Geography

Question 1

Two big rivers in China

Answer 1

Yellow River (North)

Yangtza (South)

Question 2

Indus river is in modern day…

Answer 2

Pakistan

Question 3

Where monkeys steal your cocktails

Answer 3

St Kitts

named after St Christopher (Kitts)

Question 4

Island that used to be rich from phosphate mining

Answer 4

Nauru

Question 5

Newark named after

Answer 5

“New Ark Of The Covenant”

Northern New Jersey was settled by Puritans who named their town after the “New Ark Of The Covenant” – modern Newark.

Question 6

Island that started with shipwreck

Answer 6

Bermuda

Sailing ship, Sea Venture - part of the Third Supply mission to the Jamestown Colony, wrecked in Bermuda in 1609

Question 7

Mnemonic for Central America countries

Answer 7

Big Gorillas Eat Hotdogs, Not Cold Pizza

Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama

Question 8

Two countries that realised at Olympics they had the same flag

Answer 8

Liechtenstein and Haiti

It was during the 1936 Olympic Games that Liechtenstein and Haiti discovered that they had identical flags. In 1937, Liechtenstein added a crown and Haiti added their coat of arms.

Question 9

Caribbean islands that started as pirate lairs

Answer 9

Cayman islands

Question 10

Five central American countries all used to be part of:

Answer 10

Federal Republic of Central America

1823–1841

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

Dissolved in civil war

Question 11

Puerto Rico’s flag is pro-American

Answer 11

Because of anti-Spanish feeling

Question 12

Worst insult to Hungary was in ___

Answer 12

1920

The Treaty of Trianon, when the victorious Allied Powers stripped away 2/3s of Hungarian territory in retaliation for its WWI loss, the ceded land going primarily to Slovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Hungarians have never forgotten this humiliation.