World Geography

Question 1

Which mountain with strong biblical connections is, at 16,853 feet, the highest point in Turkey?

Answer 1

Ararat

Question 2

Tokyo is situated on which of the Japanese islands?

Answer 2

Honshu

Question 3

What name for the vast plains of central Argentina comes from a quecha word meaning “flat place”?

Answer 3

Pampas

Question 4

In which country is Lake Disappointment?

Answer 4

Australia

Question 5

Which island, with an area of 195,000 square miles, is the largest in the Canadian Arctic and the fifth largest in the world?

Answer 5

Baffin

Question 6

Derived from the Arabic for “coastal region”, what name is given to the semi-arid region of Africa, which forms a transitional zone between the Sahara to the north and the wetter tropical areas to the south?

Answer 6

Sahel

Question 7

What is the name of the square in Prague which saw the start of the Velvet Revolution in 1989?

Answer 7

Wenceslas

Question 8

In the early seventeenth century, Potosi in Bolivia was one of South America’s richest and largest cities/ What was discovered there in 1545 that resulted in this wealth?

Answer 8

Silver

Question 9

Which landlocked salt lake, at up to 1,312 feet below sea level, is the lowest body of water on the earth?

Answer 9

The Dead Sea

Question 10

Which strait, up to 70 miles wide, contains the island of Krakatoa and links the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean?

Answer 10

Sunda

Question 11

What is the most northerly of the five Great Lakes of North America?

Answer 11

Superior

Question 12

In December 1991, Nigeria changed its capital from Lagos to which purpose built new federal city, the first planned city to be built in the country?

Answer 12

Aduja

Question 13

Lake Titicaca. which at an altitude of 12,500 feet is the world’s highest lake navigable to large vessels, is astride the border of Bolivia and which other country?

Answer 13

Peru

Question 14

Four capital cities lie on the River Danube. Vienna, Belgrade and Budapest are three; what is the fourth?

Answer 14

Bratislava

Question 15

In which US state is Mount McKinley, the highest point in North America?

Answer 15

Alaska

Question 16

Which lake in Eastern Siberia contains one fifth of the fresh water on the Earth’s surface, and is the largest freshwater lake on Earth?

Answer 16

Baikal

Question 17

In which country is the Vredefort Dome, which is the second largest known meteorite impact crater on Earth?

Answer 17

South Africa

Question 18

Extending some 3,200 miles from east to west and consisting of 13,670 islands, which country makes up the world’s largest archipelago?

Answer 18

Indonesia

Question 19

In which European capital city is the Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral, one of the few remaining reminders of a period of Russian rule?

Answer 19

Helsinki

Question 20

In which country is Fiordland National Park, established in 1952 and one of the largest in the world?

Answer 20

New Zealand

Question 21

Which city in western Uruguay became important in the early 1860s when the “Liebig Extract of Meat Company” was established there?

Answer 21

Fray Bentos

Question 22

What is the name of the Canadian territory that was created as a homeland for the Inuit?

Answer 22

Nunavut

Question 23

Which country, whose capital is Asmara, became a separate state in May 1993 when it gained independence from Ethiopia?

Answer 23

Eritrea

Question 24

Opened in 1958 as part of the World Fair, what is the name of the visitor attraction in Brussels which takes the form of a giant model of an iron crystal?

Answer 24

Atomium

Question 25

What is the name of Ecuador’s principle port and largest city?

Answer 25

Guayaquil

Question 26

The Great Barrier Reef extends for some 1,250 miles off the North Eastern coast of which Australian state?

Answer 26

Queensland

Question 27

Vientiane, or Viangchan, is the capital of which Asian country?

Answer 27

Laos

Question 28

Which river flows into the Mediterranean through two principle branches, the Rosetta and the Diametta?

Answer 28

Nile

Question 29

The Polish Glacier provides one of the more challenging routes up which South American mountain?

Answer 29

Aconcagua

Question 30

What name was given to the main crossing between East and West Berlin, situated in Friedrichstrasse?

Answer 30

Checkpoint Charlie