QUESTION 1 / 20 · EUROPEMedium
What is the capital of Switzerland?
COUNTRY 1 OF 10 · 0 RIGHT
Typing round: no options to lean on
Recognising an answer is easier than recalling it. Type the capital; accents and capital letters don't matter, and common alternative spellings count. A hint shows the first letter but halves the point.
WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OFMongolia?
Mongolia…
Ghana?
Uruguay?
Iceland?
Ethiopia?
Colombia?
Laos?
Philippines?
Kenya?
Finland?
What this capitals quiz covers, in short
Twenty multiple-choice questions on national capitals, four from each of five regions: Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. Most are deliberately tricky: countries whose best-known city is not the capital, capitals moved to new planned cities, and countries with more than one capital.
Where a country's capital is officially split or disputed, the question says which kind it means. The quiz is our own and not normed, so treat your score as a snapshot.
By What's Your IQ · Reviewed 4 Oct 2026- Format
- 20 multiple-choice questions, 4 options each
- Regions
- Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, Oceania
- Bonus
- 10-country typing round with hints
- Level
- Medium to hard
From scratchmany capitals were built on purposeGovernments often build a new capital to unite rival regions, move inland, or start fresh. That's why so many quiz answers are smaller, newer cities.1,2
1800Washington, D.C.Laid out on land chosen by George Washington; Congress first met there in 1800.
1913CanberraFounded as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, to a design by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
1960BrasíliaBuilt in about four years in Brazil's empty interior to pull development inland.
1991AbujaChosen for its central location, away from the main ethnic regions of the south.
2005NaypyidawMoved overnight from Yangon by Myanmar's military government.
- Holston, J. (1989). The modernist city: An anthropological critique of Brasília. University of Chicago Press.
- Vale, L. J. (2008). Architecture, power, and national identity (2nd ed.). Routledge.