EUROPEAN UNION COMPETITION (Second Leg)

Hi everybody! Here you have this fortnight's questions!
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1.-
The ................ is less than half the size of the USA but its population is over 50% larger. Its population is the third largest after China and India.
2.-
a) Where is the Isle of Dogs?
b) Why have the Canary Islands that name?
3.-
a) Called 'The Paris of the East', this capital is a tale of three cities. Can you name them?
b) Vepro-knedlo-zelo'???? Yum, Yum! Tell me the ingredients, please!
c) 'Mons, Pons, Fons' (Hill, Bridge, Spring) is which town's motto?
d) Can you complete the title of a film made by Peter Greenaway in 1994 : ' Stairs 1 _ _ _ _ _ _'
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SOLUTION:
1.-The European Union.
2.-
a) London.
b) Island of Dogs ("canis in latin. There are two dogs in the islands' coat-of-arm).
3.-
a) BUDAPEST: Óbuda, Buda, Pest.
b) Roast pork with sauerkraut and dumplings.
c) Lüneburg.
d) "Stairs 1 Geneva".