World Geography - Americas Flashcards
Operating 19 museums and the National Zoo which Institution in Washington DC is the largest museum complex in the world?
SMITHSONIAN
Which country in South America is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world?
BRAZIL
Sometimes referred to as the “Lost City of the Incas” which citadel in Peru 120 km from Cusco restricts visitor numbers to 2500 per day?
MACHU PICCHU
Which city in Michigan was founded by Antoine Cadillac in 1701?
DETROIT
Named after a 16th century explorer what is the name of the strait between Argentina and Tierra del Fuego?
STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
Which country occupies the eastern half of the island of Hispaniola?
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Boot Hill Museum is a tourist attraction in which city in Kansas?
DODGE CITY
Which US state is home to the Acoma Pueblo the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History?
NEW MEXICO
The highest commercially navigable lake in the world at 3812 m above sea level which lake is located in the Altiplano high in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia?
TITICACA
Which airport in Chicago has the three-letter IATA code ORD as it was previously known as Orchard Field?
O’HARE
Known as “The Live Music Capital of the World” which city is the capital of Texas?
AUSTIN
Which Caribbean country is divided into 14 parishes which are grouped into the three historic counties of Cornwall Middlesex and Surrey?
JAMAICA
Which theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando is represented by a geodesic sphere known as Spaceship Earth?
EPCOT
Buffalo Cleveland and Toledo are all located on which of the Great Lakes?
ERIE
Located in Alberta and established in 1885 which is the oldest National Park in Canada?
BANFF
Which is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States?
NEW JERSEY
Honolulu is on which island the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands?
OAHU
Which of Canada’s Maritime Provinces is named for a city in northern Germany which is the ancestral home of the King George I?
NEW BRUNSWICK
Which peak in Argentina is the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas?
ACONCAGUA
With the same name as an African country which state penitentiary in Louisiana is the largest maximum security prison in the United States?
ANGOLA
Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake are both located in which of the territories of Canada?
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Lake Maracaibo the largest lake in South America is located in which country?
VENEZUELA
The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 which is a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories is located in which US state?
NEVADA
Which is the only Central American country that does not have a Caribbean coastline?
EL SALVADOR
Toronto International Airport was renamed in 1984 in honour of which former prime minister of Canada?
LESTER B. PEARSON
What is the most populous city in Ecuador as well as the nation’s main port?
GUAYAQUIL
Which is the only state capital in the USA with a population of more than one million residents?
PHOENIX
The northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain which start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica are also known by what name?
LEEWARD ISLANDS
What is the name of the military cemetery in Virginia which was established during the American Civil War and is situated directly across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington?
ARLINGTON NATIONAL
In 1507 the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere “America” after which Italian explorer and cartographer?
AMERIGO VESPUCCI
The Jacques Cartier Bridge crosses which river from Montreal Island to the south shore at Longueuil Quebec?
SAINT LAWRENCE
With a name that comes from the Nahuatl words for “Smoking Mountain” which active volcano is the second-highest peak in Mexico?
POPOCATEPETL
What is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the highest point in the state of Colorado?
MOUNT ELBERT
Discovered by Charles Walcott in 1909 which fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils?
BURGESS SHALE
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania which suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 is located in which river?
SUSQUEHANNA
Its location along the equatorial bulge makes the summit of which volcano in Ecuador the farthest point on the Earth’s surface from the Earth’s centre?
CHIMBORAZO
Named after a British prime minister what is the largest city in the state of Delaware?
WILMINGTON
Located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul what is the name of the world’s largest tropical wetland area?
PANTANAL
What is the name of the ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula which is over 180km in diameter making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world?
CHICXULUB
The Massachusetts State House is located in which historic neighbourhood in Boston which is used as a metonym in the local news media to refer to the state government?
BEACON HILL
Running through Brazil Paraguay and Argentina what is the second-longest river in South America?
PARANA
Which National Park in the Cascade Range in northern California contains the largest plug dome volcano in the world?
LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
What is the name of smallest of the three waterfalls of Niagara Falls?
BRIDAL VEIL FALLS
Home to a film festival founded in 2002 the tribeca district in Lower Manhattan in New York is a portmanteau from which three words?
TRIANGLE BELOW CANAL
Which road measuring 29800 miles in total length links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system?
PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY
What name did Alessandro Malaspina give to a bay in Alaska in 1792 upon finding that the bay was not the entrance to the legendary Northwest Passage?
DISENCHANTMENT BAY
Located in the archaeological region of the Peten Basin in Guatemala which is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization?
TIKAL
Mount Scenery the highest point of the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands is located on which Caribbean island?
SABA
Which gravity dam built as a large reservoir near the city of Los Angeles failed catastrophically in 1928?
ST. FRANCIS DAM
Which museum in Mexico City was founded by Carlos Slim and has over 66000 works including a large collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin?
SOUMAYA
