Spain
Madrid is Spain's capital and largest city. This topic is part of Countries within Geography. This page currently draws on 48 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Spain trivia questions
What is the capital of Spain?
Answer: Madrid
Bonus fact: Madrid is Spain's capital and largest city.
Spain shares the Iberian Peninsula with which country?
Answer: Portugal
Bonus fact: Portugal occupies the peninsula's western side.
Which mountain range forms much of the border between Spain and France?
Answer: Pyrenees
Bonus fact: The Pyrenees separate the Iberian Peninsula from much of the rest of Europe.
What is the highest mountain in Spain, located on Tenerife?
Answer: Mount Teide
Bonus fact: Teide is a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands.
The conflict centered largely on preventing the crowns of Spain and which country from uniting?
Answer: France
Bonus fact: European powers feared Bourbon dominance under France and Spain.
Andorra lies between France and Spain in which mountain range?
Answer: Pyrenees
Bonus fact: The U.S. State Department describes Andorra as a 181-square-mile principality between France and Spain.
Which explorer's 1492 voyage crossed the Atlantic from Spain to the Caribbean?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Bonus fact: Columbus's 1492 voyage reached islands in the Caribbean.
Which pair names Spain's two autonomous cities in North Africa?
Answer: Ceuta and Melilla
Bonus fact: Ceuta and Melilla both have land boundaries with Morocco.
After leaving Spain, Juan Ramón Jiménez eventually settled and taught in which Caribbean territory?
Answer: Puerto Rico
Bonus fact: Jiménez became a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Puerto Rico.
Why did "Viridiana" become highly controversial in Spain?
Answer: Its irreverent religious imagery angered authorities and the Catholic hierarchy
Bonus fact: The Franco government initially tried to suppress the film after international criticism from the Vatican.
Which navigator commanded the surviving ship on the final leg back to Spain?
Answer: Juan Sebastián Elcano
Bonus fact: Elcano brought the Victoria and its small surviving crew home after the first circumnavigation.
The Prado Museum is located in which city?
Answer: Madrid
Bonus fact: The Prado is Spain's national art museum.