Statistics for Small Towns and Places

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A country - 825 inhabitants and its official languages includes latin	Vatican	91%
Jamestown is the capital of this island, where Napoleon spent his last years	St. Helena	75%
This town in the Lahn Valley lends its name to the Dutch Royal and other noble families and indirectly to the capital of the Bahamas.	Nassau	70%
In December 1988 a terrorist attack caused a PanAm airplane to crash here	Lockerbie	65%
The Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flight in this North Carolina town	Kitty Hawk	49%
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place in this Arizona town	Tombstone	45%
WW2 Battlefield in Egypt where Rommel was defeated by Montgomery in a second battle.	El Alamein	42%
Five EU Nations signed a treaty abolishing border controls in this small town on the river Moselle	Schengen	42%
Disputed between the UK and Argentina, what is the capital of the Falkland Islands	Port Stanley	31%
The inhabitants of this island in the Chagos Archipelago were expelled from this island to make room for a military base	Diego Garcia	20%
In this little town 100km west of Moscow Napoleon defeated the Russian army in 1812	Borodino	14%
Home to the northernmost post office, i.e. functioning civil settlement.	Ny Alesund	8%