Q1
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with its area of 0.44 km². The pope lives there. The world’s largest country is, of course, Russia. Russia’s areas cover 17.098.242 km².
Q2
The Dead Sea is the world’s saltiest body of water (around 35% salts). In that part of the world, a rift is forming, and two crustal plates are spreading apart. Right along where the crust is being stretched thin, sits the Dead Sea. Because of the spreading, the surface sinks downward (around 13 inches per year). The Dead Sea lies between Israel and Jordan.
Q3
Puncak Jaya, or „Mount Victory“, rises over 5000 meters on the island, New Zealand. It’s also the highest mountain on an island. Europeans call it the Carstensz Pyramid, after a Dutch navigator sighted it.
Q4
The Yangtze River is the thirld longest river in the world. It flows through China. It’s about 6.380 kilometres long.
Q5
The deepest known ocean trench is the Mariana Trench. The 11-kilometer-deep hole is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east on the Mariana Islands.
Q6
The explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London twice. The first time was in 1591, when he married a maid of Queen Elizabeth ’s. When the queen found out, she ordered to imprison him. Soon after getting out, Raleigh was accused in treason, because King James wished to make peace with the Spanish. Raleigh was released in 1612, when he promised to give a fortune to the king.
Q7
The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water in the world. It has an area of 179.7 km².
Q8
The Sahara, „The Greatest Desert“, is the world’s largest desert. It has an area of over 9.000.000 km². One of the oldest known inhabitants are the Berbers. They cover more than two thirds of its surface. By 6000 BC Egyptians were herding cattle and constructing large buildings there. Other inhabitants include: Nubians, Phoenicians, and Greeks. Nowadays Arabic is the most commonly spoken language in the Sahara.
Q9
America got its name from the grat explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. During 1505 and 1507 Vespucci made voyages to the America. A German mapmaker printed the first map, on which the New World was called America.
Q10
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incas and Peru. In 1532 Pizarro landed at San Mateo Bay with his crew to explore the land. Soon he reached Cajamarca, and captured the Emperor of the Incas. In 1535 he founded Lima, Peru. Pizarro was assassinated in 1541.
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