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World Geography Quiz

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A short (20 question) quiz on world geography. Answers are in the messages section.
Age?
0-5
6-10
11-16
17-18
19-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-50
51-60
61-70
71+
Where are you from?
Canada
Elsewhere in America
Asia
Africa
Europe excluding the UK
The United States
Somewhere I've missed from the list
Australia and New Zealand
The United Kingdom
Question 1: Which capital city (administrative capital) is the highest above sea level?
Quito, Ecuador
Kathmandu, Nepal
Brazzaville, Congo
La Paz, Bolivia
Delhi, India
Toronto, Canada
Question 2: The River Amazon is the river with the largest drainage basin in the world. Which river has the second largest?
River Yangtze
River Congo
River Mississippi
River Nile
River Danube
Question 3: How many countries does the arctic circle pass through?
None
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Question 4: What is the second largest city in the United States?
Honolulu
Washington
Los Angeles
Chicago
San Francisco
Detroit
New York
Question 5: Is Singapore in the northern or southern hemisphere?
Northern
Southern
Question 6: What is the longest river in Europe?
The Danube
The Ebro
The Volga
The Rhine
The Thames
Question 7: Which country does the River Blue Nile begin in?
Malawi
Sudan
Egypt
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Ethiopia
Question 8: Which mountain is the furthest from the centre of the Earth?
Mount McKinley, US
Chimborazo, Ecuador
The Eiger, Switzerland
K2, China/Pakistan
Mount Erebus, Antarctica
Ben Nevis, UK
Mount Everest, Nepal/China
Question 9: On which continent is the worlds largest desert?
Europe
Antarctica
Asia
Africa
North America
South America
Australia
Question 10: How many oceans are there on Earth (according to the IHO)?
4
5
3
Question 11: What is the world's most northerly capital city?
Reykjavik, Iceland
Pyongyang, North Korea
Moscow, Russia
Ottawa, Canada
Oslo, Norway
Question 12: What is the most southerly point on land?
The Cape of Good Hope
Cape Agulhas
The South Pole
Cape York
Cape Horn
Question 13: In which country is the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibilty (i.e. the furthest point from the sea)?
Russia
Germany
India
Mongolia
Vietnam
China
Question 14: In which country is the hottest inhabited place on Earth?
Libya
Morocco
Mexico
Mali
Niger
Australia
Nigeria
Mongolia
Question 15: In which country is the worlds deepest mine?
Australia
Russia
Iraq
Zambia
The US
South Africa
Question 16: Which is the worlds largest lake (by volume)?
Lake Windermere
Lake Geneva
Lake Baikal
Lake Victoria
Lake Superior
Question 17: When travelling through the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans, approximately which direction do you travel?
Northeast
Southeast
Southwest
Northwest
Question 18: What is the most northerly country in Africa?
Egypt
Tunisia
Algeria
Morocco
Sudan
Libya
Question 19: How many countries border the Persian Gulf?
5
6
7
8
9
10
Question 20: True or false - the only country the River Ganges flows through is India.
True
False
This poll was created on 2008-02-08 13:57:15 by Stu2000