Shoeless Trivia: Episode 6 (European Geography)

You probably had too much to drink last night and ur a peein’ this morning. So why not enjoy some European geography?

1. Though Brussels is generally considered the de facto capital of the European Union, the seven institutions of the Union are actually divided among four different cities. Name any one of the other three.
2. Alphonse Daudet’s short story “The Last Class”, set in the early 1870s, tells of a young boys final French lesson in what region of France?
3. A number of of episodes of Seinfeld made reference to the fictional movie Rochelle, Rochelle, whose tag line described it as “a young girl’s erotic journey” between a certain pair of European cities. Based on that tag line, in what two countries did Rochelle’s journey begin and end?
4. A Munro is a mountain in Scotland with an absolute height greater than 3000 feet. What flippantly related term, coined by Alan Dawson in 1992, describes any hill in the British Isles with a relative height greater than 150 meters?
5. The two most populous cities in Europe both belong countries that have the majority of their area in Asia. Name both cities.

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1. Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Luxembourg (City)
2. Alsace
3. Italy, Belarus
4. Marilyn
5. Istanbul, Moscow