Geography Quiz #129
Geography Quiz for 3 July 2011
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Q1.
The term "Gallic" means relating to what country?
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Q2.
The city of Leningrad, Russia, is now known as what?
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Q3.
Which island was a major exporter of phosphate from 1907 until deposits ran out in the 1980s, and had the highest per-capita income of any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
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Q4.
Which of these is a fortified town in France?
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Q5.
Where is the region known as Transylvania?
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Q6.
The Victoria Falls is on which river?
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Q7.
What name is given to the broad expanse of prairie, steppe and grassland west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, covering parts of the US states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan?
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