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What city's castle stands on an extinct volcano?
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Which mountain is the highest in the UK and Ireland?
Answer: Ben Nevis
Why: More than 400 million years ago a volcano erupted where Ben Nevis stands, and the mountain is what remains of it.
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Whose flag shows three armoured legs?
Answer: Isle of Man
Why: Sicily's flag also has three legs, but around a winged Medusa head, while the Manx legs wear armour and golden spurs.
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What drowned land once joined Britain to mainland Europe?
Answer: Doggerland
Why: The name comes from the Dogger Bank, itself named after doggers, the Dutch boats that fished there for cod in medieval times.
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What rock forms the Giant's Causeway's columns?
Answer: basalt
Why: The columns formed when a thick lava flow cooled and shrank, cracking mostly into six-sided pillars.
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What is the largest lake in the UK and Ireland by area?
Answer: Lough Neagh
Why: Five of Northern Ireland's six counties touch Lough Neagh's shores, all except Fermanagh.
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Which Irish county reaches farthest north?
Answer: Donegal
Why: Malin Head, on Donegal's Inishowen peninsula, is the most northerly point of mainland Ireland.
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