Geography Quiz #13
Geography Quiz for 12 April 2009
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Q1.
What is the name for a queen reigning in her own right, with her husband as one of her subjects?
Note: This question was updated in March 2015
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Q2.
What is the second longest named river in the USA, which runs from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico?
Note: This question was updated in September 2019
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Q3.
What light display in Antarctica is caused by atomic bombardment from the sun on the earth's magnetic field?
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Q4.
Middelburg is the capital of which province in the South West of The Netherlands?
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Q5.
What is an old abbreviation for Shropshire?
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Q6.
What city is known to its inhabitants as "auld reekie"?
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Q7.
William Randolph Hearst, Turk Murphy, Wyatt Earp and Joe DiMaggio are buried in cemeteries at Colma, where the dead outnumber the living by thousands to one. Where is Colma?
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Cimmaron County, Oklahoma
C
San Mateo County, California
D
Cheyenne County, Kansas
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