Geography50 randomly selected Geography questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 4th December 2023 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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1. | Of what archipelago are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera the largest islands? |
Balearic Islands | |
2. | What small nation is owned by the Grimaldi family? |
Monaco | |
3. | What is the name of the 100km long lake occupying the caldera of a supervolcano on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia? |
Lake Toba | |
4. | Which is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia? |
Burma / Myanmar (678,500 km2) | |
5. | After Russia, Canada, China and the USA, which is the world's fifth largest country, measured by area? |
Brazil | |
6. | What English county is this? |
Gloucestershire | |
7. | The highest mountain in North America, to what was Mount McKinley officially renamed in 2015? |
Denali | |
8. | Santiago is the capital of what South American country? |
Chile | |
9. | In terms of area, what is the world's largest island? |
Greenland | |
10. | What country's name means "two seas" in Arabic? |
Bahrain (Arabic: البحرين, romanised: al-Baḥrayn "the two seas") | |
11. | What major ferry port in England shares its name with the state capital of Delaware? |
Dover | |
12. | What is the capital of the U.S. state of California? |
Sacramento | |
13. | From the 11th century until 1443, Roskilde was the capital of what European country? |
Denmark (Before the capital moved to Copenhagen) | |
14. | What non-European country has a city called London on a river called the Thames in a county called Middlesex? |
Canada (Ontario) | |
15. | The Bikini Atoll is known for having served as a nuclear weapons testing site for the United States from 1946 to 1958. To which island nation does it belong? |
Marshall Islands | |
16. | What island was known as Van Diemen's Land up until 1856? |
Tasmania | |
17. | Cape Agulhas is the geographic southern tip of what country? |
South Africa (also the African continent) | |
18. | What airline has the IATA-code WE? |
Thai Smile | |
19. | Bridgeport is a seaport city and the largest city in what U.S. state? |
Connecticut | |
20. | Name any four of the five U.S. states that have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. |
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida | |
21. | Into what ocean does the Amazon river flow? |
Atlantic | |
22. | What Irish county comes last alphabetically? |
Wicklow | |
23. | True or False? More people live in California than Canada. |
True (2016 estimates: California 39.3 million - Canada 36.2 million) | |
24. | Which is the larger, by area, of the two major islands of New Zealand? |
South Island | |
25. | Which ocean derives its name from the Greek for 'bear'? |
Arctic (Greek: ἀρκτικός arktikos, "near the Bear, northern") | |
26. | How many U.S. state names begin with the word "New"? |
4 (New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York) | |
27. | Buffalo, New York and Cleveland, Ohio both lie on the shores of what Great Lake? |
Lake Erie | |
28. | One of the largest enclosed recreational spaces within any European capital city, in what city is Phoenix Park? |
Dublin (Ireland) | |
29. | In what European capital city is Tara Street railway station? |
Dublin (Ireland) | |
30. | What country has more unique land neighbours than any other? |
People's Republic of China (16 - Afghanistan, Bhutan, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam) | |
31. | Which European country is called Suomi in its own language? |
Finland | |
32. | After Berlin, what is the second most populous city in Germany? |
Hamburg | |
33. | Within what city is the Forbidden City located? |
Beijing | |
34. | 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 | |
35. | What is the southernmost U.S. state capital? |
Honolulu (Hawaii) | |
36. | What are the names of South Africa's three capital cities? |
Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town (Executive, Judicial and Legislative) | |
37. | Which is furthest north: Oslo, Stockholm, or Helsinki? |
Helsinki (59°54′48″N, 59°19′46″N, 60°10′15″N) | |
38. | What two countries share European land borders with west and northwest Turkey? |
Bulgaria and Greece | |
39. | What capital city is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers? |
Belgrade (Serbia) | |
40. | What country lies between Nicaragua and Panama? |
Costa Rica | |
41. | The names of only two countries in the world begin with the letter A but do not end with the letter A. Name them. |
Afghanistan & Azerbaijan (not Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria) | |
42. | What number parallel roughly separates North and South Korea? |
38th | |
43. | What South American sovereign state has the U.S. dollar as its official currency? |
Ecuador (replacing the Ecuadorian sucre in 2000) | |
44. | What country is bordered by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria? |
Benin | |
45. | In what desert does Las Vegas lie? |
Mojave Desert | |
46. | In Bavaria, if you travelled on the Wankbahn to the Wankhaus, what type of natural feature would you be visiting? |
Mountain (Mount Wank) | |
47. | What two rivers merge at Khartoum to become the Nile? |
White Nile & Blue Nile | |
48. | What Russian seaport is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle? |
Murmansk (Мурманск) | |
49. | Bishkek is the capital of what country? |
Kyrgyzstan | |
50. | What Caribbean country is the only French speaking independent republic in the Americas? |
Haiti | |
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