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50 randomly selected Geography questions for quizmasters.

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1.Between 1948 and 1976, Quezon City was the capital of what country?
 
The Philippines
2.Which of these three capital cities is the most northerly? Ottawa, Dublin, or Seoul?
 
Dublin (51°37′N - Ottawa 45°25′N, Seoul 37°34′N)
3.What country has more lakes than the rest of the world combined?
 
Canada
4.Paramaribo is the capital and largest city of what South American country?
 
Suriname
5.How many stars are there on the flag of New Zealand?
 
Four
6.What is the most populous capital city in Europe?
 
Moscow
7.What is the only U.S. state to border only one other U.S. state?
 
Maine (borders with New Hampshire)
8.True or False? More people live in California than Canada.
 
True (2016 estimates: California 39.3 million - Canada 36.2 million)
9.Through what country does most of the River Nile flow?
 
Sudan
10.What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
 
Sicily
11.Mount Logan is the highest mountain in what country?
 
Canada (Yukon)
12.Located in the Andes, on the border of Peru and Bolivia, what is the largest lake (by volume) in South America?
 
Lake Titicaca
13.Of the 10 highest mountains in the United States, how many are in Alaska?
 
10
14.What region of France is home to Europe's Spaceport?
 
French Guiana (Kourou)
15.What is the largest lake in both Sweden and the European Union?
 
Vänern
16.After Berlin and Hamburg, what is Germany's third most populous city?
 
Munich / München

17.What Polynesian island nation generates around ten per cent of its government's total revenue from royalties from the use of its international domain suffix?
 
Tuvalu (.tv)
18.Straddling the Canada-US border, Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger, but what is the largest lake entirely within Canada?
 
Great Bear Lake
19.Built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932 and dedicated to soldiers killed during World War I, what is the name of this 243-kilometre stretch of road between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Allansford?
 
Great Ocean Road
20.What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh water?
 
Lake Superior
21.I want to drive from Mexico to Canada, but want to travel through the minimum number of U.S. states. What is this minimum?
 
3
22.The kyat is the currency of what Asian country?
 
Myanmar / Burma
23.What is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms?
 
Great Barrier Reef (in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia)
24.Valetta is the capital of what European country?
 
Malta
25.What canal was completed in 1825 to provide a navigable water route from the Great Lakes to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean?
 
Erie Canal
26.What is the northernmost capital city in mainland Europe?
 
Helsinki (only Reykjavik, Iceland is further north)
27.Measured by area, what is the largest country in Scandinavia?
 
Sweden
28.At 978 metres above sea level, what is the highest mountain in England?
 
Scafell Pike (Lake District)
29.What is the name of the stone and turf fortification built by the Romans between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde in Scotland?
 
The Antonine Wall
30.Piraeus serves as the port for what European capital city?
 
Athens (Greece)
31.In what country is the Suez Canal?
 
Egypt
32.What is the southernmost national capital city on mainland Europe?
 
Athens (Greece)

33.By population, what is Russia's second largest city?
 
Saint Petersburg
34.What two countries are linked by the Khyber Pass?
 
Pakistan and Afghanistan
35.What large desert covers much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa?
 
Kalahari
36.What European country is a federal republic divided into 26 Cantons?
 
Switzerland
37.The name of what country translates literally as "White Russia"?
 
Belarus (a compound of the Belarusian bel- (бел-, "white") and Rus (Русь, Rus'))
38.What river is this?
 
Yellow River (Chinese: 黄河 Huang He)
39.What European country's capital city lies on the River Aare?
 
Switzerland (Bern)
40.What is the official language of Bangladesh?
 
Bengali / Bangla (বাংলা)
41.The name of what Southeast Asian capital city translates into English as "muddy confluence"?
 
Kuala Lumpur (kuala is the point where two rivers join together or an estuary, and lumpur means "mud")
42.Due to its deadly ascent, what mountain in Asia is nicknamed the "Savage Mountain"?
 
K2
43.What is the capital of Qatar?
 
Doha
44.What island nation in the Caribbean was named by Columbus after the Latin word for Sunday, the day he discovered it?
 
Dominica (Latin: Dominica, the Day of God)
45.What is the most southerly of these four cities; Seattle, Toronto, Vienna, Budapest?
 
Toronto (43°42′N - Seattle 47°36′N - Vienna 48°12′N - Budapest 47°29′N)
46.Which two capital cities face each other on opposite banks of the Congo River?
 
Kinshasa & Brazzaville (Democratic Republic of the Congo & Republic of the Congo)
47.What is the name of the sea that separates New Zealand and Australia?
 
Tasman Sea
48.What island nation in the Pacific Ocean was known as the Gilbert Islands before gaining independence from the United Kingdom on 12th July 1979?
 
Kiribati
49.What is the least-populous of Australia's eight states and major territories?
 
Northern Territory
50.Into what bay does the river Ganges flow?
 
Bay of Bengal


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