GEOGRAPHY TRIVIA Flashcards
What city does Beacon Hill light?
Boston
What country consists mainly of the Jutland Peninsula?
Denmark
What British abbey contains Poet’s Corner?
Westminster Abbey
What country produces Carlsberg, Tuborg, and Wiibroe beer?
Denmark
Where does the Rialto Bridge span the Grand Canal
Venice, Italy
What country’s capital is Tripoli?
Libya
What South American city has the world’s highest commercial landing field?
La Paz, Bolivia
What continent is Sierrre Leone in?
Africa
What river forms the Pennsylvania - New Jersey border?
The Delaware River
What two Iberian cities does the Lusitania Express run between?
Lisbon (Portugal) and Madrid (Spain)
What peninsula do Spain and Portugal share?
The Iberian peninsula
What U.S. state has the longest border with Canada?
Alaska
What U.S. state is known as ‘The Last Frontier’?
Alaska
Where is Mount Kennedy?
Yukon
What country covers more than 194,000 square miles of the Iberian peninsula?
Spain
What city does the Trinidad Hilton overlook from a cliff on Belmont Hill?
Port-of-Spain
What are the colors of the Italian flag?
Green, white, red
What U.S. state has the longest name?
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
What was once called ‘America’s Attic’?
The Smithsonian Institute
What state borders Alabama to the north?
Tennessee
What country’s flag flies over the island of Ibiza?
Spain?
Where is the island of Ibiza?
Ibiza is one of the Balearic islands, an archipelago of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea.
What’s the world’s warmest sea?
The Red Sea
What U.S. state has sagebrush as its state flower?
Nevada
What fame ranch can you see from Ranch Road No. 1 near Stonewall, Texas?
The LBJ ranch
What’s the most populous country in Africa?
Nigeria
What country did the fandango originate in?
Spain
What U.S. State doesn’t have borders?
Hawaii
What maritime country has the shortest coastline, at three and a half miles?
Monaco
What’s the most common Spanish surname?
Garcia
Where are the Union Stockyards?
Chicago
What city has the world’s largest black population?
New York
What U.S. state’s biggest lake is Lake Sam Rayburn?
Texas’s
What is Abyssinia now called?
Ethiopia
What’s the capital of the Netherlands?
Amsterdam
How many points are there on the Statue of Liberty’s crown?
Seven
What three colors are on the French flag?
Blue, white, red
What country is Angel Falls in?
Venezuela
Who is the only president carved in Mount Rushmore wearing glasses?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which presidents are carved in Mount Rushmore??
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt
What’s the most densely-populated country on the American mainland?
El Salvador
What body of water does the Yukon River empty into?
The Bering Sea
What city is at the eastern end of the St. Lawrence Seaway?
Montreal
What two countries is Andorra nestled between?
France and Spain
What ocean surrounds the Maldive Islands?
The Indian Ocean
Which is farthest west - Dublin, Glasgow, or Lisbon?
Lisbon
What city gained renown for its pea-soup fogs?
London
How many dollars a day did Arthur Frommer say you could get by on in Europe in 1968?
Five
What country’s flag flies over the Canary Islands?
Spain’s
What U.S. state are you visiting if you drive the Natchez Trail from Tupelo?
Mississippi
Where is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Mexico
Where is the Amundsen Scott Station?
The South Pole / Antartica
What is Katmandu the capital of?
Nepal
What country is home to Olympic Airways?
Greece
What is the official language of Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco?
Arabic
What river is spanned by the George Washington Bridge
Hudson River
What’s the most rural state in the U.S.?
North Dakota
What queen were the Virgin Islands name for in 1627?
Queen Elizabeth I
Where’s the Black Forest?
Germany, specifically West Germany
What country sprang from the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar?
Tanzania
What’s the capital of Australia?
Canberra
Where’s the Costa del Sol?
Spain
What two countries have their flags flying over the Caribbean Virgins?
The United States and Great Britain / England
What’s the capital of East Germany?
East Berlin
Where’s the Trevi Fountain?
Rome
What country has the highest per capital consumption of cheese?
France
What’s the most exclusive hotel on Brook Street in London?
Claridge’s
Where on the Iberian peninsula is the Trafalgar Graveyard?
Gibraltar
What river runs through Liverpool?
The Mersey River
What U.S. state’s name begins but doesn end with the letter A?
Arkansas
What the capital of South Dakota?
Pierre
What U.S. city is ‘The Queen of the Pacific’?
