Geography Quiz #314
Geography Quiz for 18 January 2015
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Q1.
In which country is the city of Kandahar?
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Q2.
In June 2009 it was announced that the rats on Rat Island had finally been eradicated, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck caused an infestation. Where is Rat Island?
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Q3.
Which of these has the smallest land area?
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Q4.
Which continent has the world's highest waterfall, largest river by volume, longest mountain range, driest non-polar place, largest rainforest, highest capital city, and highest commercially navigable lake?
Note: This question was updated in March 2017
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Q5.
What is the Chilean desert between the coast and the Andes?
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Q6.
Part of a great lake many millions of years ago, re-formed by seismic activity, and functioning as a cradle of human activity for at least 1.9 m years, Oldupai, or Olduvai, Gorge in the Tanzanian part of the Great Rift is named after what?
A
A deity who was the centre of local worship
B
The archaeological term for the earliest stone tool industry in prehistory
D
A sisal plant which grows in the gorge
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Q7.
What is the greatest distance between the capitals of two sovereign countries that share a border?
A
Beijing, People's Republic of China and Hanoi, Vietnam
B
Paris, France, and Madrid, Spain
C
Pyongyang, North Korea and Moscow, Russia
D
Buenos Aires, Argentina and Brasília, Brazil
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