GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 8

Question: Where would you find the 'Whispering Gallery'?
Answer: St. Paul's Cathedral

Question: How is the mountain Godwin Austin, the second highest mountain in the world now known?
Answer: K2

Question: What is the modern day name of the country ruled by the Queen of Sheba?
Answer: Yemen

Question: In which country would you find the Military Prison Camp Delta?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Which is the only US state to start with the letter "H"?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Denver is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Colorado

Question: In what territory is the Capital of Australia situated?
Answer: Capital Territory (an enclave of New South Wales)

Question: The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands Indies) is now called what?
Answer: Indonesia (unofficially since 1945 and officially since 1949)

Question: What is the name of the Northern most region of the Indian Subcontinent, the scene of intermittent fighting between Pakistan and India?
Answer: Kashmir

Question: Which Country used to be called Mesopotamia?
Answer: Iraq

Question: How many active volcanoes are there on Earth?
Answer: About 600

Question: What line of latitude divides much of Canada from the U.S.?
Answer: 49th

Question: What continent have the oldest fossils been found on?
Answer: Africa

Question: What modern country does the ancient land of Babylon lie in?
Answer: Iraq

Question: In which country is water considered so precious that it gives the name to its currency: (the Pula?)
Answer: Botswana

Question: Jebel Musa (ancient Abila) in Ceuta North West Africa is acknowledged to be one of the Pillars of Hercules, the end of the world according to Mediterranean cultures. What is the other one?
Answer: Jebel Tarik, (ancient Calpe) otherwise known as Gibraltar.

Question: Which African country has the highest population?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: After the U.S.A. which country has the second longest road network in the world?
Answer: India

Question: What is Britain's largest lake?
Answer: Loch Lomond

Question: What is the name of the Dutch speaking northern region of Belgium containing approximately half of the country's population?
Answer: Flanders