San Francisco
What North American city has the longest subway system?
New York
What bay does the Golden Gate strait lead into?
San Francisco Bay
What Pacific trench is the world’s deepest, at 36,198 feet?
The Mariana Trench
Where is the Isthmus of Corinth?
Greece
What country’s people call they language Magyar?
Hungary’s
What mountain range is traversed by the highest railroad in the world?
The Andes
What’s the smallest state in the U.S.?
Rhode Island
What’s the state flower of Alaska?
The Forget-Me-Not
What country boasts the southernmost point in continental (i.e., mainland) Europe?
Spain
What’s the nickname of Kentucky?
The Bluegrass State
What color are the castellated walls of the Kremlin?
Red
What U.S. state capital has more than 30 Buddhist temples?
Honolulu
What ocean does the Zambezi River empty into?
The Indian Ocean
What is the southernmost point in mainland (continental) Europe?
Punta de Tarifa, Spain
What is the northernmost point in mainland (continental) Europe?
Cape Nordkinn (Kinnarodden), Norway
What is the westernmost point in mainland (continental) Europe?
Cabo da Roca, Portugal
What German city do Italians call ‘The Monaco of Bavaria’?
Munich
How many rooms are there in the White House?
132
What’s the capital of Afghanistan?
Kabul
What country owns the Azores?
Portugal
What London traffic circle was ‘The Hub of the British Empire’?
Piccadilly Circus
What country has 100 lepta to the drachma?
Greece
What’s the speed limit on the German autobahns?
Unlimited
What railroad has 97 stops on its 5,799-mile route?
The Trans-Siberian Railway
What the official language of the Most Serene Republic of San Marino
Italian
Where is San Marino?
San Marino, small republic situated on the slopes of Mount Titano, on the Adriatic side of central Italy between the Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions and surrounded on all sides by the republic of Italy. It is the smallest independent state in Europe after Vatican City and Monaco and, until the independence of Nauru (1968), the smallest republic in the world.
What’s the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Sicily
What’s ‘The City of Brotherly Love’?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What was known as Russian America before 1867?
Alaska
What Russian city used to be called Leningrad?
St. Petersburg, also called Petrograd at one point
What are the world’s four oceans?
Atlantic, Artic, Indian, Pacific
What’s the only U.S. state named for a president?
Washington
What three South American countries does the equator cross?
Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia
What the world’s deepest land gorge?
The Grand Canyon
Where are 47 czars buried?
The Kremlin
What’s Europe’s longest river?
The Volga
Where would you find Caesars Boardwalk Regency Hotel Casino?
Atlantic City, New Jersey
How many lions stand vigil in Trafalgar Square?
Four
What famed falls are split in two by Goat Island?
Niagra
What country did the Romans call Hibernia?
Ireland
What is the geographical term for a ring-shaped coral island?
Atoll
What U.S. city was named for St. Francis of Assisi?
San Francisco
What country borders Denmark to the south?
Germany, specifically West Germany
Who’s buried beneath the alter of St. Peter’s Basilica?
St. Peter
What sea did the Romans call mare nostrum?
The Mediterranean
Where is the Holy Kaaba?
Mecca
Which of the Great Lakes do all the other flow into?
Lake Ontario
What two rivers join forces on the outskirts of St. Louis?
Mississippi and Missouri
What’s the highest mountain in the 48 contiguous U.S. states?
Mount Whitney
What country owns the island of Corfu?
Greece
What does a German call Munich?
Munchen
What U.S. state is Fort Knox in?
Kentucky
What capital city’s old section centers on Puerta del Sol?
Madrid Spain
What river’s basin constitutes one-third of the European Soviet Union?
The Volga River
What U.S. state has the largest Native American population?
Oklahoma
What is ‘ganja’ in Jamaica?
Cannabis / marijuana
What city has a newspaper called ‘The Plain Dealer’?
Cleveland
What state boasts the Duncan Tavern Museum, where Daniel Boone often drank?
Kentucky
What’s the capital of Missouri?
Jefferson City
What country consumes the most wine per capita?
Italy
What building built in 1897 contains 327 miles of bookshelves?
The Library of Congress
What city is home to Europe’s tallest building?
Moscow
What the largest lake in the world?
The Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest inland body of water, often described as the world’s largest lake or a full-fledged sea
What river tumbles over Victoria Falls?
The Zambezi River
What city is home to almost half of Michelangelo’s statues?
