Misc: What is the oldest country in all Europe, & the oldest republic in the world?

Questions

who was the shortest british monarch?

which famous university is in paris?

who played bonnie to warren beatty's clyde?

in the rhyme about magpies,'one for sorrow, two for joy', what are 6 magpies for?

what city in southern jordan did john burgon speak of when he described it as 'a rose-red city, half as old as time'?