Geography Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In area, it’s the largest country in the world that has a red, white & blue flag
Russia
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hippo, in the north of this continent, was the diocesan seat of St. Augustine
Africa
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you live on the equator, you’ll note you usually have this many hours of daylight a day
12 hours
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Frisia is a European region bordering this sea
the North Sea
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1972 the Tamil Tigers, a liberation group, not a baseball team, was founded in this country
Sri Lanka
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the colorful body of water between Korea & Shanghai
the Yellow Sea
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This branch of the Nile used to flood due to seasonal rainfall in Lake Tana
the Blue Nile
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Guyana shares the Acarai Mountains with this nation, its largest neighbor
Brazil
$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| What was once called Muslim East Bengal is today known as this
Bangladesh
$3200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gobi Desert straddles these 2 countries
Mongolia & China
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Mexico
(any 2 of ) Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river flows through the District of Columbia
the Potomac
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Egypt’s Qattara depression is the lowest point in this largest desert
the Sahara
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Swedish island Gotland lies in this sea
the Baltic Sea
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Called Sagarmatha in Nepali, it’s this peak to us
Mount Everest
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Regina is in this one of Canada’s prairie provinces
Saskatchewan
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Kuala Lumpur is on this 5-letter peninsula
Malay
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Venice, Italy is the “mistress of” this arm of the Mediterranean
the Adriatic
$5200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This desert’s name is from the Mongolian
the Gobi
$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1990 it was the seat of the German federal government
Bonn
$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of this nation
South Africa
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 Australian states with “Australia” in their names
South Australia (or Western Australia)
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There are first-person accounts of this volcano’s eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.)
Vesuvius
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Staffordshire’s chief river is the Trent, & its largest city is this-“on-Trent”
Stoke
$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| On 11/27/00 King Harald V opened this country’s Laerdal Highway Tunnel, the world’s longest at 15.2 miles
Norway
$3000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| These 2 republics united in 1964 to form Tanzania
Tanganyika & Zanzibar
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the larger of the 2 countries that occupy the Iberian Peninsula
Spain
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mississippi.</a>) Some of the best catfish is caught in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, better known around here as this area
the (Mississippi) Delta
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This peninsula that accounts for most of Denmark’s land area shares a 42-mile-long border with Germany
Jutland
$4000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hundreds of waterfalls make up the spectacular Iguacu Falls on the border of these 2 countries
Brazil & Argentina
$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| St. John, New Brunswick lies on this bay that’s noted for its high tides
the Bay of Fundy
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The only place where 4 countries meet at one point is found on this continent
Africa
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Vanern, Scandinavia’s largest lake, lies just north of Goteborg in this country
Sweden
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Britannica’s article on this Sicilian volcano states its name comes from the Greek for “I burn”
Etna
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The ownership of the islands of Tierra del Fuego is shared by these 2 nations
Chile & Argentina
$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Indian Ocean’s deepest point is in this trench named for the most populous Indonesian island
the Java Trench
$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Sudanese capital was founded as an Egyptian army camp in the 1820s
Khartoum
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Its inner and outer regions are separated by the Gobi Desert
Mongolia
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This second-largest island has an area of about 306,000 square miles & is shaped like a huge bird
New Guinea
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Maracaibo is the second-largest city in this country
Venezuela
$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This island’s Cape Morris Jesup is about 500 miles from the North Pole
Greenland
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This peninsula seen <a>here</a> lies between the Bering Sea & the Sea of Okhotsk
the Kamchatka Peninsula
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 10 million people live in this country that is almost bisected by the second-longest river in Europe
Hungary
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Great Lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & this one whose name implies greatness
Lake Superior
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This largest city in New Mexico has 2 Qs & 3 Us in its name
Albuquerque
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hartford is the capital of this New England state
Connecticut
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Have you “bean” to this capital of Peru?
