GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 17

Question: What name is California's Santa Clara County, the heartland of the US Computer Industry, more commonly called?
Answer: Silicon valley

Question: Which is the smallest of the 50 states in the US?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: Which river flows over the Niagara Falls?
Answer: The Niagara River, in Western New York and Southeastern Ontario.

Question: Name the patron saints of the four countries in the British Isles?
Answer: Andrew (Scotland), David (Wales), George (England) and Patrick (Ireland).

Question: Which two countries are connected by the Khyber Pass?
Answer: Afghanistan and Pakistan

Question: Which river forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela?
Answer: Orinoco

Question: Which countries border the Caprivi Strip in Namibia
Answer: Angola, Zambia, Botswana

Question: In which country is the Amazon rainforest?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Hamilton is the capital of which British overseas territory?
Answer: Bermuda

Question: What is the emblem of the Islamic faith, as displayed on a number of national flags?
Answer: A crescent moon

Question: Which US city is known as the 'the big easy'?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: In which country is Mount Ararat?
Answer: Turkey. According to the Old Testament (Genesis 8:4), Noah's ark landed on the “mountains of Ararat” after the deluge.

Question: In England, you can never be more than 75 miles away from what?
Answer: The sea (coastline/tidal waters)

Question: What are most of the American states divided into for administrative purposes?
Answer: Counties

Question: On which river does the Canadian city of Quebec stand?
Answer: Saint Lawrence

Question: Big Ben is the name of the Bell in the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament. What is the name of the tower housing it?
Answer: Saint Stephen's Tower

Question: What is the name of the cold wind that blows in the winter through Southern France to the Mediterranean?
Answer: The Mistral

Question: What is the capital city of Morocco?
Answer: Rabat

Question: Until the introduction of the Euro, what is the unit of currency in Austria?
Answer: Schilling

Question: What is the name of the railway that was opened in 1901 and runs from Moscow to Vladisvostok?
Answer: Trans-Siberian Railway