Countries & Capitals - Europe

I'm back with one of the basic topics that we discuss when it comes to quizzing, Countries & Capitals.

Remember we discussed the countries and their capitals in the Asian continent? This was through my very first post on this blog, "Quiz with Deran". So moving on from there, let's try and figure out the names of the capital cities of the European continent. These include certain number of cities that I dream of traveling, which includes, Madrid, Stockholm, Copehnagen and Rome.

Country	Capital
Albania	Tirana
Andorra	La Vella
Armenia	Yerevan
Austria	Vienna
Azerbaijan	Baku
Belarus	Minsk
Belgium	Brussels
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Sarajevo
Bulgaria	Sophia
Croatia	Zagreb
Cyprus	Nicosia
Czech Republic	Prague
Denmark	Copenhagen
Estonia	Tallinn
Finland	Helsinki
France	Paris
Georgia	Tbilisi
Germany	Berlin
Greece	Athens
Hungary	Budapest
Iceland	Reykjavik
Ireland	Dublin
Italy	Rome
Kazakhstan	Astana
Latvia	Riga
Liechtenstein	Vaduz
Lithuania	Vilnius
Luxemburg	Luxemburg
Republic of Macedonia	Skopje
Malta	Valletta
Moldova	Chisinau
Monaco	Monaco
Montenegro	Podgorica
Netherlands	Amsterdam
Norway	Oslo
Poland	Warsaw
Portugal	Lisbon
Romania	Bucharest
Russia	Moscow
Saint Marino	Saint Marino
Serbia	Belgrade
Slovakia	Bratislava
Slovenia	Ljubljana
Spain	Madrid
Sweden	Stockholm
Switzerland	Bern
Turkey	Ankara
Ukraine	Kiev
United Kingdom	London

 

Ok so with that, we've got hold of the capital cities of Asia and Europe. Let's look at the rest of the capital cities in a later post.

Stockholm - Capital city of Sweden

Madrid - the capital of Spain

 

Organizations of the World

I just witnessed a superb performance by my former team mate Viraj Madusanka (former team member of Quiz Club of Ananda College) yesterday night at DFCC Mindstar semi final, which made me excited to write another post on this field of General Knowledge.

This time the post will be on the key organizations that exist in the world, who are into humanitarian and aid work. As most of you know, most of these organizations are a part of UN, however there are ones that work independently from UN as well.

So the idea is to identify the headquarters of each of these key organizations, and the key people who head them right now. The designation of those heads varies from Director General to President. However, at a quizzer’s level it'll be sufficient to know the names of those heads.

UN Headquarters - New York, USA

 

 

 

Organization	Headquarters	Head of the Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)	Rome, Italy	Jacque Diouf
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)	Vienna, Austria	Yukiya Amano
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)	Montreal, Canada	Raymond Benjamin
International Labour Organization (ILO)	Geneva, Switzerland	Juan Somavia
International Monetary Fund (IMF)	Washington, USA	Dominique Strauss-Kahn
United Nations (UN)	New York, USA	Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)	New York, USA
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)	Geneva, Switzerland	Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)	New York, USA	Helen Clark
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)	Paris, France	Irina Bokova
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)	Nairobi, Kenya	Achim Steiner
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the (UNHCR)	Geneva, Switzerland	António Guterres
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)	Vienna, Austria	Kandeh Yumkella
United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)	Madrid, Spain	Taleb Rifai
Universal Postal Union (UPU)	Bern, Switzerland	Edouard Dayan
World Bank Group	Washington, USA	Robert B. Zoellick
World Health Organization (WHO)	Geneva, Switzerland	Dr. Margaret Chan
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	Geneva, Switzerland	Francis Gurry
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)	Geneva, Switzerland	Alexander Bedritsky
World Trade Organization (WTO)	Geneva, Switzerland	Pascal Lamy