Geography Quiz #256
Geography Quiz for 8 December 2013
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Q1.
What is the largest dam in the USA, by measure of hydroelectric power capacity?
Note: This question was updated in April 2019
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Q2.
Where is the world's largest underground natural chamber?
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Q3.
Buenos Aires and Montevideo are sited on opposite sides of which river?
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Q4.
Which area, which translates as "the land of five rivers", is on the border between India and Pakistan?
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Q5.
Waterford Crystal was manufactured in Waterford City, Ireland, from 1783 until the factory was shut down after the receivership of Waterford Wedgwood plc in what year?
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Q6.
The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, is the boundary between which two states of the USA?
Note: This question was updated in December 2016
B
Pennsylvania and Maryland
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Q7.
What is the name of a figure, carved into a hill in Kent, South East England, overlooking the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel?
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White Horse of Uffington
C
The Folkestone White Horse
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