the oldest and largest of San Marino’s three towers?

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San Marino

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Newborn monument, unveiled on Kosovo’s independence day in 2008?

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Pristina

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Anne Frank House, opened as a museum in 1960?

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Amsterdam

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Palace of the Parliament, the world’s heaviest building?

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Bucharest

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is the seat of Liechtenstein’s government beneath Vaduz Castle?

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Vaduz

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital has the medieval Latin Bridge beside the site of Franz Ferdinand’s 1914 assassination?

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Sarajevo

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Museum of Broken Relationships, founded in Zagreb in 2006?

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Zagreb

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Latvian National Opera and Ballet, opened in 1863?

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Riga

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the UNESCO-listed Palace of the Grand Masters, built by the Knights of St John?

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Valletta

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Riga’s Freedom Monument, unveiled in 1935 to honor Latvian independence?

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Riga

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is the seat of the world’s only surviving sovereign grand duchy?

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Luxembourg City

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation, famous for its pink Baroque façade?

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Ljubljana

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital has the Skanderbeg Monument in its central Skanderbeg Square?

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Tirana

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is divided by the Green Line, a UN-patrolled buffer zone?

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Nicosia

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the UNESCO-listed Old Town of Luxembourg, built around dramatic medieval fortifications?

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Luxembourg City

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital has Tallinn Town Hall, the oldest surviving Gothic town hall in Northern Europe?

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Tallinn

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to Ljubljana Castle, a hilltop fortress overlooking the Ljubljanica River?

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Ljubljana

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains Stockholm’s Royal National City Park, the world’s first national urban park?

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Stockholm

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains Bern’s Zytglogge, a medieval clock tower dating from 1218?

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Bern

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the National Library of Belarus, a diamond-shaped building completed in 2006?

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Minsk

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Munch Museum, housing Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream?

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Oslo

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the House of Terror museum, located at 60 Andrássy Avenue?

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Budapest

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Royal Palace of Madrid, Europe’s largest royal palace by floor area?

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Madrid

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the National Museum of Scotland and Edinburgh Castle on Castle Rock?

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Edinburgh

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Royal Palace, where the Norwegian monarch’s official residence is located?

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Oslo

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital is home to the Guinness Storehouse, opened in 2000 at the brewery founded by Arthur Guinness?

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Dublin

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which European capital contains the Hermitage Museum, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great?

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Saint Petersburg