World Geography and Capitals

Lilongwe is the capital of Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa. It became the capital in 1974, replacing Zomba. The distractors are capitals of other countries: Mamoudzou (Mayotte), Antananarivo (Madagascar), and Maputo (Mozambique).

Brazzaville is the capital of the Republic of the Congo. It's located on the Congo River across from Kinshasa, which is the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Luanda is the capital of Angola. Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon.

Delhi (New Delhi) is the capital of India. The other options are capitals of different countries: Luanda (Angola), Yaoundé (Cameroon), and Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo).

Ouagadougou is the capital city of Burkina Faso in West Africa. The other options are capitals of different African countries.

Thiruvananthapuram (also known as Trivandrum) is the capital city of Kerala, located at the southern tip of India. Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, Agartala is the capital of Tripura, and Patna is the capital of Bihar.

The capital of the United States of America is Washington, D.C., which should not be confused with Washington state on the west coast. New York is the largest city but was never the capital. Delhi is the capital of India, not America.

Rome is famously called the City of Seven Hills, referring to the seven hills on which the ancient city was built: Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine. The question specifies Non-Indian to distinguish it from cities like Mumbai.

BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke - Bavarian Motor Works) is headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The company name itself indicates its Bavarian origins.

The CIA headquarters is located in Langley, Virginia, which is in the Washington DC metropolitan area. While Washington DC (option B) might seem correct since Langley is part of the greater DC area, the actual headquarters complex is specifically in Langley. Los Angeles and New York are incorrect locations for US intelligence headquarters.

The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) was the Soviet Union's security agency and its headquarters were located in Moscow, the capital city. This is similar to how intelligence agencies are typically headquartered in their nation's capital. Other cities listed like Penza and Saint Petersburg were not KGB headquarters locations.

The DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) is France's external intelligence agency, and it is indeed headquartered in Paris. This is the French equivalent of agencies like CIA or MI6.

Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, inaugurated in 1960 as a planned city. Cairo is Egypt's capital, Riyadh is Saudi Arabia's capital, and La Paz is Bolivia's administrative capital.

Cairo is the capital of Egypt. Cape Town is a legislative capital of South Africa, Dublin is Ireland's capital, and Bogota is Colombia's capital.