NewsTracker Answers for week of Mar. 28, 2005

Q: Chess champion Bobby Fischer arrived in Iceland last week after nine months of detention in Japan. Fischer had been held in Japan for trying to leave the country using an invalid U.S. passport. Japan agreed to release him after he accepted Iceland's offer of citizenship. Where in the world is Iceland?

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Q: Fischer, 62, was met with applause from about 200 supporters when he arrived in the capital of the tiny, chess-loving nation. What is the capital of Iceland?

A. Reykjavik

B. Oslo

C. Copenhagen

D. Check Republic

A. Reykjavik is Iceland's capital and largest city.

Q: Fischer became a hero in Iceland when he won the world chess title there in 1972 against Boris Spassky. Spassky was from a country that no longer exists. Which country was it.

A. Ukraine

B. Soviet Union

C. Georgia

D. Russia

B. The other countries on this list became independent states following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Q: Fischer is wanted in the United States for playing in a 1992 exhibition match in a country that was then under U.S. sanction. This country also no longer exists. Which country was it?

A. Greenland

B. Monaco

C. Yugoslavia

D. Kuwait

C. Fischer played an exhibition match in the former Yugoslavia in violation of sanctions. The other countries on this list still exist.

Q: Iceland is considered part of which continent?

A. Europe

B. North America

C. Arctic

D. Antarctica

A. Unlike neighbouring Greenland, Iceland is considered to be a part of Europe, not of America. The island is the world's 18th largest island