Lima
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| On an alphabetical list of world nations, this country immediately follows the United States
Uruguay
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake
Erie
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Atlantic “sea” is named for the seaweed that can be seen there
the Sargasso Sea
$3000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| One of the 2 South American countries trying to claim Graham Land, part of the British Antarctic territory
Argentina (or Chile)
$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1951 Portugal allowed NATO to establish an airbase on the island of Terceira in this archipelago
Azores
$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the capital & chief seaport of Trinidad & Tobago
Port-of-Spain
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Of Kenya, Colombia or Thailand, the one not found on the equator
Thailand
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The geographic center of North America is near the town of Rugby, in this U.S. state that borders Canada
North Dakota
$1800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Except for its coast, this sultanate is completely surrounded by Malaysia
Brunei
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides Budapest, 1 of the 3 national capitals located on the Danube River
Belgrade, Bratislava & Vienna
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This French possession that’s largely rain forest has a satellite launch complex at Kourou
French Guiana
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Many residents of this sprawling valley that includes North Hollywood want to secede from Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Most of the residents of this small island city-state off the Malay Peninsula are Chinese
Singapore
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s capital is Wellington
New Zealand
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This “Stan” is wedged in among Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan & Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You’ll find the Shrine of Fatima, seen here, in this country’s city of Qom
Iran
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Peninsulas in this country include the Zamboanga & Bataan
the Philippines
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river’s name is Sanskrit for “Son of Brahma”
the Brahmaputra
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1861 this island with its Port of Cagliari was “squeezed” into the Kingdom of Italy
Sardinia
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The “amiable” former name of the Tongan archipelago
the Friendly Islands
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Bigfoot walks the Pacific Northwest; this area, whose name means big foot, is in Argentina
Patagonia
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The tiny nation of Andorra is located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France & this country
Spain
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Disappointment is a dry salt lake on the edge of this country’s Gibson Desert
Australia
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this area of the Pacific is from the Greek for “many islands”
Polynesia
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Sharing its name with a seaport in Yemen, this gulf provides a link between the Red Sea & the Arabian Sea
Gulf of Aden
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia was formerly known by this name, after a famous Communist writer
Gorky
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This imaginary line separates the north Pacific from the south pacific
Equator
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent occupies about 30% of the Earth’s total land area
Asia
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Queen Charlotte Islands lie south of the USA’s Prince of Wales Island
Canada
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape York Peninsula stretches northward from this continent’s mainland
Australia
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Fonseca is this Central American country’s only direct access to the Pacific Ocean
Honduras
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hokkaido is the largest & northernmost of this country’s 47 prefectures
Japan
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This small nation borders Spain’s California region
Andorra
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Masai Mara & Marsabit Game Reserves in this African nation were created to protect animals from poaching
Kenya
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Aland Island, Finland’s largest island, lies at the entrance to this gulf
Gulf of Bothnia
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest point on Iwo Jima lies at the summit of this extinct volcano
Mount Suribachi
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Name given to the parallel of latitude at 66 degrees 30’ S.