Florence Italy
What New Mexico resort town was named for a radio game show?
Truth or Consequences
What’s the southernmost state in the U.S.?
Hawaii
What country’s capital is Montevideo?
Uruguay
What Communist country is closest to the U.S.?
Russia / The Soviet Union (previously)
What U.S. state does the Continental Divide leave to enter Canada?
Montana
What arch can you see from the Place de la Concorde?
Arc de Triomphe
What U.S. state receives the least sunshine?
Alaska
What country was originally know as Terra Australis Incognita?
Australia
What continent is Barbados considered part of?
North America
What European capital boasts the Luxembourg Garden?
Paris France
What’s the capital of Bavaria?
Munich
What two Caribbean countries share the island of Hispaniola?
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
What Manhattan edifice has 10 million bricks in it?
The Empire State Building
What’s the capital of Israel?
Jerusalem
What U.S. state is Mammoth Cave National Park in?
Kentucky
What country is home to Sabena Airlines?
Belgium
What three European countries begin with the letter A?
Austria, Andorra, Albania
What South American country took its name from the Latin for ‘silvery’?
Argentina
What flag flies over the fortress enclave of Gibraltar?
The Union Jack. The flag of England
What’s the square in the center of Moscow?
Red Square
What is no longer falling down in Lake Havasu City, Arizona?
London Bridge
What was once called Martin’s Vineyard?
Martha’s Vineyard
What country boasts the most cars per mile of road?
Britain
What country contains Africa’s northernmost point?
Tunisia
What is the largest one-person residence in the world?
The Vatican
What South American body of water is known as ‘The Lake of the Clouds’?
Lake Titicaca
What two South American countries share the regiona of Patagonia?
Argentina and Chile
Where is Lake Titicaca located?
Between Peru and Bolivia
Where is Kruger National Park?
South Africa
What country contains the medieval seaport of Dubrovnik?
Yugoslavia
What mountain erupted to destroy Pompeii?
Mount Vesuvius
What U.S. state’s ocean shores have yielded the most sunken treasure?
Florida
What U.S. city was called ‘The Birthplace of the Skyscraper’?
New York City
What river flows between Minneapolis and St. Paul?
The Mississippi River
What country ranks first in an alphabetical list?
Afghanistan
What country is called Bharat in Hindi?
India
What was known as Spice Island?
Zanzibar
What city boasts the Billingsgate fishmarket?
London
Where is Nelson’s monument?
Trafalgar Square, London
What borough forms the central core of New York City?
Manhattan
What does a Sinophobic Russian fear?
China
What was Britain’s possession on the Chinese mainland?
Hong Kong
What U.S. state is known as ‘The Land of 10,000 Lakes’?
Minnesota
What side of the road do law-abiding citizens of Japan drive on?
The left
What country boasts the most dams?
The United States
What sea separates Britain from Norway?
The North Sea
What do the French call La Manche?
The English Channel
What country to the Galapagos Islands belong to?
Ecuador
What gate opens on East and West Berlin?
The Brandenburg Gate
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Riyadh
What country’s national folk hero is called Holger Danske?
Denmark
What part of New York City was called ‘broken land’ by the Dutch?
Brooklyn
What is the largest city in India?
Bombay
What body of water does the Colorado River empty into?
The Gulf of California
What foreign city is visited most by Americans?
Tijuana, Mexico
What capital city lies at the junction of the Sava and Danube rivers?
Belgrade is the capital of the southeast European country of Serbia. Its most significant landmark is the Beogradska Tvrđava, an imposing fortress at the confluence of the Danube and the Sava rivers. The fort is a testament to the city’s strategic importance to the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Serbian and Austrian empires
What country’s citizens are called Kiwi’s?
New Zealand
Where did gangster Bugsy Siegel build the Flamingo Hotel in 1946?
Las Vegas
What do Tyrone, Antrim, Down, Londonderry, Fermanagh, and Armagh make up?
Northern Ireland
How many official languages does Switzerland recognize?
Four
What are the official languages of Switzerland?
German, French, Italian, and Romansh
What is Spain’s biggest source of income?
Tourism
Where is Drury Lane?
London
Where does the phone ring if you dial 202-456-1414?
The White House
What is the largest country on the second-largest of the British Isles?
Ireland
What is the Red Cross called in Arab countries?
The Red Crescent
What country owns October Revolution Island?
Russia (previously the Soviet Union)
What does the Statue of Liberty wear on her feet?
