GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 3

Question: The Baht is the monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia

Question: Which is the only country in the world with a one colour flag?
Answer: Libya - it's Green

Question: Which weather phenomenon translates from the Spanish for 'little boy'?
Answer: El Nino

Question: In which US state are the Bonneville Salt Flats, used for attempts on the world land speed record?
Answer: Utah

Question: Which mountain overlooks Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: Sugarloaf mountain

Question: In which country is the Masai Mara game reserve?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Which dormant volcano is the highest peak in Japan?
Answer: Fujiyama

Question: What is the capital of Nepal?
Answer: Kathmandu

Question: Which colony left the Commonwealth in June 1997 and is unlikely ever to return?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: What is the Palace of Westminster better known as in England?
Answer: The Houses of Parliament.

Question: Gothenburg is the chief seaport of which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: The Rio Grande separates which 2 countries?
Answer: USA and Mexico

Question: Which Surrey town is famed for its salts?
Answer: Salts

Question: Which Italian city is still threatened by Mount Vesuvius?
Answer: Naples

Question: Which London landmark was named after Sir Benjamin Hall?
Answer: Big Ben

Question: How many of Cleopatra's Needles are there and where are they?
Answer: One stands in Central Park, New York (1870), one by the bank of the Thames in London (1819) and the third in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (1830)

Question: Where is the highest point above sea level in China?
Answer: At the top of Mount Everest

Question: What is the world’s highest city?
Answer: La Paz, Bolivia

Question: In which US city is the Sears tower?
Answer: Chicago