the Antarctic Circle
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There’s a lighthouse at Cape Gris-Nez, this country’s closest point to England
France
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Our name for this Arizona region comes from the Spanish term for it: El Desierto Pintado
The Painted Desert
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Skopje is the capital of this nation that was once part of Yugoslavia
Macedonia
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Though 50 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, this Texas city is one of the nation’s major ports
Houston
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Paramaribo, capital of this country, came under Dutch rule in 1815
Suriname
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Venezia is the Italian name for this city
Venice
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Famous for its pyramids, Giza is a suburb of this city
Cairo
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You’ll find this highest mountain in the world about 100 miles northeast of Katmandu
Mount Everest
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country borders every other country in South America except Ecuador & Chile
Brazil
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Montego Bay has been called the resort capital of this Caribbean island
Jamaica
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This tiny principality is bordered on 3 sides by the French department of Alpes-Maritmes
Monaco
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Both Spain’s & California’s highest mountain peaks are in a range called this
Sierra Nevadas
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Balaklava lies on the tip of this peninsula, opposite Yalta
Crimean Peninsula
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Sudanese capital is located at the junction of the Blue & the White Nile
Khartoum
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the landlocked African country formerly known as Bechuanaland
Botswana
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you include all the fjords & peninsulas, this country’s coastline is more than 13,000 miles in length
Norway
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Oman, Yemen & Kuwait lie on this large peninsula
Arabian Peninsula
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lajes Field is a U.S. Air Force base in this Portuguese island group in the Atlantic
Azores
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this country on Hispaniola is from an Indian word meaning “Land of Mountains”
Haiti
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This small Mideastern country’s Bekaa Valley is a fertile farming area
Lebanon
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Known in Arabic as Halab, Aleppo is this country’s second-largest city, Damascus is first
Syria
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this capital city found in the Andes means “the peace”
La Paz
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Taj Mahal city on the Yamuna River is also home to the beautiful marble tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah
Agra
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Explorer James Clark Ross named 2 of this continent’s volcanoes Erebus & Terror, for his ships
Antarctica
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Africa’s Rusizi is one of the few rivers that drains into this, the world’s longest freshwater lake
Lake Tanganyika
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Grampians, a part of this continent’s Great Dividing Range, is also known by its Aboriginal name, Gariwerd
Australia
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This African river enters the Mediterranean via 2 main branches: the Rosetta & the Damietta
Nile
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Danube, Linz is one of this country’s major ports
Austria
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Dragon’s Mouth is a strait that separates Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula from this Caribbean nation
Trinidad & Tobago
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This world capital is the most populous city in the West Indies
Havana, Cuba
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Canada’s James Bay was named for Thomas James, who explored it while looking for this passage
Northwest Passage
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It flows around the Ile de la Cite
The Seine
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ulm in this country is home to the cathedral with the tallest spire in the world
Germany
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise can be seen in this largest city in the Ukraine
Kiev
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You can find the Wilhelmina Mountains in this South American country
Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana)
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Corfu is this country’s second-largest Ionian island, & its most populous
Greece
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Morris Jesup in the Arctic is the most northerly point on this Danish island
Greenland
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Patagonian region of South America lies mainly in this country
Argentina
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| These mountains extend 270 miles along the French-Spanish border, from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean
Pyrenees
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Wales’ smallest city is named for this patron saint who established a monastery there in the 6th century
St. David
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In Egypt & Algeria, some areas of this desert are below sea level
Sahara
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South American river has the world’s largest drainage basin
Amazon
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the admministrative capital of this country
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Rhodope Mountains delineate Bulgaria’s southern border with this country
Greece
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Aland Islands are usually regarded as the dividing line between the Baltic Sea & this large gulf
Gulf of Bothnia
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Highland Lakes are a chain of artificial lakes in & around this Texas capital
Austin
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Peoria, Illinois is surrounded by rich deposits of this solid fuel
coal
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Thon Buri was incorporated into this Thai capital in 1971
Bangkok
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The main street of Interlaken in this country affords a spectacular view of the Jungfrau peak
Switzerland
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this bay between Brittany & Spain comes from the Spanish name vizcaya
(Bay of) Biscay
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Ishikari Plain is the largest lowland on this country’s Hokkaido island
