2. What is the most Easterly state of the United States?
3. If you sailed directly South from Anchorage Alaska, what would be the first landfall you would come to?
4. Every country in the world that begins with the letter “A” also ends with the letter “A” except which two countries?
5. Two nations in Europe are each smaller than New York’s Central Park.
6. What is the only country that's also a continent?
7. Before it was Istanbul, it was Constantinople. What was it before that?
8. The island once called Van Diemen's Land, birthplace of actor Errol Flynn, is now known as what?
9. Capt. Cook originally named the Hawaiian islands after a man credited with having invented which lunch item?
10. What is the easternmost state in the United States?
11. Canada has 13 provinces and territories. How many of them can you name?
12. Which continent holds the fewest nations?
13. St. Petersburg, Russia, became Leningrad, and then became Leningrad again. But in the middle of it all, it had another name. What was it?
14. Name the only two European nations with beaches on both the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
15. The world's two most populous nations are China and India, with 1.3 billion and a little over 1 billion people, respectively. Which nation is third?
16. What do the Vermillion Sea, the Gulf of California and the Sea of Cortés have in common?
17. Where would you find the opera house known as La Scala?
18. What is the only U.S. state to touch two oceans?
19. What is the capital of Australia?
20. Which continent holds the greatest number of nations?
21. Widely considered the driest place on Earth, this region of South America has spots where no rain has ever fallen in recorded history. Where is it?
22. This is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world, in existence well over 1,000 years before Rome was founded.
23. Only one of the following is currently a member of the European Union (EU). Which one? Cyprus, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia.
24. The residents of this Middle Eastern country consider themselves not Arabs but Persians.
25. Before its breakup, the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world (that is, if you accept that it was a single country rather than a federation of republics), in terms of land mass. What's now the largest?
26. What's the difference between a village and a hamlet? Between a town and a city? (Hint: It's not the size or population.)
27. Where is the only place on the European mainland where you'll find monkeys in the wild?
Geography Quiz
Index
1. What is the most Westerly state of the United States?
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1. Alaska
2. Alaska (The Western extension of the Aleutian Islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere).
3. Papeete, Tahiti.
4. Afghanistan and Azerbaijan
5. Vatican City and Monaco. Each is less than one square mile, while Central Park is 1.3 square miles.
6. Australia.
7. Byzantium.
8. Tasmania.
9. Cook named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his major sponsors, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Sixteen years earlier, to avoid interrupting a gambling session, the earl reportedly asked his butler to bring him a piece of meat between two slices of bread.
10. Alaska
11. Here they are in alphabetical order: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador (that's one province), Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon.
12. Antarctica, 0.
13. Petrograd. Russian officials named it that at the outbreak of World War I because they thought St. Petersburg sounded too German.
14. Spain and France.
15. The United States, with 290 million people.
16. They're all names for the same place.
17. Milan.
18. Alaska (the Pacific and Arctic oceans).
19. Canberra.
20. Africa, 53.
21. The Atacama Desert in Chile.
22. Damascus, Syria.
23. Cyprus. Of the others, Croatia is the only country with a pending application for membership.
24. Iran.
25. Russia.
26. Technically, a village has a church; a hamlet does not. A city has a cathedral; a town does not. Obviously, few make these distinctions anymore.
27. Gibraltar.