Sandals
What city’s main thoroughfare is O’Connell Street?
Dublin
Where are the Vosges Mountains?
France
What Polynesian people inhabit New Zealand?
The Maori
What country is Timbuktu in?
Mali
Where is Mount Olympus?
Greece
What U.S. state contains the counties of Macon and Bacon?
Georgia
What color are Venetian gondolas, except those of high public officials?
Black
What is the largest Scandinavian country?
Sweden
What country would you visit to ski in the Dolomites?
Italy
What U.S. state borders only one other?
Maine
What is the second-most common surname in America?
Johnson
What African mountain is known as ‘The Mountain of the Cold Devils’?
Mount Kilimanjaro
What river does the Grand Coulee Dam dam?
The Columbia River
What tower is topped by Big Ben?
The Clock Tower
What was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1975?
Saigon Viet Nam
What three Canadian provinces border Montana?
British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
What is the longest river in the United States?
The Mississippi River
What country’s travel requirements include a $3 contribution to save Nubian monuments?
Egypt
What road links Dawson Creek, British Columbia and Fairbanks, Alaska
The Alaska Highway
What country covers an entire continent?
Australia
What bay divides Maryland’s Eastern and Western Shores?
The Chesapeake Bay
What is the only Arab country without a desert?
Lebanon
What is the largest airline in the world?
Aeroflot
What lake is the source of the White Nile?
Lake Victoria
What African kingdom was ruled by Hassan II?
Morocco
What royal residence has 600 rooms?
Buckingham Palace
Where are three-quarters of the world’s pineapples grown?
Hawaii
What body of water does the Euphrates River empty into?
The Persian Gulf
What World War II road ran from Lashio, Burma to Chungking, China?
The Burma Road
What ocean surrounds Pitcairn Island?
The Pacific Ocean
What is the largest city in Africa?
Kinkasha, The Democratic Republic of the Congo or Lagos, Nigeria
What U.S. state has the lowest highest elevation at 60 feet?
Delaware
What was the last country to join the European Economic Community?
Greece
What European city has the world’s busiest port?
Rotterdam
What river does the Budapest Hilton afford a spectacular view of?
The Danube River
What New England state doesn’t border the Atlantic?
Vermont
What U.S. state boasts the Carlsbad Caverns National Park?
New Mexico
What U.S. state are the Finger Lakes in?
New York
What is the largest inhabited castle?
Windsor Castle
What London park are the Kensington Gardens part of?
Hyde Park
Which is farther east - Reno, Nevada, or Los Angeles?
Los Angeles
What were Baffin, Frobisher, and Franklin looking for?
The Northwest Passage
What are the only two land-locked countries in South America?
Paraguay and Bolivia
What city’s bus terminus boasts the world’s busiest pay phone, at 270 calls per day?
Chicago
Where is Old Faithful?
Yellowstone National Park
Who is considered the patron saint of travelers?
St. Christopher
What Canadian province was named for the daughter of Queen Victoria?
Alberta
Where did the ‘Orient Express’ end is run from Istanbul?
Paris
What is ‘The Big Apple’?
New York City
Where did the Rainbow Bridge replace the Honeymoon Bridge?
Niagara Falls NY
What Italian city is home to da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’?
Milan
Where are Graz and Linz?
Austria
What is the largest communist city in the world?
Shanghai
What is the color of mourning in Muslim contries?
White
What ocean’s area is 64,186,000 square miles?
The Pacific Ocean
What country was formerly East Pakistan?
Bangladesh
What is the capital of South Korea?
Seoul
What city contains the Quartier Latin?
Paris
What nationality is a Sicilian?
Italian
Where is the 1,046-foot-high Chrysler Building?
New York City
What Free World city was behind the iron curtain?
West Berlin Germany
What famed fountain was featured in the movie ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’?
The Trevi Fountain in Rome
What desert embraces the sunniest spot on Earth?
The Sahara
What is the largest bay in the world?
Hudson Bay
What country is home to the Dresdner Bank?
Germany, specifically West Germany
What island is home to statues called Mauis?
Easter Island
What is the capital of Columbia?
Bogota
What is the official language of India?
Hindi
Where was baloney first served?
Bologna, Italy
What Chinese river is known as ‘The Child of the Ocean’?
The Yangtze
What is the largest province in Canada?
Quebec
What city does Orly Airport serve?
Paris France
What U.S. state is the home of the headwaters of the Mississippi River?
