Geography Trivia Questions IX

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What is the only European country that still has territory on the South American continent?

       a. Great Britain
       b. France
       c. The Netherlands
       d. Portugal


Of the "lower 48", which American state's Smith County is smack dab in the middle at the geographic center?

       a. Kansas
       b. Iowa
       c. Indiana
       d. Nebraska


The US may be the land of the free, but what country's name was changed in 1939 to a name meaning "land of the free"?

       a. Thailand
       b. Taiwan
       c. Sri Lanka
       d. Congo


What tiny Caribbean country has produced two Nobel Prize winners, writer Derek Walcott and economist Arthur Lewis?

       a. St. Lucia
       b. Jamaica
       c. Trinidad and Tobago
       d. Antigua


What is the only Central American country in which you cannot go for a swim in the Caribbean?

       a. Guatemala
       b. Costa Rica
       c. El Salvador
       d. Nicaragua


Naturally enough, you'd find a radio station called WING in what home to the Wright Brothers?

       a. Erie, Pennsylvania
       b. Dayton, Ohio
       c. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
       d. Omaha, Nebraska


England, Scotland and Wales are Great Britain. Lesser Britain is better known as Brittany. Where is Lesser Britain?

       a. Germany
       b. France
       c. Ireland
       d. Norway


What place's name may mean "place of drunkenness," in reference to a supposed incident in which Henry Hudson got wasted with the local chiefs?

       a. Tallahassee
       b. Chicago
       c. Manhattan
       d. Toronto


Until 2011, what had been the only nation with a monochrome flag? (It was solid green.)

       a. Nepal
       b. Libya
       c. Uzbekistan
       d. South Africa


Little Diomede Island is an American island, and it is less than three miles from which country?

       a. Canada
       b. Russia
       c. Cuba
       d. Mexico


What continent's only real river is the Onyx River, which feeds Lake Vanda?

       a. Africa
       b. Australia
       c. Antarctica
       d. South America


What country occupies 80 percent of the Iberian Peninsula?

       a. Scotland
       b. Denmark
       c. Spain
       d. Greece


Known locally as the Coat Hanger, what city's Harbor Bridge had future movie star Paul Hogan as one of its welders?

       a. San Francisco
       b. Sydney
       c. New York City
       d. London


Apulia is the "heel" and Calabria is the "toe" of what peninsula?

       a. Denmark
       b. Greece
       c. Italy
       d. Crimea


What country turned the G7 into the G8?

       a. Russia
       b. Canada
       c. Italy
       d. Japan




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