Geography Quiz for 19 July 2009
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1
In which country is the city of Kandahar?
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2
What town in South Australia has served a weapons-testing range since the 1950s, was the site of a detention facility for asylum seekers and refugees from 1999 to 2003, and was home to the Nurrungar satellite ground station until 1999?
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3
In which US state are the Catskill Mountains?
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4
Which lighthouse, the fourth to be built on the site since 1698, is 9 statute miles (14 km) south west of Rame Head on the Cornish / Devon coast of Britain?
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5
Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalagtites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?
D
Museum of the Moving Image
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6
What is unusual about the Saint Pierre and Miquelan Islands, which are only 25 km (16 miles) south of Newfoundland?
B
They have the same time zone as Chicago
C
They are the northernmost point of the USA
D
They are the southernmost point of Canada
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7
In 1957, there were how many states in the USA?
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