Minnesota
What country is proud to claim Volcano National Park?
The United States
What do you catch at a ‘stazione ferroviaria’ in Italy?
A train
What country would you have to visit to see the ruins of Troy?
Turkey
What lake is Sheboygan on?
Lake Michigan
What U.S. city is at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers?
Pittsburgh
What continent has the most people per square mile?
Europe
What are you forbidden to fly an airplane over in India?
The Taj Mahal
What is the former name of Cape Canaveral?
Cape Kennedy
What London street is the home of British journalism?
Fleet Street
What is the official residence of the president of France?
The Elysee Palace
What city’s main thoroughfare is the Grand Canal?
Venice, Italy
Where do you pass through the Pedro Miguel Lock?
The Panama Canal
What is the most common surname in the world?
Chang
What lake is Buffalo on?
Lake Erie
What was the capital of West Germany
Bonn
What mountains separate Europe from Asia?
The Ural Mountains
What two countries border the Dead Sea?
Israel and Jordan
What government position is held by the resident of 11 Downing Street, London?
Chancellor of the Exchequer
What is the nickname of Texas?
The Lone Star State
What country exports goods through the port of Durban?
South Africa
What state contains the geographic center of the United States?
South Dakota
What is the capital of Taiwan?
Taipei
What national capital rises where the Blue Nile and White Nile converge?
Khartoum, Sudan
What airport is on the Piccadilly subway line?
Heathrow
What river flows above the Holland Tunnel?
The Hudson River
What arrives at your table in Madrid if you say “La cuenta, por favor”?
The bill
What ocean is almost exactly half the size of the Pacific?
The Atlantic
What zone lies between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer?
The Tropical Zone
Where is Nob Hill?
San Francisco
What is the official language of Brazil?
Portugese
Where is the Hall of Mirrors?
The Palace of Versailles
Where is Gorky Park?
Moscow Russia
Where is Bond Street?
London England
What would you be exploring if you followed the Bright Angel Trail down to the Colorado River?
The Grand Canyon
What’s a ‘hotel-Dieu’ in France?
A hospital
What Italian island has been called ‘The Jewel of the Mediterranean’?
Sicily
What was Canada’s first national park?
Banff National Park
What is the ‘hotel de ville’ in Lyon France?
The city hall
What major city is served by Gatwick Airport?
London England
What country is Ulan Bator the capital of?
Mongolia
What admiral stands over London’s Trafalgar Square?
Horatio Nelson
What are the two official languages of South Africa?
Afrikaans and English
What country is name for a line of latitude that runs through it?
Ecuador
What is New York City’s “Street of Forgotten Men”?
The Bowery
What U.S. National Park contains Gumbo Limbo Trail?
Everglades National Park
What Country’s flag is incorporated most often in others?
Britain’s
What is the largest lake in the Americas?
Lake Superior
What city did the Mormons establish as their headquarters in 1847?
Salt Lake City
What Rocky Mountain ridge separates North America’s eastward and westward flowing rivers?
The Continental Divide
What was the capital of Yugoslavia?
Belgrade
What is the largest fresh-water lake in the world?
Lake Superior
What is the highest mountain in the United States?
Mt. McKinley
What country bustles with the highest population density in Asia?
The Republic of Singapore
What is Miami’s most famous suburb?
Miami Beach
How many U.S. states border on the Great Lakes?
Eight
What U.S. city had the first subway?
Boston
What city is famed for it Rive Gauche?
Paris
What U.S. state is George Washington’s Mount Vernon in?
Virginia
What two cities are at the ends of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Moscow and Vladivostok
What island is Pearl Harbor on?
Oahu
What four seas are named for colors?
Red, Black, Yellow, White
Where is the White Sea?
The White Sea is an inland sea in the north of the European part of Russia that belongs to the Arctic Ocean.
The White Sea is covered with ice for six to seven months every year.
What continent does Lake Titicaca beautify?
South America
What are the Benelux countries?
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Where is Britain’s Royal Observatory?
Greenwich
What is the third-largest lake in the world?
Lake Victoria
What two Japanese cities are spelled with the letters K, O, O, T, and Y?
Tokyo and Kyoto
What language is ‘klutz’ an insult in?
Yiddish
What continent has the lowest highest mountain?
Australia
What statue overlooks Piccadilly Circus?
Eros
What is the capital of Montana?
Helena
What is the wettest state in the United States?
