World geography

Question 1

Capital of Laos

Answer 1

Vientiane

Question 2

Neighbors of Laos

Answer 2

Myanmar to the NW
Vietnam to the E
Thailand to the West

Question 3

Laos (originally a protectorate of…)

Answer 3

This SE Asia country became independent from France in 1949

Question 4

Laos (secret war with US was with this ethnic group)

Answer 4

Hmong (fought a secret war with US in which country)

Question 5

Capital of Cambodia

Answer 5

Phnom Penh (country)

Question 6

Cambodia language and ethnicity

Answer 6

Khmer (in which country)

Question 7

Capital of Estonia

Answer 7

Tallinn

Question 8

Neighbors of Estonia

Answer 8

Latvia to the South
Finland to the North
Russia to the East
Baltic Sea to the West

Question 9

This country’s island of Saaremaa is across the Irbe Strait

Answer 9

Estonia (strait and island off west coast)

Question 10

Capital of Lithuania

Answer 10

Vilnius (capital of which country?)

Question 11

Neighbors of Lithuania

Answer 11

Latvia to the north
Belarus to the southeast
Poland to the South

Question 12

Capital of Armenia

Answer 12

Yerevan (capital of which country)

Question 13

Mount Whitney

Answer 13

Tallest US mountain not in Alaska

Part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range

Named for geologist Josiah

Question 14

Mount Denali

Answer 14

Also known as Mount McKinley

Tallest mountain in the US

Athabaskan name means “The Great One”

Question 15

Mount Everest

Answer 15

Tallest mountain in the world

First summit by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953

On the border of Nepal and China (Tibet)