Geography trivia questions
1061 multiple-choice Geography trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- The city of Saint Louis, nicknamed Gateway to the West, is located in which state?
- Malcolm X, the founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, was born in what US city?
- What is the capital of Illinois, the 21st US State?
- This city, located in Colorado, is the highest city in the United States.
- Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, was born in what city and state?
- Arrange the following oceans by their total area, starting with the largest: 1)The Atlantic Ocean 2)The Pacific Ocean 3)The Indian Ocean 4)The Arctic Ocean 5)The Southern Ocean
- In geography, the term desert is used to refer to a region that receives little or no precipitation. Approximately one-third of Earths land surface is desert, with the largest such region being which of these?
- The Kalahari Desert, meaning great thirst translated from the local language, is a vast area of red-brown sands, taking up a considerable area of which of these regions?
- Rangipo Desert in the central part of New Zealands North Island, does not have its barren and lifeless appearance because of the lack of rain, but rather, due to which of these?
- The Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru is one of the driest and most lifeless places on Earth. This virtually rainless plateau is made up of sand, lava flows, and what other substance?
- This Australian desert of nearly 600,000 square kilometres is famous for its spectacular land and rock formations, such as Uluru and Kata Tjuta, its estimated 1,100 parallel dunes running north-south, and the fresh water lake, Rainbow Valley.
- The largest natural karst crater on Earth - Ramon Crater, with a length of 40 km (25 miles) and width of 2 to 10 km (1.5 to 6 miles), is situated in the heart of this Middle East desert.
- Leonardo of Pisa or Leonardo Pisano, also known as Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician and is best known for the discovery of the Fibonacci numbers, which form the following sequence. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ... Do you know what the next number is?
- Which one of these countries is largest in area?
- Which of the following oceans is the worlds largest?
- Which of the following countries is the worlds smallest continent, and can also be considered an island since it is surrounded by water?
- This is the worlds smallest independent state with a population in 2007 of approximately 821.
- Which central European countrys all pre-1989 neighbors do not exist any more? The country is now bordered by 7 states.
- The African kingdom of Dahomey was powerful in the XVIII century. Which modern day country did it cover?
- The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was a loosely coupled union of mostly German speaking principalities. Which part of the union was the driver of the 19th century unification of Germany?
- Where was the late medieval kingdom of Aragon situated?
- When Yugoslavia collapsed, one of its republics became an independent state known as FYROM. To which country does the acronym refer?
- By the end of the 16th century, a country called Commonwealth of Both Nations covered almost 1 million square kilometers of Europe. Which two countries formed it?
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization that spread maritime trade over the Mediterranean Sea. From where did the Phoenicians originate?
- Myanmar is a south-eastern Asian country. Under which name was it known before a military junta took over?
- The Ottoman Empire used to rule over North Africa, the Middle East and south-eastern Europe. Which modern day country is the successor of the empire?
- Which independent country was not a Soviet republic?
- Where was the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights located?
- Where were the Boer Republics located?
- Finish this Irish saying: A tune is more lasting than the song of birds. And a word is more lasting than ________.