Japan
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Point Tarifa, in Andalusia in this country, is Europe’s southernmost point
Spain
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This European country’s 14,000’ mountains include Weisshorn, Taschhorn & Finsteraarhorn
Switzerland
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Kemijoki River rises near the Russian border and empties into the Gulf of Bothnia
Finland
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital of Queensland in Australia was founded as a station for British convicts in 1824
Brisbane
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s Europe’s second-largest island
Iceland
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A smaller canal connecting to this river brings fresh water to the Suez Canal
the Nile
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Many things in Hong Kong are named for this queen, including the mountain peak on Hong Kong island
Victoria
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Avernus in Campania in this country was believed by the ancients to be the entrance to Hades
Italy
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The western portion of the Baltic island of Usedom belongs to Germany; the eastern, to this country
Poland
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Boothia Peninsula in this country is the former location of the north magnetic pole
Canada
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Devil’s Triangle is also known as this more famous triangle
the Bermuda Triangle
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Known in the Middle Ages as the Gateway to China, Lanzhou was an important stop on this trade route
the Silk Route
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Honduras borders these 2 large bodies of water
the Pacific Ocean & the Caribbean
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| World capital in which Jose Napoleon Duarte was born
San Salvador
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1980 Mt. McKinley National Park was renamed this
Denali National Park
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river is responsible for irrigating about 6 million acres of land in Egypt
Nile
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Katowice & Warszawa are this country’s two most populous provinces
Poland
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A British colony until 1959, this island city-state is the smallest nation in southeast Asia
Singapore
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South Dakota peak near Rapid City was named for a New York attorney, who represented mining investors
Mount Rushmore
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 131 feet below sea level, Argentina’s lowest point is on this dry, windy region’s Valdez Peninsula
Patagonia
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Ob in Siberia is only free of this for about two months of the year
Ice
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest point in this mountain range is Pico de Aneto, near Spain’s northern border
Pyrenees
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This port on the Arabian Sea is known as “The Gateway to India”
Bombay
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South American country, a former British colony, is officially called a cooperative republic
Guyana
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian province proportionally has more people of Asian descent than any other
British Columbia
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Mother & the Father are two active ones of these on New Britain Island in the Bismarck Archipelago
Volcanoes
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros lies in this ocean in the Mozambique Channel
Indian Ocean
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In the mid-19th century the Sultan of Zanzibar established Dar es Salaam, which means “haven of” this
Peace
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ajman, Abu Dhabi & Dubai are 3 of this nation’s 7 autonomous states
United Arab Emirates
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Once known as Urga, this capital city is the cultural center of Mongolia
Ulan Bator
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, this is the largest country in area in the world
Russia
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This British River rises in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucester
the Thames
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1886 Congress “closed” this sea off Alaska due to indiscriminate fur-sealing practices of other nations
the Bering Sea
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The tallest mountains in Egypt are located on this large peninsula
the Sinai
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| French cities on this bay or its inlets include Bordeaux, Nantes & Rochefort
the Bay of Biscay
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Mount Elbrus, the highest point in Europe, is a peak of this mountain range
the Caucasus
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1997 this British crown colony will become a special administrative region of China
Hong Kong
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be Northern & Southern this
Rhodesia
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ponce is the chief Caribbean port of this island once ruled by Ponce de Leon
Puerto Rico
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian Maritime province was named after the native land of England’s James I
Nova Scotia
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 4 countries on the continent of Africa whose name starts with “B”
Botswana
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The former name of the Moluccas, islands known for cloves, mace & nutmeg
the Spice Islands
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 South American countries on the equator
(2 of) Ecuador, Brazil, & Colombia
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian province’s largest lake is Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| With over a million people, this township is South Africa’s most populous black community
Soweto
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Moroccan capital city is located about 60 miles northeast of Casablanca
Rabat
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the southernmost independent country in the world
Chile (which goes down around Tierra Del Fuego & sweeps a little south of Argentina)
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only country whose name begins with “A”, but doesn’t end with “A”
Afghanistan
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Abidjan has the main gov’t buildings, Yamoussoukro is this country’s official capital, tusk, tusk
Ivory Coast
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| To Tibetans it’s “Chomolungma”, the goddess mother
Mount Everest
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There’s a canyon full of odd rocks named for pioneer Ebenezer Bryce in this state
Utah
