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Geography Quiz for 19 April 2009

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1

What word best describes the form of government in which all power is vested in one person?

A
Democracy
B
Autocracy
C
Anarchy
D
Monopoly
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2

What weapon, used by some African tribes, is a light throwing spear, tipped with iron?

A
Woomera
B
Assegai
C
Scimitar
D
Meremere
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3

Which city was founded in 1624 as a commercial trading post by the Dutch, who called it New Amsterdam, and was a nation's capital from 1785 until 1790?

A
Richmond
B
Boston
C
Philadelphia
D
New York
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4

Which of these cities is the furthest West in Europe?

A
Limoges
B
London
C
Lourdes
D
Lisbon
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5

Which of these is a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean?

A
New Caledonia
B
New Zealand
C
Novaya Zemlya
D
Falkland Islands
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6

What river forms the boundary between Indiana and Kentucky?

A
Mississippi
B
Ohio
C
Missouri
D
Colorado
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7

Yale University is in which state of the USA?

A
Connecticut
B
Massachusetts
C
California
D
Maine
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