Hawaii
What is the easternmost U.S. state capital?
Augusta, Maine
What country does the tourist mecca of Bali belong to?
Indonesia
What U.S. state has the second-longest coastline?
Florida
What is the capital of Bermuda?
Hamilton
What is the notable rocky island in San Francisco Bay?
Alcatraz
What is the most common surname in Sweden?
Johansson
What French district produces Graves, Medoc, and St. Emilion wines?
Bordeaux
What is the world’s largest coral reef?
The Great Barrier Reef
Where is the biggest Chinatown in the United States?
San Francisco
What state is Mount McKinley in?
Alaska
What country’s capital is Lagos?
Nigeria
What city boasts the only royal palace in the United States?
Honolulu
What is the capital of Kentucky?
Frankfurt
What Irish city is renowned for its crystal?
Waterford
What river flows past the Temple of Karnak?
The Nile
What is the only U.S. state with a cactus for its state flower?
Arizona
What is the state flower of Mississippi?
The magnolia
What London museum features a Chamber of Horrors?
Madame Tussaud’s
Where does a car with a sticker bearing the letters CH come from?
Switzerland
What is the largest-selling soft drink in Morocco?
Coca-cola
What is the most common German surname?
Schultz
What California city is home to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography?
San Diego
What two countries are joined by the Harwich-Ostende Ferry?
England and Belgium
Home many floors are there in the Empire State Building?
102
Where are the Nazca Lines?
Peru
What is the telephone area code for Chicago?
312
What U.S. state hosts the World’s Champion Chili Cookoff every fall?
Texas
What city is ‘The Christian Science Monitor’ based in?
Boston
What South American city features the exclusive Copacabana Beach and Ipanema?
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
How many stars were on the U.S. flag in 1958?
Forty-eight
What letters areas on the cold-water tap in Spain?
F
What country is the largest per capita consumer of beer?
Germany
Where would you be if your train’s engine had S.N.C.F. painted on it?
France
What U.S. state is proud to call itself ‘The Beaver State’?
Oregon
What country did Siam become?
Thailand
What is the national anthem of France?
Le Marseillaise
What island was first sighted from a Dutch ship on Easter Day, 1772?
Easter Island
Where is the loop?
Chicago
What takes place every July in Pamplona?
Running of the Bulls
What country contains the Waterloo battlefield?
Belgium
Where is the Austerlitz train station?
Paris
Where are Leipzig, Dresden, and Magdeburg?
East Germany
How many stripes are there on Israel’s flag?
Two
What European capital celebrated its 2,000th anniversary in 1951?
Paris
What national capital is heated by underground hot-water springs?
Reykjavik, Iceland
What is the world’s southernmost national capital?
Wellington New Zealand
What U.S. state borders Illinois to the north?
Wisconsin
What lake lies between the Soviet Union and Iran?
The Caspian sea
Where is the Sears Tower?
Chicago
What is the capital of Ireland?
Dublin
What is the national airline of Australia?
Qantas
What is the former name of John F. Kennedy Airport?
Idlewild
What is the principal language of Trinidad and Tobago?
English
What mountain can you view from the windows of a train called the ‘Bullet’?
Mount Fuji
What is the claim to fame of Leadville, Colorado?
It is the highest city in the United States
What city does Leonardo da Vinci airport serve?
Rome
What country contains the largest icefield in Europe?
Norway
What is the official currency of Monaco?
The French franc
What country’s most popular tourist area is called the Algarve?
Portugal’s
What city is home to the famed Manneke Pis fountain?
Brussels
What is the largest office building in the world?
The Pentagon
Where is the Sea of Tranquility?
The moon
What city is the original Dixie?
New Orleans
What city is served by Dulles International Airport?
Washington D.C.
What sea lies between New Zealand and Australia?
The Tasman Sea
What is found at 1313 Harbor Boulevard, Anaheim, California?
Disneyland
What Rome ruin is inhabited by hundreds of cats?
The Colosseum
What Manhattan thoroughfare was nicknamed “Millionaires Row”?
Fifth Avenue
Where is the Guggenheim Museum?
New York City
What county is Chicago in?
Cook County
What is the world’s smallest independent state?
Vatican City
What sea sparkles between Asia Mino and Greece?
The Aegean
What coast of Australia is Sydney on?
The east
How many states border the Pacific Ocean?
Five
What is the largest lake in South America?
Lake Maracaibo
What city is home to the Mayo Clinic?
