Geography Test Part 1

Question 1

The site of the Blitz in WW2 where the German Luftwaffe bombed this city for months beginning in September of 1940

Answer 1

London

Question 2

King Louis XVI was executed in this city

Answer 2

Paris

Question 3

This city is where the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place

Answer 3

Beijing

Question 4

9700 acres of this city were destroyed by firebombing during WW2

Answer 4

Tokyo

Question 5

On August 6, 1945, US forces dropped a nuclear bomb here

Answer 5

Hiroshima

Question 6

This city in India was a wedding gift to King Charles 2 of England

Answer 6

Mumbai (Bombay)

Question 7

Christians and Muslims unite over this holy city

Answer 7

Jerusalem

Question 8

Mussolini marches on this city in 1922 to gain power

Answer 8

Rome

Question 9

After WW2, this city was divided into four occupation zones

Answer 9

Berlin

Question 10

Following the Russian Revolution, Lenin moved the capital to this city

Answer 10

Moscow

Question 11

Franco Francisco ruled this country

Answer 11

Spain

Question 12

Auschwitz (the death camp) was located in this country

Answer 12

Poland

Question 13

Velvet Revolution happened in this country at the end of the Cold War

Answer 13

Czechoslovakia

Question 14

When this city in Vietnam fell in 1975, it was the end of the Vietnam War

Answer 14

Saigon

Question 15

The US fought a war from 1950-1953 to protect this country from communism

Answer 15

Korea

Question 16

Kim Jong Un lives in this city

Answer 16

Pyongyang

Question 17

This Warsaw Pact country opened its border with Austria, allowing thousands of East Germans to cross into the West

Answer 17

Hungary

Question 18

This is the city Saddam Hussein ruled as dictator

Answer 18

Baghdad, Iraq

Question 19

The Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the war of Spanish succession, was signed in this country

Answer 19

Netherlands

Question 20

Germany annexed this country in 1938 (Anschluss)

Answer 20

Austria