World Capitals, Currencies and Parliaments: The Trap Pairs Exams Keep Repeating

World Capitals, Currencies and Parliaments: The Tables That Keep Coming Back

Few general awareness blocks are as reliable as this one. A capital, a currency or the name of a parliament can be asked in one line, answered in five seconds, and lost just as fast if the option list holds a look-alike. That is exactly how papers set it: the correct capital sits next to the country's most famous city, and the correct currency sits next to a neighbour's.

This short sticks to stable facts, the ones that do not change with elections, so nothing here goes out of date. It is built as three tables: capitals that are not the biggest city, currencies grouped into confusing pairs, and parliaments with names of their own. Each table comes with the specific trap that printed options use. Learn the traps along with the facts and this block becomes some of the quickest marks in the paper.

1. What is the capital of Australia?

2. Which is the currency of Indonesia?

3. The Knesset is the parliament of which country?

4. Which city is the capital of Nigeria?

5. The Storting is the parliament of which country?

6. Which city is the official legislative capital of Sri Lanka?

7. The kyat is the currency of which country?

8. Which country-parliament pair is correctly matched?