Geography Quiz #342
Geography Quiz for 2 August 2015
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Q1.
What is a common nickname for the English city of Oxford?
A
The city of dreaming spires
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2
Q2.
The leaf of what tree appears on the Canadian national flag?
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3
Q3.
The southern border of which country is with the continental USA?
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4
Q4.
Which of these is not a state of the USA?
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5
Q5.
Which of these flags does not have a crescent moon?
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6
Q6.
Which of these names refers to a Mexican ritual that involves 5 people climbing a 30 meter pole from which 4 launch themselves (tied with ropes) to the ground while one stays on top, dancing and playing a flute & drum?
B
The Passion of Iztapalapa
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7
Q7.
The Sete Quedas Falls, said to rival the famous Iguazu Falls complex on the Iguazu River, were obliterated by what?
A
The construction of the Itaipu Dam, beginning 1970
B
The Oran earthquake (1871)
C
The Cúcuta earthquake (1875)
D
Bombing in the 1947 Paraguayan Civil War
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