9_Trivia (Planet Earth)

Question 1

Located by the Gulf of Guinea, also known as ‘land nearest to nowhere’

Answer 1

Cape Three Points

Question 2

Mean velocity of Earth

Answer 2

107,182 - 107,218 km/h

Question 3

What does NASA use to protect astronauts and space equipment from radiation?

Answer 3

Gold

Question 4

Why is gold ideal to be used in space?

Answer 4

It does not rust or corrode

Question 5

Located on top of a natural gas field in Turkmenistan, ignited in 1971

Answer 5

Door to Hell

Question 6

Has been discovered to be contributing the most meltwater to Earth’s rising oceans

Answer 6

Canadian Arctic glacier

Question 7

Earth’s largest living structure off the coast of Queensland, Australia

Answer 7

Great Barrier Reef

Question 8

Composed of almost 3,000 smaller reefs, home to diverse marine life

Answer 8

Biodiversity in the Great Barrier Reef

Question 9

World’s Largest Lake by surface area (143,200 square miles)

Answer 9

Caspian Sea

Question 10

Largest rainforest in the world covering 2.2 million square miles

Answer 10

Amazon

Question 11

A landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan, lowest place on Earth’s crust

Answer 11

Dead Sea

Question 12

Elevation of Dead Sea

Answer 12

1,349 feet below sea level

Question 13

Largest volcanic eruption recorded by humans in April 1815

Answer 13

Mt. Tambora (Indonesia)

Question 14

1816, ash from Mt. Tambora eruption blocks out sunlight

Answer 14

Year Without a Summer

Question 15

Coldest place on Earth measured at -148°F (-100°C)

Answer 15

A frozen ice ridge of the East Antarctic Plateau

Question 16

World’s highest waterfall at 3,212 feet

Answer 16

Angel Falls (Venezuela)

Question 17

Volcanic mineral used as a stopwatch to calculate magma storage time

Answer 17

Spinel

Question 18

Largest confirmed stalagmite (220 feet tall)

Answer 18

Cuevo San Martin Infierno, Cuba

Question 19

Largest gold deposit ever recorded (South Africa)

Answer 19

Witwatersrand Gold Field

Question 20

Largest oil deposit (2.855 trillion barrels) in North America

Answer 20

Piceance and Uinta Basins

Question 21

Equatorial circumference of Earth

Answer 21

24,901 miles (40,075 km)

Question 22

Polar circumference of Earth

Answer 22

24,860 miles (40,008 km)

Question 23

Hottest recorded temperature on Earth (El Azizia, Libya)

Answer 23

136.4°F (September 13, 1992)

Question 24

Largest rock on Earth, visible from 100 miles away

Answer 24

Mount Augustus

Question 25

Closest point to space on Earth

Answer 25

Mount Chimborazo

Question 26

Largest exposed fault on Earth

Answer 26

Banda Detachment Fault

Question 27

Rate at which Earth travels through space

Answer 27

67,000 mph

Question 28

Deepest underwater sinkhole (987 feet)

Answer 28

Dragon Hole

Question 29

Oldest mountain range in the world (3.5 billion years old)

Answer 29

Makhonjwa Mountains

Question 30

Fastest moving tectonic plate (24 cm per year)

Answer 30

Tonga Microplate near Samoa

Question 31

Earth's rotation is slowing by this rate per century

Answer 31

17 milliseconds

Question 32

Driest place on Earth (Chile)

Answer 32

Atacama Desert

Question 33

Prehistoric caldera eruptions in Yellowstone were 1000 times larger than Mount St. Helens

Answer 33

Yellowstone National Park

Question 34

Largest known natural crystals (30 feet long)

Answer 34

Cave of Crystals (Mexico)

Question 35

Boiling river in Peru with temperatures reaching 196°F

Answer 35

Shanay-Timpishka River

Question 36

World's deepest and largest freshwater lake

Answer 36

Lake Baikal (Russia)

Question 37

The only sea on Earth without a coastline

Answer 37

Sargasso Sea

Question 38

Chinese inventor of the first earthquake detection instrument (132 AD)

Answer 38

Chang Heng

Question 39

World's largest island (2,175,597 km²)

Answer 39

Greenland

Question 40

Smallest desert on Earth (1 square mile)

Answer 40

Carcross Desert (Canada)

Question 41

Deepest and longest canyon (Tibet-China)

Answer 41

Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon

Question 42

Country with the longest total coastline (202,080 km)

Answer 42

Canada

Question 43

Speed of Earth's spin

Answer 43

1,000 mph

Question 44

Plates being divided by the East African Rift Zone

Answer 44

Somalian and Nubian Tectonic Plates

Question 45

Range of Earth's axial tilt

Answer 45

22.1 to 24.5 degrees

Question 46

Fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes (408 km/hr)

Answer 46

Tropical Cyclone Olivia (April 10, 1996)

Question 47

Quickest moving plates (10 cm per year)

Answer 47

Cocos and Nazca Plates

Question 48

Same side of the Moon always faces Earth due to

Answer 48

Synchronous Rotation

Question 49

Stormiest lake on Earth (Venezuela)

Answer 49

Lake Maracaibo

Question 50

Flattest country on Earth (average elevation 2.4m)

Answer 50

Maldives

Question 51

Average global temperature increase since 1880

Answer 51

0.8°C

Question 52

Driest place in Antarctica

Answer 52

McMurdo Dry Valley

Question 53

Largest glacier on Earth (60 miles wide, 270 miles long)

Answer 53

Lambert Glacier (Antarctica)

Question 54

Astronomers discovered a diamond star in 2004

Answer 54

Lucy

Question 55

Largest cave chamber (1.66 million square feet)

Answer 55

Sarawak Chamber (Malaysia)

Question 56

Deepest cave on Earth (2,212 meters)

Answer 56

Veryovkina Cave

Question 57

Longest mountain chain on Earth (40,389 miles)

Answer 57

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 58

Percentage of the ocean humans have explored

Answer 58

0.05

Question 59

Highest plateau on Earth (2,500,000 km²)

Answer 59

Tibetan Plateau

Question 60

Largest salt pan of the Sahara Desert (Tunisia, 7,000 km²)

Answer 60

Chott el Djerid