Rochester Minnesota
What are the world’s largest oceans in order of size?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian
What street contains “The Great White Way”?
Broadway
Where is Battery Park?
New York City
What are the Twin Cities?
Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota
What Chinese region is nicknamed “The Roof of the World”?
Tibet
What country has been called “The Queen of the Antilles”?
Cuba
What bay does the Ganges River flow into?
The Bay of Bengal
What is the oldest city in the United States?
St. Augustine, Florida
Where was the 1939 World’s Fair?
New York City
What country produces Rioja wines?
Spain
What has 1,792 steps?
The Eiffel Tower
What country owns Corsica?
France
What are South American cowboys called?
Gauchos
What sea separates Italy from Yugoslavia?
The Adriatic
What two countries are linked by the Brenner Pass?
Austria and Italy
What is the largest country entirely within the Southern Hemisphere?
Australia
What country saw the origin of the term Holy Toledo?
Spain
What state is across the lake from Milwaukee?
Michigan
Where is the Henry Ford Museum?
Dearborn, Michigan
What U.S. city has been called Little Havana?
Miami, Florida
What sits on a 5,000-acre landfill at the head of Jamaica Bay, near New York City?
J.F.K. Airport
What is the largest train station in Britain?
Waterloo station
What is the world’s highest mountain that isn’t part of a range?
Mount Kilimanjaro
Where is Lake Como?
Italy
What is the telephone area code for New York City?
212
What is the second-largest country in the world?
Canada
What country is Mount Everest in?
Nepal
What college enlivens Hanover, New Hampshire?
Dartmouth College
What is the largest U.S. City on the Great Lakes?
Chicago
Where did Queen Elizabeth II live when when she was in London?
Buckingham Palace
What ocean is zero degrees longitude, zero degrees latitude, found in?
The Atlantic Ocean
What color was the hammer and sickle on the Soviet Union’s flag?
Gold (Yellow)
What ocean does Mauritania border?
The Atlantic Ocean
What is the capital of Delaware?
Dover
What country forms all of Hungary’s northern border?
Czechoslovakia
Where are the O.K. Corral and Boot Hill?
Tombstone, Arizona
Which is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing?
The Great Pyramid of Khufu
What river is known as “The Father of Waters”?
The Mississippi River
What ocean does the Gulf of Panama lead into?
The Pacific
What is ‘The Hoosier State’?
Indiana
What is the capital of Nevada?
Carson City
What is the biggest island in New York State?
Long Island
What is the ‘rathaus’ in Frankfurt?
The city hall
What does an Austrian call Austria?
Osterreich
What is the smallest of the Great Lakes?
Lake Ontario
What is the most common color on the fields of the U.S. state flags?
Blue
What U.S. state contains the resort of Myrtle Beach?
South Carolina
What is the fifth-largest country in the world?
Brazil
What famed zoo is in California’s Balboa Park?
The San Diego Zoo
Where is ‘Le Figaro’ published?
Paris
What country was the Bridge of San Luis Rey in?
Peru
What U.S. state’s highest point is Mount Hood?
Oregon
What does it say on the bottom of New Jersey license plates?
Garden State
What country shares a 1,030-mile border with Sweden?
Norway
Which is farthest north - Helsinki, Oslo, or Stockholm?
Helsinki
What is the official language of Austria?
German
What German city is famed for a scent it produces?
Cologne
What direction does the Nile River flow?
North
What is the only U.S. state that ends with a ‘K’?
New York
What European city would you visit to stroll on the Via Veneto?
Rome
What is the only country crossed by both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn
Brazil
What European city’s subway system is called the Metropolitana?
Rome’s
What country is the world’s largest exporter of frog’s legs?
Japan
What cap was first made in and named for a Moroccan city?
The fez
What two countries are joined by the Ambassador Bridge?
Canada and the United States
What does the Greek word ‘polis’ mean, as in Minneapolis?
City
What two countries do Tyroleans come from?
Austria and Italy
What is the largest country in Africa?
The Sudan
What two countries did Hadrian’s Wall separate?
England and Scotland
What dropped 1,313 feet in 1980?
Mount St. Helens
What is the capital of Norway?
Oslo
What is the capital of Brazil?
Brasilia
What Kenyan city is the safari center for East Africa?
Nairobi
What country, after Canada and Mexico, is closest to the United States?
Russia (Bering Straight)
How many U.S. states border California?
Three (Oregon, Nevada, Arizona)
