GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 2

Question: Which river forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?
Answer: Rio Grande

Question: Which US state has the longest shoreline?
Answer: Alaska (33,904 miles)

Question: Which two European countries are connected by the Simplon Pass?
Answer: Switzerland and Italy

Question: In which ocean is Ascension Island?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: What is the one place in all of Great Britain that the Queen cannot visit?
Answer: House of Commons

Question: What is the name of the sovereign principality located along the Mediterranean Sea in the midst of the resort area of the Côte d'Azur on the French Rivier?
Answer: Monaco

Question: What does an 'Anemometer' measure ?
Answer: Windspeed

Question: South Africa is the world's largest producer of 3 metals. Platinum and Gold are 2 of them, what’s the third?
Answer: Chromite

Question: Which is the worlds largest lake?
Answer: The Caspian Sea

Question: What is the worlds Northern most capital?
Answer: Reykjavik, Iceland

Question: What is the capital of Turkey ?
Answer: Ankara

Question: In geography, which term means the joining of two rivers?
Answer: Confluence

Question: Where is Mount Pleasant airport?
Answer: Falklands

Question: In which European country is Salzburg?
Answer: Austria

Question: What is the currency of Greece ?
Answer: Drachma

Question: How many stars appear on the flag of New Zealand?
Answer: 4

Question: Which American state comes first alphabetically?
Answer: Alabama

Question: What was the first city in the Southern hemisphere to host the Olympic Games?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: In which American state is Cape Canaveral, a launching site for space travel?
Answer: Florida

Question: Which three countries make up the Benelux countries?
Answer: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg