1) Which state is known as the Palmetto State because that kind of palm
tree is native to that state? South Carolina or Delaware?
Answer: South Carolina
2) Which city is a port on the east coast of the U.S.? Galvastan or Boston?
Answer: Boston
3) Until the mid 1970’s Portugal ruled Sao Tome and Principe and which other
island country off Africa’s west coast?
Answer: Cape Verde
4) What is the specific term that is used for the cold, dry prevailing winds
that blow between 90-60 degrees north latitude and 90-60 degrees south
latitude?
Answer: polar easterlies
5) The Kuna, a people known for their colorful cloth designs are native to
this southernmost country in Central America? Name this country.
Answer: Panama
6) Which city in the southwestern corner of Ohio is the birthplace of
William Howard Taft?
Answer: Cincinnatti
7) Which island is located off the coast of Italy? Tansmania or Sicily?
Answer: Sicily
8) Urdu is an official language of a Muslim country that was once part of
British India?
Answer: Pakistan
9) In which state is almost 80% of the consumed freshwater used for
agriculture? New Jersey or California
Answer: Answer: California
10) What is the term for the lower limit of permanent snow cover on a
mountain?
Answer: Snowline
11) Which state is not a leading producer of coal? New Hampshire, West
Virginia or Wyoming
Answer: New Hampshire
12) Amboseli National Park located north of Mount Kilimanjaro is in what
country that boarders Tanzania?
Answer: Kenya
13) What mineral resource is Chile’s main export?
Answer: COPPER
14) The Merrimack River formed by the junction of the Pemigewasset River and
Winnipesaukee River empties into what major body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
15) The Gila River flows west from New Mexico across which other state?
Answer: Arizona
16) One of the world’s saltiest bodies of water known to the Romans as Lacus
Asphaltites, name this body of water that lies east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Answer: The Dead Sea
17) Which countries vegetation regions ranges from the Nubian Desert in the
north to Tropical Rain Forest in the extreme south?
Answer: Sudan
18) Romansh a language descended from Latin is spoken by people living in
the Graub Canton in which central European Country?
Answer: Switzerland
19) Name North Americas most populous city? Ottawa, Mexico City or
Washington, D.C.?
Answer: New Mexico
20) Which river forms most of Arizona’s western boarder? The Colorado River
or the Sasquehanna.
Answer: The Colorado
21) In which Canadian province do most people speak French?
Answer: Quebec
22) In January 2005 the African Union agreed to deploy peace keeping troops
to disarm malitias in a country in East Africa. Name this county which has
long coastlines along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
Answer: Somalia
23) Cape Roca, the westernmost point in the mainland of Western Europe is in
which country?
Answer: Portugal
24) Which state is farther south, Tennessee or Washington?
Answer: Tennessee
25) Which country does not contain part of the Pyrenees, Spain, Italy, or
Poland?
26) Barriers at Woolwich protect what capital city from storm surges from
the North Sea.
Answer: London
27) France’s largest overseas department borders the Atlantic Ocean, name
this department.
Answer: French Guiana
28) The largest number of Azaris live in Azerbaijan and what other country?
Answer: Iran
29) Poptopetl is to Mexico what Stromboli is to which country?
Answer: Italy
30) Place these countries in order in terms of their land area, Sudan,
Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe.
Answer: Sudan, Zimbabwe & Sierra Leon
31) Although Sierra Leon’s name has Portuguese origins, what is the
country’s official language?
Answer: English
32) The oldest section of Algeria’s most populous city contains a fortress
called the Casbah. What is this city?
Answer: Algiers
33) Which large country bordering the Coral and Arafura Seas has a
population that is more than 85% urban?
Answer: Australia
34) The more centrally located city of Abuja replaced what other city as
Nigeria’s capital in 1991?
Answer: Lagos
35) The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta makes up much of what country?
Answer: Bangladesh
36) The northern coast of which continent borders the Caribbean Sea?
Answer: South America
37) The largest group of freshwater lakes is on which continent?
Answer North America
38) Which continent lies entirely north of the Tropic of Cancer?
Answer: Europe
39) A strip of land connects Africa to which other continent?
Answer: Asia
40) Which continent is the world’s largest producer of gold?
Answer: Africa
