GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 20

Question: What are the 'aurora borealis' also known as?
Answer: Northern Lights - high-altitude luminosity occurring most frequently above 60° north or south latitude.

Question: What is the southern limit of the Tropics called?
Answer: Tropic of Capricorn

Question: Which is the largest Greek Island?
Answer: Crete

Question: What is the main crop of the Greek island of Corfu?
Answer: Olives

Question: What do you call somebody from Monaco?
Answer: Monagasque

Question: What's the Capital city of the Philippines?
Answer: Manilla

Question: Mount Rushmore in America has 4 presidents heads carved into it. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are two of them. Give me either of the other two.
Answer: Thomas Jefferson or Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What is the name given to the imaginary line of 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: International Date Line

Question: What is the state Capital of Colorado?
Answer: Denver

Question: In nature, the earth is composed of 3 main parts, the Crust, the mantle and what?
Answer: The Core

Question: Which are the only 2 countries with an X in their names?
Answer: Mexico/Luxembourg

Question: What are the two main colours on Argentina's flag?
Answer: Blue/White (It also has a yellow sun in the middle known as the sun of May)

Question: Where is the only place that the American flag flies 24 hours a day - never raised, never lowered, and never saluted?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Which military base in North Kentucky holds the US Gold Reserves?
Answer: Fort Knox

Question: Which small Norwegian town hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Lillehammer

Question: Which sea lies between Italy and the former Yugoslavia
Answer: Adriatic

Question: In which European country is the city of Strasbourg?
Answer: France

Question: Which river forms much of the border between England and Scotland?
Answer: Tweed

Question: Where in London would you find Speakers Corner?
Answer: Hyde park

Question: Which European City has the highest mileage of Canals in the World?
Answer: Birmingham