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the longest U.S. river east of the Mississippi
Ohio River
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1884 it lost its Atacama province to Chile & became a landlocked country
Bolivia
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city sits on the southern end of New Zealand’s North Island
Wellington
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Dutch named this island in the Indian Ocean for Prince Maurice of Nassau
Mauritius
$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Isle of Man lies in this body of water
Irish Sea
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the longest river entirely within Massachusetts
Charles
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Smaller in area than Cleveland, this German-speaking alpine country remained neutral during WWII
Liechtenstein
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 independent South American countries named after famous men
Bolivia and Colombia
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only papal state left in the world
Vatican City
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| To feel an earthquake shake Djibouti, you have to be on this continent
Africa
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2nd largest city in W. Germany, its state senate is headed by a burgermeister
Hamburg
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| California’s 2 longest rivers, the San Joaquin & Sacramento, meet & flow into this bay
San Francisco Bay
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Pile O’ Bones was the original name of this capital of Saskatchewan
Regina
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This city that straddles the Bosporus Strait is located in Europe & Asia
Istanbul
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Entoto, the old capital, was very cold so the Ethiopian emperor created this capital in 1887
Addis Ababa
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile
Siberia
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Only Antarctica has a larger ice sheet than this island
Greenland
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This geographical feature is defined as a bend or curve of a shoreline, like the Great Australian one
Bight
$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Now independent, this island has been ruled by Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, French, and British
Malta
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Brig O’Doon refers to a bridge over the River Doon in this part of the United Kingdom
Scotland
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the largest area of land named for Thomas West, Lord de la Warr
the State of Delaware
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The northern part of this country was once called “Kitai” or “Cathay”
China
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Since August 10 was this saint’s day, Cartier named the bay he discovered that day in 1535 after him
St. Lawrence
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The rock & fortress of Masada are found by this sea’s shore
the Dead Sea
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides North America, it’s the only continent completely north of the equator
Europe
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| North Yemen and South Yemen are both found on this Mideast peninsula
the Arabian Peninsula
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In the mid 1960s, France began building a space center near Kouru in this, its South American territory
French Guiana
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Yugoslavian republic covers part of and shares its name with Alexander the Great’s ancient home
Macedonia
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Most of the 60 to 70 people who live on this South Pacific island are descendants of the mutineers
Pitcairn Island
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you’re thinking of the 2nd largest city in Colorado, this one should spring to mind
Colorado Springs
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A province of Indonesia & a former territory of Australia share this, the world’s 2nd largest island
New Guinea
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Khyber Pass connects these 2 countries
Pakistan and Afghanistan
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Seeing residents huddled around campfires on the shore, Magellan named the region this, meaning “Land of fire”
Tierra del Fuego
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 gulfs which border the Sinai Peninsula
the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| From Cree words “win nipee” meaning muddy water, it’s the capital of Manitoba
Winnipeg
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s bordered by the Bristol Channel, Cardigan Bay, the Irish Sea, & England
Wales
$900 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides Spanish, 3 of 4 other official languages of South American countries
Portugues, English, French, and Dutch
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This desert is home to Africa’s Bushmen
the Kalahari
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You’d find the cities of Kotte ‘n’ Kandy on this “Serendipitous” island
Sri Lanka
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Located in Alaska, it’s North America’s highest peak
Mt. McKinley
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s across the Danube from Pest
Buda
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| New Zealand, Midway & Hawaii are all a part of this “many islands” group
Polynesia
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 countries that make up the Benelux Economic Union
(2 of) Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Abu Dhabi & Dubai are 2 of the 7 states that make up this Middle Eastern federation
the United Arab Emirates
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Honolulu is on this Hawaiian island
Oahu
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of 4 countries bordering Greece
(2 of) Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Formerly Formosa
Taiwan
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 8th most populous country in the world, this “Bengal Nation” was once East Pakistan
Bangladesh
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| First colony since 1776 to break from Britain without consent, it is now Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| About 1/3 of Africa’s Pygmy population lives in what was once Belgian Congo
Zaire
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Christmas, Easter, or Bermuda, for example
islands
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Europe’s only wild monkeys live on this “rock”
(rock of) Gibraltar
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1/3 the size of U.S., this royal kingdom has no rivers or lakes but lots of oil
Saudi Arabia
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Largest country entirely in Europe
France
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone
Eastern
