Geography warm-up · 2 June 2026
Which country is it?
Put this on the big screen. Show one clue at a time and let the class guess out loud. Every class in the world gets the same country today.
- It covers about 506,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 5 countries.
- The main language is named after the country or its people.
- The money is the Euro.
- It is in Southern Europe.
- Its capital starts with "M" and has 6 letters.
Question of the day
Canada
Which sport did the Canadian-born James Naismith invent in 1891?
- ABasketball
- BIce hockey
- CLacrosse
- DCurling
Basketball. Naismith, born in Almonte, Ontario, created it at a YMCA school in Springfield, Massachusetts, with two peach baskets as goals.