Europe General Knowledge #2

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An isolated language spoken in a region in Spain and France
Basque
George Orwell's dystopian novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four
A fictional detective who lives on Baker Street in London
Sherlock Holmes
What river flows through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade?
Danube
A monarch whose nickname was "Sisi"
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Roman combatants who fought animals or each other for people's entertainment
Gladiators
What peninsula does Denmark lie on?
Jutland
In what city were held the Summer Olympic Games in 1896?
Athens
Spanish general and the dictator of Spain (from 1939 to 1975)
Francisco Franco
Where can you find barbary macaques, the only wild monkeys in Europe?
Gibraltar
A citizen of Moscow
Muscovite
The oldest university in the world
University of Bologna
The second oldest university in the world
University of Oxford
Whose motto was "one for all, all for one"?
The Three Musketeers
The first artificial Earth satellite launched on 4 October 1957
Sputnik 1
Édith Gassion's nickname which meant "sparrow" and referred to her small height
Édith Piaf
Napoléon Bonaparte's birthplace
Ajaccio, Corsica
P. I. Tchaikovsky's ballet that features the characters of Odette, Odile, and Rothbart?
Swan Lake
Who abducted Europa in the guise of a bull?
Zeus
A sea between Greece and Turkey
Aegean Sea
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