Today: Carpe Diem

Tallinn old town during sunrise. View from Patkul viewing platform in September 2018.
Image Hendrik Mändla.via Wikimedia Commons

Today: carpe diem! Following on from yesterday, we again have five questions but ten answers.

One

The above picture is of a national capital city (population population of 452,563), sitting on its country’s north coast and on the Gulf of Finland. What is the city, and of what country is it the capital?


Two

The Moon landing in November 1969 landed in one of the Moon’s maria: what was the landing site named, and what mission was it?


Three

… 45 is a 170 m high tourist attraction in a desert in the Sossusvlei area of Namibia, which gets its name from being at the 45th kilometre on the Sesriem–Sossusvlei road. What word is missing from … 45, and what desert is it in?


Four

What 2009 film became the first film to gross more than $2 billion, and who directed it?


Five

The Wallis WA-116 featured in a James Bond film: what film, and what was it?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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